Midday with Dan Rodricks Hour 1 - 3-3-11

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A kick-off to the five-day celebration honoring the life of Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr., the trail-blazing civil rights activist who was born in Baltimore 100 years ago.  As director for nearly three decades of the Washington bureau of the NAACP, Mitchell played a key role in winning enactment of landmark civil rights legislation in the 1950's and 1960's as well as presidential orders ending segregation on military bases and barring racial discrimination in employment. Joining Dan in the studio to review Mitchell's legacy are Marvin "Doc" Cheatham, past president of the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP and new president of the National Action Network for Baltimore City; former City Councilman Micheal Mitchell, son of Clarence, Jr., and activist in his own right, and C. Fraser Smith, WYPR senior news analyst and biographer of Clarence Mitchell, Jr.in "Here Lies Jim Crow."