became president, booker t. washington was the first person he telegraphed to come to washington and consult with him. as everybody tends to know, he also entertained booker t. washington to dinner in the white house a few weeks after he became president and created a national scandal by actually sitting down to dinner with a black man. it had never been done before in the white house. their relationship became commiecatcommie ka complicated later on, but when booker t. died in 1914, t.r. was enormously moved and felt he had to go to tuskegee and give him his tribute. >> this is odds and ends. archibald roosevelt jr. in conversation with the author, meaning you, in 1988, speculated that t.r., quote, probably had, was born with, bicuspid aortic valve like cousin kim's instead of the normal tricuspid. people with that problem often compensate for it in early life, but they get a telltale heart murmur which is probably what t.r.'s doctor at harvard heard when he warned him to lead a sedentary life. when did he warn him to do

on the other side i do support booker t. washington and i know their financial need for that project. it is something we need to figure out from a policy standpoint how we can do with this issue. as more developers will be choosing any in lieu fee, how can we ensure the feehan florence is the immediate neighborhood where these products are built? that is a policy question. commissioner antonini: it is up to the discretion of the mayor's office of housing as to where the money can be best used. we're going to leave that up to them as was pointed out by commissioner borden. we're not only dealing with the palmer situation but also the drying up of funding through redevelopment which makes the likelihood of money being available for affordable housing to be unlikely. i think the need is even stronger to have enough funding in the inli lieu feeds. you are limited and you can gild more units and serve people who have greater needs with the utilization of the feet. i would like to ask, i am in support and ask the sponsor to keep working. i d

only two names were in the encyclopedia, and that was booker t. washington and george washington carver, but she lectured about the contribution of frederick douglass, w.e.b. dubois, and how jackie robinson had broken the baseball barrier. and we remembered the opera singer who was not allowed to sing in the hall and had to sing in lincoln center. all the discrimination and the local in justices. like, everything was separate and unequal. the school was inadequate. we could not go to the hospitals. they built a house adjacent to the main hospital. the white people were not supposed to be in the same room with an n-person. you know the n-word? i said to myself at the end of the day that i love my country and i'm glad that that day, i took a stand. i saw through the supreme court that the flaws that america had tried to correct them by removing those horrible signs -- "white" and "colored." i said when i testified at the trial, i went through how we were treated, and the lady dramatize it, so i do not have to go through that, but it is the whole system of sepa

i also look at post war biographies and autobiographies of former slaves such as booker t-washington's autobiography. i looked at some letters and diaries. one thing i used extensively is the federal writers' project, more commonly known as the slave narratives of some of you i'm sure are familiar with the slave narratives. it was during the 1930's that the federal government hired a large number of unemployed writers and sent them across the south to interview former slaves. these slaves were up in years because this was the 1930's. and they interviewed 2,200 former slaves. that represents about 2% of the then living former slaves. they transscribed, they asked the former slaves questions about their life as slaves and they transscribed the answers. and today, we have 3.5 million words of the former slaves. so, i used in my book a lot of quotes from these former slaves. again, what better way to understand a time period when you have the actual words of those people that lived as slaves in america. another thing i used extensively was the 1860 united states census. what a great resour

places like the booker t. washington university. the george washington carver national monument. the national historical trail commemorating the march for voting rights from selma to montgomery and most recently the martin luther king jr. memorial on the national mall. she is are all important monuments and places of historical significance that help tell the story of the african-american experience. as a national park service continues its important work to recognize and preserve african-american history by providing greater public access and information about the places and people that have shaped the african-american experience, there are very few units dedicated to the lives of african-american women and there's no national historical park commemorating african-american women. i cannot think of a more fitting hero than harriet tub man to be the first african-american women to be memorialized and her fight against institutions of slavery and the work on the underground railroad. i hope that my colleagues will support my effort to honor harriet tubman and support the passage of