patricia: native american fashion at the peabody essex museum and one woman' s story of growing up in a segregated new orleans. karen: how everyone and welcome to cityline. the peabody essex museum is home to one of the fastest-growing collections in north america. they also house one of the world' s oldest and best public collections of native american art. on display now through march 6, native fashion now is an exhibition celebrating indigenous designers from across the country. joining us now is patricia

patricia: hello, patricia michaels, waterlily and native american from taos pueblo. beautiful turquoise jewelry. right now. patricia: yes, beautiful navajo turquoise cluster bracelet and this is contemporary t aos pueblo san juan jewelry. i like the old and contemporary because we live in both worlds. karen: tommy how you became interested in fashion and design. patricia: my interest came around the second grade because i wanted to show people in my school that as native americans we needed a higher voice and that her understanding historically. i thought one way to do that

is bring the beauty of our culture into the world. as time went on, i started to look for other connotations of who we are as native americans in the fashion industry and around the eighth grade, isaac came out with a beautiful totem pole dress and from that moment on i knew the world was ready to accept a contemporary native american look. this will be in the show so you get to see an example of the favre' s dress. -- fabulous dress. karen: that' s wonderful. i guess there aren' t a lot of from models in the native american world for fashion and design, are there. patricia: there was a gentleman by the name of lloyd who worked in the american institute of arts and his pieces are in their

designers that brought the modernist movement for native american fashion but opened up the arena for modern art. in fine arts.. we are lucky to have his pieces in the show as well. karen: how does project runway fit into this discussion today? patricia: project runway has this beautiful platform to have a voice. within that voice we get to take. i felt that it was a opportunity for native americans to have a voice that would lend itself to diversity and expression that we are existing in this world with so much yet to say, a new language, a profound language from so many different facets of the native american community. i took that and i really tried to stay focused that i could bring about as much of our culture and diversity. from there, people were just like, where you come from? i don' t understand your

beautiful? isaac even after that -- ask that cut, heidi, tim. karen: this is native american heritage month, do we have pictures of some designs in the show? what makes something native american? is it color, design, as he go to some of these? tell us how we would pick that out? patricia: it is all heart and soul. every culture has their own story to tell. everything you see in this collection has a story behind it. the materials being used can be anything from traditional materials or something from are available to us today like cotton, silk, silver, different metals. maybe there are pearls.

it depends on what the person wants to express. as a native american we not supposed key our inner emotions contained, we are supposed to relish we are and celebrate that. we celebrate the diversity of human expression. in this show, you will be able to see that and see people celebrating self-expression. this is important because a lot tell you you can' t be a certain person and can' t exist, you have to stay in trend and one direction. karen: don' t stay within the lines at this exhibit. patricia: that' s the beauty of it, you can go to the show and see some much diversity and self-expression. and see the beauty celebrated in your heart and soul. karen: one of the problems with the peabody essex museum is a gift shop. they have so many beautiful items.

there too. patricia: i will havecotour i will have jewelry and scarves. eagle feather scarf, this is so, all hand painted. in the shop, that' s the beauty of the shop, they allow us to have our hard work up for sale to go back into the city of and support the wonderful work we do. karen: thanks so much for being here and telling us about the exhibit that will be at the peabody essex museum. it is called native american fashion now and it' s on view now through march 6, 2016. next, one woman growing up in a leaving the city as its first lady. stay tuned.

karen: new orleans, louisiana, country' s civil rights movement. it has a unique perspective on the history of her birthplace, growing up in the great depression and world war ii, a child of the black middle class, civil -- cybil had a personal story as a political activist, wife of the city'

katrina, and more. welcome to the program. cybil: it' s my pleasure. karen: what was it like growing up in new orleans? teacher? >> nevertheless, i was a state. them out or what your needs were to keep you from enjoying the whole from joining, mainstream. from going to places offered to other r citizens. it was a whole different life for negroes at that time. as a middle-class person, our parents developed a cocoon sort of living for us where we had pleasures they created. you couldn'

like the beach and theaters, but they created this to shield us from the indignity of rejection, the humiliation. it was in that context that i grew up and my sensibilities developed. karen: when was your first knowledge that jim crow existed? cybil: i think it was always there. not jim crow per se but we always now that this was where we belonged and we didn' t go beyond it. i grew up in a mixed neighborhood. back in those days in the deep south city, housing patterns were different. on my block, there were whites and blacks, there were comfortable people and poor people. i grew up in this very healthy

poor lived and what they do without. karen: that was one of the upsides of segregation that people live together in their own communities. cybil: once integration came everybody fanned out. karen: new orleans had very distinct issues within the community around the color line as well, the net. -- didn' t it? cybil: antebellum and after the creole class where skin color was significant, which was very detrimental. most of us thought. however, we survived. by saying we, i don' t mean me personally but as a race, we survived. when the civil rights movement came along, everybody was black. i don' t care what color your

karen: one drop of blood. now, you were in the middle class and you had a wonderful debut. tell us about that debut and when did you meet and marry dutch? cybil: i became a debutante because that' s what you did. it was a rite of passage, i wasn' you just did it. that was when i awakened and realizededed me-believe. we are not royalty. when i step outside, there were these barriers. that' s reflected in the cov er of my book. there' s more to life than this. karen: in the debutante ball, for those that don' chance to attend, it is high-class, when and where

formal white gowns, men are in taxi those. -- took see those -- tuxedos. cybil: we were deprived of being with them, we were mimicking them. i did that and shortly after, i left new orleans and came to boston. a northern city where there were no restrictions in terms of accommodations. i could go to the theater and boston pops. without restrictions. that was a growing area for me. however. karen: attend the boston university. cybil: i boston university. i visited boston as a child and was always attracted to its arts.

so i chose boston university. however, i graduated, i taught at newton for three years, i went home one summer and met my husband after the brown decision. that was the decision of our romance. karen: that was also built on some political activism. you two were both rabble-rousers. cybil: we were. when i got home to new orleans, we had a conversation about brown and we were talking about what it meant and how it changed things, we had no idea how we wanted to be a part of the change. it was to outlaw segregation in public schools. we were talking about brown and my husband, my future husband said tulane university just

passed a resolution supporting admitting students regardless of race. i said you know what, i can do graduate school. i can do six hours at an accredited university. he almost leapt off the chair and said do it. this was friday, i went monday morning. the dean of the graduate school said you haven' t registered, but said have your transcript and when it comes to can formally register. happening. each day i went to class, two the professors try to draw me out, where did you go to college and all that. it was thursday that i went into

i knew that was the beginning of the end when he handed me an application form. on the third line it had to race. i think intentionally let that happen because the very first day, he could' ve had me fill that out and say sorry but you have to say paul tulane sent his money to educate white men. and i listen to his monologue and he struggled through it. karen: this is just one of the many tests, one of the many things you and your husband went through, he was president of the new orleans naacp and he went on to serve in the state government and also became the first black mayor of new orleans. what was that like for you being the first african-american first lady of that city?

glamour of it but i used it as a means of progressing and exposing people. and initiating some activities. ability to do. it was wonderful years. there were years where my children were growing up and i had concern that i didn' t want them to feel entitled, i wanted them to be strong, i wanted them to land on their feet. and they did. karen: speaking of landing on their feet, one of your sons is here with us today but another one, mark went on to become the mayor of new orleans. cybil: he did. another mayor between him and his father.

limit. hurricane katrina. the terrible devastation of the city. family? cybil: it was really devastating. the flood came, the water stayed in for three weeks. it was devastating because it destroyed everything in its wake , even i had 10 inches on my floor and mold consumed everything. three of us, four of us lost their homes. they lost their homes and their jobs. we had to evacuate, we were gone for a couple of months. no jobs, no place to stay. stirring with friends trying to recover their lives.

-- i back. i made myself satisfied until i could. memoir. , precious. i began to think about it. i grieved over it. down. i laid in bed and thought about one event, got up in the morning and went to the computer. i had 16 of the story ies. it was cathartic, i was in no rush to finish. i was enjoying it very much. karen: it is a fascinating book, we want everybody to pick it up. so much history in this memoir. thank you for being here today.

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with affordable and high-quality health care. half a century later, community health centers represent the states largest primary care network, serving more than 900,000 patients. running us is the president and ceo, jim hunt. with him is daniel driscoll, ceo harbor health services. talk about the founding of the first health center. >> two young physicians here in boston had seen this model of providing health care, jack in particular had seen this in south africa. the community health center model was the model of care used to provide care in the segregated townships that nonwhites were herded into in south africa. jack saw that and came back to

this country, met up with another during the civil rights movement and decided this model income communities here in the united states. founding of revolutionary move? >> during the 60' s, the prospect of economic opportunity was out to stimulate the communities and columbia was an isolated hamlet people were herded and geithner and gibson both said to senator kennedy and the office of economic opportunity that opportunity starts with the healthy and give us a small grant so we can demonstrate the effectiveness of community-based health care. the rest is history . 50 years of growth and development of health centers. karen: how many community health and massachusetts? and boston there are 23

network. how does having this health care network in place aid providing competent health care to communities and manage costs overall for health care? >> first of all, community and jack geiger imagined community participant in health centers. we serve people in the language

that they speak, we serve people in communities where they live and we try to be reflective of the overall community needs. karen: with the community health center, the idea is that the cuts down on emergency room visits, if your community health center is the line of first treated there. issues are detected there before you even have to go to the hospital. >> harbor health services health centers including the first in the nation. two of our centers are first every day -- open every day of the year except christmas. more to your point, if you have that you think may prevent you from going to school or work on monday, you can get it cared for on a sunday.

karen: all of these health centers are just top-quality, they have all the latest equipment. i get my dental work done at whittier street health center. it' s a pleasant experience. >> we take government money to help us subsidize the cost of people who can' t afford it. with government money comes a tremendous amount of oversight. far more than a private source might. we are looked at, examined, reported on in so many ways. what the data shows is that even though our patients are in many ways more difficult to care for, the standards compared apples to higher. karen: a daylong celebration is happening at the edward kennedy underscore the importance of

senator ted kennedy in the formulation of the health care network. what will you do tomorrow? >> we are only celebrating but planning for the future. the medical homes created over the last 50 years that promote wellness and provide care, the language people speak, where they live, is the model for the future. the quality is there and we will celebrate the 50 years of growth now serving 28 million people across this country. we would have no health center without senator kennedy. he was elected in 1966, that he looked at it in 1966, walked out of the building and said -- what better place to celebrate this than the edwin m kennedy institute with many leaders and people across the country , congressional civil rights leaders and others will come together with vicki kennedy and all of us and friends from columbia point with the health centers across massachusetts.

karen: thanks for joining us, celebrate tomorrow at the edward point. it' s an all day affair, you can learn more about the people we featured at our cityline page at wcvb.com.