at c-span history. each week, and american rfa -- artifacts takes you to museums. up next a visit to 28 east 20th street in fork city, the theodore roosevelt birth place historic site. >> his legacy still impacts us today, whether it be about conservation or federal regulation trust busting. or foreign policy, which we don't debate whether it's good or bad here at the birth place. but the panama canal, his vision for america. given his time, was extremely progressive. and is something that affects everyone 100 or 95, to be exact, 95 years after his death. there are still tons of documentaries, books about him.

he was endlessly fascinating and dynamic. roosevelt refers to the room as gloomy respectability. people like to refer to him as teddy roosevelt. he actually hated being referred to as teddy. ralliested at political and from the media, but as a child he was nicknamed td. as an adult, he was referred to as the kernel.

the interesting thing about colonelferred to as the was that is total military time was about three months. the home had all the modern amenities at this part of the 19th century. that is a common question we get. the roosevelts were doing pretty well for themselves. it pays to get on the ground floor of anything in life, but the roosevelts were very fortunate. around 1646. by the time td is born in 1858, they are well-established socially and financially on the island of manhattan. they are seven generation new yorkers. originally there in the hardware business, but they branched off into importing and exporting of fine glass. wouldhere the grandfather

break away from glass thing and get involved in real estate, painting and financing. was one whot's dad enjoyed spending the family fortune as opposed to making it great he was not in tune with the day-to-day activities of the family business. the grandfather lived a little south of us on 14th street and broadway, which is where this photograph is taken, which you might have seen. looking out oftd a second-floor window from his grandfather's home. have you ever seen this photograph? it is an iconic photograph. beh their legacies would remembered one day alongside each other on mount rushmore. misconception that this photograph was taken from this house. you can see the street is pretty wide. this is broadway. resident lincoln's body was laid in state for mourners to pay

their respects on the say -- steps of city hall in lower ,anhattan by horse and carriage and eventually onto barge and next destination. right past the future president of the united states, theodore roosevelt. >> at the direction of congress, the voices and experiences from the civil rights movement of the mid-20th century are being documented in an oral history project. the effort is a collaboration of the smithsonian national museum's african-american history and culture, the library of congress, and the southern oral history program at the university of north carolina chapel hill. from the collection, an

interview with junius williams. williams joined the student nonviolent committee in the early 1960's to fight for equal rights. in part two of this interview, mr. williams talks about his move to newark, new jersey in the 1970's, his work to lift african-americans out of poverty, and the shift from nonviolent resistance to the black power movement. with, a brief conversation lonnie bunch, director of the smithsonian national museum of african american history and culture. >> who is junius williams? really fascinating individual, because his life straddles both the south and the north. grew upmebody who middle-class in richmond, virginia, who went to college in massachusetts, and got involved very early in the civil rights movement. he was