in 1800, for example, blacks were 0% 20 piers of th% of the . one in seven members of george washington's army was black. this is history we should know. this is part of what as howard said makes us the most -- among the most american if not the most american of americans. for example, in world war i, going very far forward, but in world war i, blacks were chosen to guard the specific points of national interest in washington because they were the only ethnic group that government felt they could trust. who knows could be a german american with the white face? so they picked black troops to guard the reservoirs, armories, all the specific points of national defense. >> homeland security. >> homeland security. we might get jobs after all. >> and to die gres, to come back from world war i, in 1860, one in seven americans was in slavery. that shows what you a large population of the american people we were. in the north they were armed early. early as colonial wars against the indians. there is a poem by -- oh, the massachusetts poet, maybe one of y

i think one white student showed up but the rest of them were black, and they were very angry when it was over. it was probably a better thing that the others didn't come because they were -- it was a very -- after seeing these things, because you hear about it. but when you see people, you see the bill of sales and things of that nature, these were human beings treated like that. there was just tremendous anger across the years from people even imagining it. so the answer to your question was there were ways, people were poisoned. not just for the sale, but just for, you know, just because of the nature of the circumstances that they were in. and they were, in fact, in fear of these people even though they pretended they were not. >> that's, i guess, the reason why i was saying earlier that this system of slavery was in constant state of frankly disequilibrium. but the myth and the presence or state power always tried to create the impression that was not the case. but everybody who was trying to control the negro knew that it was very unstable. i'll just speak to your question about

and at that time it was against the law to go into eating establishments if you were black. could y you could not go in to they will. if you did and the owner call, could you arrested. and students were arrested for trying to get into every place. the whole nine yards. the thing that was confusing to us was that many of the people who owned those stores especially if they were from europe, had faced similar kinds of situations themselves in terms of being discriminated against. and they came here and instead of having a natural sympathy for what blacks were going through, they picked up what whites had put out there and they segregated, as well. and just like it took only one group of us to stop it and reverse it the other way, the same thing could have happened a long time ago in any of those situations if you had whites who were so inclined to do so. but they weren't. it didn't power them. they left that back in europe. they didn't see it as a human right.them. they left that back in europe. they didn't see it as a human right. they just saw it as a difference in the way th

black communities. that is number one. werenot going to take the chance that number two there is a secret thing inside that says this is black-owned, is this going to be should neglect the counter popping gum and on her cell phone? you know, stereotypes and i'm going to be standing there waiting for service? a mime going to go in there and be up to find a fresh piece of me? black people aren't even taking a chance on that store so i believe it's the white man's ice is colder which basically means if you have a white business and it lacked business and i'm black i am going to support that white business because i am sure because it is white it is going to have white and have everything i need. white stuff is better than black stuff. we can't hold a candle to a white business. that is totally untrue and we know that. but that thinking does live and breathe in the black community and that stops us, it stalls us in our tracks from going to that black business and when we do, we go into this thinking is a burden, you know we are goi

we were rehearsing it, with some of the black president. and then into the rehearsal comes the leader of the latino crew and his right hand. these were some tough brothers. they were doing life and killed a couple producers since they had been in jail. and they come and they sit down. we thought what are they here to do? the leader, raffaello, is looking like he's really upset. he is getting madder and madder. and after 10 and he looks and he pointed at me and he's like yo, sa. let me speak to you. and i was like oh, man, here they come. i knew this was a bad idea. he said essay, we heard a rumor about what you're doing and i see it is true. i would say something to listen and good that guy you're working with, he is not feeling his character. [laughter] i said raffaello, why don't you come in? he came in and he was very. he made his friend get in. so now the black month history play became a black and latino history month play. a white guy comes in. all his guys surrounding. white supremacist, bikers, bank robbers but he said he went up the

. >> the family of the anonymous donor not only donated his face but five other blacks were saved withorgan donations. -- five other lives were saved with organ donations. >> a man was charged with second-degree assault. he came onto school property march 21 shortly before 2:03 p.m. wearing a ski mask and hit a 16-year-old. the team hit the suspect back, knocking him out. footage of the incident went to cairo. a female student was charged as a juvenile with assault last week. the victim will not be charged. investigators believe he was acting in self-defense. a man was killed as the result of a police involved shooting in northwest baltimore. authorities received a call in the 2500 block of west cold spring lane at 9:30 a.m., reports of someone acting unstable. authorities arrived at the kept out jackson's and there was an altercation. that was when the victim was shot. the incident is under investigation. it is not clear what happened inside the home prior to that emergency call. >> convicted of a vehicular manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of towson university student. a former m

and saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning between and 1,000 men, white men, pour into phillips county to begin shooting down >> on american history tv, span. sunday, former student bruce lindsay on integration and north little rock highle school.f the to happen when we get up those steps. but they seem to. because no the momentum is behind us. and they are pushing us up the steps.

blacks were paid $10. this was purely the fault of congress and, you know, conflicting laws that they passed over time. it -- they finally straightened out the matter along about the latter part of 1864, i think, and brought the of black soldiers -- achieve ed parity wh the white soldiers. >> yeah. i wanted to follow up on the pensions. did they receive pensions? >> oh, yeah. yeah. i used a lot of pension applications in the research for the book, yeah. there were god knows how many thousands of, you know -- but yeah. >> my name is ezra gordon. i'm secretary general to sons and daughters of the united states colored troops and with the african-american civil war in washington, d.c. and i invite you, i will be giving a lecture on the usct legacy of national redemption and democracy. it's about how the black civil war veterans, the roll they played in establishing democracy during reconstruction. so i wanted to cheat here a little bit here. can you give me an incident of the black role of the black civil war

and saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning between 600 and 1,000 men, white men, pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> on american history tv, sunday, former student bruce lindsay on integration and north little rock hi >> it's as if they know what i going to happen. we don't know what is going to happen. we don't realize what is going to happen when we get up those . because the crowd is with us now. the momentum is behind us. >> these stories and others from c-span's local content vehicles in little rock. this wee >> last month, homeland security secretary janet congress to pass cybersecurity legislation designed to strengthen government and private computer defenses from attack. she testified in front of the senate homeland security committee for close to three hours. >> the hearing will come to order. se on her way. i just saw senator, governor p congratulations of the centennial secelebration of the great state of arizona. hear, hear. i happen to have been on the floor of the sena

people at the publishing house thought it looked better to have me in black because it looks like i'm a letter to read anything, they were the ones about in every color the dress i was wearing black and i was always in favor because for some reason me on the cover of my book and a black cocktail dress drove liberals matter and i enjoy doing that. >> so this is your most recent out for six or seven months now. >> [inaudible] >> are you working on another book what? >> no, no, this is a lot of work, this book. it took a lot of research. i sort of knew about the french revolution but like most americans they didn't know a lot about it and it was so much research and little talking to other humans. i think it's going to be about a year. if you need time to think about the textbook will be but also line

their view was blacks were too dossile to fight for freedom and leave it to us benevolent whites to care of this issue for you. brown completely rejected them. among those he saw support from was frederick douglas. he meets with harriet tubman. he lived his believes in a quiet, astonishing way. as to the white support, the secret six, i believe one of my favorite parts of the story in an area where there's a little room for humor, they were really par local radicals. they were very wealthy businessmen mostly in the boston area who funneled brown money and guns. they fed it to him at salons in new england and brown dines with thoreau and emerson. alcott calls brown the manleyest man they've ever met. they're intoxicated by this. it's like the 1960s when you had wealthy folks in manhattan hosting black panthers and other radicals. in the end these people are not shall we say profiles in courage. when brown's raid goes bad and they're implicated, one of them is already overseas, three of the others flee for canada. my favorite, garrett smith, checks himself into an insane asylum in new york

blacks. they did it because there were accusations of fraud. but it's interesting when there are accusations of fraud what the legislature did was disenfranchise the most underrepresented and marginalized groups, the women and free blacks. and thus ended in 1807 this brief experiment in women voting. now, you might say, did the women rise up in protest? and somewhat surprisingly, they did not. and to understand why not, we have to go back to understanding what voting meant at this time. remember, voting at this time was understood as a privilege of property. not a natural right. it would be the jefferonians who in the early 19th century would launch a state by state campaign to eliminate property qualifications for voting for white men. and their argument would be that voting is a natural right. now, even jeffersonians acknowledged that women had natural rights. but when it came to voting, jeffersonians were not prepared to be logically consistent. when it came to voting, they simply said that it was extraordinary, absurd and unnatural to enfran

we assumed there would be plenty of black-owned dry-cleaners. we seemed there were black owned grocery stores not as big, probably not the same selection. >> host: you have to drive a little further. >> guest: drive a little further. not big brands we assumed all that kind of stuff were there but we were not living up to our duty to find and support them. we had no idea that if we go over to the west side we would not find those businesses owned by the businesses like you were looking for a chinese owned business or greek-owned when you go to greektown. we assumed that the same phenomenon would exist if you go to a black community you'd find black owned businesses. >> host: right. that was a shock. >> guest: the first, second and third day we thought but we really thought we would fail because there's no way we would be able to survive 'cause there's so few black businesses that represent the daily needs of a family, food, drugstore, none of that in the black community and we have children. had we known the stark realities how -- how many industries and markets wher

. >> you had calls going all up and down the mississippi delta, and saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning, between 600 and a thousand men, white men, pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american history tv on c-span 3, sunday at 5:00 p.m., former student bruce lindsey on integration and north little rock high school. >> as if they know what is going to happen. but we don't know what is going to happen. we don't realize what's going to happen when we get up those steps. but they seem to, because the crowd is with us now. the momentum is behind us. and they are pushing us up the steps. >> these stories and others from c-span's local content vehicles in little rock, this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. >>> next, a house oversight committee hearing on methods used by the transportation security administration, including the use of body scanners at airports. officials from the tsa and the u.s. coast guard testified at a joint hearing held by the house oversight and transportation committees. this is just under two hours. >> the committee will com

and that meant free blacks as well as white women who were unmarried and owned property. and so that's how it became possible for a woman like elizabeth alexander stevens to vote in new jersey. both political parties began to court the women's votes. at the same time, as you might imagine, this experiment in female suffrage was very controversial. many men as well as many women found the idea of women voting strange, foreign and unacceptable. it violated their notion of what men's and women's proper roles were. while men were certainly perfectly prepared to involve women in informal political activities such as boycotts, they did not anticipate enlisting them in direct political actions such as voting. so throughout the 1790s and into the early 19th century, there were frequent diatribes against female suffrage in pamphlets, newspapers and in the new jersey legislature itself. many of the attacks were outrageous, hysterical and self-contradictory. some said women lacked the knowledge and judgment to participate in politics. but others feared that women were getting too kn

racist pigs in the community or murdering people or gunning them down like dogs, if all of them were black and the people being killed and brutalized roy, he said all of these store owners were gripping the community off would hide with rock me to spoil vegetables, if all of them were black and the people being ripped off her white face of the demo gorgeous. , crooked politicians, if all of them were black and the people being exploited and oppressed weight, would that make things correct? in this tomato soup with my brain and i said no, brother, seems like that would be wrong. and for the first chinese man and said that's rate. he said this is a class struggle for human rights. study those books so you understand what the revolution is about. i to tell that story because two of the notions people had about the black panther party will look back and say it was a fine organization that just hated white people. and i was disabused to both of those things that very first day. and if i was leaving the office, next to the posters of malcolm max, there is this poster at how this quote. and it is

. >> you had calls going all up and down by saying blacks were now in rebaffled. and the next morning, between 600 and a thousand men, white men, pour in foe phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5:00 p.m., bruce lindsey on integration and north little rock high school. >> it says they know what' going to happen. we don't don't realize what's going to happen. but they seem to. the crowd is with us now. they are behind us and they are pushing up the steps. in this weekend, on c-span2 and 3. >> north korea says it plans to send a satellite into orbit next month. to mark the anniversary of its founder. now that south korea and the international community say the launches cover for a long-range missile test. yesterday, the house arms services committee heard from general james they areman. this is about an hour and a half. >> the committee will come to order. good morning, ladies and gentlemen. the house armed services committee meets today to receive testimony about the security situation on the korean peni

and the first black regiments were raised there. south carolina, then i moved to the gulf coast, then the mississippi valley. and finally north carolina and virginia. it ends -- the book wednesday a chapter on the colored troop's port war service on the rio grande which had to do with the was an entirely different matter from reconstructions. and a final chapter on their service in the rest of the south and forcing reconstructions policies. it's just as well that virginia was the last theater of operations considered in the book because it was the least typical. remember that when winfield scott conceived his so-called n anaconda plan to defeat the confederacy, the capital of the rebellion was in montgomery, alabama. when the confederate congress vote today move to richmond in may 1861, it changed the whole pattern of the war. union and confederate armies struggled back and forth over roughly 200 miles of country if you allow for confederate raids into maryland and the union campaign on virginia's peninsula in 1862. elsewhere union

. >> you had calls going all up and down the mississippi delta and saying that blacks were now in revolt, and the next morning between 601,000 men, white men, pour into the county to begin shooting down blocks. >> on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5 p.m. former student bruce lindsey on integration and north little rock high school. >> they know what's going to happen but we don't know what's going to happen. we don't realize what's going to happen when we go up the steps, but they seem to. because the crowd is with us now. the momentum is behind us, and they're pushing us up the steps. >> these stories and others on c-span's local content vehicles in little rock this weekend on c-span2 and three. >> you're watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekdays feature live coverage of u.s. senate. weeknights watch key public policy events, and to weaken the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website, and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> the u.s. general in charge of computer netwo

they call it black sunday when louisville was evacuated, cities all across the ohio river were evacuated on black sunday after four weeks of rain. the weather bureau was not able to predict whether very well. is essentially they could predict 24 hours in advance but we did not have satellite technology then. we didn't have as many weather stations. we didn't have as many river gauges so they're almost going on instinct. very little information. so one of the frustrating things was the flood forecasts would change every day for many times the day. it was like walking up a staircase. everyday the flood forecast gets higher and higher. there were places where they were caught off guard and whether bureau workers were moving the river gauge of farther and farther inland before they got covered by the water. so in the city it was hard to tell where it was coming. there was a lot of complacency in many cities. in louisville and elsewhere because they thought they had already seen a record flood. the flood of 1913 or 1884 was as high as the river could ever get and 1937 on average 29 feet highe

and saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning between 600 and 1,000 men, white men, pour into philips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5:00 p.m., former student bruce lindsey on integration and north little rock h th know what's going to happen, but we don't know what's going to happen. we don't realize what's going to happen when we get up those steps. but they seem to because the crowd is with us now. the momentum is behind us, and they are pushing up us the steps. >> these stories and others from c-span's local content vehicles in little rock, this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. >>> house budget committee chairman paul ryan awn veiled the republican budget plan last week. budget committee members debated the measure and voted on line by line changes to the legislation in a process known as marking up the bill. the full house will debate the measure tomorrow. >> the committee will now come to order. we will proceed with consideration of the fiscal year 201

. >> you had calls going all up and down the mississippi delta saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning between 600 and 1,000 men, white men pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> on "american history tv" on c-span3, sunday at 5:00 p.m., former student on into dent. >> what's going to happen when you get to those steps. they seem to. the crowd is with us now. the momentum is with us and they're pushing us up the steps. >> these stories and others from c-span's local content vehicles. this weekend on c-span2 and 3. >>> ronald reagan was leaving this hotel after delivering a speech to the afl cio. hinckley can't believe he's this close. 15 feet from the president. he shoots six shots. the first one hits jim brady, the press secretary in thed. the second one hits tom dell hand tea, a d.c. police officer who turned around to check on the president's progress. now the path to the president is clear. it's wide open. hinckley has an effective range of 20 to 30 feet. he's done target practice, can hit stationary targets 20 to 30 feet. >> march 30th, 198

. >> you had calls going all up and down the miss mitts delta and saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning between 600 and 1,000 men, white men, pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american history tv on c-span3, sunday at 5:00 p.m., former student bruce lindsay on integration and north little rock high school. >> it's as if they know what's going to happen but we don't know the what's going to happen. we don't realize what's going to happen when we go up those steps but they seem to because the crowd is with us now. momentum is behind us. and they are pushing us up the steps. >> the stories and others from c-span's local content vehicles in little rock, this weekend on c-spanand 3. >> starting sunday, see the winners in this year's c-span student cam video documentary competition on the theme "the constitution and you," as middle and high school students everyone across the country showed which part of the constitution was important to them and why. we'll air the top 27 videos each morning at 6:50 eastern on c-span and you'll meet the s

saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning between 600 and 1,000 men, white men pore into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> on american history tv on c-span dlst 3 sunday at 5:00 p.m., former student bruce lindsay on integration at north little rock high school. >> it's as if they know what's going to happen. but we don't know what's going to happen. we don't realize what's going to happen when we get up those steps. but they seem to, because the crowd is with us now. the momentum is behind us. and they are pushing us up the steps. >> these stories and others from c-span's local content vehicles in little rock this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. >> in march 1979, c-spangan televising the u.s. house house of representatives to households nationwide. today our content of politics and public affairs, nonfiction books and american history is available on tv, radio and online. >> on or about friday, november 21st, i asked admiral point dexter directly does the president know? he told me, he did not.

you had the black dentist, the black hair dresser, you were served, black businesses serving black consumers. and i think one of the things that's interesting to me right now is that, um, as a group -- of the new businesses that have been started in the united states, 25% of them have been started by hispanics, latino entrepreneurs. as a group, african-americans have lagged. and i think one reason is because of integration, um, there are some cultural issues as to starting businesses, access to capital and a lot of, um, you know, with the unemployment rate, i think a lot of very, you know, highly accomplished african-american college graduates went into the public sector. and we know the public sector is shrinking even as the private sector hires, will continue to shrink this year, and one reason they went to the public sectors, those were jobs that are posted. they're transparent. it's not the way the private sector hires this sort of byzantine how did that guy get that job. these are jobs they could compete for on an open basis, and it's wreaked incredible havoc on the middle class. but it

on the grounds of free speech but would we accept for example an article advocating that jews or blacks were not persons only potential persons and they could also be killed asked the question is a newborn child any less of equal member of the human family than a member of a certain race or of one gender or the other what really is the difference the authors of stoked an ethical storm by advocating after birth abortions in all cases even if the babies are not disabled abortions are only permitted in britain on non medical grounds during the first twenty four weeks of a pregnancy the authors have now received death threats and say they were merely making an academic discussion they refused to give an interview but it's a lie in the journals editors defend our job is to publish arguments for. issues so that people can live in the long run some of these issues are very complex and personally for example i don't agree with the. conclusions of the paper i would like to defend people's right to express the use and other people's right to respond to them academic discussion or not the articles prom

they were saying that blacks were now in revolt. and the next morning between 600 and 1,000 men, white men, pour

we were rehearsing it, and, with some of the black prisoners. and in three or so comes the leader of the latino crew and his writing. these are some tough brothers. they were doing life. they killed a couple prisoners since they had been jailed. and they come and they sit down and we'll thing, they left the turf, what are they here to do? the leader, rafael dias looking like he is upset. he is getting madder and matter. and after 10 minutes he looks at me, pointed at me and he's like yo, sa. let me speak to you. and i was like oh, man, i knew this was a bad idea. he said essay, we heard a rumor about what you are doing and i said it's too. i'm going to take something. you listen and to listen to. that guy you're working with, that at the guy, he is not getting his character. [laughter] i said roxio, why don't you come in quick he was great. he made his friend index another black history month play became a black and latino history month by the a white guy set up to come a toughest guy, 220 pounds, bodybuilder, black belt, he comes up, he comes ba

with black troops in his atlantic campaign and only taking one-half of one regiment with him on his march through georgia and the carolinas. these five companies of the 110th u.s. colored infantry were it the only black regiment represented at the grand review in washington at the end of the war. but sherman was the only -- sherman was a bigot, and he did not mince words about it. but he was the only union official i came across, military or civilian, who recognized that black people might have some ideas of their own about the future. he wrote, sherman, if negroes are to be taken as soldiers by undue influence or force and compelled to leave their women and young with uncertainty of their new condition, freedom, that is, they cannot be relied on. but if they can put their families in some safe place and then earn money as soldiers or laborers, the transition will be more easy and the effect more permanent. the first step in the liberation of the negro from bondage will be to get him and his family to a place of safety, then to afford him the means of providing for his family. in a way, sherman showed greater insight than the new england abolitionists who came to the south carolina

. >> you had calls going all up and down the mississippi delta, and saying that blacks were now in revolt, and the next morning between 600 and 1,000 men, white member, pour into phillips county to begin shooting down blacks. >> and on american history tvon c-span3, sunday at former student bruce lindsey on integration and north little rock high school. >> it's as happen, but we don' know what's going to happen. wereale what's going to happen when we get up those steps. but they seem toecis wh us now. the momentum is behind us, and they are pushing us up the steps. >> these stories and others from c-span's local content vehicles in little rock. this weekend on c-span2 and 3. >> this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programmingv weekend 48 hours of people andt story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at your websites and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >>> next, today's supreme court oral argument in the case of the health care law. this is the third of three days of oral argument. today justices heard two issues, the first wh