PRESIDENT HAS COMMUTED THE
SENTENCES OF PEOPLE.
AND THAT IS MORE THAN THE PAST
10 PRESIDENTS COMBINED.
NORTH TEXAS COMMUNITY IS
FACING A PAIN CONFLICT PART OF
ITS PAST AN ANGRY MOM HAD
GATHERED IN MANSFIELD TO STOP
BLACK STUDENTS FROM IMMIGRATING
TO HIGH SCHOOL.
WE SPOKE WITH ONE OF THE
STUDENTS TODAY.
WE ARE LIVE IN MANSFIELD.
ROBBIE?
Reporter: THEY LED THE EARLY
CIVIL RIGHTS WATTLE WILL GET
COUNTERWAY IN THE HISTORICAL MY
IS HE YUM.
IT IS CK SET UP AS WE SPEAK.
FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT DARK
PERIOD OF THE CITY'S HISTORY
WILL BE ACKNOWLEDGED.
ALBEIT.
SIX DECK KIDS LATER.
MY NAME IS PASTOR SF MOODY
SENIOR.
ONE OF THE LITTLE BOYS.
17 YEARS-OLD THAT ATTEMPTED TO
INTEGRATE.
MANSFIELD SCHOOLS.
60 YEARS TODAY.
YOU WILL NOTICE THAT HE SAID
ATTEMPTED.
A MOB OF TANK BRING WHITES
RESPONDED WHICH HANGING BLACKS.
AND THEY CALLED IN THE TEXAS
RANGERS AND THE SCHOOL
LEADERSHIP.
HE SAID.
YOU PEOPLE.
YOU ARE NOT GOING TO ENROLL HAD
THE SCHOOL.
SEEMS TO ME.
THAT IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.
NEVER, IS A LONG LONG TIME.
PASTOR MOODY AND OTHERS WHO
SHOWED THE CHANGE.
WERE HONORED.
MOODY 77 INSISTS THAT HE WASN'T
LOOKING TO MAKE HISTORY AND WAS
OBEYING HIS PARENTS.
HE SAID THEY ARE THE REAL
HEROES.
I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD DO
IT WITH MY CHILD OR
GRANDCHILDREN.
I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD DO
IT.
I KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN WHEN
PEOPLE DON'T WANT YOU.
WHEN HATE DREAD IS RULING.
-- HATE DREAD IS RULING --
HATRED IS RULING.
THAT KEPT HATRED FROM HAVING
THE LAST WORD.
THOSE PEOPLE, IF YOU ARE
THEY ARE LIVING TOGETHER.
THEIR HEARTS HAVE BEEN CHANGED.
THERE IS NO DANGER IN BLACK
FOLKS GOING TO SCHOOL WITH THE
WHITES.
NO DANGER.
I AM THANKFUL TO THE LORD
AND TO THE CHANGING OF HEARTS
AND EVEN IF IT WAS A SURFACE
THING.
WHAT EVER IT WAS.
CHANGE CONSIST WERE MADE AND I
AM GRATEFUL.
MANSFIELD CLASSROOMS NO
LONGER LOOK LIKE THIS.
AND IT IS A DIVERSE PLACE NOW
