the next day, president lyndon b. johnson announced 5000 federal troops would be sent to detroit. this is about 10 minutes. in the early morning today, he told him of the extreme disorder -- president johnson: in the early morning today, governor romney communicated with ramsey clark and told him of the extreme disorder in detroit, michigan. the attorney general kept me advised her of the morning. at 10:56 this morning i received a wire from governor romney officially requesting that federal troops be dispatched to michigan. this wire was sent at 10:46 a.m. 1

saiddent lyndon b. johnson 5000 federal troops. atperty damage was estimated more than 30 million.ected areas still bear the scars of the riots.

lyndon b. johnson formed the commission to study what went wrong and the report determines that among many things, the mass media was part of the problem. >> african-americans were not present within the stories and coverage. african-american successes were not part of mainstream media. one >> one of the first african american journalists recruited to dismantle the system, she started her career in boston. >> this was you? >> yes, we were all young. >> new york was next. >> maureen brings out the best for eyewitness news. >> jason heyward and max robinson were on a mission. >> that could not have been easy. calling for many of us. we knew that we had a responsibility to represent our people as well as be the best journalist possible. people and braced us. we talked about the fact that we were the first they had ever seen and they brought their kids to see the television. on the other side, we had resistance from some people both in the media and without who said you can't be accurate or fair, we had to

president lyndon b. johnson said 5000 federal troops. property damage was estimated at more than 30 million. the affected areas still bear the scars of the riots.

. >> greg: or lyndon b. johnson>> jesse: trump says things that are dark or jeff it on cnn is saying trump is telling people to be afraid. news flash, people in europe are afraid, juan. they've been hit by massive suicides and terror attacks over the last two years. you guys don't want to talk about reality because -- >> juan: jesse. >> jesse: they think air-conditioners are a bigger threat than isis. >> juan: if he had spoken directly against isis, i would think that would have opened the door. this came through fearmongering. >> greg: jesse brings up a point, it seems like europe has been paralyzed by fear of being called out as racist or bigoted for standing up. it's a flick it's over for them. they are done. what we are trying to do is say not so fast. >> dana: it so interesting because maybe in some ways, people just expect to hear what they think they are going to hear. then they run with it. it's interesting to me, how much coverage the speech got versus spent on social media, the australian clip you showed -

father of mitt romney, ordered the michigan army national guard into detroit, and president lyndon b. johnsonent in both the 82nd and 101st airborne divisions. amy: at the height of the detroit rebellion on july 28, 1967, president johnson appointed a national advisory commission on civil disorders to investigate the root causes of the unrest. the final report, known as the kerner commission, famously concluded that the united states was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white -- separate and unequal." the rebellions reshaped both newark and detroit and marked the beginning of an era of african-america political empowerment. three years later in 1970, newark elected its first black mayor, kenneth gibson. then in 1974, coleman young became the first black mayor of detroit. today the mayor of newark is ras baraka, the son of the famed poet and writer amiri baraka who was arrested during the 1967 newark rebellion. this is the late amiri baraka and the documentary "revolution 67, speaking about what happened to him during the unrest 50 years ago. suddenly, at home, little voice came ar

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frazier belongs in this panth onof people up here with jack kennedy and hubert humphrey and lyndon b. johnson. he is of that generation. he is of that visionary generation. mayor frazier, now retired mayor frazier, as he looks a it the problem of the achievement gap in north minneapolis where does his mind take him? it takes him to the kids and the families and the communities in which they live and how do outsiders of goodwill and concern engage with other people together that their outcomes along with our outcomes get better. i call that associative power. that's what we did with the cords program. i set up a credit program for every village in vietnam. me, i was 25 years old. as a cords guy in saigon which i didn't want to be, i could give briefings, using the head of commander in chief abrams, i could brief full colonels who were senior advisers and tell them this is what you guys got to do about village credit communities and self-defense forces and this or that. the chords program was working with vietnamese in the context of their own nationalism. why did it succeed? because of their n

who served as a principal domestic aid to president lyndon b. johnson. sidebar on thee c-span radio app. as well as google play music. >> each week american artifex historicto museum and places to learn about american history. detroit's 67 -- collections and exhibits talk about what the city was like before the riots, how the events unfolded and the riots lasting impact. she also explores what she hopes visitors to learn from the exhibit. the stories of this exhibit tells is usually important to detroit and important to people around the country. 1967 was a very riotous time -- race riots, rights over the , women's issues, environmental issues. but the racial issues came at the top and there were many, many instance and cities around the country, detroit happen to have the worst of the race riots. riot -- do we call it a riot, and uprising, rebellion? these are the things we explore in the perspective exhibit. of july 1967 in detroit were hugely important to everybody in detroit. it's much like the shooting of president kennedy or 9/11. people remember w

saiddent lyndon b. johnson 5000 federal troops. atperty damage was estimated more than 30 million. the affected areas still bear the scars of the riots. spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. there are lingering questions and issues that led to the writing. we are here with the detroit pre--- detroit free press. joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. taking your calls, tweets and facebook posts. can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. you go first. >> that term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. we prefer to think about it like i rebellion because all of the energy and anger and act this and that went into that moment had long been predicted. the economic discrimination, that is frustration. it was a rebellion. >> the word i have come to realize that was the buildup to what happened in 1967. you also have lots of other kinds of pushback. people looting stores were pushing back against the economic depression. they were pushing back against

. >> on a visit to president lyndon b. johnson's family ranch. clarence mitchell wanted to visit the grave of the former president. >> someone offered to drive him there, but he wanted to walk. he wanted the time to remember his old friend. we are here today because clarence mitchell lived the kind of life that is well worth taking the time to remember. for the last 31 years we have held this luncheon toll honor the pillars of our profession for the dedicated service. we do so again today by celebrating the life of a man who taught us to be fierce in the fight. but generous in victory. to be undown theed by our failings and to get up and fight the fight again. clarence m. mitchell jr. clarence mitchell knew this to be true every morning when he went to work. the fight for the first pieces of civil rights legislation since reconstruction, were no easy undertaking. as the naacp's washington bureau chief, mr. mitchell spent so much time in congress, that they called him the 101st senator. he had come a long way from boxing practice at the baltimore

appointed thurgood marshall as a circuit court judge in this court until 1965 when president lyndon b. johnson appointed him first and solicitor general of the united states and then as an associate justice of the united states supreme court, the first african-american appointed to that highest court in our land in a career on the court that spanned approxima spanned 32 years. in this building, justice marshall occupied chambers on the 20th floor. his successor in that space, our belov beloved wilfurd who occupied that space succeeding justice marshall. over the years, judge feinberg had an opportunity to move to bigger quarters as he gained in society but never level justice marshall's chambers. he said to me, if it's good enough for thurgood marshall, it's good enough for me. second circuit marshall wrote 98, 12 concurrents and 12 dissents as david on our staff attorney office noted in his article for the 125th anniversary collection of biographies of judges of the second circuit published by the cornell law review. now, in the last few years, we have taken steps to assure that thurgood mars

president lyndon b. johnson sent 5000 federal troops. property damage was estimated at more than $30 million. the affected areas still bear the scars of the riots today. green spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. there are lingering questions about how far detroit has come addressing the issues that led to the rioting. we are here with the detroit free press. and we are joined by professor heather ann thompson a detroit editor.ss we will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened? heather ann thompson, you go first. >> i would say it is not a right because that term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. it also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact of it. we prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went

the next day, president lyndon b. johnson announced 5000 federal troops would be sent to detroit. this is about 10 minutes. in the early morning today, he told him of the extreme disorder -- president johnson: in the early morning today, governor romney communicated with ramsey clark and told him of the extreme disorder in detroit, michigan. the attorney general kept me advised her of the morning. at 10:56 this morning i received a wire from governor romney officially requesting that federal troops be dispatched to michigan. this wire was sent at 10:46 a.m. at 11:02 a.m. this morning, i instructed the secretary of defense to initiate the movement of the troops which the governor had requested. at the same time, i advised the governor by telegram that the troops would be sent to selfridge air airbase just northeast of detroit and be available to report and assist some 8000 michigan national guardsmen and the several thousand state and local police under the command of governor romney and the mayor of detroit. i informed the governor that these troops would arrive this afternoon. i