if you know, federal or returned with black volunteers, claiming african american men did not possess attributes of patriotism and courage and kept it the worst difficult moment. when you stt regiments got the chance to fight, they proved their mettle with dozens of engagements. the u. s. e. t. a bad appomattox seemed considerable action. dh survived a bloody initiation into combat in florida february february 1860 for joining the granting warfare of the overland campaign in virginia and then the trenches through the siege of petersburg entering the city in triumph when it fell in april 2nd. african-american soldiers were keenly aware that even after getting all this proof of their courage, their march to a quality could be turned excellent powerful confederate army surrender field. the confederate government viewed soldiers as so many rebellious ways. black soldiers were aware that many white northerners spewed there must does a socialist government, testing capacity of blacks for citizenship in some of those white northerners hoped and expected the experiment within and fail. not su

support of the institutions of african-americans.frican-americans have 2rib9 greatly to the prosperity of san francisco. as such inspections of african-americans should be supported. as promises have been mate utilizing public dollars on behalf of community to build the fillmore district where it's been documented it african-americans were treated unjustly we ask the city to insure with the jazz heritage center will be kept in piss it's location or if moved it should be moved to a more viable location. it's a place for all san francisco and rossly and others and i signed the early one, too. i'm asking you not sell out the jazz heritage center >> (calling names). >> interviewed one second i continue to see members of the public coming up with condominium cards i'll ask mop who wants to speak i'd like to close the line to whichever cards you have we are going to stop there. >> i'm with the st. john orthodox church on fillmore street. i'll open up and say that jazz can change the thinking of the people. and i don't know maybe we're not

mostly african-american. doug miller explains. >> reporter: on election night as some campaign dates celebrated -- candidates celebrated victory, not many people noticed a campaign shocker. that's dave wilson, an antigay activist and sort of political mischief maker who put his name on the ballot. >> i had always said it was a long shot. no, i didn't expect to win. >> reporter: he ran against this man, houston community college trustee bruce austin who voters elected and reelected for 23 years. >> i was rather disgusted. >> reporter: disgusted by something that turned up in voters' mailboxes. most of the voters in the district are african-american. wilson sent out a bunch of these direct mail pieces implying he's african-american. his flyers depicted smiling african-american faces. the word said please vote for our friend and neighbor dave wilson. the pictures he admits were just lifted off the internet. >> all of these supporters are african-american. >> what a coincidence. >> reporter: the flyer said he was

in relation to it coming from african-americans.there are all sorts of ways in which we can touch our young people. it doesn't necessarily mean that we have to be successful in putting an entire class before them, just encouraging them to think critically about the dominant common sense is a good way to get them to appreciate what the opportunities are that are there. so keep that work up. >> i add one more thing? brian, you realize the passage that talked about billy the barber. i thought about billy when i watched this movie, this fantastic political movie, "lincoln." there's a part where someone asks lincoln, do you know any black people if and he says, no. well, he did know billy the barber as that chapter -- i mean, everybody knew that he knew billy the barber who was haitian. and then, of course, the movie missed the point that when frederick douglass came to the white house on more than one occasion, there was that one occasion when lincoln beckoned him past the guards to come up and called douglass what, my friend. so movies

i worked up to the point where he favored franchise and for african-americans. this was the only way to dispel the confederates pretension that they would control the nation and grant title to do so. grant was deeply disappointed by lee's refusal to give the pictures there do. in a may 1866 newspaper interview grant took lead to task saying lee was behaving badly. setting an example of forced acquiescence so pernicious in its effects as to hardly be realized. grant presented lee for denigrating the union victory is a mere show of force and for encouraging confederates to resist change in the name of frustration. grant learned in that year after appomattox he would need to enter the political arena to finish the work he began on april 9, 1865. in the eyes of african-americans whites on both sides not only those who rejected black citizenship outweigh but also those who during the long retreat from reconstruction to give up the fight for it. although these people left a moment of promise at the appomattox state unfulfilled. however compelling and comforting image

i understand how important the marcus book store is to the african-american community. it's crucial it's not just african-american history it's naturally nationwide history. i would go to the marcus book store with my father. i feel if we preserve the name and the legacy of marcus book store it will serve the generates of san francisco citizens and people across the world. a lot of times the african-american legacy gets separated with the american league and that's wrong. the world legacy of america is intooend with the america society. if we continue to allow marcus book store to function it will serve the community >> any member of the public wish to speak? come on up to the microphone. thank you >> many of us are here because we want to emphasize. >> would you like to give your name? >> rick. >> when the book was jim bosses and on washington and because of the militia order the japanese communicated had a hardship. they had to reestablish their lives and the japanese community came back together. during the 50s students came together to help with the education. this

his fliers depicted smiling african-american faces.he words said, please vote for our friend and neighbor dave wilson. the pictures, he admits, were just lifted off the internet. all these supporters are african-american. >> what a coincidence. >> the fliers said he was endorsed by ron wilson. no, not the former state representative. the fine print says ron wilson is dave wilson's cousin. >> it's from the candidate's cousin of the same name who lives in iowa. and these faces of implied support for the campaign flier, all of them african-american were pulled from the internet. joining me now is bruce austin, who served on the community college board for 24 years before losing to this fella dave wilson. and jonathan capehart for the "washington post." sir, i don't know what to say except this is bizarre. that's why we're covering pit. did you get blind sided by this character who came out of nowhere and presumed to be and sold himself as a member of your community? in fact, of the same ethnic group or racial group as most people in the c

african-americans are not blindly loyal to the democratic party.support the democratic party because the democratic party has a progressive agenda. but talking about the 1965 voting rights act, that law was enacted, first of all, because of the literacy test. and once we got rid of the literacy test, and african-americans began to register to vote in large numbers. but because of racially polarized voting, african-american candidates had difficulty getting elected. the vote rights act was enforced, and because of that, we now have minority districts and now african-americans are serving in the congress. >> all right. i want to thank former mayor of san francisco, willie brown, hillary shelton from the naacp, and congressman butterfield. thanks for joining us tonight. that is "all in" for this evening. chris will be back tomorrow. you can catch my show, "up with

this isn't just african-american history. this is american history. >> john ridley, dust off the tuxedo. you're going to be very busy during awards season. this is just a fantastic piece of work. i am >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. and i'm dressed this halloween as steve kornacki. we've got lots of politics tonight, starting at the white house, where you might have noticed, it's been something of a rough couple of weeks for the president. with the rocky rollout of his signature health reform law dominating the news, the political toll is real and it is getting worse. and nowhere is the damage more apparent than in the latest polling from nbc news, where president obama's approval rating has fallen to an all-time low of 42%. that is a five-point drop from just earlier this month. these numbers, as bad as they are, don't necessarily exist in a vacuum. there's a lot more complexity to the current political environment, which in many ways is the story of american politics in the tea party era. >> let's talk abou

his fliers depicted smiling african-american faces.lease vote for our friend and neighbor dave wilson. the pictures, he admits, were just lifted off the internet. all these supporters are african-american. >> what a coincidence. >> the fliers said he was endorsed by ron wilson. no, not the former state representative. the fine print says ron wilson is dave wilson's cousin. >> it's from the candidate's cousin of the same name who lives in iowa. and these faces of implied support for the campaign flier, all of them african-american were pulled from the internet. joining me now is bruce austin, who served on the community college board for 24 years before losing to this fella dave wilson. and jonathan capehart for the "washington post." sir, i don't know what to say except this is bizarre. that's why we're covering pit. did you get blind sided by this character who came out of nowhere and presumed to be and sold himself as a member of your community? in fact, of the same ethnic group or racial group as most people in the community and peo

this displays for african-americans persist a really, really long time. sometimes the form of epigrams from christmas addicts to appomattox, covering the spectrum of african-american military service. it is displaced by the world wars and so on, but it really lingers at the moment is alec importance. it goes beyond really didn't play casualties and who in fact fired the last shots. [inaudible] [applause] [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] >> kara newman looks at how the commodities market influences what we eat what we pay for. she says the culinary transfer hundreds of years. ms. newman spoke of the world in washington d.c. this is about 40 minutes. >> thank you. thank you to the world bank for hosting me today. i appreciate it. i feel the need to start by saying i am not an economist. any food writer. i am a culinary historian. just to explain a little bit about how the book came about, when i first started my career, i wrote about financial topics. i worked with a small consulting company that was then acquired by a much larger conglomerate and i wa

the series is called "the african americans: many rivers to cross." and here is a look. >> who were the slave traders? >> the slveraders were great warriors, strong men,hiefs. >> and here's the cupboard that sam hid in. >> an adult male got in here? he'd have to be decemr split. >> desperate. as charlestonslept, robert smalls, a slave, plotted his escape aboard a ship. he's elected to office just three years after the civil war ends. >> robert smalls epitomizes america. come from nothing and to be a success. >> to be le to have made that leap from this impoverished childhood to now being the wealthiest african arican woman in america. >> why would anybody be overwhelmed at a 34-room house. >> (laughs) i don't feel overwhelmed. >> there is still opposition to integration here, but integration is bei accomplished. >> i remember being in the car with federal marshals. i do remember them chanting, 2, 4, 6,8, we don't want to integrate. >> we would go to lunch counters as a gro and we would just sit and wait to be served. >> i'm sorry, our management does

he wins 267,000 african-american votes in chicago. and eleanor spends three days of the last 16 days of the campaign working with the naacp, going to african-american churches and holding rallies. so there was a, let's say, an iou that was, you know, desperately earned there. and when president kennedy appoints fewer women to presidential appointments than any president after fdr, eleanor begins -- there's no other word for it -- to browbeat him into appointing women. and so, she writes him letter after letter after letter of this is the woman that you should consider to be in this position. this is her phone number. this is her home phone number. you know, this is her work address. and finally, she writes him a four-page single spaced typed letter with all of these names for women, you know, to be put in different positions. and she is very close to esther peterson and so they -- eleanor expresses her great frustration to esther about this. and then esther responds to this by saying, let's have a presidential commission. but the thin

give us a sense of what you saw and as an african american who happens to be an actress, what pulled into really wanting to do this? and let me say that differently. as opposed to pulling you into this, and i have read where john where hes said this, has written something where he had two or three actors in mind. he knew he wanted edward james olmos for this, he wanted lisagay hamilton, and it must be a great feeling to have a two writingar nominee something for you. >> yes. danny glover, i worked for that job. period, and i worked hard on that audition, and i knew that there are those directors that let you in the family once you are in. you are in for good, and so being part of the john sayles family was a call, and i could not have been more honored. i were talking about, it would be ok if we were in a few scenes, and we started reading, and it was, my character is on every page. i did not have those kinds of opportunities, and yolanda did not have those kinds of opportunities, so to be able to work on a script that is so interesting and full and full of humanity with the complexi

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african american men in unemployment the rate is double. i know people have a myopic approach when we talk about this. why african americans have doubled that rate, they are also tied to the same rate of latino men and something that doesn't get discussed at the same level is amongst the asian community and filipino community as well. so we have a long ways to go in terms of addressing the jobs and opportunities for jobs and these are challenges that extend beyond race that extend to specific communities and only going to be resolved as long as we are all working together. it's never an issue that is just an asian issue or hispanic issue or a whitish -- white -- issue or black issue. this is why we talk about the challenges, not to depress everybody, but to coalesce everybody to find solutions. i would like to leave here an know that people have come and seen this leadership and are inspired and want to work better and harder and continue the fight to make this change for their families and communities and neighborhood. i'm encouraged by th

so 2008, you have 20% of african-american, of the electorate is african-american, the same thing is true in 2012, the same thing is true in 2013. in each of those, you end up with a democratic winner at the statewide level. but in '09, up with of these election years, you have a drop down to 16%, you end up with a republican win. is this the thing that the republican party is going to have to address if it is going to have a future in a more diverse america? >> well, i live in virginia, and i can tell you in 2009 and certainly in this year, in 2013, you're talking about off year election cycles. so traditionally you'll not get as many people out to the polls. i think we had 20% of those who are registered to vote who actually went out and voted. i don't look at this strictly as a racial issue. but we have the fact that a lot of folks don't show up in an off year election. in order for the gop to really be a vibrant party in the days ahead, i think that we need to address the fact that we need to get more women, more people of color to come out and vote for us and to look at our ideology.

i don't say you have to drink african-american wine. i just want folks to drink wine. you may not like vision cellars phnot noir. that's ok. >> and mac couldn't have come into the industry at a better time. new research shows that only a handful of wineries are actually owned by african-americans, yet they make up more than 10% of the nation's wine drinkers, which is exactly why mac and a new generation of winemakers are entering the business and trying to educate others about this special way of life. >> this whole wine industry goes along with farming. i-it's-- it's all about a lifestyle, not--not about money. if you wanna aake money, uh, go off and become a c.e.o. of some company or something, uh, hit it lucky in, uh, vegas or something, but farming is a lifestyle. it's a lifestyle that i gres up with in the sticks of texas. it's a lifestyle that i wouldn't give up. >> it's a heartwarming story, because he was really green, and, i mean, he came--like, started later in his career, uh, makin' wine, and, uh--but you could see he just had it in him. he was gonna make--d

the population of african american is only 6 percent. the sheriff proposes building a new jail even though crime is down and jail cells are empty. 250 women were involuntarily sterilized in the california prison system between 2006-2010. these abuses are still continuing. as of today, hundreds of people are suffering in california prisons through years of long-term solitary confinement. today is day 52 hunger strike of california's prisoners demanding their own human rights in the face of daily torture . these are today's urgency of crisis. the march on washington is a moment for all of us to reflect and to recommit ourselves and our communities and our resources to winning civil and human rights for all and to building the unity necessary to achieve this goal. thank you so much to the human rights commission for your support, for building and including the voice of formally incarcerated people, in policy decisions that affect our lives and thank you to friend and allies. the future calls for all of us to be human rights heroes. thank yo

ncaa titles as it relates to african-american students.ally hit home because you see so many black athletes on the field but not students who are nonathletes in these schools. >> exactly. i feel like the focus is, there's this general sense within the black community, mostly the low socio economic status areas that you either become a rapper or basketball player or football player in order to be successful. the stress on academics isn't there anymore or actually never really was. i feel like it's used kind of aagainst us to keep us at that low point and made it so it's given the illusion the only way they can make it out through sports. >> it got a lot of people talking. i know you've got a lot going on and a lot of people want to talk to you. what does your gut tell you? should proposition 209 which bans state schools be reexamined? go to newsnation.msnbc.com. that does it for this edition of "news nation." tomorrow, actor morris chestnut and mallcom d. lee will talk about the best man holiday. i'm hosting an event with them. "the cycle i

african-americans began to flee the lack you have opportunity in the last century. the bay area was effected when african-americans moved hero to take up jobs in the ship jarred. they've brought their skills and he talent. i believe it would turn the talent into blues and jazz. in the 1950s they've put san francisco on the map and maums famous folks stayed in other hotels like in the fillmore because they were not permit to stay in the better hotels >> before you clock begins for me could i ask those boo who came in support of the jazz center stand. i want to acknowledge and thank you for coming out on behalf of jazz center. thank you folks from the church and peter the founding executive director of the jazz heritage center and our board. with that, i'd like to begin. i'm christen. it was 6 years that the jazz history was preserved and 3 areas were set aside to present. in 2008, the jazz or j f c opened to rave reviews but we never had a lease. since then there's been numerous exhibit in our gallery and our theatre. our small theatre wasability built out to have a

is that for the japan town or african-americans, black people in san francisco that's could he. because this is like making a cake without eggs when you don't include black people at the table we're talking about the birthing right of a project intended like being, you know, at the show down at the last alley month this is the last fight for the property in our area and it needs to be taken serious. i've been in supervisors meetings it's an afterthought when it comes to our community. notwithstanding i hate to see us fighting amongst each other because someone may get a crumb on tuesday and a promotion on wednesday so i'm not here to knock anyone i'm here to say we've got to find a way to make sure the community it involved in moving forward >> (calling names). >> hello. i happened to be part of two organizations here. i've worked with two of them the jazz heritage center and at the shipyard. for the last year and a half or so i've put together exhibits in the lush likening like gallery that have been wonderful in the community. it brings artists local artists to a community whe