douglass's only work of fiction. frederick douglass was himself a former slave who was a leading abolitionist voice in the 19th century, one of the most famous black intellectuals of that period. and in his novella, the heroic slave, he described madison washington as a freedom-loving virginian akin to other freedom loving virginians namely george washington, thomas jefferson, patrick henry, and other founding fathers. while madison washington's story of revolt is a success story, unfortunately many attempts at slave revolt and the state, and other forms of resistance were not successful. that is because the entire system at the local state and national level was set up to preserve the institution of slavery. enslaved people and their allies who were trying to resist were fighting against insurmountable odds in many cases, and we see that in the example of dangerfield newbie, one of the small group of men who joined the radical abolitionist, john brown, for his raid on the federal arsenal at harpers ferry in october,

mccarthy: imagine what frederick douglass would say if he heard about that?novel "the invisible man," said that america is woven of many strands, a fate has become one and yet many. that is not a prophecy, but a description. as we reflect on the solemn chapter and american story, we must think of additional ways to put the many aspects of our history front and center. there is more work to be done. as individuals, we have different backgrounds, but as americans we share something much deeper. with humility about our history, faith in our principles and hope in our future, let us continue to deepen our common bonds and never failed to pursue our 's highest goal, to form a more perfect nation. thank you and god bless. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the democratic leader of the united states senate, the honorable charles schumer. [applause] sen. schumer: first, let me thank karen bass and the cbc for this moving and so important commemoration. now, in the midst of the civil war, president lincoln delivered address.d inaugural he said "if god wills that the

using his gift as a writer and douglass americans to align. he has a statue in emancipation hall. i am proud to say he has a portrait that hangs in my office. his accomplishments are an inspiration to anyone who believes in the importance of human equality, hard work, and freedom. where are we as a country now, 150 years after the end of slavery? the congressional black caucus is a great example of the sustained progress. , the largestrs number in its history, represent more than 182 million americans. that is more than one quarter of the whole country. cbc members come from districts and states across the country and our leaders at the highest level of our democracy. this congress is led by a friend of mine, and i did not meet her when i came to congress. i met her when we served together in the state assembly in california. if you ever ask her, she will tell you i was the first person who told her one day she would be the speaker for the state assembly in california, and i come from the other side of the aisle. my dear friend, karen bass. [a

forgetting to go select the frederick douglass house, it's somewhere people might not think of but it has this rich multicultural history that our students need to learn, especially my students. they see history as something that old white people did and to show them that they've a place in the history as well, that's what i i would like to take thm to see frederick douglass house and teach them but when he did. >> you are one of our three teacher fellows this summer. why did you apply in the first place? >> i felt like i had a unique but becoming less unique perspective teaching english learners, teaching students or immigrants the face of america's changing and i've been on the front lines with the students. i wanted to bring my perspective of teaching a type of kid who has been left behind, at that also developing my own practice as well. i have really gotten to do this and if you like after this month i'm going to be a much better teacher for my students. >> you are here with your other teacher fellows and also the other teachers come in for a teacher conference, developing curric

one of these individuals was frederick douglass.out douglas and his incredible biography. confidence for freedom has always stood out for me. douglas had every reason to hate america for the injustice he suffered, but he became one of america's greatest champions because he saw that it could renew its spirit by appealing to its core and supposed. those principles contained old truths of human liberty. using his gift as a writer and speaker, douglas motivated his fellow americans to line their professed believes with her actual practices. heis extremely fitting that has a statue right here in emancipation hall. i am proud to say he has a portrait that hangs in my office. his accomplishments are an inspiration to anyone who believes in the importance of human equality, hard work, and freedom. where are we as a country now, 150 years after the end of slavery? the congressional black caucus is a great example of our countries sustained progress. it's 55 members, the largest number in its history, represent more than 182 million american

getting to go somewhere like the frederick douglass house in anacostia, it is somewhere people might not think of but it has a rich multicultural history that students need to learn, especially my students. they see history as something that old white people did and to show them they have a place in that history, as well, that is why i like to take them to see the frederick douglass house and teach them about what he did. >> you are one of our three teacher fellows this summer, why did you apply in the first place? unique,t like i had a but becoming less unique, perspective teaching english learners, teaching students who are immigrants that the face of america's changing and i had been on the frontline with those students. i wanted to bring my perspective of teaching a kid was been left behind. month iike after this am going to be a much better teacher for my students. >> you are here with your other teacher fellows and other teachers coming in for a teacher conference developing curriculum for middle school and high school students, what are some of the interesting ideas or practic

there's not like douglass courts or walter hoss playground. there is nothing to keep the dogs out except being on leash. please put some signs up there. >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: is there any other public comment? come up on. thanks. >> hi. good morning. i have been a resident of diamond heights for the last 20 years, and i go to upper douglass dog park a lot. what i'm here about is to get a usable restroom because there is no facility right there now and there is a historical building that if possibly we could get that renovated, if not, just something usable. because we have a high-usage dog park there and we have the clientele that young children from 5 to 92. so we have the whole spectrum and we want a usable restroom and if we could restore that building, that would be great. can i give you this? >> president buell: thank you. >> clerk: is there any other public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. we are now on item 13, closed session, to inquiry with legal counsel on existing litigation. is there any public com

somebody just mentioned a moment ago about frederick douglass. i was curious when that came in, if it affected -- reflected the time when he went to london. didn't reflect the fugitive slave law and the effort on the part of the south to try to tighten the reins? >> i mentioned that. on the passport issue, -- it takes some time for a formal institution to have this document develop. plenty of african-americans did travel even though they could not officially have the protection of the passport. kerri: if you were a slave, you are not considered a human being, you are considered a commodity. if her masters are taking her through england, in their mind, it is like you are legally taking your property from massachusetts to england. in terms of frederick douglas and abolitionists, they could travel but there was no guarantee that you could come back. there was no guarantee you can bathe. the federal government had no recognition that you existed. another black woman abolitionist and boston was a couple blocks from here. she called it the double bind

children, including frederick douglass jr., and rosetta douglass sprg. all of the documents we looked out so far are in the holdings of the national archives, and the national archives preserve them for future generations. i think it's really spectacular that a petition you send to congress today just as these african-american petitioners did in 1877 becomes part of the national archive holdings, and we are really fortunate we have it here today to help tell this story. we have seen lots of petitions on this tour. really, when women were pressing for their voting rights, they only had first amendment rights available to them to press their government for their rights, and political change, but one of the other rights that suffragists used, the freedom to assemble. they used that pretty effectively to gain greater visibility and public attention in particular for their cause. we have this great wall mural. one of many suffrage parades for states throughout the country. this one is here in washington, d.c. from 1913. that was one of the most consequential

frederick douglass was captivated by madison washington story that he penned a novella. it is his only work of fiction. he himself was a former slave leading abolitionists voiced in the middle decades of the 19th century. he describes madison washington as a freedom loving virginian namely george washington, thomas jefferson, patrick henry and other founding fathers. unfortunately, many attempts at slave revolt and other forms of resistance were not successful. that is simply because the entire system at the local, state and national level was set up to preserve the institution of slavery. enslaving people and allies that were trying to resist or fighting against insurmountable odds in many cases. we see that in the example of --. dangerfield newbie was one of the small group of men who joined the radical abolitionist john brown for his raid on the federal arsenal in october 1859. this raid was part of the planned slave revolt. john brown and army were not only going to take over the weapons at harpers ferry, they were going to add a new cache of weapons and march throug

mall, but the real history in places, a lot of that, son't get into getting to go to the frederick douglass house, it is something where people might think of, but it has this rich, multicultural history that our students need to learn. as somethingory old white people did and just show them they have a place in that history as well. you are one of our three teacher fellows the summer. why did you apply in the first place? unique,t like i had a but becoming less unique perspective teaching english thread the face of america is changing and i have been on the line. perspectivebring my and also developing my own practice as well. i feel like after this month, i'm going to be a much better teacher. >> you are here with the other teachers coming in, developing curricula for middleton high school student. interestinge of the ideas or practices you've heard? >> [inaudible] has been prolific in their time here. they have been taking on the task of doing state history. it is easier to find the national stuff online, but finding things specific about north dakota, that is harder. they have been digg

douglass would come on the railroad as well. he would meet with john brown. some accounts suggest john brown tried to sweettalk frederick douglass into joining the attack on harpers ferry. doesn't do it, of course. throughout the summer in particular, brown and others are bringing in large shipments of goods on the cumberland valley railroad. he calls himself dr. isaac smith. is looking for possible ion ore mines. axes, whenng in pix, in reality they are muskets and pikes. they were used to go down to maryland and set up headquarters at the farm, and then in october 1859, john brown and his men will raid. some of the raiders come back to the cumberland valley and tried to catch the river to get out of the valley. some of them will be captured nearly cumberland valley railroad station, were some of the raiders are captured. one will manage to escape on the railroad and end up in north pennsylvania, where members of the underground railroad will torontoa free black to in canada at that point. comp hasroad, the cvrr a starcrossed background. it gained a lot of n

are p very few claims black man raped white women before the end of the civil war and frederick douglass and ida b wells would use that as an example. how come they didn't do it during the civil war when the white men were away? they didn't. there are virtually none that i can even think of. but it becomes the claim we have to protect white women hood from the black predators who are genetically. who saw birth of a nation? and the rollback of reconstruction. and after eating chicken wings thaten it is legal for black men were people of different races to get married and it is about the racist. so this is an invention that is amazing. that we have to study how anti- black racism continues and goes underground and resurfaces in order to fight it. the best way is through education and proximity through the surprising fact that so many black-and-white kids voted through the segregated schools today they would have a heart attack they could nott believe that would be translated into the situation we seee today. >>. >> i am a missionary and the copyright author of black lives matter and the hi

with elizabeth cotty stanton, after that was ratified and women were excluded they divorced from douglass and the suffrage movement was split. so can we -- thavolia, is there anything you want to add about sojourner truth's work on the suffragist movement or the sufficie suffrage movement in general and the outcome of it after the 15th amendment was passed? >> where would i start? so women, there were many women abolitionists who were also trying to find a way simultaneously to get suffrage for women. many of these women decided, okay, we will wait and give -- and make sure that black men have the vote, the 15th amendment. some women were not happy with that decision to wait and allow black men to have the vote first and i think that disagreement between those who were willing to say, well, we should have male suffrage across the board and those who were saying, you know, like women have to have the right to vote it would lead to all kinds of complications and very disturbing battles in the years to come. when women, northern women suffragists decided that one of the most fruitful ways to

but this is the same frederick douglass who recently decided to cast his lot -- with the antislavery interpretation of the constitution. some have criticized his seeming inconsistency, but there was a deep logic as well as political savvy here. it is the same understanding wheatley had, that to celebrate what was good and criticize what was lacking in the american revolution were two sides of the same civic coin. both were necessary for political reasons, but largely because both were true. is all the more important that historians put back -- pushback critically against voices who insist the constitution was not proslavery, but also against those who say it had no antislavery implications or uses whatsoever. it remains more important to address the myths that the founding fathers never thought about slavery politically, that black people weren't central iod, and thee per problematic notion that no white person with power government all men are created equal. faithp, dare i say, our with wheatley and douglass as founders of the republican which i hope we will live as some of the real

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of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was resurrected by lincoln and frederick douglass and awarded again and resurrected by kings. and thavolia glymph and kate masur were on the scholar he advisory panel, as well as catherine clinton 's a conversation moderated by lana ulrich to create that exhibit. if you haven't seen it go down as soon as possible and see it and tell me what you think. please join me in joining lana ulrich and are panelists >> good evening and welcome to the national const tuition center. thank you jeff for that kind introduction. my name is a lana ulrich i'm the senior director at the center. tonight program can we adjust the light okay. i'm going to continue the introduction. alicia can hear me even if you can't see us. tonight's program , women and the civil war. it's in connection with the new exhibit. before i introduce the panel i would like to think our partner vision 2020 of drexel university. a national initiative to achieve economic and political equality. focusing on the 100 anniversary of women suffrage. thank you for cosponsoring this eve

there's a lot of frederick douglass in there.uly 5 speech gave it on the fifth because the 4th of july was slave trading day. in the argument i basically finally make in the book is that the founders did two incredible things. they led an armed instruction against the colonial power that was successful but had never happened before human history they wrote the constitution ratified by the people who would live under that constitution, that had never happened before. they perpetuated human slavery. we will be with that for all the days of our lives but when you look at somebody like frederick douglass born a slave in this country comes north and meets with the abolitionist movement and the abolitionists are saying at the time, the constitution was a proslavery document. douglas says, no can you have it exactly wrong. the constitution was an antislavery document. we are just not living up to the words of the constitution. the same thing martin luther king said the day before was assassinated in memphis which was, i'm just here to m

frederick douglass went to d.c. to talk to lincoln. dr.ing, a young preacher, marched on washington, d.c., hoping a president would do better. barack obama and michelle obama went to the white house. our entire strategy primarily focussed on washington, d.c. when we got to that corner of power, it turned out there were three others we department know anything about. if we're going to be honest, there's work left to be done in washington, d.c., and i am proud to be under the leadership and the constitute ledge of bobby scott. i'm proud that bobby scott is bringing liberal the and conservatives together about incarceration. our incarceration industry denied liberty and justice to many people and that's why bobby scott is a champion for liberty and justice for all. i love this brother. he's my leader. but d.c. is only one corner of a four corner power system. if you leave washington, d.c., and get on the train and go north a few hours, you're in new york city, wall street, finance, big capital, very few african-americans there. i want to make

so whether you're at fort sumter or gettysburg or frederick douglass' house, the national park service now has an obligation to have some conversation about causes of the civil war, including and that comes to fruition with the opening of the new visitors' center. you've all been in there. you know what i'm talking about, this building opens in 2008, and you can go into the new visitors' center now, go through the museum, and you can get a discussion of slavery, you can get a discussion of reconstruction. you'll get a full picture one of the most famous opponents to that is jerry russell, a prominent member of an arkansas political group who says that if you talk about slavery at civil war sites, his words, "it would be a cosmic threat." a cosmic threat. the national park service opens this plan to talk about slavery for public consumption, and over 4,000 people in about a month and a half, two months, write in to national park service, public record, telling the national park service their thoughts on how slavery should be included in this conversation. they're all public record. that

frederickn comes from douglass' own home here in the district of columbia. that icon of american history. and it should be noted that while he is remembered foremost for his work against slavery in verynited states, he was a energetic proponent of full equality for all the residents of the district of columbia. we have a bill to have a statue of frederick douglass, we are the only constituent -- city, that's what we are at the moment that has a statue. each state has two statues. we expect to get another statue although i won't say that until it is announced formally. but then we'll be the only nonstate to have two statues. the statue of frederick douglass can be seen right here in the capitol and it acknowledges that it was contributed by the residents of the district of olumbia. now, as ar dent as we have been in pursuing statehood, we are determined to get fully -- full equality any way we can. so that i have simultaneously introduced a bill that uses another strategy, and that is because the district doesn't even have full what we call home rule to make

you begin your book by talking -- by quoting frederick douglass "my part has been to tell the story of slave come the story of the master never wanted for narrators." could you start by reading a part of your book? ta-nehisi coates is with us today. his first novel is called "the water dancer." the story is a large part of this novel and hiring beginning to understand the story of african-americans who are resisting through escaping slavery is a big part of it. at this point, in the novel he is grappling literally with the written oral stories of escaped african-americans. he is beginning to understand his place in it. "in all of these words in each of these stories, i saw as much magic as anything i had seen in the goose. souls conducted as surely as i was from out of its depths. and i saw them coming up on railroads, barges, river runners, skiffs, and bribery coach. coming up on horseback of a hard snow and march elting ice. they were fitted in ladies dress and came up in gentry's close and came up in dental bandage and came up, in sling and came up come in rights came up. they bribe

the battlefields from gettysburg to antietam to vicksburg to sites like clara barton, frederick douglass, and none of these sites are as special or poignant as gettysburg. and we can agree on this. dr. gallagher and pete talked about this two nights ago. how this place resonates so deeply in america, the mystic chords of memory. national park service here at gettysburg records a million visitors each year. it is the most popular civil war site in the entire nation. for many people, this three-day battle and this landscape defines the american civil war. so, what i was interested in was not the battle, but how the battlefield has been preserved over time or how it has been managed. the questions that i asked in my dissertation and ultimately my book were, if you could visit gettysburg in the 19, what would that battlefield look like? if you could visit in the 1940's, during the second world war, what kind of interpretive experience would you get? how did the national park service commemorate gettysburg in the 1960's? what did tourism look like in the 1950's? how has preservation philosoph

frederick douglass who was completely self-taught said you have this exactly wrong. he said the constitution is an anti-slavery document we are just not living up to the promise of the constitution. you can't imagine the power to the constitution is an anti-slavery document and we are not living up to the words conveyed by the way the same argument that martin luther king made the night before he was assassinated in memphis when he sold, told folktold folks when n to memphis with garbage workers he said i'm just here to make sure that america keeps the promise of america voted down on the page. in my mind when i think about the contribution to our country and our history, to me he is as much a founder as the people that wrote the constitution or. when i think about our responsibility if we have a guy in the white house that says i alone can fix it to somebody that doesn't have any belief in the conventional american approach to things and doesn't believe in freedom of the press or independent judiciary or separation of powers who's using his emergency powers to build

frederick douglass wd voice, melva bates, harriet tubman, i started going through them all. more and more, i think it was somewhere around deputy, but the book down. i said it can't read anymore of this. and the reason i cannot read anymore of it was because i felt like i was reading today's newspaper. what has changed was my question. what has happened in between over the past 150 years of us being free or even 400 years of us arriving here. i was like, wait a minute. what is going on. what happened to our money. are you trying to tell us that every single person has not had any dive boat condition, no stories to go back onto, except for your walker, get a little bit of black wall street but other than that you know trying to tell me that nothing else happened in between. when i do my own personal fami family, i come from a long line of ministers. a little bit of black history. and the ministers in the south, were originally the people that have a little bit more money. that's because people would pay their tax make donations to the minister and things like that. as a resul

hamer with frederick douglass, all of hose people back then, not with -- and it was a kind of reminder about how ittle of the history of our struggle has reached down to the to whom the 21 st. century would belong to us. it changed me as a writer. then, i was a foreign affairs reporter. switched gears and writing increasingly about the south. question, this whole question of our history and our has increasingly attention, what we call or some of us call history inside out as opposed to history from the top down. from the bottom up as opposed to history, you know, 1960's, the of the movement we were part of is most seen as a movement of mass spaces led by ic charismatic leaders. way the public understands the movement can be boiled down to one sentence. down, martin stood up saw the the white folks light and saved the day. [laughter] of howhis whole question has derstand the movement increasingly occupied my attention. his whole question of how you present the movement from the people who the really made this movement and i most of my movement life in mississippi. the people who made th

with frederick douglass, all of those people back then, you know. so it was a kind of jarring reminder about how little of the history of our struggle has reached down to the generation to whom the 21st century would belong to. in some ways, it changed me as a writer because up until then, i had been a foreign affairs reporter. i switched gears and have been writing increasingly about the south. this whole question, this whole question of our history and our struggle has increasingly occupied my attention, what we call, or some of us call history , from the inside out as opposed to history from the top down. history from the bottom up as opposed to history, you know, the movement of the 1960's, the movement we were part of, is most often seen as a movement of mass protest in public spaces led by charismatic leaders. our missed friend used to say the way the public understands the movement can be boiled down to one sentence. rosa sat down, martin stood up, and then the white folks saw the light and saved the day. [laughter] charles: so this whole que

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from a very different perspective, i think then reading account slavery from slaves like frederick douglasswas really eye-opening for me. i never had that experience. it blew my mind that it happened and it was so recent and my mother had been a child when this was happening and it wasn't so far in the past and that time could be measured and measured in the wrinkles on my mother's skin and wasn't measured in geological time but really recent and that did blow my mi mind. >> you end up going to cambridge or trinity first and did you have an experience of imposter syndrome when you are there human it sounds like a little bit what you're describing you are a professor as you as a person who he feels has potential. >> yet, he helped me. there's a study abroad program that would to cambridge and i applied because he told me i should and then i did not get in. he wrote them and said i think this person is learning a lot and is behind but i think she'll catch up and we should give her a chance so i don't -- >> have you talked to him about that what he saw and you? >> no,. [laughter] [inaudible co

it made it more difficult because as frederick douglass famously said, slavery had not died honestly. it had not died of moral conviction. it had not died from a call to humanity. andad died from military political necessity. so much depended on how the nation would incorporate 4 million enslaved people or formally enslaved people and formerly free people. congressman debated and negotiated language. the language that would appear in the reconstruction legislation addressing these questions, how far could they go? how far should they go to ensure the federal law would be enforced? freedom, james baldwin once stated in an interview in the 1960's, was political, and economic problem. liberty, contrast, is what came from liberation of slavery, two different things. coast -- recent reconstruction abolished slavery, and the guaranteed people have equal protection of the law. they gave lachman the right to vote. the established birthright to make or enforce any law where privileges or immunities were taken from citizens. taking that language from article four, section two of the constitutio

my name's ted hamm, i'm the editor of frederick douglass in brooklyn and a professor of journalism, excuse me, at st. josephs college in clinton hill here in brooklyn. i want to welcome you to brooklyn book festival channel and assure you that books for ale are available -- for sale are available in the courtyard after the panel. the authors will be deeply grateful for your support. and the panelists are, our esteemed panel today includes mr. matt taibbi who's a rolling stone columnist, and his latest book is hate inc., the next panelist is jonathan metzl, his book is diagnose of whiteness. and he's also a professor of sociology and psychiatry at vanderbilt university. and save you bhojwani, to my right here, is the founder and president of new american leaders, an organization that promotes incoming, new immigrants into politics, and her book is "people like us: the new t wave of candidates knockig at democracy's door." all right. so i thought we'd start with a moment of silence for bill de blasio's presidential campaign. [laughter] and now continue. [laughter] so we'll start with matt. y

scribner sends a correspondent to the university of south carolina frederick douglass's debate the decisions were judges explain what division they are making and why the witnesses asked and particularly in a series of cases civil rights cases from the 1870s coming out of new orleans the civil rights activists keep almost playing a game but with a purpose. they ironically needled segregationists about what exactly is race. what is a white man, what is the colored man, how do you know what race i am, how do i know what race i am, my great grandparents were gone before i was born and the grandfathers told all thgrandfather'stold aly unreliable. people are tanned an tanned brot black-and-white. i asked and she said i'm cuban. i don't know. over and over i kept coming back to new orleans and charleston as the focus of my story. before american independence, charleston was more closely linked to the caribbean and other anglo-american outpost's. thoutpost. the governors of the headquartered colony between 1670 and 1730 were immigrants from barbados, not england and many are west indian transplant

i think back then i would've been like frederick douglass his mother. i would've bared one of my scars. i would've bared one of my scars like the one on my knee from when i was six, told you to remember me by it in the crowd of endless labor, to know me by it. and if i didn't have a landmark on my flesh, i would've made one for you, carved into my right arm. so this life we have his grace. in the catholic tradition there is a a form of grace, the sanctifying one, that is the stuff of your soul. it is not defined moments of mercy or opportunity. it is not good things happening to you. rather, it is a good thing that is in you regardless of what happens. you carry this down through generations say messy epigenetic trauma of a violent slave master society. that the grace is the bigger part. it is what made the ancestors hold on so that we could become. [applause] >> yeah. i mean, you know, one of the things -- so earlier this summer i was in florence and the saw nicola angelos sculpture and one of the questions i asked, you see this repetition t of mothers

my name's ted hamm, i'm the editor of frederick douglass in brooklyn and a professor of journalism, excusee, at st. josephs college in clinton hill here in brooklyn. i want to welcome you to brooklyn book festival channel and assure you that books for ale are available -- for sale are available in the courtyard after the panel.

i think back then, i would have been like frederick douglass are mother would have beared a scars likemy fee from bit of flying charcoal at a cookout when i was six and told you to remember me by it, the crowd of endless labor to know me by it and if if grand have a landmark on the i would have made one for you, carve its into my right arm, knife x for your mother. so, you know, this life we have is grace. in the catholic tradition there is a form of grace, the sanctifying one that is the stuff of your soul. it is not defined by moments of mercy or opportunity. is it not good things happening to you. rather, it is the good thing that is in you regardless of what happens. you carry this down through generations, same as the trauma of a violent slavemaster society. that the grace is the bigger part. it is what made the ancestors hold on so we could become. [applause] >> i mean, i -- one of the things i -- so earlier this summer i was in florence and i saw michelangelo's painting and one question is asked how many, so we see this repetition of mothers who have had their sons taken away an

one in particular named frederick douglass. he was born a slave in this country. he got to massachusetts, where he met the abolitionists. the abolitionists were are at that time that the constitution was a proslavery document. frederick douglass said you have it exactly backwards, the constitution is an antislavery document, but we are not living up to the word of that constitution. [applause] it is the same thing martin luther king says in memphis when he was there for the garbage workers who were striking when he said i am here to make sure america keeps a promise you wrote down on the page. i think our job is exactly the same as that. i think frederick douglass and martin luther king are are just like the founders, the people that wrote the constitution of the united states. i believe men and women, especially women who fought for the right to vote, who fought for my daughters. who have the right to vote. i think that children who marched in the streets in america yesterday to pull our -- to call our attention to the climate crisis that we face, i think they ar

frederick douglass would have liked lincoln to be a little bit more forceful. do you think perhaps it could be the fact that they had so many different things to think about and they were willing to compromise with the southern states, for example in order to get the constitution ratified, or similar to lincoln being willing to compromise? >> sure, lincoln was a politician. but of a very high order when you think about it. he was not a, he was a democratic politician. he had to face realities that unlike many of our present day politicians, he transcended that reality in his rhetoric and his language. they were so extraordinary. he was a man of prudence which is a principal quality needed by politicians. he was willing to compromise. you know he said on the eve of the civil war, look, i'm not out to destroy sent slavery in the existing states, i will guarantee the existence of slavery in the existing dates. it is the west. that became the crucial issue. of course lincoln felt that if slavery could not expand, it would die. by taking that stand, --. he was willi

frederick douglass would have liked lincoln to be a little bit more forceful after the war but he wasn't do you think it was the fact they had so many things to think about and willing to compromise with the other states, for example, get the constitution ratified? >> sure. lincoln was a politician but of very high order, when you think about it. he was a democratic politician with a small d. he had to deal with realities. unlike many of our present day politics he transcended that reality in his rhetoric and his language was so extraordinary. he was a man of prudence, the principle, i think, principle quality needed by politics. he was willing to compromise. he said on the eve of the civil war, i'm not out to destroy slavery in the existing states. i and the republican party will guarantee the existing slavery in the existing states. it's the west we won't guarantee. that became the crucial issue. lincoln felt if slavery couldn't expand it would die. by taking that stand he was hoping -- he was willing to compromise and actually support an amendment to the constitution that would preser

joining us with more is journalist and author douglass murray.ith us. >> good to be with you. steve: you say what once seemed like common sense into hate crimes. what used to be considered common sense that's now a rate crime in your opinion? >> well, we have been through a period in america and the rest of the west in recent decades where we have amazing rights attainments, amazing set of things. racial equality, quality for women. equality for sexual minorities. and it's almost as if in recent years we haven't been able to cope with the idea of getting to equality. we have raced back past that this is all like seeing a train pulling into its desired destination and getting ahead of steam and shooting off down the tracks scattering people in its wake. all of the time these days there are culture wars being fought over all of these issues. over lbgt issues. over reels between sexes. over racial issues. it's almost as if at the point that -- it's never been better than. this we are portraying things as if it's never been worse. all of these identi

frederick douglass wrote that revivals of religion and revivals of the slave trade go hand-in-hand because he recognizes it. he wrote his letter from the birmingham jail to his fellow preachers who were standing on the sidelines staying hi lists role and sees. he was fighting for civil rights. he is all he was relate the church to a taillight and should be a headlight even though it wasn't. this is only counterintuitive because of what my opponent is doing right now brady's claiming that religion is responsible for that progress and it did not accomplish. if you want a modern example, you can see this happening right now with gay marriage. the opposition to gay marriage was exclusively religious. mark my words within the next 30 to 40 years religion is going to be trying to claim credit for that victory. so first is that enables christian principles. not simply say that they're responsible for live liberty. gift and connect them to the founding. i'm thrilled to hear him say we are talking about the constitutional convention in that era. of course we are. were not talking about history for

i think frederick douglass and martin luther king are just like people -- are just like the founders, people that wrote the constitution of the united states. i believe men and women, especially women who fought for the right to vote, who fought for my daughters. i think that children who marched in the streets in america yesterday to pull our attention to the climate crisis that we face, i think we are founders to. youryou think about what responsibility is in this election, you need to think of yourself as a founder. citizen in job of a a democratic republic. trump.ot elect donald we will not elect donald trump again. iowa democrats, you set the course for the country by voting first. don't just send the message. coccus for a candidate who knows how to build a new american dream. that's how we are going to beat donald trump he had thank you, iowa for your kindness, for your generosity, for being here today. [applause] >> hooley and castro served as secretary of housing and urban development under president barack obama. the youngest mayor of the top 50 american city at the time. he

. >> douglass c.ler. >> henry alfred miller jr. >> joel miller. >> michael matthew miller. >> nicole carol miller. >> phillip d. miller. >> robert alan miller. >> robert cromwell miller jr. >> benny millman. >> charles m. mills jr. >> ronald keith milstein. >> robert j.minara. >> william george minardi. >> louis joseph minervino. >> thomas mingione. >> wilbert miraille. >> domenick mircovich. >> rajesh mirpuri. >> joseph paul thomas mitchell. >> richard miuccio d. >> frank mnuchin senior. >> lewis joseph minnerinoh. >> my brother, alan, it has been 18 years. haven't missed a year. you are always in my heart. with your brother and sister and niece and nephew and late nephews and your great-niece. we love you and god bless the united states of america. >> and my brother-in-law, it has been 18 years since we put a bookmark in the book of life and held the spot you were forcefully taken away from us. i look forward to a moment when our souls can reconnect and we can share the wonder of these chapters. you