bobby for a film he was making an and rose later rewrites that i don't remember much about his boyhood because he was the seventh child and in the midst of all these other children so i can't really give you details. having said that though he was the sensitive one. he was the smallest of the four boys in stature. he was the most religious. he was the most moral so i think there is a beautiful clip and you can see it on youtube of body campaigning for senate in new york in 1964, his mother on the stage and they have this great bantering dialogue going on. i think it really shows how close they were. when bobby was killed that goes to teddy to be the youngest son and would now be the patriarch. i think he really gets his mother for the rest of his life and he knows just how far he can push her. he knows just how much he has to take of her ongoing letters about don't say this or this is a grammatical error or you are

addressing him improperly or this is how you should speak. he takes as much of that as he knows he can't and teases her about the rest but he knows how far he can push her. he was really very lovely with her. ..

>> i think we are out of time. it is always fun to use talk about the kennedys. >> is my pleasure.

>> thank you for being here i have a lot of friends, family, colleagues that was influential to put this book together. i a little nervous. take you for being here. "frederick douglass in washington dc" we just know his statue was moved to emancipation hall added we don't get past the talking points or scratch the surface of the grandfather as a mentor and a newspaper man at the washingtonians so i tried to get into the element of his life in this

book to talk about was the revelation that made me put this book together. eighth. >> with the national historic site 16th and w streets is a rough-and-tumble quarter i used to work at the organization essentially working is social services and i would walk every day and down w. street to make a left on 16th and then not too much going on and on june 7th coming of 2010 crime tape all over the place, the crime lab they and so i get to my office and i bring up the press release in the 70 space van

was shot and killed on a corner and i believe now the homicide is still not solved. a couple-- later it was reporting he had absconded from the department of rehabilitative services and so it hit me that he shot and killed in front of the frederick douglass house the national park site of the most friedman is a runaway slave history so a co-worker said what is going on out here? and then to say, etc.. and a lot of young people in the neighborhood all they know is with that said in to

give a shout -- shout out he had never been to the douglas house but hene about him tpmeates our awaren and the rangers said if you read now would he give you a advice? we'll was the light? what made him so successful with enough influence to have this estate craft save sure there are some folks with the washington monument is in incredible panorama of the city. they basically admitted we don't have much material with a couple of different

versions and those of but we know comes from the material. so he the the one 1/6 pike be talking as a conversationalist but not saying much in really in deep thought. he said a million about history and do you do journalism so put your money where your mouth is. he said i will say it for you. so in 2010 now here in 2013 so i take this very deeply. i am sorry. that is it. frederick douglass sorry. let me get it together. he is a man for all seasons

i'm sorry. excuse me. he is like the rosa parks of dr. king and put on this pedestal who was he as a man, father, a friend. this is from malvern and as you can see from this side. frederick douglass the advocate for women's suffrage but was so much more than that. to finalize his character was like but this struck me george washington is the founding father of the country and everybody knows him as important as george washington. this is a photo of the crowd going to president lincoln's second inaugural address. he did have some interviews

with lincoln in he basically said we need to fully unless the black troops to win the war in an end to fredericks' eldest son was on the beach with the 54 the infantry in charge of fort wagner. so he said again with the program we need to unleash a force. he then it comes back in the fall and meets with him but they had a mutual respect for each other there has been some recent books that have come out and i tried to move beyond that. the dog -- douglas is in the crowd in his second inaugural and will those story he basically crashes the after party executive mentioned -- mission and the

police say you are you? we cannot admit you he said this is nonsense and mr. lincoln knows me so basically he is a physically moved out and abraham lincoln says let him go. and he says what did you think of this speech? he said you don't want to hear my humble opinion if he said it was an effort but actually he was in rochester with lincoln was assassinated in johnson was a difficult president douglas and was persuaded by douglas to try to change course but johnson was adversarial to the cause.

to the left is douglas who had four children who lived to adulthood they move to washington after the civil war. they made their own name, he rose in their own right. washington d.c. is an interesting place with a large black community with

african-american culture and to board in 1855 and with the largest black middle class and the douglas want to be a part of that. by 1868 charles was working for the freedom year-old. this is the 80 and 68 city directory you can see charles douglas back then invade decoded the ethnicity. you don't see that anymore but that used to show the of the city. you can see charles douglas said the clerk for the bureau of refugee and to abandon the land he lives in potomac city can frederick douglass, jr. does anybody know where potomac city is

now? it this is actually a mapping 8094 i will move here and hopefully you can still pick up the audio? this is a elisabeth starting in 1852 the first patient 1855. anime 80 in $6,732,000 to acquire this property james was the other land holder in the city and if you are familiar today this was where the public housing authority but this is still whole swath of the form. bridge read franklin come away come apart right they still have those same street names today.

this is the 1871 city director. frederick douglas lived in anacostia actually he was staying frederick douglass, jr. died after 1852 and lived his entire life what is today m.l. k. washington d.c. is a very special place because it had the established black middle-class prior to the civil war we had run away contraband coming from virginia and further down south so actually the shows washington d.c..

possibly like the police officer or the official and you see women deal with products coming up to washington in d.c. to sell their goods. this was on for almost one century and this image for traceless. and a fascinating fellow eyes mentioned frederick douglass 1847 starts with the liberator and had a difference of opinion so he said i will take matters into my own hands but frederick douglass read a newspaper for about 70 or 80

years it was tired of these publications during the civil war era and to was the dawn as the most prominent newspaperman of his era. john c. underwood the chief justice of the supreme court actually wanted him to come to virginia in heed to the freddie of jordan's. that now to come down in coming he comes down to washington and is very influential waiting for douglas to start a newspaper. how this is like a modern

photo an interesting fellow. he actually committed suicide in new orleans. the city directory from 1871 from the editor and publicist with a couple of quick notes on this this book in 1991 says it was published across the river i just find that the egregious mistake by historians. and here as a well-known historian this is the epicenter of the information exchange new york and

philadelphia, this is extremely important right withhold ground zero. this is the only black paper in washington at that time. i just find that the egregious mistake because it has been forgotten and in looking at the congressional record is you can see was on the floor of the congress the leading authority of its day. a and here is the print negative jittery 18th that shows the at a town newspaper with activity going on in and to over to the next three to over in 1872 frederick douglass and buys a home on capitol hill

at 360 and not far from here. the new national air of the change names a couple of times issues with finances and took their name from the abolitionist newspaper from john degree leafleteer in mayor daley was the editor and published "uncle tom's cabin" so that was in reference to the previous paper. seven douglas says 92 pick a place so he picks washington. this is the 1883 print eupepsia senator from mississippi here. you have in langston, read the the first black member of the representatives said

richard allen the first black graduate of harvard in the first one to give his undergraduate degree. this six out as the first generation civil-rights leader frederick douglass was the biggest man on campus as the most distinguished gentleman. [laughter] general how word and howard university is named after him known as the christian soldier, and douglas when he comes to washington a lot of stuff is going our diversity is started 1867 today it is known if there are powered by graduates in the audience , he was not the of

burrs president but influential to make moves to secure its existence. he lost his right arm in a battle and was remain and to the right to this is general howard's home and is on the campus today. and denmark today especially for the alumni events. said frederick douglass douglass, this is so deep. i am sorry that i tear up earlier because this just touches so deeply so bored the slave ian and basically

distinguish himself very early on with the search in aqaba in. to bv master's style. he goes to baltimore maryland and is displayed the. of the abcs it is done in secret and them master finds out and they say oh my gosh to have corrupted the reverend david is no good any more. but he is right. [laughter] basically she would read in secret and tells very vividly in his 1845 autobiography as the enslaved person of the city

but very different from the country slave and actually a first he is the country guy and quickly adapted to urban life. so gullying it with the spelling books to say what is this worth? i will give you a piece of bread i think that is so deep menaced over 30 years old i read about that a and this is genius. so that is my interest from the start. i shows this a photo because frederick douglass was a self-taught man. with the 1845 autobiography comes out the reason why she wrote to is because people gathered he was ever a slave. his first introduction to the abolitionist with there retreats of nantucket

anti-slavery's society was a licensed preacher at the amb the approach and the first public oration was in the church so when he attends the meeting in the crew abolitionists' they say you need to speak weeder you are a runaway slave you need to tell us your story and to douglas says i another to the occasion and he says no, no, no reheard you preach. sova and douglas speaks, he has a legitimacy and authenticity that was unique because you have free blacks of folks born in the north abolitionist at that time but douglas was, not the only but douglas had that he

was so articulate in the liquid in could tell his story that nobody doubted that he was making stuff up. he said i will put my cards on the table so he writes a biography narrative and what makes this so different is people places time of location and that if you want to check god that to this is what he does in the afternoon in the morning. call my bluff. sexually there was folks in the cells to put out the warrant for his arrest because of his inflammatory they did this because he was living a secret life because he was free but stealth before 1856 per of frederick douglass goes to england's to get involved with the abolitionists network.

but of know how i got there basically he is the self-taught man and also in 1875 he received a vote with the division of the university should be a theological institution known secular. he thought they should teach all sorts of new topics science, not just theology. and then there is a strong call for frederick douglass to become president but douglas has said i am flattered to by your confidence in be but i am much more comfortable to be outside advocate for someone who does oversight of the university. sometimes i talk to different crowds. i a are used sure of the of

people's skin no? a. [laughter] so there when there were interior problems that asked of the question of the university, this is what is going on and there was the scandal 1873 over howard spee and douglas say i got this city took care of it and was on the board 1871395v and given the honorary law degree from the university. so there is a strict keying image but now of the historic site coming greeks -- greek classics with contemporary books, biography, and he has the reports but all this

information there is one that no one's style that he read or a shot drug but he did read a little bit of fiction. this is frederick douglass memorial hall taken for me to 42. with university houses the rotc program in the political science department. highberger now we have to change course of frederick douglass when he writes is the autobiography he put his life on the line. when he is in england his freedom is negotiated and purchased for him so he returns to america a free man. douglas was friends with john browne and he said he

will die for the slave and i will live for him in douglas consoles or vices i don't think your plan will work because he once douglas to come along so when he fails he is implicated so he house to get out of town he was to fleets of what industry to canada to go back again. by frederick douglass also a stop on the underground railroad before people would go from canada. in then in washington d.c. she becomes of marshall. march 1877 rutherford b. hayes appointed him to be the marshall for the district of columbia and

lincoln's administration was marshall. i am not a lincoln scholar but i do know there are people here so i am sure the name rings a bell. and then dead d.c. bar association and that we don't doubt but to be a fugitive with executive session the first bay government appointments with on the city council the legislature to use certain short period of time so when he tendered his resignation

may of '87 the one who just joined howard university he did what he could so when he submits the letterpress -- recognition it makes washington and unique so with the city council to not get the letter from the secretary of state so he worked out of this building correctly the old city hall on indiana avenue the district of columbia appellate court building and the statute of think in the first erected in 1868 clear is some information about douglas about when he was marshall. he would walk from his home in anacostia to city hall

and back there is an interesting item in the tribune that says despite his age he walked around washington as briskly as a schoolboy the owner -- shifting to mention this i believe to be true a uncirculated all over the country. it is very short saying something to the fact that next costabile was in the criminal court the other day they said are you looking for marshall douglas? he said not now but as a fugitive i tried hard to find tim. [laughter] loses another print of douglas the first couple weeks on the job you can see people wishing him well. now by his noted michigan he was marshall he was very comfortable there really was around the criminal element

in by his own initiative is very difficult. in court all the time in to stop the transfer people to jail but he knew the importance or the high-profile nature of the position and by all accounts did a terrific job and would publish a of each office and when he leaves to essentially say he was a good steward of public funds. this is an interesting document. this is the petty crime by believe of counterfeiting. frederick k. douglas the other thing to talk quickly about is there is not a documented lynching in

washington d.c. no one to be killed before trial but it is in the book, so i will not go into greater detail about this but if there ever was to be lynching with frederick douglass marshall it is interesting story which i go into detail in the book but i will not tell you know, basically he was in trouble -- in trickle to this happening. this is what he would have looked like as marshal doug was a very fit man. he actually did plops i said that because he would use gains but not to work one negative but not to walk as more of an excess rebut he

gives him one of his cannes so i start to get into the local staff he buys a home of his government position and as steady reliable and tom. before that he was the on japan or. with the commissioner basically francis allen said we need police protection over here it is called the metropolitan police department because when it was formed with the suggestion of lincoln's marshall, washington d.c. had the suburbs is a when he incorporated the up

department and was called the metropolitan police department so douglases of the oscars of the suburbs. he took an active role in the neighborhood we need police have business interests to make sure that i am okay and buy property is protected to help get additional police on that side of town from the letterhead and he becomes a member of the police department and a big is shut out to sandra smith and the team 33 painting, here is this a washington navy guard. this is the anacostia here. can't uniontown which is anacostia today there is a lot of urban myth and urban

legends and it is true it is founded by three gentlemen and it was a restrictive covenant no pig so our folks of african descent in very restricted. it did not work. there is very speculative and never got going until after the civil war but during the civil war i have called out confederate spies but i will go back to that story. this is the navy yard looking from anacostia and basically the moderate ordinance the bureau. essentials leave they would issue to because it did say it topographical and then to

go into the rivers of there are probably hundreds of cannonballs and the growth of the national -- national navy yard helped with anacostia. john van hook was one of the guys and actually he was spotted selling alcohol and the cigars in a basically the congressional says nothing about this are his real-estate interest. this is a famous photo of mathew brady. today you would be at the 11th street bridge within

the basic fare mistake through sutherland's and then it shows up a lot. in to this day we're not sure what they're doing there. [laughter] but with 1887 this is the historic district with 1978 visa the original streets founded or uniontown so the names of the first 14 presidents, a pearson pearson, jefferson street

fillmore and you can see frederick douglass property is the biggest in this town and today a national park site but this is about nine and a half acres.

and grover cleveland negative chile gets lost to come up to the home and says to the little boy whose home is that? he says as frederick douglass actually he served under cleveland but but they knew they would get to heaven. [laughter] but here is where i get salacious and the scandalous. this is the frederick douglass first wife. people said before i knew he had an affair i read it on the internet. [laughter] there is the true story of what really happened in

every is a pivotal and important without her there would be no frederick douglass sam born free in maryland's 1813, moved to baltimore and is part of a free black community and with douglas with the audacity look down upon but could make headway into the free black community with some of where it is believed douglas met him in the year trying to uncover the details but in the us sold some positions to rectify any as frederick douglass escaped. she was able to procure, not only the historian but he could make his escape

because he was with the camouflage canso he was able to make the escape up north and it calls for and of and then when they are married frederick douglass later changes his name in frederick douglass was actually born a augustus washington bailey so the very aristocratic name. and keeping it all together when he was lecturing for a long period of time and she kept the family together. douglas had she had one night of august 1842. >> keith doesn't know what

to do i would be essentially go to europe and wonders of rest of my days. going to the summer of 83 i just tell it what happens then to wearying january 84, and holland pits of gold actually live right next door and shows up in the union town but the interesting story when frederick douglass was the abolitionist in new york and is it is believed to that

helen h. or nine years old and to be college-educated man to by all accounts they live a happy life together. in reid was flail to frederick douglass but then had his wife on either side. [laughter] >> this is found the love live -- and then to hold of cedar hill uniontown on saturday june 6. he really did entertain at his home how the diversity could come there and you could mentored him with a and debate politics.

>> you can either wind it up to take questions or go all the way. >> go all the way. >> you can catch me afterwards. i am not hard to find. so then they have the complex is the frederick douglass family compound. as an interesting young ian the son of charles douglas he learned the violin and also he was self-taught it is an interesting story in the book because he sees a storefront in than plays the

irish washerwoman and then play the irish folk song so of a lifelong but joseph was classically trained in debt of one type -- a onetime head of the department and performed for president mckinley, a taft, but douglas barely to it agreed to interest in his grandson. >> if this is him on the

lecture proforma slew that struck the in negative a kiva shadow to my friend to the does the mentioned earlier he walks through the city streets and alexander saw how he kept his hair and a very young age. >> host: will keep my hair that way and frederick douglass period the lady who was whites even the was against the law he never was a sellout but douglas always

identified as a black man or a black person with the women, young folks, it is jerry purposeful he kept it the way that he did in his autobiography there is two letters from garrison and philips when they travel the circuit he took douglas under his wing and said if you want to tell history history, history will only be told the right way when the lion is rating history and is believed to be the african proverb so he took that to heart so walking around the streets of washington d.c. he kept that wine image. >> frederick douglass statue was a and failed in

emancipation hall and he was a washingtonian and in the real-estate that he kind of took over in the term back then was district suffrage and with his autobiography he explicitly said the people of washington and not people but subjects and aliens cannot put that is interesting when anchorage that he calls them aliens and the metropolitan episcopal church. and it opened in 1886.

a meeting with president lincoln with the opening ceremonies robert small is a hero from south carolina and when he meets him and he saith like kobe bryant against michael jordan a bold donated ornamentation there is to candelabra from douglas and he also attends bethlehem baptist church in

anacostia 15th street presbyterian church so douglas knew how important black church was to the community but he also knew slavery was never afraid of christianity. said he had the indifference to organize it yet with the exhibition's with a literary society in default with that organization in one of the most famous speeches like the anti-a lynching speech very forceful where douglas starts the debate in america a little bit. but that few marker today is also for dunbar.

it as a member of this church general he was a member like you have to turn in your tax returns there is not that relationship but a supporter of the church and the metropolitan is very proud of that relationship in this is a total of him later in life. almost there. 1326. in but i a griswald they were buddies he actually still own stocks with fell late evening walks in and washed -- walk past the homes and this house was

able to pick up in it is incredible how well it has been restored. [laughter] so now we do need help with this home. [laughter] [applause] this is the panorama of the city that you can see douglas could literally see them finishing it with the capitol dome in then back and they were really good it is just like a shawl berndt el building but there really

does need help band and a good friend of mine he keeps frederick douglass spirit alive this is his house at night it is special to even go past it this was from yesterday's ceremony in the that is it. thank you. [applause] >> live coverage of the 15th annual harlem book fair at the schomburg center are in the corner of malcolm x boulevard and 135th in a

car loan is the york york several of their panels ahead and several call and opportunities as well. here is our lineup that knbc in life as well as booktv. we will introduce you to max rodriquez and then the first panel of the day is of science and health and then on stage rating deadly monopolies and apartheid and dr. hart appeared on after words a few weeks back but he is here as well in his book is called high price about drugs in america and also will be joining us for the call-in program and then a panel on african-american history in the 21st century and joining us this

is sarah griffin historian and her book comes out this fall with the college and opportunity. and also the author of the new books on rosa parks will be joining us and then it is on politics and religion and after that you will have a call in with a panelist a professor at the theological seminary and politics of jesus is the name of his book. that is what is ahead today at the 15th fatal car loan book fair now we'll introduce you to the founder , the max rodriquez. how did you get this book fair started and why?

>> 16 years ago i had the book review and as the extension of that we move but that there was no outdoor celebration of black right seeing or writers year in the home of the harlem renaissance. how could that be? we plan that 15 years ago and started with 30 year 40 exhibitors with a hundred people and it has grown to hundreds and thousands of people. >> host: besides the author panels what is going on outside? >> poetry, a children's books, music, it is the outdoor celebration. it is a street fair but it is a street festival to capture that because when you turn the corner the first thing your head with

his the people and of the spirit. >> host: is there a large cluster of authors to draw from? >> there is. we have been a community that is oral in its history in yesterday's be awarded the award of 1800 the first african-american published poet so we have a long history of great team and our story if it is a written then it hasn't happened so we achene on telling our story. there is a huge pole of stories -- pool stories. >> host: when you start working? >> year round but about beavers least six months out i always say with any book

festival i shake more than 1,000 hands because it is a community celebration to''. we partner with columbia university, the schomburg center, even with supporters like 18 mobile supporting us for the mobile access to reading and developing from the internet. many communities in many distinct communities, and together to support books and writing and where do we go from here. of the black book review it is our answer to those publications that historic plea in the past did not review books of people of color. not of intention but i always turn to the index and the book to see wa