with all the boys ♪ ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪ ♪ ymca ♪ ♪ you can get yourself clean, you canmca ♪ ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ discover the heartbeat of democracy with c-span we connect with attendees at washington d.c. during donald trump's presidential inauguration. share their vision for the next four years. >> m tracy richardson from ohio. i came here because i love this country. my hope for the future is that we will be who we have always been a free, caring people who will work with one another for good. but really for the whole world. i am also former military. i really hope we can take care of art military pick xm john smith from southern california. a real blue state but it's turning red for donald trump he is uniting the country. what's most important what he will do today is seal the border he's going to be hard on crime and the economy is going to come back. i think it's going to be very, very quick. donald trump does a lot of magic. that is most important part of the next four years i think we will see prosperity. people

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. ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca. ♪ ♪ they have everything for you men to enjoy. you can hang out with all the boys here it's fun to stay at the ymca. it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪ ♪ you can get yourself clean,, you can have a good meal. you can do whatever you feel ♪ ♪ young man, are you listening to me? i said, young man, what do you want to be? i said young man, , you can make real your dreams but you got to know this one thing. ♪ no man does it all by himself. i said, young man, put your pride on the shelf and just go there, to the ymca. i'm sure they can help you today ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca. it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪ ♪ may have everything for you men to enjoy. you can hang out with all the boys ♪ ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca. it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪ ♪ you can get yourself clean,, you can have a good meal. you can do what ever you feel ♪ ♪ young man, i was once in your shoes. i said, i was down and out with the blues. i felt no man cared if i were a live. i felt the whole world was so tight

>> but just looking at photographs of fellow ymca members that there were other asian-american faces. and his roommate at the time in this very concerned to water you doing here? it is after hours. and they said we're years studying for the exam. and he said i am here doing the same kind of thing. it was a principled stance that he did intentionally at the ymca because it is in including loan the campus with the bold decision he would not go along with this with the constitutionality in and the order for removal but he dutifully recorded route was going including his coming back after an hour's. he made contact with the lawyer and fade decided but with direct evidence violated curfew and would present himself. he made that decision of jay but and accorded was his lawyer. in tenth those who love this is meant to who retool -- but this is the time of 1942 with the internment camps of japanese-americans. but with the removal of people from the bainbridge island where the pioneers had settled and were forming and right out in the middle of puget sound to anybody in that kind of situation

>> guest: he belonged to the ymca. the photograph of his classmate, i think it was predominately caucasian, but there were other asian-american faces in there. i think his roommate at the time was caucasian. but they were often friends are very concerned when showed back up in a library and a library inside what are you doing here? it is after-hours. what are you doing here? and he asked them, what are you guys doing here? they said we are here studying for the exam coming up next week and gordon said i am here doing the same kind of thing. it was a principled stand. he did this intentionally and i think because of his participation in the ymca, because he was already a quaker, because he was already involved in antiwar activities on the university of washington campus, he evolved the decision that he was not going to go along with this, but also he was going to challenge the constitutionality as well as the morality of both the curfew order in the order for removal. >> host: did he get arrested in the library? >> gues

welcome to our ymca. i would also like to thank the staff here at the alexandria ymca, especially the branch executive director and the leaders of the ymca of metropolitan washington, and he was the president and chief executive officer, stan laub was the executive vice president of organizational advancement, pam the chief operations officer and janice williams, senior vice president for program development. the white ca is so very honored to be a partner in this important effort and proud to be the host today. ymca provide safe affordable spaces and programs to help both kids and adults learn, grow and thrive. in fact, for nearly 160 years trantwo's offer programs to strengthen the physical, emotional and spiritual health of millions of individuals from all backgrounds and all types of communities. over the past of years we've increased our efforts to help stem the tide of rising obesity and chronic disease rates. there is an excellent example of this right here in our ymca of metropolitan washington. j

a lot of you may not know about the armed services ymca. we were established during 1861, the longest continuous military support organization in our nation. we currently have 13 branches, 25 affiliates. we serve 95 installations across the country to include bases in alaska and hawaii. we provide a broad spectrum of programs and services to military families. we provide all types of childcare, full day childcare, before and after childcare as well as drop-off care, including free drop of care at military hospitals. a lot of those folks who drop their health -- drop their kids at the hospital are going for mental health or brain health. we are providing preschool enrichment programs. all of this helps our military kids learn and grow and helps families connect. our -- art has been a key element in every one of the curriculums we use for our programs. i want to provide one example where art took hold at a location in san diego. we provide a warrior care initiative that has been in place were 20 years at a hospital in san diego, and it is an

this is a ymca room. this is the rock, if you've been to the african-american museum in washington d.c., it was a leisure place to stay, it was an african american guesthouse run by hazel and plaintiff and claire, this is the rock in the original. this was a place away from the beach, the beaches were segregated and you could go and stay for a week or two weeks. you could enjoy your meals, is apparently a really good book. she catered meals to the white community and the black community. there were other places like mckenzie's part and arkansas which was a hotel and perfect for the automobile. the park right outside your door. most of these places were owned by african-americans. some were owned by white americans. but catered only to black people. these are some advertisements in the green book, they offer same values and product offered for parallel establishments. some of those folks operated these places clearly place themselves in the ad to show readers that they were black. this is a national park,

the ymca had resources. it's an international organization and it had resources from outside and was able to do things like bring in clothing sent from the west and to feed people and set up soup kitchens. it also quickly became, because of jazz records that are arrived at the ymca became a center of social life in warsaw. it was a place you went to parties in 1947 and 1948. you can imagine a city in which everything is rubble and there's practically nothing standing in the ymca is a little island of jazz music. the ymca, this poses such a threat and such a problem at the very highest levels, the communist leaders write to one another angry letters. we must do something about the ymca. let's destroy the ymca and eventually they do. they close it up and it is tragic moment the communist smash the jazz records because it's seen as anything that's an island of self-organized or spontaneous organization is seen as a potential threat to the regime. c-span: at one point you mentioned john paul sartre and pablo pic

with ymca all over the country. we have about 1100 program locations now. those program locations have served about 62,000 people. that may seem like a drop in the bucket, that may seem impressive but their 84 million americans living with prediabetes and only 10% know it. we only come it is only a drop in the bucket. we have much more to do to do that and is going to take a lot of organizations working together including with healthcare partners, with technology, with other organizations to see an impact. >> so, so for these of it up and running for what, a couple of years? is anything you learned about sort of what works or doesn't work that's different from the pilot? and also, i mean, if you're fighting the basically you are having success in these programs and they are helping people, maybe talk about what the measure of success is, but also do you then, the fact that you're kind of a drop in the bucket, does that lead you to think that maybe we need, i mean, cms is sort of holding up the approval of these virtual diabetes prevention programs. would yo

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you might provide a good breakfast as a way to make extra money for your family and this is a ymca room. this is the rock, if any of you have visited the african-american museum in washington dc you've seen the rock which was a leisure place to stay in kettering maine. it was an african-american guesthouse run by hazel and clayton sinclair and this is the rock, this original environment . this was a place i was away from thebeach . the beaches were segregated in portsmouth and in kittery but you could go and you could stay for a week or two weeks at rock crest. you can enjoy your meals at rock rest, hazel was apparently a really good cook and she catered meals for the white community as well as the black community. there were other places to stay like mackenzie's court in hot springs arkansas which was a motor hotel, perfect for the automobile. you could park rightoutside the door . most of these places were owned by african-americans but some were owned by white americans but catered only to black people . these are some advertisements from the green book. for the same values and produ

this is a ymca room. this is the rock if in if you have visited the african american museum in washington d.c., and seen the rock. it was a leisure place to stay in maine. as an african-american guesthouse that was read trent run by hazel mclaren this is the rock innocent regional environment. this was a place that was away from the beach, the beaches were segregated and enforced. you could go and stay for a week or two weeks at rock rest. you could enjoy your meals at rock rest, hazel was a very good cook. she catered meals for the white community as well as the black community. there were other places to stay like mckenzie's court in hot springs arkansas, which was eight motor hotel and perfect for the automobile. you could park right outside your door. most of these places were owned by african-americans. some were owned by white americans but catered only to black people. these are some advertisements from the green book, they offered the same values and products that were offered for whites in parall

song] ♪ ♪ [ymca song] ♪ [ymca song] ♪ [cheering and applause] ♪ [ymca song] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> democratic vice campaign trips to keep battleground states through sunday after two people associated with the campaign tested positive for covid-19. yesterday a flight crewmember and senators can medication director liz allen tested positive for the coronavirus according to joe biden's campaign manager jen o'malley dillon. >> our campaign 2020 coverage continues with candidates campaigning and debating. c-span your unfiltered view of politics. >> candidates for governor in north carolina incumbent governor roy cooper and senate governor took part in a televised debate at the unc tv studios. ... hosted this debate. >> the 2020 gubernatorial candidates debate is presented through a partnership with the north carolina association of broadcasters education foundation. >> good evening and welcome. i'm the north carolina tv news anchor your moderator for tonight

many of the places that were listed in the guide especially the early ones were either ymca dorm rooms were the homes of african-american families. so if you had an empty room or an extra room, women rented their rooms out and they provide a good breakfast as a way to make extra money for their families, this is a ymca room. this is the rock if any of you have visited the african-american museum in washington, d.c., using the rock which was a leisure place to stay in kittery main, an african-american house that was run by hazel and clinton sinclair and this was the original environment. this is a place that was away from the beach, the beaches were segregated in court smith and kittery, you could go and you could stay for a week or two week and you could enjoy your meals, hazel was a really good cook and she catered meals for the white community as well as the black community. there were other places to stay like vacancies court in hot springs arkansas which was a motor hotel and perfect for the automobile, you could park outside your door, most of these places were owned by african-am

it has the ymca which is are people it's a black ymca but he came there to stay at the ymca in 1948.in the klan actually marched down auburn avenue which was the richest black street in theom world is a show of intimidation. he comes back later on when he's driving through with the answer probably in the mid- 1950s priest driving through atlanta and he sees someone walking down ponce de leon street pretty said he does not want to hit the wrap because rats have more power more respected atlanta, georgia that a black man he did not want to get in trouble for running over amo rat. the fact he can move to atlanta, work with trayvon martin luther king junior, represent atlanta in congress then become the mayor of the city within 20 years is remarkable in and of itself. the fact that he saw something in atlanta that he knew it could be an international city, he knew it to be a city that was not birmingham, it is not little rock not even nashville. there was something different about atlanta with the airport, with the businesses that were there. eswhat they called the atlanta y with how bla

the ymca is going to be orchestrating a lot of these efforts and we are out raising private money to do is do we have support already for many of our programs to engage young people through companies like american eagle outfitters and coca-cola in camelback and north face and the big announcement coming later on this week. what it says is we don't have to do it on our own budgets. we don't have to do it all with their own employees. we can do it by working together in partnership. we can be so much more together than we are apart. so i want to thank the leadership of the national league of cities mayors becker and coleman and all of you for stepping up and showing us the way with the work you are doing and recognizing. yes, let's give you you guys around of applause applause for that. [applause] recognizing that we want our young people to stay. we want our young people to come home. we want them to build careers and raise their families and have as much fun growing up as we did. we all have work to do but if we do it well he will be the gift that keeps on giving. young people will h

after two years of losing-- dc losing a championship he started the 12 street ymca team or rather the washington 12th streeters. now, in 2013, the week that-- or the week before he was to be inducted into the basketball hall of fame the "washington post" magazine printed this a story and that. i don't know if some of you might have seen it but eb henderson is there in the middle holding the basketball. he was the captain of the team and the organizer of the team. they played against all the teams, atlantic city , new york. there was a team in philadelphia, to think they would undefeated and claimed college basketball world championship, world championship, mind you. on the last game that eb henderson played, it was christmas eve, the night of his wedding. he had my grandmother, maryellen henderson, you know they were old school teachers in washington dc so they didn't have a lot of money, so they took the opportunity to go to new york city where he would play the game and they would have their honeymoon, but he also made a promise to his wife that after they got married he would no lo

and this is a ymca room. this is the rock. if any of you have visited the african-american museum in washington, d.c., i you've seen the rock which was a please your place -- leisure place to stay in maine. it was an african-american guesthouse that was run by hazel and clayton sinclair, and this is the rock in its original environment. this was a mace that was away from -- a place that was away from the beach. the beaches were segregated. but you could go and you could stay for a week or two weeks at rock rest. you could enjoy your meals at rock rest. hazelling was, apparently, a really good cook, and she catered meals for the white community as well as for the back community. there were other places to stay like mckenzie's dmowrt hot springs -- court in hot springs, arkansas, which was a motor hotel and perfect for the automobile. you could park right outside your door. most of these places were own by african-americans, but some were owned by white americans but catered only to black people. these are some advertisements fr

in washington dc, the central ymca where he and his brother-in-law went to watch a game of basketball and they were told, get out. so, he decided that he would start a league and he started a championship. he went to new york and talked to george latimer and conrad norman who had teams there to start a championship between the teams of washington dc and the teams of new york city, so that african-americans would have a championship to aspire to. after two years of losing-- dc losing that championship he started the 12th street ymca team or rather the washington 12th streeters. in 2013, the week before he was to be inducted into the basketball hall of fame, the "washington post" magazine printed this story in that. i don't know if some of you may have seen it, but eb henderson is in the middle holding the basketball. he was the captain of the team and organizer of the team. they played against all the teams, atlantic city, new york. there was a team in philadelphia, also, i think. they went undefeated and claimed college basketball world championship, world championship, mind you. on t

world for the ymca. had lunch as buckingham palace and gave speeches all over the world. he was very conservative man, but a big activist as well. those things went very closely hand in hand in the rhetoric of racial justice in the late 19th century when he came along. her mother,ed a linea, when at adi, did among other things -- one of only three black women who went to europe during world war i with the black troops. there were all these hundreds and hundreds of white women who went to work in basically we think as the uso type jobs but run by the ymca so troops were placed to unwinds and so on, before for the black troops, only three black women and she wrote a best-selling book about the treatment of black soldiers during world war i, a book that is still referenced when historians write about the subject today. her mother was ang activist. went for the naacp as a field secretary and her particular job was to go to town, especially in the south and midwest, where the klan was dominant that the black

the green book included gas stations hotels, motels restaurants ymca churches, doctors, beauticians and barbers and there was at least one article that might tell you about philadelphia and the things you could do and see or chicago usually geographically situated in calling you to places you may be welcome to visit. also courting the black middle class to reflect the values about wealth and well mannered behavior. you can see that. we have a very charming middle-class couple with matching luggage, and you can see the suburban neighborhood in the background. the black middle class that could afford to travel and green shows up as the ideal couple. over the course of the life of the green book content expanded from just new york and new jersey and connecticut to the entire east coast and then the entire united states and then all of north america finally europe africa and asia. that there were other travel guides like this one kisses the baltimore travel map that was a part of the s oh american newspaper. the travel guide and americans to name a few. you can also see the middle class in

the first boy scout troop in memphis was sponsored and started by this downtown ymca here in memphis.uilding phoned 1909, and 1910 they sponsor one of the -- the first known boy scout troop in memphis and so the notion of institutional sponsors before there was even a local council round. that would take another five or six years, was vital. the ymca was probably the main partner of the boy scouts the first couple of years, eventually the strong tie, as its spread out to other institutions, the boy scouts started their own councils and offices and local areas that real close knit tie wasn't as essential and vatted out and kind of ran their own show but ymca continues to sponsor boy scout troop ford decade. the boy scouts were particularly concerned with adolescents which was a word that ms. more or less invented in same time period, before then it was 13-year-old is usually a working person and 1880 or 1840 that person was probably working a full-time job so when we got to the point in the teens and 20s, when they were adding middle schools, adding high schools and more people were go

, a black ymca. he came there to stay ott y this. -- at ymca and the klan marched down auburn avenue, the richest black street in the world as a show of intimidation and he comes back later on driving through atlanta probably in the mid 1950's. he's driving through atlanta and he sees a rat down ponz delee moan-- ponce de leon street, and he doesn't want to hit the rat because they have more power. and he ran for congress and then mayor in the city within 20 years remarkable in and of itself and the fact that he saw something in atlanta that he knew it could be an international city. he knew it could be a city that wasn't, you know, birmingham. it wasn't little rock. not even, you know, nashville, that there was something different about atlanta with the airport, with the businesses that were there, with what this standard, they called the atlanta way, how blacks and whites have kind of come to an agreement that because of business relationships and because of what's going on with higher education an

he came there to stay at the ymca in 1948. and the klan actually marched down auburn avenue, which is the richest black city, richest black street in the world, as a show of intimidation. he comes back later on and driving through atlanta probably in 1950 or the mid 1950s, he's driving through atlanta and he sees a rat walking down possibly elm street and he slows down because he says that he doesn't want to hit the rat because rats have more and more respect in atlanta, georgia, than a black man. he didn't want to get in trouble for running over a rat. so the fact that he can move to atlanta. work with martin luther king jr representing in congress, then become the mayor of the city within 20 years is a remarkable in and of itself. and the fact that he saw in atlanta that he knew it could be an international city he knew it could be a city that, wasn't, you know, birmingham it wasn't little rock, not even, you know, nashville, that there was something different about atlanta with the airport with the businesses that were ther

good tips on how to use the food, gymnasium so tried to go there at the whimsy in indiana but the ymca said you are not welcome here because of the color of your skin and he later said this was the first time he learned about the monster prejudice. soso bernie monger i so much he decided to leave indiana and leave his a company behind and move the new company to massachusetts and there he was brought along and went to the ymca there and was welcome. there he felt comfortable and decided he wanted to spend the rest of his life there except later on which i'll tell you about. he believes so strongly in major taylor that by 1896 after he had one amateur reese's he took him to new york city and wanted to enter him in the greatest race of the time heard in a credible testament of how strongly he believed in him. this is a picture of madison square garden, you can see the tower and it's a palatial type of building. they held a 60 race. you race around an oval for six days straight in our rest here there but it was inhumane type of race. if he could survive that yet survived one of the most b

it's fun to stay at the ymca ♪ ♪ you can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal, ♪ ♪ you can don ♪ ♪ you can make your dreams ♪ ♪ but you've got to know this one thing ♪ ♪ no man does it by himself ♪ ♪ i said young men put your pride on the shelf ♪ ♪ i said it just go there to the ymca ♪ ♪ cox early in person voting in arizona started october 9 runs through november 1. republican presidential nominee donald trump heads to las vegas this evening for a rally with supporters for the former president is tied to democratic noninitial and harris at 5:30 eight average of presidential polls in nevada. joe biden won the silver state by just over 20000 votes in the former 2020 presidential election. >> today at republicanenor mike braun faces off against democrat rnwater in a debate to be indian's next governor hosted by the indiana debate commission we will haveha live starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern on cspan2, see spent now every mobile app and online at c-span.org. >> this election night c-span deliver something different. not just the presidential race, but the state races that will dec

the become and learned good tips how to use food, how to use the gymnasium and tried to go to the ymca in nays and they said you're not welcome here because of the color of your skin and he learned but the monster prejudice. so bernie munger decided to leave with him, leave indiana, leave his company and moved the any company to worcester, massachusetts, and there major taylor was brought along and went to the web williams willia- ymca and was woked. bernie munger believed so strongly in major taylor that by 1896, after he had one some amateur races, took him to new york city wanted to enter him in the gratest race of the time. an inest testament how strongly bernie munger believed in major taylor. it's a very palatial type of building they've they held the six, day race. race around it for six days straight, an hour for rest but was an inhuman type of race. you can survive that you survived one of the most brutal sporting contests quizzed by devrieses by man. at the time the gatest sprinter in world was a man named eddy balder, or eddie cannonball because he could shoot in front of th

her father's name was william who worked for the ymca that was a big vital organization with chapters all over the world. most famously had lunch at buckingham palace gave speeches in tokyo and switzerland a very conservative man but a big activist as well they work very closely hand-in-hand with the rhetoric of 19th century. her mother who is known as addie among other things shows three black women who went to europe in world war i with the black troops. hundreds and hundreds of white women went to now work with the uso type run by the ymca so the troops had a place to unwind but for all the thousands of black troops only three black women and then she wrote a best-selling book about the treatment of black soldiers during 11 - - world war i that is still referenced today. so she was also called a field secretary and her job was to go to town where it had become so dominant that the black community had become subdued and frightened she would travel these towns by herself and give these rousing speeches feeling that they could do something to face the kkk intimidation so to be aware o

the ywca the ymca, the boy scouts we would not be hard to find these things and yet these kinds of institutions and the world so they were really part of a pass from the american scene. that's really what the book is about. you can see this in the a number of demographic ways than you could see the architecture but i'm going to focus on the demographics. i could show you one chart. i would show you a few more but i could show you one chart it would get this one. this really shows us some real changes that happened just over the last eight years. the period of barack obama's presidency, this is all white christians together. all white christians protestant catholic nondenominational orthodox all lumped together comprise of the american population. in 2004, 59% of the country and by 2008 when president barack obama is running for president two election cycles ago that number was 54%. today that number is 45%. it was 47% in 2014 and the latest data shows that 45% so just during the last election cycle during president barack obama's presidency we have crossed this amazing threshold. we have moved

we also have right where i'm standing right now the river and the property which held our ymca and was sold to her city a few years ago and was demolished in the property was made development ready. we sold the property to a developer and they they're going to put high-rise condos there. i think they haven't decided on the exact plan yet and we are still in the stages of working on the plan but that should be started or the first of the year at the latest and that's probably going to be four to five stories high. this is really going to bring a lot of people in town too. that is what we are looking for, kind of reinventing ourselves as more of a place to come to not only fewer younger but for retirement and getting people to live in the downtown area has been very much a part of that. i think one of the key parts of our history of horse is we are celebrating and we have celebrated and in 2007 are sesquicentennial. i don't know if there's any one particular story but we are very proud of the white house and the fact that people can visit and walk up to the top and look out on lake huron

walk very far without tripping over an institution that was started by white christian america, the ymca, the ywca, the boy scouts. what not the heart to find these things and yet these kinds of institutions in the world that they were really a part of has really passed from the american scene. so that's really what the book is about. you can see this in a number of demographic ways. you can see the architecture. i'm going to focus on the demographics. if i could show you one chart it would be this one. this really shows us some real changes that happened just over the last eight years. shaded in this light gray. macrobarack obama's presidency, this is all white christians together percentage that all white christians protestants christians nondenominational orthodox all of together comprise of the american population. in 2459% of the country and by 2008 when president barack obama is running for election that number was 54%. today that number is 45%. it was 47% in 2014 and the next year the latest data shows it at 45% suggest during the last few election cycles during president barack o

after two years of losing he started the ymca team from the washington 12th street. so in 2013 the week before he was to be inducted into the basketball hall of fame the washington post magazine printed this. by eb henderson is there in the middle as the organizer of the team. atlantic city in new york to say that the color basketball world championship but on the last game that eb henderson played one is christmas eve the night of his wedding. he and my grandmother mary ellen henderson were both school teachers and didn't have a lot of money so they took the opportunity of going to new york city where they would play the game and have their honeymoon. but he also made a promise to his wife that after they got married he would no longer play. he retired from the game and concentrated on organizing and coaching. so this is the picture of the dunbar team 1922 that includes charles drew who drew blood plasma and a blood bank. we spent the rest of the career coaching and as the head of the washington dc public schools recreation and athletic departments. so he went aroun

the ymca is a low island. and the ymca, and this poses such a threat and such a problem to -- at the very highest levels, the communist leaders right to one another, angry letters, we must do something about the ymca. we must destroy the ymca and eventually they shut it down. they close it up and very tragic moment, the communist youth group is sent in to smash the jazz records because it is seen as -- anything that is an island that sells -- self organized a spontaneous organization is seen as a potential threat to the regime. >> at one point you mentioned john paul and pablo picasso. what role did they play? who were they, by the way? >> probably the preeminent philosopher, french philosopher of the postwar time. what of the great modernist painters. both were at one time or another, for part of their lives , communists or communist sympathizers he painted -- u.s. taken to see a new apartment block that was being built in the city, homes for the workers project. -he painted a picture, a kind of sketch on wal

her father's name was william, worked for the ymca. imagine that is the big vital organization with chapters all over the world and he traveled around the world with the ymca, he had lunch at buckingham speech in tokyo and other places. he was a very conservative man, but a big activist as well. those things were hand in hand and in 19th century, when he came along, her mother who is known as andy did a lot of things, one of only three black women who went to europe during world war i with the black troops. all these white women who went to work in what we think of as uso type job so they end up in the ymca, a place to unwind and so on before thousands of black troops or black women, a best-selling book about the treatment of black soldiers during world war i, referenced when historians write about the subject today. her mother was an actress, went to the naacp, called a field secretary and her job was to go to the midwest where it become so dominant the black community had become so subdued and she would travel by herself and give the

tutelage so they didn't feel there was a problem there so regularly troop meetings held here at the ymcahamber of commerce or these places that would sponsor the boy scout troops and they ran their ownps troops so this is what our boys or our schools we are doing this for the broader community like the rotary club or chamber of commerce would manage these troops and then they would do camping in the summer that was extended to teach these boys civic patriotism, community engagement the scouts were everywhere if there was a big event the scouts would be there learning to contributecobu back to the community learning to serve the public these 12 and 13 -year-olds were running the first aid booth guiding and chaperoning the president quite literally and away that i don't think is quite as pervasive today but they were there right in the thick of things they were remarkable to reach out to a diverse crowd of town and urban and suburban youth especially in the twenties times of the kkk the clan was as worried about jewish and african-american so that was one end of the spectrum those that wan

and itas has the ymca, the black ymca, he came there to stay in 1948, and the klan actually marched down auburn avenue, which is the richest black city -- richest black street in the world -- as a show of intimidation. he comes back later on, and he's driving through atlanta probably in 1950, the mid 1950s. he's driving through atlanta, and he sees a rat walking down ponce de leon street. he doesn't want to hit the rat, because rats have is more power and more respect in atlanta, georgia, than a black man. he didn't want to get in trouble for running over a rat. is so the fact is you can move to atlanta, work with martin luther king jr., representing atlanta in congress, then become the mayor of the city within 20 years, it's remarkable in and of itself. and the fact that he saw something in atlanta that he knew that it could be an international city, he knew it could be a city that wasn't, you know, birmingham, it wasn't little rock. not even nashville. there was something different about atlanta with the airport,99 with the businesses thatss were there, with hinge ty call -- thing they

james episcopal church in greensville work for the ymca. he explained that he was about 10 miles behind the front line, he had camps that he service, ymca camps. two or african-american into her white. then he said he did the same service at each one.vice at he said we have music, we have games for them. we try to provide writing materials and of course i offer religiousofoffer services to both. >> thank you. yes sir. >> regarding the natchez indians, could you giveding the historical context as totext a ethnically and culturally for them compared to the choctaw's and chickasaw's in mississippi? >> i will try to. the natchez indians were not a single ethnic group. they were confederacy.p. the choctaw's also were confederacy, the chicken saws were confederacy. these were groups of people who, because of the european invasion of north america they were clumping together for protection. so that natchez group had at least three ethnic groups that made up their so-called the natchez tribe. the natchez people, the people who had been there. [inau

the biggest song, , the song tht gets people going the wildest is the village people's ymca. mississippi where there would be thousands of evangelicals, and right before mike pence comes out, literally ymca, people pantomiming the words ymca, , ad the next person comes out is mike pence who is adamantly, who says being gay is a sin. that's this world and it's always reinforcing itself. and i think it speaks to what we're going to talk about in your book where you talk about this post policy world where policy itself doesn't, there is no policy. it's all a show. and i think i would say to you, is this an outgrowth, is trump a natural outgrowth of this sort of post policy world in which there is no reality, only show? >> right. one of the things i want to ask you about is this notion of how do attendees of events, how does this hard-core base come how do they respond to trump standards? failed in government, and one of other things. my assumption before reading your book that they would deemphasize or reprioritize what it would somehow rationalize and say it's the democrats fau

so during world war i the ymca and salvation army set 3500 women to france where they open recreation hudson canteen and served refreshments and danced. officials call these the home away from home and that's a phrase that gets used in all the wars throughout the 20th century. the women are to distract the men from the devices waiting them. in this rendition, i love the words a passive. there lured away and distracted by these vices and men are not actually seeking them out. [laughter] there always boys and always the victim. which is hilarious to me. there men when we need them to be men or boys in innocent victims when it involves vices. so the solution became an official called the right kind of women who were going to distract the boys from all these problems. although these women were to remind them of their mothers, sisters and sweethearts all at the same time which is a little complicated. they are to symbolize and have a supportive home front that we are here with you and to help you, one official said men sb furnished with amusement or the turn to the first petticoat ac. i do

he had four camps, ymca camp that he service. two were were african-american and two were white. he would do the same service at each one. we have music, we have games for them, we try to provide writing material. of course i offer religious services to both. >> thank you. yes, sir. >> regarding the natchez indians, could could you give a historical context as far as ethnically and culturally for them compared to the choctaw's and chickasaw's and mississippi. >> i will try to. the natchez indians were not a single ethnic group. they were confederacy. the choctaw's were also a confederacy, the chickasaw's' were confederacy. these were groups of people who, because of the european invasion of north america, they were clumping together for protection. so the natchez group had at least three ethnic groups that made up their so-called the natchez tribe. the natchez people, the natchez people had been there where the city of natchez is back into prehistoric times, and then these other groups that were more or less refugee groups that had attach themselves to the natchez. the greengroce

william hunten, eunice's father, was the first black international secretary hired by the ymca. and you have to picture the ymca not as a nonprofit that runs health clubs but, rather, as this enormous and actually quite wealthy international organization with chapters all over the world. and william traveled the world on their behalf. so the parents were both these activists. and so it's little surprise that eunice grew up quite ambitious. she attended smith college where she received her master's and her bachelor's in four years and was only the second student at smith ever to do that. she attended 230rd ham law school -- fordham law school. and important to the story, in 1944 the republican party that ran new york city at time, and as a footnote it's important to remember this is a time when virtually the entirety of african america voted republican routinely. so she was republican as were her parents and so on. so in 1944 she ran for state assembly. now, the only reason that matters -- she lost, by the way. the only reason she ran for state assembly is that in the days of mac

, hotel ymca, hotel, state government building. the tower. the vision moss's this would be a pedestrian mall to walk and shop. we're standing on the corner of the grounds of the old state capital and right across the street is where crawfish bottom began which is interesting you have the state legislators right across the street and some have considered the of bad part of town and you were a stone's throw away but it was 50 acres taken out buy it urban renewal some of those who could not give day consistent at -- dancer which was the fun of it and shifting boundaries some people said krogh was just the corner where some would actually say the rest of it was bottoms the other part would say the whole thing is cross some would say these four blocks but the in -- beyond that was the bottom end public memory of where people live and also they were remembering something that no longer existed. the person who did the interviews showed a map and would say this was here and here but not like it was the last 20 years. >> where did those fam

paul super also was the and director of the polish ymca and he with a group of ymca directors and workersas well as with the the polishnsurance are also independently making their way across poland and super will become in charge. polish relief a romania for hoover and he's also a dedicated incredible dedicated man he and his wife both margaretrote his wife wrote a letter it's nine or ten pages handitten. i have a copy of it teleanor roosevelt. she read it, passed it on to huand arguing the aid should be given to polish refugees so they knew how to they they were on the ground in poland in romania, but they knew how to relate a bigger world in terms of trying to get support for their efforts. i want to say this, when i did the book, i did not out looking for women that were ignored to make a point. there are women in the organizations that are ignored. but if you do the research there, there they deserve everything they could possibly get in to 19 when i was here for hoover's with the staff here, i had a letter from charlotte kellogg. it was just signed with her initials and an address in

. ♪ it's fun to to stay at the ymca. ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca. ♪ they have everything that youn to stay at the ymca. ♪ it's fun to stay at the ymca. ♪ you can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal -- ♪ you can do whatever you feel. ♪ young man, are you listening to me? ♪ i said, young man, what did you want to be? ♪ i said, young man, you can make sure -- ♪ but you've got to know this one thing. ♪♪no man does it a by himself >> transportation secretary pete buttigieg, along with represves maxwellst, delia ramirez and former republican congressman adam kin singer will speak at the youth vote fest hosted by t university of chicago institute of politics. watch at 5:45 p.m. eastern on c-s c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at span.org. >> day three of the democratic national convention continues today in chicago. tonight's ss include transportation secretary buttigieg, formerouse speaker nancyosi, former president clinton and minnesota governor tim