hanged before he could have started the ku klux klan. i wonder if a harsher peace might have brought a more lasting and just peace. it's at least something to speculate. again, one of the models is the reconstruction of germany. after the second world war, the german people had no doubt what the cost was, at least for the highest leaders of war crimes. while he's a worker criminal and he's a lesser war criminal, there are others. >> the pictures you showed to begin were taken of people after the camp had been liberated. how much was known by the northern public or the government about andersonville and what was happening before? >> i don't know. i think the histories are in dispute on this. there are not people being exchanged out of andersonville. and while there are some escaping from andersonville and there are rumors going on. but i don't know -- oob. >> my second to that is, you discussed the ladies and their vegetables. how much was known in and around andersonville? >> enough to know -- enough to know that local -- >> beginning to

grand dragon. >> yes, he was. >> schieffer: of the ku klux klan in alabama. some of the things you don't know until you go to -- i had no idea -- >> is it marked? does it say that. >> schieffer: that is his name right across -- >> does it acknowledge anywhere -- >> schieffer: it just says edmond perez but it is one of those things up there and i think down through the years people had just forgotten. >> everybody there knows. >> schieffer: that's what i found out. >> #02: that's true why you should do something where something is happening to find out. where are we right now? jan you of course are a native of alabama, is alabama different than it used to be? >> oh, completely. and i thought, you know as congressman lewis said in the interview we can't lose sight of how much it has changed because that does a disservice when you think about how much people before us sacrificed for that change. but yet as we have seen on a number of civil rights issues whether race, same-sex marriage, there still is a long way to go. but you also see in alabama, i have been ther

the ku klux klan. the ku klux klan. we can discuss the remote and of the klan in terms of southern history as it goes through jim crow, how movies like "birth of a nation" meant to glorify the klan, but in this context we can expand the role that the ku klux klan played in american society. the story begins things giving night, 19 15, on top of stone mountain, georgia. if you have never been there, it is a tall granite peak outside atlanta. a group of men gathered, planted an american flag and a cross set the cross on fire. of course they do, right? and they opened a bible to romans, chapter 12 verse 2 and proclaimed the new knights of the ku klux klan. and what do they find? do not conform yourself to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of the mind so you may judge what is god's will and what is good and pleasing and perfect. do not conform yourself to this age gives us a very large hint at what drove those to join this newly formed mass. do not conform yourself to this age. think of what "thi

this was a film for the coop >> ran -- for the ku klux klan. it basically built a fire under those who were acting as terrorists against the people that lived in the south to allow them to commit terrorist acts against black people. the government overlooked it because at the time they said it was a great piece of cinematic art. i really feel it is time that we stop looking at these films and saying, these are great works of art, and they were very racist, and therefore it was a piece of work for the time. this was a propaganda piece to further disenfranchise a group of evil that were already enslaved in this country. we need to look at it for what it is. >> thank you for the call. we have a chance for the guests to respond. appreciated. hari jones. >> the film is a blockbuster film. it is certainly propaganda. a lot of the history that is written dunning's school, wilson at princeton, dunning at columbia the kind of history they are producing his propaganda. this is the real problem, the propaganda of the history. in the case of william monroe

the letter stood for krispy kreme club but those initials are emfa says for the ku klux klan. company says all material has been withdrawn and an internal investigation is currently underway. >>> ktvu is the proud sponsor of "we day." it is an educational event that inspires young people to become involved in global chain. >> the program culminates in oakland. you cannot buy tickets. each student must earn their way in by making a positive change. we'll be sharing of children doing just that. >> whoever raises $50, the goat will goat will go near the fences. >> reporter: they are trying to raise money for needy families so they can buy goats. >> it really came from the students it will be changing in the world. >> reporter: the students divided into 15 groups, one person from each age group starting at kindergarten through 8th grade. each group decorates its cardboard votes and has a jar to collect as much change as donors will give. it looks perfect. how much money does it cost? >> how long will it take to you fill that jar? i don't. >> i don't know. >> to emphasize the impor

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i mean, when the head of the ku klux klan, when all these weird groups, come out in favor of the candidate my party made a bad mistake in san francisco. and i'm going to have to vote against that mistake on the 3rd of november. >> the stakes are too high for you to stay home. >> funding for "bombs away" was provided by... additional support was provided by the following... [upbeat twangy music] ♪ >> ♪ world go away >> hank cochran is, without a doubt, one of the greatest songwriters ever on earth. >> ♪ and i fall to pieces >> it's important historically that people know who hank cochran was and what he did, and he always wanted to be the hemingway of country music, and i think he did it. >> it's stunning when you look at the body of work that he was able to accomplish and stay relevant for so long. that's way out of the ordinary. >> ♪ i've got everything ♪ everything but you >> they will be recording hank cochran songs way down the line and probably not even know who he was. >> i think it's really important for people to understand where country music came from and the era of the '50s and

if you watch the video, you can see the fans flood the court but you can also see ku coach getting pinnedgainst the scorers table. he needed help from bruce weber to get out of the crowd. and then there was the fan running a player and giving a hard shoulder. coach self said i wasn't nervous for me. there were players that hit our players. this has to stop. we looked back and found he's been critical of court storming for the last 11 years. in o 2004 he said there's always the possibility of having an altercation if you don't have the proper security. duke head coach has also spoken out against court storming and some have sent their players to the locker room early in anticipation the court might get overrun. both big 12 conference and kansas state are taking a closer look at the entire issue. the k. state athleteic director said we fell short for securing the court and es indicating ku to its locker room. we are disappointed we did not do a better job for the ku team. the bottom line here is you could see some big time changes coming up prior to march madness following last night's game

and she has deep family ties to the backwoods around selma where the ku klux klan once reigned and where painful times past. herewith, our tale of two cities. >> ava duvernay: you know, the thing that i was really interested in doing with the film is making king more than a catchphrase, more than a holiday, more than a street name in a black neighborhood, more than a stamp, more than one speech. i mean, i wanted him to be a man, a living, breathing man. >> david oyelowo: those who have gone before us say, "no more! no more!" that means protest.... >> simon: in duvernay's film the british actor david oyelowo does indeed make king come alive. it's a vivid retelling of those dangerous days in 1965 when, in selma and much of the south, the right to vote was reserved for whites, and blacks were given impossibly difficult tests to get on the voting rolls. >> how many county judges in alabama? >> 67. >> name them. >> simon: the flash point in selma came when voting rights marchers crossed this bridge one sunday, hoping to take their case all the way to the state capital of montgomery, 50 miles

they engaged with the ku klux klan, invited the klan succumbed to greensboro, which they call the death to the klan march which certainly was confrontational from the outset. members were gathering with neighborhood residents around 11:00 in the morning for the parade to kick off at noon, but before that could happen, a caravan of nazi and klan members arrived on the scene. before uniformed police were present, violence began. it began with cwp demonstrators actually hitting the caravan cars with tickets find -- ticket signs. at that point, the klan members did collect weapons and shoot into the air. the next thing to happen was that some of cwp protesters also pulled out handguns and fired 1 2, or three shots. then the klansmen went into a car that was loaded with rifles pull those out, and in the next 88 seconds, five people were killed or mortally wounded, and twice that number were wounded. the police appeared on the scene after the fact, uniformed police. they did begin to arrest cwp members, interestingly enough. all of the klan members escape except for the last car. they did arr

she rode a beam just 6 or 7 with her grandfather fearing the ku klux klan during the night. >> night keeping vigil with grandpa. wanted to see him hill a ku klux klan. >> the library of congress paper papers show early determination. >> i don't think it's did i feel for anyone really to emphasize with these words. i think you can relate to her on a very basic human level. >> reporter: this was rosa parks in 1993 at a middle school named for her. >> it wasn't just for african-american children. she was interested in children of the world. i don't think we're fooling ourselves. people are going to come in because they're going to say this is the woman on the bus. but i think once they walk through the doors they're going to find so much more. and that's what we want. >> reporter: in the district tom sherwood news4. >>> coming up new at 6:30 stretches of metro track affected bay slowdown that could last all winter. we'll tell you where they are. >> reporter: and a growing debate over vaccinations for the measles. i'm david culvert. just ahead, where your kids' schools stand on this contr

by saying that extremism could be a good thing, he was basically opening the door to the birchers and leftover kuere beyond the pale. >> the head of the georgia klan came out for your ticket. do you accept their support? >> we don't want the backing of the ku klux klan. >> that's a different kind of extremist, and my father would have none of it. >> a thoughtful address by ronald reagan. >> thank you. i have spent most of my life as a democrat. i recently have seen fit to follow another course. >> ronald reagan was an actor, but it was in 1964 that suddenly he explodes on to the national scene as a political figure because he gives the speech. >> in this vote harvesting time they use terms like "the great society," or as we were told a few days ago by the president, we must accept a greater government activity in the affairs of the people. barry goldwater has faith that you and i have the ability and the dignity and the right to make our own decisions. >> the campaign was always run optimistically. and when ronald reagan hit it out of the ballpark with his speech, we just knew we were going to wi

. >> you can make parallels to things that happened here in america like the ku klux klan saying they are christian and they did not practice christianity. >> that's right. >> all right, who knew in 2015 the riskiest job would be a cartoonist? are you glad to be out of the onion? >> i am glad to be out of the cartooning game. for years i was going after the kathy artist. she was always my personal vendetta. i think somebody ended up chopping her head off. >> kathy guisitte? >> i don't know. i didn't learn her last name. >> i was a fan of her for better or worse. do you remember that? >> yeah. >> she always had a weird boyfriend. >> i think that was one of the ones i did not read. it was one of the boring ones. >> it was in the mary worth ghetto. slightly below funky winker beam. we have gone off the rails on this. i want to ask you, how does the west deal with these attacks on free speech? how do we deal with isis? it seems like it is so far away that we really don't care. >> i think the answer to an attack on free speech is more free speech. if you allow it to impinge upon what you t

they said they were not talking about the ku klux klan but krispy kreme. >> i mean it's a cultural gaph outlet, they didn't know and it kind of reminded me remember kenneth cole in the middle of the egyptian uprising? well everybody got upset about that. but i don't think these people really knew. >> what do you think? >> i think it is amazing. are these companies so bereft of talent that they don't have someone there that says this probably isn't a good idea two. >> they said that this was a terrible thing. ♪ neil: what is the deal? if you haven't heard of it, we haven'tknow y maxed. from top investment strategists to help set your mind at ease. know that planning for retirement can be the least of your worries. with the guidance of a pnc investments financial advisor, know you can get help staying on track for the future you've always wanted. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we

mall com's family faced frequent death threats by the ku klux klan. he was six his father was found dead, the family alleged it was murder. at 20, he was convictto convictof robbery and sentenced to prison. malcolm dropped the last name little which he considered a slave name and adopted the letter x in its place. he rose quickly in the nation of islam as his charismatic and vibrant speeches attracted thousands of new members. criticized martin luther king, jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence. he married in 1956 and had six children all girls. after he felt the leader elijah mohamed had committed adultery and fathered children with women not his wife. harmonious solution to america's race problem. his efforts were cut short in february 25th, 1965 he was gunned down. three members of the nation of islam were convicted for assassination ever malcolm x. meaive, almichael eaves. al jazeera. >> we don't advocate violence but our people have been the constant victims of brutality on the part of america's racists and the government has found itself either unwill

must form self defense units with which we can defend ourselves against the southern racists like the kulux klan and white citizenship counsel and others. >> he had broken from his former mentor elijah mohammed the leader of the all black nation of islam. the split came the same year malcolm traveled abroad meeting foreign leaders and muslims who were not white. he moderated his views but still suppress stressed black independence. >> we should do something to uplift the standards in of our society and put it on par with others. >> this is one of malcolm x's legacies with his charisma, he more than anyone else boosted membership in the nation of islam, not only here in new york but throughout the country. but his influence during his lifetime and his legacy today extend beyond religion author and scholar woodard says malcolm is now part of popular culture. >> you know you know find malcolm x in tupak in cuba and all over latin america. only two words you see in the graffiti that is in english. one is malcolm x and the other is tupak. >> what's the one thing people need to know about malc

like the lord's resistance army or the ku klux klan is not representative of christians worldwide. we make distinctions in order to move the conversation forward in a positive direction. >> thank you so much for coming on. i appreciate your perspective. just to remind the viewers, tonight cnn is going inside the controversy behind this movie. it's "blockbuster: the story of american sniper" tonight at a 9:00 on cnn. >>> ahead, two girls say they were driven to stab a classmate over and over because of a mythical creature known as slender man. they believed it would kill their families if they didn't do it. investigators are revealing disturbing drawings and a chilling to-do list the girls had. we we'll take you through the evidence coming up. also ahead, baltimore looks at what life was like way back in 1815. time capsule has been opened. we will show you what's inside. two weeks later. look, credit karma-- are you talking to websites again? this website says "free credit scores." oh, credit karma! yeah it's actually free. look, you don't have to put in your credit card information

. >> just like the ku klux klan used the name of christian. >> are you saying imam they don't have any. so their ideology is thee owe karatic. >> we're not going to condemn islam -- >> you can say what you're not going to do and go back on your couch in indianapolis, but the rest of the world is on fire from radical islam and we have a lot of reform work to do. so you can deny as the president can deny from here to eternity but the world is on fire. and the world's future depends upon puzmuslims waking up. he's not meeting with jews and christians, he's meeting with muslims -- >> hang on. i got to move the ball. university of california students at davis -- watch this. chanting the very words that were used on 9/11 by the hijackers, the words that were used at ft. hood words that "charlie hebdo," words that were used often -- >> words that are honorable words. >> watch what happens at the university of california. [ inaudible ] >> chanting allahu akbar. >> god is greater and more important than anything else going on. >> used by -- >> dr. jasser uses it every day if he says prayer. >>

it is true the ku klux klan burned crosses. he's factually correct. but there has been so much coverage of the president's unwillingness to call isis cad radical islamists. and i thought it was interesting that he called them a vicious death cult. he's tiptoeing his way to strike them that they have an ideology, they're not just criminals. >> so vicious deltath cult, the crewusades crusades. again, isn't it worth covering? >> it wasn't just offensive. the "new york times" seems to think that it was just a bunch of christians on the right who were are offended by it. because it's a broader story here. it's a question of whether the president is down playing the terrorist threat and it's a question of whether he is trying to dws connect the word islam from the word terror. and actually the "washington post" did a good job of pointing out how he -- in a story about the prayer breakfast, how he is trying to do that. and he's recently said this is a perversion of islam. the other thing about the press coverage it didn't challenge the president. what christi

. >> here is a clip of the ku klux klan bringing gus to justice. let's watch. r protesters were appalled by the film. >> the lieutenant governor was the mulatto. >> silas lynch. >> sent from pennsylvania. on his doorstep. >> the answer to blacks and carpetbaggers. >> i want to ask you about monroe trotter and d.w. griffith at the end of their lives. what happens in the movie to all of the characters? how many people died from the different families? >> i cannot actually give you a headcount, a number of the sons from both families died. lieutenant ben cameron is on one of those horses under the hoods, as a result of his sister's death. flora, who jumps to her death. he founds the klan and the climax is the klan portrayed as the savior of the south. as a healing force, that's how he portrays the klan, a healing force who brings order to the chaos that has been created by freed slaves, poor undeserving of freedom, of voting rights, of any trappings of civilized being. the klan rides to the rescue as some of the family members are trapped in a cabin and being stalk

the ku klux klan never assassinated a cartoonist in new york. makes the comparisons irrelevant. >> with all due respect. let's talk about scale. the brutality of the atlantic slave trade all the way through reconstruction and jim crow which extended into the middle of the 20th century killed at least 16 million african-american americans. isis is brutal. the president condemned them as a death cult. all affidavit islamic terrorists -- >> josh i -- >> if i could -- >> i don't mean to interrupt. but the distinction made by credit i think so of the speech is as horrible as the slave trade was it's being done in the name of profit. >> that's an his to call inaccuracy. people were directly using their faith to justify the subjugation and annihilation of black africans in the country. that's how people justified it. we should not condemn christianity. it wasn't jesus. it was evil men did in the name of jesus. in the same way we should not condemn muslim americans and muslims around the globe for the evil being perpetrated in the name of islam. >> no on

we have seen the ku klux klan become more visible attacks on his presidency, it is very easy to believe if a white president had put tbhoort we know forth what we know as obamacare, we wouldn't be reerveg to it by that person's name the affordable care act. to me that is a very obvious example of racism. >> we see a black man can achieve the highest position in the nation but yet the majority of african american males i want to talk about african american females in a minute, but the majority of african american men don't feel they're worry why? >> it's whether or not the communities are larger to identify the formsd of self worth that black males exhibit. for example a young person who goes into an urban public school who underperformance, the perception is that that person doesn't want to perform well the person lacks self worth. it may be a curriculum that extracts race in the curriculum, it may be the disengaging. what we have is when young people are expressing dissatisfaction of the system,ists misperceived or the narrative becomes it is a lack of self worth, rather than the refle

the ku klux klan was reborn. earlier in the year, the film birth of a nation played to enthusiastic crowds in baltimore the hometown of seven-year-old thurgood marshall . kimberle crenshaw: here's birth of a nation. it is a dramatic film. people are amazed at how realist it feels. and it just so happened to be persuasive along a particular racist line. about who african-americans were, what they were capable of what their true nature happened to be. griffith wed the documentary in to the fiction, so remember they were like turning the pages of history. so it encouraged people to come and view that film with all of the credibility that they give to history books most people, who might not have ever had these kind of experience with african-americans would know who they were, or would understand the need to constrain and contain them because of this inherent nature of bestiality or inhumanity that they represent then you take in to account that it's not just your average american who is watching this. you've got the

then as now the bridge bore the name of ed monday pettus a confederate general and lead over the alabama kustill honors the dragon of the kkk. >> what do you think of that? >> i demanded him turn it over speaking where did it all go wrong. this was not supposed to happen. >> reporter: by hollywood odds ava duvernay's rise to prominence shouldn't have happened either. women directors are rare enough making only 4% of the filming, according to one study, and a woman direct over color is virtually unheard of. >> cut! >> do you think that the fact that your film "selma" is such an important event that this and of itself is going to be a big step in the direction of enabling future people to do it? >> i don't know. i don't know. i'm not a big believer in one you know one person that's a door opener. i can open the door but if no one is coming through it or the door is allowed to close right after me, it doesn't mean much. >> action. >> reporter: she may be a relative new by as a director but she's an old hand at selling films. she worked just out of camera rank for years as a publicist and movie

so at least some of co-intel pro was directed at the ku klux klan and other right wing organizations. and the question is how much of crisis in these kinds of cases is actually being generated by the state and being deliberately generated by in this case the federal bureau of investigation and i think that the answer is some but maybe not as much as they wanted you to think on some level. so i think the fbi under co-intel pro absolutely did things like attempt to for instance, in black radical organizations, you know, attempt to disrupt radical organizations by sending anonymous letters from the leader of one organization to the leader of another organization saying, you know you're a jerk your girlfriend is sleeping with so and so and did you know that? so and so -- you wouldn't believe what so and so has been saying about you. they also extensively had informants within radical organizations who were there to sometimes foment violence often just to kind of foment internal dissension and i think those had really dramatic impacts in particular cases on radical organizations. but i act

there were organizations which mimic the ku klux klan to have these people locked up and greed, being as american as apple pie to get their land get their boats. and many of the people who were villains in this later became heroes. in this country. the attorney general of california then was named earl warren. he became governor warren and he became chief justice of the supreme court. he was the one who pushed the line before congress. he rode the backs of the japanese to the governorship. but his line was that the fact that there had been no sabotage was proof they were organizing massive sabotage and it would only happen when they got the word from tokyo. and that was what one political cartoonist took called waiting for the signal from home. and japanese lined up all over the west coast, picking up tnt to use to blow up netices. he wanted eded to stop the germans from making war. and he believed that it was the shape of japanese heads. that pruf proved the slope -- they were called slopes sometimes, it was the word like the "n" word, that if they could figure ways to reshape their

the ku klux klan hated jews and hated catholics and did not lynch jews and catholics. people. >> so does that at all change the context for you, jimmy? >> no, it doesn't. i respect our colleague, lawrence. but if you read the piece in "the atlantic" from yesterday, it puts things very much into perspective. they burned crosses. they didn't just burn like other kinds of religious symbols. they burned actual crosses in the 1950s and '60s and '40s. that's the problem there. again, i grew up in the south. and i'm a son of the south. i know what that's about. and the theory -- listen did we have -- churches everyone was christian for the most part, right? but african-americans didn't sit in the pews with white people in church. think about this for a second. >> thank you for the history lesson but the american people don't want that. they need action from this president. >> action on what? >> on isis. how to deal with these beheadings of these american hostages -- >> it's the national prayer breakfast. >> we're talking about the islamic state and how the president will mana

members of the ku klux klan who could bomb church on sunday killing three little girls and then show sitting in the front row without so much as bat an eye. and when martin luther king wrote his letter before the bombing, and keeping in mind that then as now the klan called itself a christian organization he wasn't writing to americans in general he was writing to fellow members of the christian clergy urging them to stop turning a blind eye to the racial terrorism around them. he was doing what americans are calling on muslim leaders are doing right now, urging hisco-religionists to stand up. >>> and visit us online at the reid report at msnbc.com. "the cycle" is next. you laugh. you worry. you do whatever it takes to take care of your family. and when it's time to plan for your family's future we're here for you. we're legalzoom, and for over 10 years we've helped families just like yours with wills and living trusts. so when you're ready start with us. doing the right thing has never been easier. legalzoom. legal help is here. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ they lived. ♪ (dad) we li

. >> here is a clip of the ku klux klan bringing gus, so-called, to justice. a minute and 15. > sure. ♪ >> you can see why trotter and the other protesters were appalled by the film. >>.lieutenant governor was lynch. >> lynch. >> sent down by stoneman from peninsula or from washington, d.c. >> sure. >> and gus, on his doorstep. >> the answer to blacks in carpet baggers. >> what happens to all of those -- i do want to ask you about monroe trotter and d.w. griffith at the end of their lives. what happens in the movie to all of the characters? how many people died from the different families? >> i can't give you an actual head count. a number of the sons from both sides died during the war. the lieutenant ben cameron, he is on one of the horses under one of the hoods. as a result of his sister's death, flora, who jumps to her death, he founds the klan and the klan -- the climax of the movie is the klan portrayed as the savior of the south as a healing force. that is how griffith portrays the klan, as a healing force who brings order to the chaos created by freed slaves who are --

with the big nba all star game saying look comparing isis or al qaeda to islam is like comparing the kutianity. and you say? >> well, he had a great jump hook. but i'm not sure that he has a great analysis of what's going on in the world. look, i mean, how much evidence does one need in the islamic state calls itself islamic. the islamic state affiliated in libya, as you said beheads 21 christians announcing that they are doing it because they are christians. speaking about and then issuing the video. the video was issued to the nations of the cross. it speaks about capturing rome. it's entirely about its interpretation of islam. i mean is it really so difficult kareem to say or for the president to say we don't see this as a war against islam. we don't believe in a war against islam. but, it's an unfortunate fact that one strain of islam expressing itself all over the world from nigeria to copenhagen to libya to everywhere in the world happens to believe that they are at war with other religions. added wechristians jews and even muslims with whom they do not agree and who they consider