against older african-american candidates who have lived through segregation lived through the civil rights movement and you sort of seem to be peddling this idea that if you had not experienced that if you hadn't figured that then you weren't going to have the right perspective politically speaking to leave african-americans effectively and so. part of why president obama's race is so important is because it firmly established that you did not have to come from that era you did not have to you can't came specifically on that to be effective and not only winning african-american voters but also winning diverse coalition of voters and that's one of the things that is really significant and younger voters played a real role in that i mean he would not president barack obama would not be president without the strength of voters under thirty and they are by simply voters you know of the population that has the right situation simply would not have won the primary and he would not be president united states today he also seems to be trying to expand beyond just that divide. the events of today in this la

he's an activist, academic and author who is one of the true icons of the american civil rights movement. a ten-term veteran of the georgia legislature, he helped found the student nonviolent coordinating committee and served as president of the southern poverty law center, and chaired the board of the naccp for more than a decade. he's julian bond. this is overheard. ♪

the two biggest events in the last 50 years in american history were civil rights movement and the vietnam war. civil rights movement was all activism. all. vietnam war-- strongly affected by it, strongly affected the outcome, strongly affected the length of that war. we know that now. we looked at this, and we said, "jeez, you know, nobody's looking at it as what it is." how did it get here? where did it-- nobody mandated, "there shall be benefits," you know? how did this come about? well, right away, you run into the name pete seeger. right away you run into woody guthrie. we--i asked david to research it, and david came back with, there is no other work written on this subject, and that was irresistible to us. you know, we feel very strongly about it. we knew we had an advantage if we went to speak to the people who do it, you know? i don't have to walk in cold. i'm not, you know--it's like, "how did you boys meet?" i know, you know, who i'm talking to, and generally, we're at least acquaintances if not close friends, and we're talking about events that we did together or that we've don

influenced by the campaigns of the chicano civil rights movement, this oakland artist is a print maker whose work has helped and sustainability with the immigrant community as well as other current sociopolitical issues. this print-based work draws on appropriated agricultural worker manuals and high fashion labels to satirically address class issues, cultural identities, and consumerism. >> angelica -- her father was an agricultural worker, so she has drawn a lot from the materials the agricultural department sends to agricultural workers, referencing the depiction of farm workers and some of the information about

that is something we should even be aspiring to but making connections between king and the civil rights movement and barack obama is very important because the shifts in the movements that took place during the civil rights movement are very critical to understanding the current times -- time span. so for instance in 1963 after the march on washington, immediately after that the shift focused to voting rights so the shift from civil rights to voting rights created the context for black lyrical leaders to sort of become embedded in democratic politics that led to the barack hussein obama presidency. >> okay. one of the things that relates to this whole notion of becoming a society in which everyone is accepted and respected for who and what she or he is relates to certain dynamics within the social structure and one of the things that dr. reid is talked about in his particular manuscript was something called institutionalized thought structure. he talked about that in the context of racism. something that some people have a very difficult time wrapping their arms around and understanding how raci

influenced by the campaigns of the chicano civil rights movement, this oakland artist is a print maker whose work has helped and sustainability with the immigrant community as well as other current sociopolitical issues. this print-based work draws on appropriated agricultural worker manuals and high fashion labels to satirically address class issues, cultural identities, and consumerism. >> angelica -- her father was an agricultural worker, so she has drawn a lot from the materials the agricultural department sends to agricultural workers, referencing the depiction of farm workers and some of the information about pesticide application. >> mitzi combines a variety of media, including embroidery, to create artifacts of mexican, chicano, pop culture. she greets immensely detailed drawings of celebrities on the same platform of her friends and families. her work combines elements of chicano portraiture and low writer art, rendered in upon new art style, or intca

. >> up next, we salute the bay area woman who was part of the civil rights movement. now others haved a way to beth! hi. looking good! you've lost some weight. thanks! you noticed! you know these clothes are too big now, so i'm donating them. nogoing back the again. good for you! how'd you do i eating right, whole grain. whole grain? whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't... multigrain cheerios has five whole grains and 110 lightly sweetened calories per serving... more grains. less you! multigrain cheerios. >>> and another remarkable bay area woman and unique birthday gift she received this year. a foundation in her name to help carry her fight for civil rights and equality. carolyn tyler has an abc7 salute. >> just about every monday you will find jill wakeman at primrose. it provides food to needy families each month. >> i just had this need, as long as i can remember to put somebody else's shoes and say what can i do. >> the 76-year-old she felt compassion for others but was the civil rights mov

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motivated by atticus finch in his closing argument in that case which in many ways represented the civil rights movement that was to come and it already begun. we have best-selling authors. we have a real-life atticus finch, tony serra, who is here and has motivated so many of us to do what we do. our second panel looks at abuse of power, abuse of power and how it happens and why it happens and most importantly what we can do and need to do to prevent it. whether it's a prosecutor or a judge or a defender render ineffective assistance to counsel or a police officer violating constitutional rights. this is not something we can tolerate, yet it happens each and every day. and our panel is going to delve deep into the issues that we're seeing not only here in the bay area but throughout the country and throughout the world. our third panel after lunch will talk about the future of the death penalty and hopefully its demise. you might be surprised that we are having a conversation here in san francisco about the death penalty. as you know, our district attorney has indicated that he may seek the death penal

word for word, and we have to remember that this book was written just at the onset of the civil rights movement. so we're going to talk about this book. we're also going to talk about the written word and how powerful it is in terms of our perceptions of the justice system. so i'd like to now ask our first panel to come to the stage. >> how's that? [laughter] >> well -- >> hi, mary. how you doing? >> good. thanks. how are you? >> great. so we have here via skype, she's live from new york city. i always wanted to say that. [laughter] >> and mary is the author of a book about "to kill a mockingbird" that a she wrote last year, "scout, atticus and boo," and she's directed and produced a film about "to kill a mockingbird." we're going to watch a clip from that in just a moment. next, we have john j. osborn. if you went to law school, the one book you would have read before going to law school was "the paper chase," and this is a book that john j. osborn wrote. has really become a classic. and it, of course, spawned an oscar-award winning film, same name, and also a television series. he's also writ

and the credible impact that the novel had on the civil rights movement, on lives, on careers and on readers to this very day. so that to me seemed to be the story worth telling and that's when i started working on the documentary. >> and sort of tell us how did you arrive at your understanding of the impact that the book has had, particularly on race relations and, you know, the -- so many people cite the book as a reason why they went to law school. why do you think that's true, particularly in light of the fact that atticus lost the case? >> well, i mean, it is true that in the research i've done many people did say that atticus finch is the reason that they went to law school. i mean, because this is a lawyer who stood up and did the right thing despite what his neighbors or his family thought. and the thing that's kind of interesting to remember about atticus is that this is set in the 1930's, not set in the 1960's, and atticus was a court-appointed attorney. and what he really did was he gave his client a vigorous defense which is -- was not expected and in fact, what's great a

your book talks about this being a precursor to civil rights movement in this country, and yet, duringmovement, you did not hear strange fruit as a rallying cry or a song. if you were marching, this was not an anthem. why is that? well, i think it's partly for one of the reasons that you were mentioning before, ken. it's a downer. it's a very depressing, gloomy, somber song, and this was not the spirit of the zeitgeist in the 1960s. this was not what animated people to go down to mississippi. these people were hopeful, you know? it was also a song, in a sense, about black victimhood, and i think that that didn't fit in either. people objected to it because of its victimization. right. paul robeson was among those. he speak out against the song? i don't think he ever spoke out about it. you know, there are a lot of-- one person told me that. it was never recorded anywhere that this was the way he felt. there were many, many issues pertaining to this song that i tried to research for this book and couldn't get definitive answers to. it kind of falls between the cultural cracks. so i don'

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and he's incredibly important because during the civil rights movement and the african-american leaders of the civil rights movement discussing how can we make the biggest impact for this march on washington, they discussed restin and they discussed his being gay. he was out of the closet and they knew that in particular, white conservatives were going to use homophobic tactics to try and say let's, you know, to scare the african-american civil rights leaders into not using restin to organize it. and the african-american civil rights community had deep discussions about this and decided no, we need the best person for this job and it's restin. >> so they stood up for him and continued to -- >> absolutely. >> i want to move to something else. an important story you do bring up. some critics, since you were mentioning that, concerned women for america say that this required curriculum might confuse children. what do you think? >> well, i think first of all, that we don't give children nearly enough credit for their intellectual capacity at school. and i think that many of these arguments

when you think of the civil-rights movement as really beginning before the direct face of the civil-rights movement, direct action against the montgomery bus boycott seven or eight years later. having taken the side of desegregation, that takes years to play itself out but that is important coming out of this experience. if you indulge me i would like to read a short excerpt from our oral histories with a pilot who was an atlanta at native who i got to know pretty well when working for the tuskegee airmen oral history project. i think this theme, i like to tell the story as much as possible. this gets at the seams of what this program and for the men who were part of it and the larger african-american community and what it meant for the united states as a whole. chorused augustus buchanan required no introduction to jim crow. the death of ten children born in to pour circumstances he knew all about racial segregation and unequal treatment before he came of age. if you don't go that way it is white only it you are supposed to be reserved or preserved over here. that -- we had to live with i

he's an activist, academic and author who is one of the true icons of the american civil rights movement. a ten-term veteran of the georgia legislature, he helped found the student nonviolent coordinating committee and served as president of the southern poverty law center, and chaired the board of the naccp for more than a decade. he's julian bond. this is overheard. ♪ >> julian bond, welcome. >> thank you. >> an honor to have you here. >> my pleasure. >> let me ask you about the arc of your involvement in the civil rights movemeet, which i assume you believe continues today. >> indeed so it does. >> you go back to the late 50's when you were a student in college when you helped to found the student non-violent coordinating committee. i date your association with the movement back that far. >> that's right. >> would you agree? >> yes. >> so what have we learned over these years? how far have we come and how far have we not come in your estimation over the broad sweep there? >> it's difficult to measure these distances, how far we've come, how far we've not. i mean, you can't put numbers

young people today view you as a role model and as an important figure in the history of the civil rights movement united states senator representing the people of california, i commend your outstanding service to this country. i wish you good health and happiness in the years to come. sincerely yours, diane feinstein, united states senator -- dianne feinstein, united states senator." [applause] >> i don't know what to say. i'm so overwhelmed. it really feels good to get some recognition from the politicians and top politicians. i'm glad that i lived to see this day. [applause] and i want to thank all who have made this day possible, including all the people at the library that put this event together. thank you very much. [applause] >> now, i would like to introduce the driving force behind this program, and award- winning, internationally known storyteller, recording artist, and educator. she is a truth teller and an artist for social change. she has made it her life's work to tell history through the words of its off forgotten witnesses. zero two one-women shows -- she wrote two one-women shows

we tend to think of it only as civil rights movement, but there were those of us in the '60s who felt to go further. we listened to malcolm x. we were also influenced by fidel castro and che guevera and patrice lamumba. we were thinking about transformation and we were thinking about freedom in the largest possible sense. >> so many of the memories in the public of the black panther party are with people standing around with gun, but there were programs. there were ideas and there was so much going on other than men toting gun, right? >> oh, absolutely. as a matter of fact, initially i would say the guns were more symbolic of resistance which isn't to say that members of the black panther party didn't have weapons. i had weapons myself at that time. it was a different era, but as you point out the black panther party had all kinds of programs. as a matter of fact, free breakfast program that is run by the department of agriculture. that idea emanated with the black panther party because the assumption was children could learn if they were hungry. very simple, but no one else had done

king and others in civil rights movement in the 60s? t. >> when did you become -- >> wait, wait, let me answer your question. >> when did you become a civil rights leader in your judgment? >> when i realize that many of those on your side of the aisle misappropriate that term and perverted it so it belonged to only certain people. >> when is that. >> when i was on the board of regence. i found that the university was giving points -- >> when is that? >> let me answer your question. when i found the university was giving extra points to certain people in order to achieve diversity and inclusion at the university of california. >> okay but you had no problem with people giving points to give contracts when you got a contract when your company is n a racial set aside contract for energy. >> get your facts right, reverend. >> did you not get three contracts. one of them for a million dollars sir? >> no. a california building officials, which is it one of my clients. my firm didn't get it. get your facts straight, reverend. >> oh, okay. and y

i grew up like you said in the '50s and the '60s, i grew up before the civil rights, during the civil rights movement and after the civil rights movement. i went in corporate america when the openness to putting blacks in corporate america -- we had laws restricting people because of their color and their color only. >> chris: aren't you willing to restrict people because of their religion. >> i'm willing to take a harder look at people that might be terrorists, that is what i'm saying. i know there is a peaceful group of muslims in this country. god bless them and they are free to worship. i have no problem with that. i never discrim nateed against anybody because of religion or sex or anything like that. i'm going to err on the side of caution rather than on the side of carelessness. >> chris: 2012. in the last month, forgive me for saying thi saying this it t michele bachmann has taken much of your support among tea parties and social conservatives. let's take the poll of likely, iowa caucus goers. she leads and you are back at 1% in the poll. has she eclipsed you and why should someone pick you o

. >> but i also think that he is the civil rights movement involved in nuclear disarmament and i wouldope speak to both as an issue. >> his pacifism was suspended after pearl harbor. she had seen too much not for the fascism in this country and he worried that in light of the great depression and in light of what they saw the country would lead to the fascism here. we can't believe that it's the greatest generation. you know. >> there was a lot of fear. >> the one story i grew up knowing about norman thomas is partly apocryphal but involved in conversation with franklin roosevelt, you want to tell the story?[[ó[ó >> one of norman's causes in thó 1930's he was working on behalfw sharecroppers in the self being murdered and other things are happening to them and there were drive-by shootings and unbelievable situations and when they try to unionize it got much, much worse and by the men carrying shotguns and you've got to do something, you've got to do something, and he goes and says you've got to do something this is just unconscionable. and he says you know what, norman, i'm a better