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so i think that is no larger more related was our box office hit
i so i i i enjoyed it very much
i'd say uh... tommy wean lee jones character was my favorite if you haven't
seen it i recommend going to see it and by the way you don't really have to be a
political junkie delighted he ought to be
uh... you know into history a history buff to like it
anybody bca really enjoyed right and also makes a better that most of the
stuff is true
so it's interesting to think about what happened in our past
but but there was uh... a gentleman who
so long
that movie
uh... his name is a
user professor at the university of mississippi medical center
his name is doctor ron john batra
he saw the film and and he was inspired
to look to see what happened
after the state's voted for the thirteen th amendment
outlawed slavery right now the way a constitutional amendment works is it you
need
and leave it at the interpret its majority to make us to show my man
or three-fourths of actually not sure which one it is soviet probably should
know some political science major and i host a show about politics but forgive
me on the minor detail right so he wanted to see what we mistakenly about
the other states what about the ones that didn't ratify it
what happened with the history of the amendment after that
so come to find out
that uh... a lot of the
rather rebellious states
didn't make a move until much later
uh... first and foremost you have kentucky
waited until nineteen seventy six
to officially adopt the thirteen th amendment
and then the very last date
of course is mississippi now mississippi has uh... really bad history associated
with that in the sense that it is quite literally the most recent racist state
and what i mean by that is there was open discrimination uh... open
restrictions of uh... civil liberties and you had the most lynchings that
occurred in this city to get all the other southern states
well they have voted to approve the amendment
in nineteen ninety five
but this story gets even more interesting
because although they had voted to approve the amended in nineteen
ninety-five it has to be
uh... approved by not only the legislative chambers but needs to be
sent to the office of the federal registrar but to make it official
so when this guy doctor ron john batra looked in the archives he found out that
there was still a asterix next to the amendment meaning that it isn't
officially law yet
so i come to you today
in the year two thousand in thirteen
to tell you
that the state of mississippi has officially ended slavery
as of when talking about this
last week