booker t. washington stated that to see one of washington's towards was to see them all. as i thought to explore different towards washington took throughout the south i decided it was distorted and needed to be told. washington had the occasion to visit florida in 1912 and when he visited florida he traveled to a number of cities in the state of florida. restarted in the western part of the state in pensacola, making the whistle stop from the back of his railcar in quincy, fla. coming eastward and came to tallahassee and when he stopped in tallahassee he spoke at florida a&m college. the podium that he used to deliver his speech, educational tours can be a little bit misleading because they were not educational book learning but traveling around to educate himself and others about the progress of the black race and one of the things that is important to understand in the context of that time period, a very brutal time and experience for african-americans coming out of reconstruction but there

nation,n wrong as a that we moved from frederick douglass, booker t. washington, to al sharpton? what happened? >> oh, my god. [laughter] just so you know, that is a big question. i want to say this. i am cap dancing. my mind is going. i cut my speech sure. i have been here before. i talked and talked, and told my wife that this is a launch speech. people want to eat lunch. they want to hear a little bit, then they want to go. they are going to the ranch. they don't want to sit there and listen to me all day. i like to leave time for questions. so, your question is what happened. lot of things happen. one of the things that happened was aggressive is him -- progressivism. what they were teaching in germany was good for us here, and that we could start applying those ideas here. this idea of the administrative state took hold. the idea that we would have a elitesf college educated that would head up all these departments, and they know more than us, and they would tell us how to live our lives and solve all the problems. poverty. no more war. we have a group of all the smart peopl

a proud soon to be graduate of booker t. washington. >> it's a big opportunity to show a lot of people it's not just football. >> reporter: this phenomenally talented senior received 150 scholarship offers in football and in music. the 18-year-old helped lead the tornadoes to back-to-back state championships and a national title this season but says he fell in love with music at the age of 3 while listening to his late grandmother's gospel cds. thomas said grandma bought him a guitar and signed him up for piano less soons. -- lessons. by the time he was 5 he was performing. now he decided his future home is with the u as part of the football team and with the frost school of music. >> i'm going to major in technology and playing football. >> reporter: the n.f.l. or music production, for thomas the focus is both. >> if i make it to the n.f.l. , that would be a blessing for me. >> reporter: but his love for music is strong and a passion that comes from within. >> i have a major love for music. i took it upon myself to learn ho

nation,n wrong as a that we moved from frederick douglass, booker t. washington, to al sharpton? what happened? >> oh, my god. [laughter] just so you know, that is a big question. i want to say this. i am cap dancing. my mind is going. i cut my speech sure. i have been here before. i talked and talked, and told my wife that this is a launch speech. people want to eat lunch. they want to hear a little bit, then they want to go. they are going to the ranch. they don't want to sit there and listen to me all day. i like to leave time for questions. so, your question is what happened. lot of things happen. one of the things that happened was aggressive is him -- progressivism. what they were teaching in germany was good for us here, and that we could start applying those ideas here. this idea of the administrative state took hold. the idea that we would have a elitesf college educated that would head up all these departments, and they know more than us, and they would tell us how to live our lives and solve all the problems. poverty. no more war. we have a group of all the smart peopl

radical who comes to the united states really does meet up in washington and he really is inspired by booker t washington's determination. but he takes this in different ways and he has this critique and wants to build black institution that are robustly or even defiantly part of this. so he talks about how you can accomplish what you will. so in a way he is the quintessential black national and pan african asked he speaks defiantly and really sparks reasoning that becomes the largest black movement in american history and it's really a global movement. they are building businesses and the father of malcolm x. and mother of him go out in nebraska to pioneer and they founded this and they could not have had this without garvey. so really organizing people to believe that this can be created in a way that not this parallels the white institution but redefines what it means to be black. >> host: from black base and white knights, you say obama has accepted the civil rights and black power movement and obama himself represents this. >> guest: yes, i think that's a quote that has sometimes been mis