nursery on the porch area. here is a great historic photo. when he was a student at harvard. this is one of the more iconic of theodore roosevelt as a ranch man. his father's motivation, inspiration to help roosevelt overcome his illness. baseball does strike me -- i do not want to get metaphysical -- the antimissile physical -- anti metaphysical -- it is a good sport to be the national pastime of a democratic nation because democracy is

about compromising and settling. you do not get everything you want, and baseball is like that. there is a lot of losing in baseball. everything that goes to spring training knows it is going to win 60 games, losing 60 games. you plan the whole season to sort out the middle 40. u.n. 11-20 games, you have a good chance to play and october. it is the sport of the half load f as is democracy. >> george will on his latest book on baseball and the raging controversy surrounding his columns. recent controversy surrounding his columns. tonight on c-span on c-span's "q&a." >> now you can keep in touch with c-span radio on audio no w. 202-626-8888. every day, listen to a recap

of the days events on "washington today." the fiveear audio of network public affairs program beginning sunday at noon easter n. c-span radio on audio now. long-distance phone charges may apply. year, c-span is touring cities across the country exploring american history. our visit toat jackson, mississippi. you are watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. ♪ >> for many of us who have gone overseas and fought for this country, and fought for mississippi, we fought for alabama. we fought for north carolina. we fought for illinois. we fought for every state in this union. now, we are going to stay here and see that the things the mayor has said the, reality. -- become a reality. >> 15 minutes past midnight, he

got on of his car and a reservation area. -- in a residential area. a sniper fired a single shot. the bullet hit him in his back, crashed through the body into the window. he died within an hour. >> you are at the home of the evers. they were born and raised in decatur, mississippi. he talked about when you read about him and listening to him talk, he talked about, he knew the differences, how the races that were made between the races. he said he'd could never understand why. he talked about having white late matese playmates.

they would hunt and fish together. it was only when he got to be the age of 16 that they went their separate ways. hishe talked about seeing friends, going downtown and he saw his friend standing on the corner with some other whites. he said, they called him nigger. his friend dropped his head when he said it. so that's what kind of situation he grew up in. then he talked about, he said, i knew the difference made between the races. i could never understand why. he talk to his father about it and his father would talk to him. in reading and listening to people talk, it came home to him just how much differences were made between the races and that things would happen. when hessed a lynching

was 12. when he asked his father why would they do that? his father said, that is what they do. medgar said, i am sure he was angry, frustrated, hurt. getting away from mississippi in thear and listed army when he was 16. he served in world war two. as he traveled about, defending america it did not matter about the color of his skin until he came back home to mississippi. on his 21st birthday, he tried to register to vote. he and his brother charles who were veterans. white men were turning them around with shotguns, ran them off. medgar said, we ran. but it made him get serious. he finishes other two years of high school. college. he enrolled in college majoring in business administration. after medgar graduated from

alcorn and moved to mississippi, he was up in mt. bayeau. an all-black town. t.m. howard lived there. he had this insurance company. he gave medgar his first job of selling insurance. and medgar said he started out in a little town of clarksville, mississippi, selling insurance. then he ventured onto the plantations. that's where he was trying to sell insurance. medgar began to look at the conditions under which these people were living. also, he talked about black people not even knowing what insurance was. and so as he was talking to them conditions, their looking at their conditions and looking at the reactions he was getting when he talked about

human rights, civil rights, the naacp, getting registered to vote and people began to get -- to tell medgar these stories which were true. what was was happening to people in the area. in many places, there were no schools for blacks. voteu tried to register to what would happen to you and what could happen to youe. so medgar was telling them that that's your right. once they would not allow medgar back onto their properties when work out out what he was doing. he started several -- he initiatives several boycotts. gas but you buy could not use the bathroom. the prices in the grocery stores would go up when blacks went in. a lot of times you had to stand in line until the whites were

served. medgar said, don't buy the groceries. ye will go somewhere where the sell. have acp did not secretary. his job was to organize 82 counties in the state of mississippi, getting people registered to vote, taking complaints. and just checking what was going on. was selected by the national naacp office to do that after he tried to get into the old university of mississippi which is, now ole miss. when they denied him it mission, this is when the national naacp asked him to become field secretary. you do that, he had to come to jackson. at first they did not take medgar too serious. it was only after he came into jackson and really began to get things flowing.

and then got involved with the student movement. you had the freedom writers and all that you came in. i think that is when medgar. people begin to see this man is shaking things up. he will not give up. when he challenged wlbt to make a speech. blacks could not speak. i had not heard medgar's voice. i heard it only when i went away to college. he was not on television, on radio. so i think this is when people began to see, they were not going to turn people around. i called them the grassroots people, the foot soldiers began to get involved. women, children began to get involved. this is when they saw this man is really shaking things up. >> don't shop for anything on capitol street. let's let the merchants on

capitol street feel the pinch. let me say this to. i had one merchant call me he said, i want you to know that i talk to my national office today, and they want me to tell you that we do not need nigger business. these are stories that help support the white citizens council, of counsel dedicated to keeping you and i second-class citizens. finally, we will be demonstrating here until freedom comes for negroes in jackson, mississippi. [applause] medgar and his family came to live in 1955. it was historic in itself and that medgar and his family came into this neighborhood after he became field secretary. this was a neighborhood that was being one of the subdivisions developed by two young black

veterans. this had never happened before and jackson, mississippi, probably in the state of mississippi. these two veterans developing a one street subdivision. they were developing, were constructing homes for professional, middle-class professional blacks. lawyers, doctors, teachers. business owners living on this one street, subdivision. then they were going to place this subdivision in between two white subdivisions. it was like a trial. this is where medgar came. he selected this particular lot because it was a house on the left -- and one on the right. medgar knew things that were happening to the family that -- the threats. he came in changing his house. he did not want a front door. so this is basically the only

house in the area that does not have a front door. he asked that because he said he wanted his main interest through the court. venue is going to teach his family that when they come into the driveway, they were were going to exit the car on the passenger side. they could use the wall as a means of protection. to windows on the east wall are the higher than other windows. house,st year of the they were here, someone shot through this window, the living room window. and so that is when mrs. evers said, medgar said put the kids on t he floor. the second time it was shot through their bedroom windows. this is when they all got on the floor. so she talked about some time she would sleep with a gun. and medgar with a pistol or vice versa. she was protecting her kids just as medgar was. medgar knew his life.

he knew people were following him. he took a cautious. in meetings, he talked about car, he hadd get a a mechanic. he would have a souped-up to outrun people who would chase him. so that's why, sometimes i think you have a calling. and you cannot let go. i believe that is the way it was for medgar. >> i have had a number of threatening calls, people calling me saying they're going to kill me, they'll blwoow my he up. i only had a few hours to live. >> 15 minutes past midnight, evers got out of his car. in a they can lot 40 yards away, a sniper fired a single shot from a high-powered rifle at evers. the bullet hidden in the back, crashed through his body and through a window into the house. >> mrs. evers talked about she

was in the back of the house and hearing medgar drive up. she heard the shots. she said, my kids began crawling across the floor to go to the bathroom because they had told medgar, the safest place in the houses the bathtub. so that's where they were headed until she heard a thump, like someone threw something on the house. and it made her race for the door. when she threw open the door, medgar was staggering trying to get to this door. she said she heard a couple more shots and she thought they were still shooting at her. but the other two shots she heard was mr. wells next door. justells said, iw was hoping to run whoever it was a way. but he and another friend came to medgar's rescue.

medgar was lying face down with his keys in his right hand. i thought he was dead. we could not understand him. but they brought him inside the house. and took a mattress off the daughters bed and put them on that mattress to transport to the hospital. ♪ >> in jackson, mississippi in 1963 there lived a man who was brave he fought for freedom all of his life medgar evers in his grave ♪ >> following his death, the movement seemed like it i a little bit, but anyway, they had his funeral.

masonic templewith the. he was buried in arlington national cemetery. after a time, no one was in the house. it had gotten in bad shape. other exhibits about medgar in other museums, but we wanted to do something with the house. we may not have known exactly what we were going to do. at first, people wanted to come and see hwhere medgar evers and his family lived. we open the door. they got to the point where we said, we have to say something about medgar. there are people in mississippi of my age or older who do not really nkow who -- know who medgar evers was. that is what i want people to know. i want people to know who medgar evers was. i want people to know what a great difference he made in mississippi. as i said, i learned later not

only in mississippi but throughout the world. is of the things he said, "i like mississippi. this is home. i like fishing, i like country. and mississippi is a wonderful place to grow up. why should i leave?" then when you look at it like this, had medgar lef mississippi, what about all of the other people. why should you? you have theut it, same rights to anybody else born here. why should you have to run away to some unknown city or state to get a decent education, to make a living for your family, to get a decent job and be able to support your family to have a nice home. why should you have to do that? and so medgar evers decided to stay right here in mississippi. thank god he did.

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men. 3/4 of them never reached new york. the 13 foot high figure of sacrifice, that towers over ishington's channel park, itself the creation of a female sculptor. gertrude vanderbilt whitney is best or mentor as the founder of new york's whitney museum of art. r leading role in the sensational 1934 child custody case involving her 10-year-old niece gloria. in the strange twist of fate, misses whitney lost her brother alfred in another tragedy at sea when a german u-boat in may 1915 sank the lusitania. taft rs later, helen officially unveiled the titanic memorial located in washington's rock creek parkway.

carved from a single block of granite, is flanked by a stone bench. attributed to henry banken, the designer of the lincoln memorial. in the mid-1960's, the memorial was moved from its original site to make way for the john f. kennedy center for the performing arts. today it stands close to the waterfront in southwest washington. in the past, education was limited to the opportunity down the street at the local school. bu particular for high school students, they are learningt now, -- they are learning a of digital services. some that are formal and paid for by the state, and some that are in formal. the resources that students and parents find online. becoming important at stake to make suha