legacy of frederick douglass as the great abolitionist and then my great, great grandfather booker t. washington as the great educator, if we combined their legacies, abolition through education -- both of my ancestors understood from a very young age that education would be their pathway to freedom, and of course it was illegal to teach an enslaved person to read and write, so they had to steal their education. so, it is natural that we would go about trying to eradicate slavery today with education being at the foundation of the work. soledad: i want to talk about education in just a moment, but first i'm really interested in talking about the international problem. there are plenty of people who think human trafficking or sex trafficking is not an american problem, but it is an american problem. ken: it's absolutely an american problem. it's -- sex trafficking is an american problem, as well as labor trafficking. and so we have young children that are forced into prostitution and forced into labor. and when you look at slavery today, there are many parallels to historic slavery. and when you

you defend the same beautiful dream that inspired frederick douglass, harriet have been, booker t. washington, rosa parks, dr. martin luther king, junior, and countless others. it is the dream of a nation where every citizen, regardless of color, religion, or background, can grow up to succeed and thrive. a nation where every family is safe. where every community can prosper. and where all americans can stand tall and proud and free. i know this vision of freedom, equality, and dignity lives in the heart of every american patriot and just like so many african-americans throughout our history who have struggled and sacrifice for freedom, we must do our part to make that vision real for every single american. as long as we have faith in our citizens, confidence in our values, and trust in god we will not fail. we will protect the birthright and freedom for all americans. i want to tell you we have made such an incredible progress of the last year. it was just announced and perhaps you heard me say it, we had the lowest african-american unemployment rate in history of our country. charles, that

a famous educator in alabama, booker t. washingtononce wrote that there are two ways to exert one power. one is pushing down and one is pulling up. what a startling people up. >> the lack of jobs here in montgomery. people are graduating from , whether itlleges be in montgomery or the surrounding areas, they're looking for a job. there are no jobs here. you need more than just a college did -- degree to get a job. a lot of people do not have the financial aid to continue with going to school. they don't have the money to get the higher education. they cannot find a job with an average college should be -- degree. >> we still have it here in alabama. we fight that every single year with a new bill. we want to get rid of it. >> the state of alabama is racial inequalities and justice reform. here in the state we still have rhetoric in our constitution that is representative of a time that has long passed. having discriminatory language in a document that governs a diverse group of people is very outdated. it limits people's powers, the p

a famous educator in alabama, booker t. washington, once wrote -- there are two ways to exert one's power. one is pushing down and one is pulling up. let's start pulling people up. >> an important issue is the lack of jobs here in montgomery -- in alabama but especially in montgomery. people are graduating from different colleges whether it be in montgomery or the surrounding areas and they are coming maybe home looking for a job and there's really no job here. everybody -- you need more than just a college degree to get a job and i think it's hindering a lot of people because a lot of people don't have the financial aid to keep going to school or a higher learning education, something like that, so they don't have the money to get the higher education and they can't find a job with just the average college degree. >> we have been fighting common core for seven, eight years and we still have it here in alabama and we fight that every single year with a new bill and we want to get rid of it. >> in the state of alabama, i believe, is ra

in alabama,cator booker t. washington, once wrote, "there are two ways to exert one's power. one is pushing down, and one is pulling up." let's start pulling people up. >> i think an important issue is the lack of jobs here in alabama, but especially in montgomery. people are graduating from different colleges, whether in montgomery or just around the area, and coming home looking for a job, and there are no jobs here. you need more than just a college degree to get a job, and it is hindering a lot of people because a lot of people do not have the financial aid to keep going through school or for higher learning, and they can't find a job with just the average college degree. >> we've been funding college score for seven or eight years now and still have it here in alabama. fight it everything will year with the new bill, and we want to get rid of it. >> racial inequalities and justice reform. i think you're in the state we still have rhetoric in our constitution that is representative of a time that has long passed, and i think that having discriminatory language in a docume

a famous educator in alabama, booker t. washington once wrote there are two ways to exert one's power. one is pushing down and one is pulling up. let's start pulling people up. >> one issue is the lack of jobs here. people are graduating from colleges, whether in montgomery or the surrounding areas. then they are looking for a job but there are no jobs here. you need more than a college degree to get a job. it is hindering a lot of people because they do not have the financial aid to keep going to school. money to getve the the higher education, and they can't find a job with an average college degree. in the state of alabama, i believe racial inequality and justice reform. rhetorice still have in our constitution that is representative of a time that has long passed. think they have discriminatory language and document that covers a diverse group of people. it is very outdated and it limits peoples powers, the disenfranchisement. the way that law enforcement interacts with the citizens across the state, i think those things need to b

went to an industrial school for girls where they taught home economics and was one of those booker t. washington industrial schools of the south and then she worked her way as a secretary for the naacp for no money. the big kingpin of the railroads she would fight all these things and keep it all but i couldn't believe nobody has written a serious book about her. i'm not kidding you there were 200 books on doctor king. nothing on rosa parks so i decided i was going to write a biography on rosa parks and they reached out and the person that worked for mrs. parker said he would like an african-american n woman is the biographers. >> in dc they said i didn't like hearing myself telling you that. you've are a gooyou're a good hd quite a lot i'm going to have to spenyou spend time with mrs. pa. i went with her on congressional hill and stayed with her on dupont circle and went with her throughout beverly hills where she spent time in france to detroit where she was a microscopic of the history of the underground railroad in her apartment overlooked the detroit river. there was the freedom to say the

a famous educator in alabama, booker t. washington, two ways to exert one's power. one is pushing down, one is pulling up. let's start pulling people up. >> the issue, the lack of jobs in alabama but especially in montgomery. people are graduating from different colleges, whether it be in montgomery or surrounding areas and looking for a job and there's no jobs here. you need more than just a college degree to get a job. i think that it's hindering people because they don't have that money to get the higher education and can't find a job with the average college degree. >> we have been fighting common core for seven or eight years now, still have it here in alabama. we fight it every year with the new bill. we want to get rid of it. >> in the state of alabama i believe is racial inequality and justice reform. i think in the state we still have rhetoric in the constitution that is representative of a time long passed. i think having discriminatory language and document that governs a diverse

to get a start, i brought with me from baton rouge with became papers of booker t. washington in a manuscript on race relations in mississippi, both of which my successor was willing to see go. then i started a series with the two leading scholars in this subject area. i had been talking to him about this at lsu and he was willing to switch along with his friends, the editor of the series. as the series developed, we published a book by a group who is the author of a major book on the family, i'm sure you know it well. it was written and published on the economics of slavery in an african american journal. i suggested that we published this as a book and put a new yorker cover in which a slave was told not to be too concerned because historians would show that his wife wasn't all that rough after all. a letter to one of the important areas of specialization. they asked if they would be interested in starting a series on the leader and working-class history which he thought of scholars in the field was added with him. i jumped at the chance. within two years, we added what were

a famous educator in alabama booker t. washington once wrote there are two ways to exert one's power, one is pushing down and one is pulling up. let's start pulling people up. >> i think an important issue is lack of jobs here in alabama but especially in montgomery. people are graduating from college is whether it be in montgomery for surrounding areas and coming home and looking for a job in their is no jobs here. everybody you need more than just a college degree to get a job and i think that a lot of people don't have the financial aid to keep going to doctoral school or a higher learning education or something like that. they don't have the money to get the higher education in the can't find a job just average college degree. >> we've been fighting common core for seven-eight years now and we still have it here in alabama. we find that every single year with the new bill. we want to get rid of it. >> in the state of alabama i believe is racial inequality and justice form. i think that here in the state we still have frederick in

it was one of the booker t. washington industrial schools in the south.hen she worked her way and would do things like work as a secretary for the naacp for no money. ed nixon who is the big kingpin of the railroads, the porters union she would file all those things and keep it all but i couldn't believe with rosa parks there was nobody that i've written a serious book about here. there's taylor branch's volume. there were 200 books on martin luther king but nope looks on parks. we'd like it to be an african-american woman. she said i'm not that. i brought like three of my books to her to get my credentials to interview mrs. parks in all of this and that neither was walking back to the consulate club in d.c. where i was staying and elaine steele called me and said i didn't like hearing myself telling you that. you are a good historians. you write a lot. there's nothing wrong with you so i'm going to have you spent time with mrs. parks. i started going with her. i was with her when she got her congressional old metal on capitol hill with the wheelchair. st

a famous educator in alabama, booker t. washington once wrote there are two ways to exert one's power. one is pushing down and one is pulling up. let's start pulling people up. >> i think one issue is the lack of jobs here well, in alabama but especially in montgomery. people are graduating from different colleges whether it be in montgomery or the surrounding areas and they're coming maybe home looking for a job, and there's no jobs here. everybody, you need more than just a college degree to get a job and i think that is hindering a lot of people because a lot of people don't have the financial aid to keep going to dock toral school or higher education or something like that. and they can't find a job with just the average college degree. >> wave been finding the common core for seven, eight years now and we still have it here in alabama. with and we fight that every single year with a new bill, and we want to get rid of it. >> in the state of alabama i believe is racial inequalities and justice reform. i think that here in the stat

for all americans the same beautiful dream that inspired frederick douglass, harriet tubman, booker t. washington, rosa parks, dr. martin luther king jr., and countless others. it's the dream of a nation where every citizen regardless of color, religion, or background can grow up to succeed and thrive. a nation where every community can prosper and where all americans can stand tall and proud and free. i know this vision of freedom, equality, and dignity lives in the heart of every american patriot. just like so many african-americans throughout our history who have struggled and sacrifice for freedom, we must do our part to make that vision real for every single american. as long as we have faith in our citizens, confidence and our values, and trusting god, we will not fail. we will protect the birthright of freedom for all americans. i want to tell you. we have made such incredible progress over the last year. it was just announced, and perhaps you heard me say it, we had the lowest african-american unemployment rate in the history of our country. charles, that's good. alveda, that's in honor o

of the key disputes, case called burnside versus buyers, the black principal of the black booker t. washington high school in philadelphia, mississippi, forbade students from wearing freedom buttons to school. these buttons were little buttons that were emblazoned with the slogan one man, one vote. they were also emblazened with some initials that might resonate with some of you. sncc. student nonviolent coordinating committee. the students go to school with the buttons and the principal says no, you've got to leave. and actually, all of the students who were wearing the buttons, they leave. and the next day nobody comes to school with any of the buttons. but then the next day droves of students come back with the buttons. and they were suspended. three challenged the constitutionality of their punishment, they argued the punishment wrongfully encroached on constitutionally protected freedom of speech. the state contended the prohibition of the principal should be permitted under the circumstances because it assisted in the maintenance of proper discipline. allowing students to wear political

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