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when booker t. washington was head of the testing he -- tusk eegee institute, he had to take into account the reality of alabama. he was running a state institution, although he had privatized it. he had to navigate in a different context then did dubois, who was for the most part an obscure academic -- i say obscure for most americans -- until he became affiliated with the crisis and the naacp after 1909. they occupy very different positions. i think for washington, his story was one about what african-americans had done with their freedom. he wanted to emphasize african-american capacity. he did not want to emphasize obstacles or inefficiency to that. we can criticize all we want about those choices. if dubois had a phd, he had the finest education one could have had at that time. he had a much larger vision of the obstacles that he thought african-americans were facing. i really do think it is a case that they are speaking to different audiences and speaking pass each other in some ways. i'm confident that
when booker t. washington was head of the testing he -- tusk eegee institute, he had to take into account the reality of alabama. he was running a state institution, although he had privatized it. he had to navigate in a different context then did dubois, who was for the most part an obscure academic -- i say obscure for most americans -- until he became affiliated with the crisis and the naacp after 1909. they occupy very different positions. i think for washington, his story was one about...
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and while booker t. washingtonind of advocates for moving on and forgiveness and ignoring it so we can reconcile and move on, frederick douglass says you need to remember, be aware of what we went through and where we need to go. jennifer murray: right. so even among the african-american community, it -- is there a consensus about what they should push for. booker t. washington very reconciliatory in his own right. the going slow approach. how did african-americans commemorate the civil war? blue and gray paternalism seems to overshadow any true economic equality for african-americans. one thing they can and will commemorate is, emancipation day. so wrote -- throughout northern and southern communities emancipation day is celebrated. this is in richmond, virginia. >> the celebrations, the number of them peter out further south. jennifer murray: as we move forward in time as well. so, if you have to put into a hierarchy, reconciliation, which the premises, emancipation is, where will you put that? >> at the bottom.
and while booker t. washingtonind of advocates for moving on and forgiveness and ignoring it so we can reconcile and move on, frederick douglass says you need to remember, be aware of what we went through and where we need to go. jennifer murray: right. so even among the african-american community, it -- is there a consensus about what they should push for. booker t. washington very reconciliatory in his own right. the going slow approach. how did african-americans commemorate the civil war?...
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booker t. washington almost is an advocate of the fraternal relationship. he talks about being better off as slaves, and african-american saying it. jennifer murray: booker t. washington was born a slave, so his experience is pragmatic, where you have someone else who does not have the same experiences, a free man, a northerner come a educated who goes to harvard. who you are and how close you are in time to this event, changes how you view it. not all african-americans will look at slavery in the same way. it is very confiscated. -- it is very complicated. tremendous amount of discord. let's move forward and look at reconciliation taking hold. to bind the nation's wounds is from another lincoln address. it sits aptly with reconciliation. one reason the american civil war remains so popular in modern america is because, one, many can trace ancestors back to the civil war. it is on our own soil. we have a great record of primary sources, soldiers from both sides who wrote a lot about the war. they wrote letters home, kept diaries during the war. very good acc
booker t. washington almost is an advocate of the fraternal relationship. he talks about being better off as slaves, and african-american saying it. jennifer murray: booker t. washington was born a slave, so his experience is pragmatic, where you have someone else who does not have the same experiences, a free man, a northerner come a educated who goes to harvard. who you are and how close you are in time to this event, changes how you view it. not all african-americans will look at slavery in...
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civil rights leader who in the early 1900s would have been mentioned in the same breath with booker t. washington i'm going wow maybe there's a biography in this guy? because he also was, you know, advocating a very new strategy in the civil rights movement and challenging booker t. washington. i'd learned that there was a biography written him back in the, you know, 40 something years ago that was titled " the guardian" which is the name of his weekly newspaper. so i said, yeah, i think there's a place for a new biography. but then i got to 1915, and i got just surface, you know in some of these references to how he was at the forefront of this extended protest against the movie, like i said that i knew about. and i said, that was my aha moment. i said that's the drama that's the story to tell and through which to capture what i think are so many big ideas about civil liberties, civil rights, film, you know, media revolution. and that's where i started to channel all my efforts. c-span: here's an excerpt and it's a civil war battle. before we get to that, and is we'll come back to monroe trotter
civil rights leader who in the early 1900s would have been mentioned in the same breath with booker t. washington i'm going wow maybe there's a biography in this guy? because he also was, you know, advocating a very new strategy in the civil rights movement and challenging booker t. washington. i'd learned that there was a biography written him back in the, you know, 40 something years ago that was titled " the guardian" which is the name of his weekly newspaper. so i said, yeah, i...
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referred to as black wall street i booker t. washington, the greenwood district in tulsa was the center of black commerce in the early 1900s. together with our cox cable partners, the c-span staff recently visited many sites exploring tulsa's rich history. learn more about tulsa all weekend here on american history tv. woody guthrie: i got started in oklahoma. that is where i was born. the population is one third indian, one third negro, and one third white people. i have the -- hit the road when i was 12 years old traveling and working on jobs. that is where i picked up these songs. ♪ this land is your land this land is my land from california to the new york island from the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters this land was made for you and me ♪ >> woody guthrie's most famous for his writing of "this land is your land," but he was very much more than that. he was born in 1934 in oklahoma. we are proud to have this work back in oklahoma where we think it belongs. he was an advocate or people who were disenfranchised, for people who we
referred to as black wall street i booker t. washington, the greenwood district in tulsa was the center of black commerce in the early 1900s. together with our cox cable partners, the c-span staff recently visited many sites exploring tulsa's rich history. learn more about tulsa all weekend here on american history tv. woody guthrie: i got started in oklahoma. that is where i was born. the population is one third indian, one third negro, and one third white people. i have the -- hit the road...
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none other than booker t. washington remembers that how when the war closed the day of freedom came. a u.s. army belatedly read the emancipation proclamation that lee's surrender brought deliverance deliverance. and we have a remarkable set of interviewed conducted in the 1930s but a new deal agency, the works progress administration or wpa for short interviews conducted with men and women who had been alive in the time of slavery. they were quite elderly in the 1930s. they were children in the days before the civil war. but these interviewees more than 2,000 altogether, left this remarkable body of testimony about slavery. it is all available on the website of the library of congress. and if we look at these interviews for reflections on appomattox we see they echo reminiscences look booker t washington. fannie berry remembered that slaves in virginia burst into spontaneous song when they learned that lee had raised the white flag. for at that moment, she said they knew they were free. and as news of the surrender trave
none other than booker t. washington remembers that how when the war closed the day of freedom came. a u.s. army belatedly read the emancipation proclamation that lee's surrender brought deliverance deliverance. and we have a remarkable set of interviewed conducted in the 1930s but a new deal agency, the works progress administration or wpa for short interviews conducted with men and women who had been alive in the time of slavery. they were quite elderly in the 1930s. they were children in the...
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and booker t. washingtonat his tuskegee institute produced g.p. -- gpas of blacks with a higher tess test scores. they're the best fighter pie -- and when the tuskegee airmen entered world war ii, they were given third rate training, the second rate equipment, but they 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 was the america we could have had. it was the america we should have had. it was the america that we deserved 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 -- as equals, and america made a choice. and we have it front of us today. i don't want to hear about republicans are racist. we believe that black americans should have the same right as any other individual in this country. the right to determine your
and booker t. washingtonat his tuskegee institute produced g.p. -- gpas of blacks with a higher tess test scores. they're the best fighter pie -- and when the tuskegee airmen entered world war ii, they were given third rate training, the second rate equipment, but they 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 was the america we could have had....
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and booker t. washingtonat his tuskegee institute produced g.p. -- gpas of blacks with a higher tess test scores. they're the best fighter pie -- and when the tuskegee airmen entered world war ii, they were given third rate training, the second rate equipment, but they 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 was the america we could have had. it was the america we should have had. it was the america that we deserved 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 -- as equals, and america made a choice. and we have it front of us today. i don't want to hear about republicans are racist. we believe that black americans should have the same right as any other individual in this country. the right to determine your
and booker t. washingtonat his tuskegee institute produced g.p. -- gpas of blacks with a higher tess test scores. they're the best fighter pie -- and when the tuskegee airmen entered world war ii, they were given third rate training, the second rate equipment, but they 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 was the america we could have had....
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booker t. washington is another example, how does -- what is their competition memories? >> the primary issue is how to deal with memories of the south, among individual former slaves. while booker t. washington kind rner born in stanton. wilson will come to gettysburg on july 4 to give a commemorative address. july 4, 1913. here is part of wilson's speech. what is your reaction to that? >> too good to be true. jennifer murray: in what way? >> the fact he talks about how far they have come and they are this band of brothers and everything. essentially, it was all based around forgetting slavery and this awful part of their history together. jennifer murray: ok so he is fashioning this utopia sort of place. why is his tone going to be more evenhanded? >> he cannot risk being biased in any way at all because he is president. jennifer murray: ok, so politically he has to be couched in this. he has to be worried about political ramifications. who is his audience? both sides. when we said the north could be very verbose and descriptive talking about treason, their audience is n
booker t. washington is another example, how does -- what is their competition memories? >> the primary issue is how to deal with memories of the south, among individual former slaves. while booker t. washington kind rner born in stanton. wilson will come to gettysburg on july 4 to give a commemorative address. july 4, 1913. here is part of wilson's speech. what is your reaction to that? >> too good to be true. jennifer murray: in what way? >> the fact he talks about how far...
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edward the second and booker t washington is a example of that. i argue that prop b which mandated all water front proposal going to the voreter insures 30 percent of the developments are affordable housing. developers used to say they can't build 30 percent affordable housing. now that they have to go to the voters they don't walk into my office without saying they will build with a minimum of 30 percent. citizens play a role using mechanisms. i understand it is a double edged sword and used both ways, but i don't want there to be a finding in the legislation that says this sh the only reason why housing is expensive in san francisco. i don't agree with that. second, i think in some cases it made san francisco more affordable >> thank you, supervisor compose >> welcome debate and think that it is good to have debate and i don't think that calling one side cynical is helpful. i do believe though that this notion that if you have an unregulated market which you build market rate housing thatd is the answer to anything. that is notion i disagree wit
edward the second and booker t washington is a example of that. i argue that prop b which mandated all water front proposal going to the voreter insures 30 percent of the developments are affordable housing. developers used to say they can't build 30 percent affordable housing. now that they have to go to the voters they don't walk into my office without saying they will build with a minimum of 30 percent. citizens play a role using mechanisms. i understand it is a double edged sword and used...
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i know what booker t. washington was saying and i saw it work. saw his test scores and out of wedlock and fighter pilots in world war ii. i won't hear it. and if you take away the superiority of a have left is the evidence of the policy and that evidence is murder and failure, pure coke on end of discussion. it's over. so, let me close with this. we have to give people something it's not about the values the big left was a gun control by shooting guns at people it has to be a little annoying to them i would imagine. he's a kind of leftist who says things like this. i'm a movie star. i think we should raise taxes. i'm going to get the worst of anybody. you are an incredibly advanced magnificent man. however unfortunately, i work in show business as well. first if you go home with a $7 million paycheck for six weeks worth that's the kind of sacrifice. when they make a movie starring matt damon they don't write a check this was paid to the order of matt damon lined million dollars they write a check that says page of the order of the production's $9
i know what booker t. washington was saying and i saw it work. saw his test scores and out of wedlock and fighter pilots in world war ii. i won't hear it. and if you take away the superiority of a have left is the evidence of the policy and that evidence is murder and failure, pure coke on end of discussion. it's over. so, let me close with this. we have to give people something it's not about the values the big left was a gun control by shooting guns at people it has to be a little annoying to...
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referred to as black wall street by booker t. washingtonany sites exploring tulsa's rich history. learn more all weekend here on american history tv. michael wallis: my book, "route 66: the mother road" came out in 1990. i was inspired to cause people kept talking about route 66 in the past sense and i knew full well that 85% of the road is still there through all eight states. some stretches are better than ever. i wrote that book unabashedly as a love letter to the road and more importantly to the people of the road. route 66 8 time zones, chicago to santa monica. in the urban experience, it is far different than it would he -- be out in, say, the high desert of new mexico or arizona or missouri or even the farmlands of central illinois where the road is wide open, you know? it is really -- when it goes through a small town, like hamill, illinois he or wherever, it is still main street in that town. but here, it is urban. what you would see on 11th street, a.k.a. route 66 in tulsa, traditionally there are a lot of things related to the ro
referred to as black wall street by booker t. washingtonany sites exploring tulsa's rich history. learn more all weekend here on american history tv. michael wallis: my book, "route 66: the mother road" came out in 1990. i was inspired to cause people kept talking about route 66 in the past sense and i knew full well that 85% of the road is still there through all eight states. some stretches are better than ever. i wrote that book unabashedly as a love letter to the road and more...
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today, 80% of students graduate from booker t. washington. more than half of them are headed to college. same building, same neighborhood, same families. same challenges. but a very different set of expectations and supports. very different results. . . to help many more students walk the path to college new law must invest in innovative to improve outcomeses. we most -- another field in medicine and energy and defense, the need for innovation is well understood. when a back scene to a disease is 0 discovered the goal is never to hoard it for a few but to get it out to the public to everyone as fast as possible. but sadly in education, we spend less than one percent of our resources each year on research and deep. despite an outpouring of creativity from local educators who are helping students beat the odds every day. over the last few years we in the adapt of education have received more than 4,000 proposals for innovative local projects. unfortunately we have only had the resources to find 150 of those 4,000. there's no upside to that. we
today, 80% of students graduate from booker t. washington. more than half of them are headed to college. same building, same neighborhood, same families. same challenges. but a very different set of expectations and supports. very different results. . . to help many more students walk the path to college new law must invest in innovative to improve outcomeses. we most -- another field in medicine and energy and defense, the need for innovation is well understood. when a back scene to a disease...
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must build on the efforts that helped create opportunities for students like moises arzu at booker t. washington high school in miami. when moises started 9th grade, his school was a tough a place. only about half the students graduated, and unfortunately moises was sometimes in trouble. but hard-working teachers, fantastic city year corps members, and school counselors came together to transform the school through an effort called diplomas now. and with federal support for their intensive, innovative, hands on approach, they created real opportunities for moises and his peers to succeed. teachers used real-time data to support students' progress, and encouraged moises and his friends at every single step of the way. their collective efforts in a short amount of time are paying off: today, about 80% of students graduate from booker t. washington, and more than half of them are headed to college. same building, same neighborhood, same families, same challenges. but a very different set of expectations and support, and very different results. as for moises? he's slated to attend fisk university th
must build on the efforts that helped create opportunities for students like moises arzu at booker t. washington high school in miami. when moises started 9th grade, his school was a tough a place. only about half the students graduated, and unfortunately moises was sometimes in trouble. but hard-working teachers, fantastic city year corps members, and school counselors came together to transform the school through an effort called diplomas now. and with federal support for their intensive,...
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harry houdini and booker t. washington.e family as they try to keep up with a dramatically changing era. you know what they say about change. it's the only constant. going on in oakland tonight. the folks at smart culture show are going to be holding their monthly show on a different night in hopes of getting a few more seats filled to get a few more friends to support their benefit for lost weekend video. it's a comedy show. go to the third street warehouse for friday night comedy and free pizza. how about them giants? since they had their home opener on monday let's focus on openers. we move a few miles away from the ballpark to golden gate park. they open the 11th season with a special exhibit with annual bow bouquets of art. guest lectures. open studios. bag pipers the dancers and a one-night only scottish pub inside the museum. you know what's sad? even though it only goes to 8:00 p.m. at the deyoung, i don't think you can stay up that late tonight. i feel old. >>> it's tough on the schedule we have. >> we know that fe
harry houdini and booker t. washington.e family as they try to keep up with a dramatically changing era. you know what they say about change. it's the only constant. going on in oakland tonight. the folks at smart culture show are going to be holding their monthly show on a different night in hopes of getting a few more seats filled to get a few more friends to support their benefit for lost weekend video. it's a comedy show. go to the third street warehouse for friday night comedy and free...