all the same to the point of the need for an institution like booker t. washington i do it daily washington word where i give presidential commentary about booker t. washington as a president. most people reduce him to a political or social leader but he he's primarily a president. obviously his complete configuration obviously the emphasis is on hand at the notion immediately post-slavery african-americans had acquired certain schools and certain skill sets that could be translated into economic as well as educational freedom. many times many people fail to point out or to recognize that the complete configuration of location stems and hails from the latin origin which is a call call. he talked a great deal about having hands of competent skill but also a heart that's rooted in character. so to your question about the role of that kind of institution obviously we have already many ways kept that tradition could i think george washington carver, booker t. washington robert r. taylor in architecture were progenitors of all the s.t.e.m. research production and teachin

forgotten civil rights leader who in the early 1900 would've been mentioned in the same breath as booker t. washingtongoing, maybe a biography in this guy? he was advocating a new strategy in civil rights and challenging booker t. washington. i learned there was a biography written 40 years ago that as long out-of-print of print that was titled "the guardian," the name of his weekly newspaper. i said, there's a place for a new biography. but then i got to 1915 and just the surface in some of these references to how he was at the forefront of this extended protest against the movie that i knew about. that was my "aha!" moment. i said, that is the drama to capture what i think were so many big ideas about civil liberties and rights, film media revolution. >> here's an excerpt. it is a civil war battle but before we get to that. the stoneman family and the cameron family. set that up. >> griffith, in order to tell such a big story, the civil war and its aftermath, he chooses to tell it through two families. the camerons from the fictional town of piedmont, south carolina. and the stonemans from the north

we try to tell them not only about our great tradition and our founder booker t. washington but the many luminaries robert r. taylor and george washington carver and our great distinguished alumni and the students there currently. we try to motivate them at the best and brightest examples of what makes tuskegee great and how they can make it greater. >> host: president johnson wanted the things we have learned is one of the reasons students can't finish their educational career when they start a college is finances. talk about that and how does your university deal with that? >> guest: well obviously these are questions that are pressing for not only tuskegee university but many institutions. the balance between the university insuring that it has the appropriate tuition revenue but also assuring that our students properly finance, properly are packaged with the right discounts that an institution can provide. our institution does extremely well with securing scholarship support from corporations who are primarily insisted -- interested in simulated fields. our alumni does a

on the other side was booker t. washington. he said no.e have to go back to the people we used to for and we have to be farmers because we have to develop our own resources and be farmers so that our sons can be mechanics and their sons can be doctors. we don't have a right to ask for or demand respect. we'll earn respect. and booker t. washington at his tuskegee institute produced g.p. a.'s of blacks with a higher tess test scores. they're the best fighter pie lots of the war and never lost a bomber because he realized the way to eliminate racism and prejudice is not through demands but through excellence and through the unassailable excellence of their performance. that's the america we could have had and should have had and deserve to have. it was the america one of the greatest americans we ever had. booker t. washington who said if we become victims we'll stay victims. we are their betters. we will enter the society as he quills&america made a choice and we have it front of us today. i don't want to hear about republicans are racist.

then, he selected t washington -- booker t. on who we attribute to be the founding principle and president. there are many people who are similar to your cousin who played a significant role, names who we do not want to ever forget. to the point of the needs of an institution like booker t. washington, i do it a decently -- a daily commentary about booker t. washington. as a president, most people reduce into a political or social leader, but primarily he was a president. it was a complete consideration on what he meant in vocational. on hand, the notion that post slavery, african-americans had acquired certain tools and search skill sets that could be translated into economic independence as well as education, but many times, many people fail to point out or to recognize that the complete configuration of locations stems and hails from the latin origin which is a calling "vocare" to call. that is a hand skill. that is something rooted in character and consistency. your question about the role of that kind of institution -- obvi

on the other side was booker t. washington. he said no. we have to go back to the people we used to for and we have to be farmers because we have to develop our own resources and be farmers so that our sons can be mechanics and their sons can be doctors. we don't have a right to ask for or demand respect. we'll earn respect. and booker t. washington at his tuskegee institute produced g.p. a.'s of blacks with a higher tess test scores. they're the best fighter pie lots of the war and never lost a bomber because he realized the way to eliminate racism and prejudice is not through demands but through excellence and through the unassailable excellence of their performance. that's the america we could have had and should have had and deserve to have. it was the america one of the greatest americans we ever had. booker t. washington who said if we become victims we'll stay victims. we are their betters. we will enter the society as he quills&america made a choice and we have it front of us today. i don't want to hear about republicans are racist

an ewaste recycling program and he has that idea and then, also, and i am excited about what booker t washington is doing to develop the property for emancipated foster use and i am excited and i just want to give out a shout out to hanabal williams and rogers who are instrumental in community development in the neighborhood. >> thanks. >> thank you very much. >> next speaker please. >> address the signs of geography to define the nature need of a safety security force not with the production and labor and exchange for basic needs. and united field effort to resolve conflicting movements, and understanding evolution and periodic table of elements, and nature's feeding upon itself. and to corroborate the need to answer an inability of the state to orient to the community cooperative and collective public ownership of production and labor, human animal brain is a physical crem cal, and constructing the vocab of words and actions to resolve as in housing and human rights. and the food and ingesting and it is the need and the commodity and value exchange and based to the capitol currency with withou

inviting booker t. washington to the white house for dinner, making such a move, a black person sort of symbolizing equality of the races there was a segment that was really inspired by this and it was largely sharecroppers, black sharecroppers in the south and two of those were my grandfather, they named their second son theodore roosevelt johnson, here i am theodore rooz roosevelt johnson iii. i got to meet president barack obama in the white house. their dream came true. >> back in those days. ted good to talk to you thank you so much, for joining us. ted johnson is a writer often race and politics. as he mentioned he was a white house fellow in 2011 and 2012. that is our show today, i'm ali velshi thank you for joining us. have a great weekend. proposal by france and germany to end the violence in creurnlg eastern ukraine could succeed. >>> trust why millions of nigerians still have no access

booker t. washington and the boys were arguing about education and civil rights, she was confronting american terrorism, lynching, the rock face of the american nation state with courage and they ran her out of tennessee, put a bounty on her head. if not for t. timers fortunate in new york, they still hunted her down in new york and she had to leave the country and go to britain and she came back with her classics got something to say about the underside the night side of america, terrorism at the center, jim crow and jane crow. in our textbooks they call it segregation. we are talking american terrorism, for two days it was a precious black man or black woman or black child hanging from a tree, the southern trees at the great billie holiday singing with such power and the jewish brothers writing the lyrics. it was a serious struggle, she organized black women and a black woman's club. we need to know much more, the classic crusade of justice. we need to know how she was able to sustain -- she is a sunday

booker t. washington's strategy was the dominant strategy of the day.this clearly represents the turning of the page, the passing of the torch, so to speak. >> some of the pictures of that demonstration in boston, one could assume it also might have drawn more attention to the film and more people going to see the film. >> you are right. dubois and trotter spoke about that, they traded letters. they understood. letters were written gloating about that. let them fuss and carry on because it guarantees more ticket sales. i think trotter at the end of the day, dubois said, let's stand unanswered. this portrayal of black america would be far worse. >> we have this tweet. what was the impact of the naacp and the black press campaigns against birth of a nation? hari jones? >> supporting wilson at first was a real problem, compromise for them. within the naacp during this time, the voice -- dubois, and you have the changing of the guard. the naacp is rising. i think it helped the naacp. trotter does not get much from it. his newspaper's "the guardian" and he k

booker t. washington and w.e.b. dubois had a very interesting debate as to the direction of howard university going from the 1800's into the 1900s. they were concerned about whether there would be enough people for jobs versus higher ed so that continues and we continue to participate in what i think is one of america's greatest educational institutions. >> host: we have set aside land for those who attended an hbcu and all others. jack from south carolina who attended the university you are next. good morning. >> caller: good morning. thank you very much for taking my call. i just had a question to ask you in reference to veterans children. i wanted my son to go to more house and because more house is a private school he wasn't qualified to get the funds unless he went to a dashed school or state school. he did go to private school so i wanted to ask a question. has anyone in the historical black colleges plan to work with the government to let the children of veterans who want to go to a historical college qualifi

booker t. wash and e.b. debois and maybe there is a biography on this guy because he was odd volk ating a new strategy on the civil rights movement in challenging booker t. washingtond i learned there was a biography written him back 40 something years ago out of print titled the guardian, which is the name of his weekly newspaper. and so i said yeah i think there is a place for a new biography. and then i got to 1915 and i got just the surface in some of the references to how he was at the forefront of this extended protest against the movie, like i said that i knew about. and that was any aha-moment. and i said that is the drama and the story in which to capture what i think are big ideas about civil liberties and civil rights, a film and media revolution and that is where i started to channel my efforts. >> here is an excerpt, and it is a civil war battle. but before we get to that and we'll come back to trotter. the stowman familiar and the cam ran family, set that up. >> griffith to tell such a big story, the civil war and its aftermath, he tells it through two families. the camerons from this fictional town of paidiedmont, kk and the stonemans from the north.

appointed as the seaver of public moneys by -- receiver of public moneys by mckinley and friend to booker t. washington and facilitated his leadership four times by president rosevelt and president taft. the friendship with dr. washington was a close friendship. he was asked to be the dedication of the mosaic templar building in 19 15. he passed in 1916. today, bush's descendents remain pillars in our community in little rock and his legacy lives on with the cultural center which is an outstanding educational resource for our rich african-american traditions in arkansas. as we celebrate black history month, we remember john bush's legacy that continues to inspire and be a major and important part of arkansas history. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york mr. jeffries, for five minutes. mr. jeffries: mr. speaker, in less than two days house republicans are prepared to shut down the department of homeland security threatening the safety of the american people. at home there is a noted and beloved philosopher by the name of yogi

was right when he came into the white house, he invited booker t. washington to dinner. and this was scandalous. the south was up in arms and an african-american not only was sitting in the white house dining with the president but had his legs next to a white woman, edith the first lady's legs. and scathing racist bigotry if you read the newspapers coming out of mississippi. so you know what t.r. does? he decides he's going to go back to vardman, governor vardman of mississippi, who's calling roosevelt every ugly racial name in the book, and he went hunting in vardman's backyard with holt collier, an african-american hunt guide. today there's a holt collier national wildlife refuge in the mississippi delta. and this is the scene where a woman here in brooklyn ruth mccomb i believe it is, she ended up becoming very famous and made a lot of money and i'll tell you why in a minute. they're down there in mississippi. and the big thing was the south was lynching african-americans. and fdr wanted federal anti-lynching laws and the south didn't want federal anti-lynching laws.

booker t. washington and w e the boy -- duboisuois had a very interesting view.inues and we continue to participate in what i think is one of america's greatest educational institutions. host: jack from south carolina. you are next. guest:caller: [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, : i wanted my son to go to somewhere near our house. but he was not qualified and he had to go to a state school. you can go to any state school so i wanted to ask a question. is anyone through the historical black colleges trying to work with the government to let children who want to go to historical black schools be qualified for funding that they are qualified for? guest: excellent question. the economic factor -- let me be very clear about that -- we are a private institution. 60% of the students attending howard university undergrad programs are eligible. that means they come from the lower socioeconomic part of the country. they have a family commission of zero. 25 is the maximum telegram grant award. what we have done it howard university, we started a p

astronauts and frederick douglass and booker t. washington harriet tubman rosa parks. maya angel ou who taught me. and gwen brooks, just a number of well known and unsung heroes whose contributions helped our nation become a more perfect union. the history of the united states has been marked by leaders, writers and artists. as a member of congress, i stand on those shoulders, whose struggles and triumphs made it possible for me to stand here today and continue to fight for their values and really the values embedded in what america is all about. the values of equality and justice, progress for all, regardless of race, religion gender or sexual orientation. mr. speaker, i have two very special giants. they are my mother and father. ivy jackson a vocational nurse and my father one of the first african-americans who was welcomed for a short period of time into the growing comic business after world war ii or during world war ii. that was the entertainment that many americans found stories joy, drama various superheroes, monsters and a number of other things, the comic bu

places like booker t. washington national monument on the campus of the tuskegee university in alabama. the george washington carver national monument in missouri. the national historic trail commemorating the march for voting rights from selma to montgomery, alabama. and most recently, the martin luther king jr. memorial on the mall are important monuments and places of historical significance that help tell the story of the african-american experience. as the national park system continues its important work to commemorate 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. this historic park is the first national park in honor of a woman. now, obviously the first historical park for an african-american woman. as we celebrate black history month and women's history month next month i cannot think of a more fitting hero than harri

booker t. washington's strategy was the dominant strategy of the day.this clearly represents the turning of the page, the passing of the torch, so to speak. >> some of the pictures of that demonstration in boston, one could assume it also might have drawn more attention to the film and more people going to see the film. >> you are right. dubois and trotter spoke about that, they traded letters. they understood. letters were written gloating about that. let them fuss and carry on because it guarantees more ticket sales. i think trotter at the end of the day, dubois said, let's stand unanswered. this portrayal of black america would be far worse. >> we have this tweet. what was the impact of the naacp and the black press campaigns against birth of a nation? hari jones? >> supporting wilson at first was a real problem, compromise for them. within the naacp during this time, the voice -- dubois, and you have the changing of the guard. the naacp is rising. i think it helped the naacp. trotter does not get much from it. his newspaper's "the guardian" and he k