and many other african-american figures -- langston hughes.ppas in a way policy at the time but he wasn't directly political. >> you mentioned some of the characters, ford, walter, mayor cavanaugh. can you tell us a little bit about why you chose them and what you found? >> they emerged from my reporting. i didn't start by saying i'm going to write, there are many characters in my book but it didn't start by saying these are the key people. i thought these are the key ideas and how do i enrich those? and so henry ford to second, i chose commute to write about gm afford us much more interesting but always has been from the start of the original henry ford and his notions of december line, anti-semitism. he was a brilliant, studious man. but yet all these contradictions. he brought african-americans to detroit and hired them. so he had shadows and light in his life and a lot of interesting ways. and his grandson, henry ford ii, was sort of a larger-than-life figure, very colorful. sort of come user friendly with lbj. into my book you see at the

effects were still everywhere, and they were able to reconnect with school friends cab callaway and langston hughesalloway music) ♪ hey now, hey now! jose anderson: you had a group of african-american professionals, a group of african-american creative people from which houston and marshall could draw encouragement from the whole post-harlem renaissance era, and so that community actually helped to energize momentum for the legal campaign across the entire country. jose anderson: new york was an exciting place to be the headquarters for the campaign. in fact new york had plenty of race issues of its own. thurgood marshall: after a riot would break in harlem a code number would go out to all policemen in the 123rd street precinct - that's right in the middle of harlem. in the meantime all of the white policemen in harlem, where the riot is going on, just stand perfectly still. and don't use a weapon, don't use a gun, just stand there until you're replaced. and then these guys go out in these other cars, and the colored fella taps the white fella on the shoulder, he gets in the car. and it about, wel

read the langston hughes and his battle with booker t.. your faith is here and not far. let down your bucket where you are. six hours is how much we invest in ourselves, our children, our neighborhood, six hours, you owe me a cadillac, two week, nice. in your pocket, that is how you and chris me. six ours is where we are now after the struggle of terrorism and prosperity, six hours. i think of our mighty mcmurray and our sister brendel holmes who is here today. she came to this conference for the first time ever just to support me. this system did not know me from a bowl of soup two months ago but she lives in south florida, knows my story and she is a problem of color and although brenda is the executive director of the national black mcdonald owners association, this is in less than two weeks and she is the owner of 11 mcdonald's stores herself. she is with us here. i have here, i think of brenda and mary. and make sure they're 10,000 more brendas or maries. i.t. pour it into my bucket, wake up in the morning, brush my teeth. i did it at walgreen's and i thank you for

he also record the second one and he recorded langston hughes and many other african-american figurese had that sort of connection to trying to popularize in a way the politics of the time. but he wasn't directly political. >> you mentioned some of the characters, ford, walter, cavanagh, mayor cavanagh. can you tell us a little bit why you chose them and what you found? >> you know they emerged from my reporting. i didn't start by saying i'm going to write, i mean there are many, many characters in my book but i didn't start by saying these are the key people. i thought these are the key idea and how do i, how do i enrich those? so henry ford the ii i chose, you write about gm. it is much larger but ford is always more interesting from the original start of henry ford and his notions of the assembly line his anti-semitism. he was a brilliant businessman but he had these contradictions. he also brought african-americans to detroit and hired them. he had shadows and light in his life and in a lot of interesting ways. his grandson. henry ford ii, was sort of a larger than life figure, ve