frederick douglass matters very differently. douglass was recruited with support of the j. family to deliver a major public eulogy for william j. although i found no evidence that douglass and william j were knew each other well, they were both very close to garrett. but douglass not have to know william j. well he knew his work and he knew what to of it. he delivered a stirring address to a largely african-american audience and met in a manhattan church in 1859. douglass the racial politics of the event to brilliant effect, the former fugitive stated, who but the slave should lament when the champion of the slave has who should rise to vindicate, honor and bless the memory of william j. if the colored people of this state and country may not properly do so so, he's claiming territory that william j. is are not theirs. he's certainly not the new york orleans picayune version of william j. he belongs to the african-american community. and one of the most apt phrases written about william j. or any other j. douglass declared in the great cause of universal freedom, his name,

one belonging to his grandfather, a minister, the other formerly the property of frederick douglass. the maryland native, slave, famous author and abolitionist. >> it is the state's honor and privilege to announce the governor-elect, mr. wesley moore. and his family. [applause] >> mr. moore is joined on the podium by his wife dawn. mr. moore is new to the statehouse but dawn was the aide to the previous lieutenant governor. >> place your left hand on the bible and raise your right hand. repeat after me. gov elect moore: i wesley moore do swear that i will support the constitution of the united states and that i will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the state of maryland. support the constitution on the laws thereof and that i will to the best of my skill and judgment diligently and faithfully without partiality or prejudice execute the office of governor of maryland. [applause] according to the constitution and laws of the state. and that i will not directly indirectly receive the profits or any part of the profits of any other office during the term of my acting as governor o

douglass, frederick douglass was a great line about the haughty lips of slave owners of long called theune. it's a paraphrase, but it's that's the essence of lincoln said no, that if if in fact you conceded after winning a national election then that idea that golden circle that havana was going to be the center of a slave empire, and that nicaragua and mexico and tierra del fuego and all these places were going to become part of this, i think slavery. i think it's a personal opinion. obviously i don't see how slavery doesn't last into the 20th century. no. and that's where i think lincoln was perhaps wrong about the slow extinction of it. i think it would have lasted in. i want i wanted to was a touchstone letter for me and you start a paragraph of a chapter off quoting part it on page 147, lincoln's letter, judge george robertson of kentucky, where lincoln wrote you you he says, quote, you wrote of the peaceful extinction of slavery. i there is no peaceful extinction of slavery in prospect for us now. jim mcpherson, a great historian, civil war, thinks, well, you can't believe just on

and we're naming the new tunnel after frederick douglass who boarded this train to freedom right here in baltimore. he escaped slavery, traveled the country by rail. fighting for abolition and civil rights. so it's fitting we honor him in this way. frederick douglas -- look, we have a lot to do. on the -- when the project is done, the train will travel through this tunnel at 110 miles per hour rather than 0 miles per hour. trains will go from here to washington in 30 minutes. on an average weekday that'll eliminate nearly seven hours a day. the frederick douglass tunnel will be all electric and we'll continue to invest in rail to make it easier for people to use its potential to take thousands of vehicle, thousands of vehicles off the highways including the interstate and save millions of barrels of oil reducing pollution. all the study shows if you get from point a to point b by rail faster than you can by automobile you'd take the rail. this could be a game changer for the environment as well. this is what we're king across the country, not just here. tomorrow i'll be in new york fo

who went around the country, friends with frederick douglass. and you heard mama dukes mention shirley chisholm. i was a young staffer on capitol hill, she fell in love with a man from buffalo, what an inspiration. standing up. who would have thought a woman of color could run for president of the united states. then we had hillary clinton, another new yorker. she has been an inspiration to me from the very beginning. then we think about the women who transformed the supreme court. bifort went in this direction. justices ruth bader ginsburg. elena kagan. sonia sotomayor. and as i mentioned we live among legends like dr. hazel dukes, who is still, to this day, at 91, saying we still have that march toward justice. it is not finished yet. we are still working together. each of the women i mentioned redefined leadership in their own way and paved the way for others to follow. and to be clear it wasn't just because they are women they made their mark. they embod dwhrid courage and the character that still defines new yorkers to this day. and above a

and frederick douglass, they were invoked as they nominated byron donald a black lawmaker for speakero this. >> we can also make history today by making the first -- >> will the house be in order. >> by electing the first black republican speaker of the house. now as my colleagues probably know, the first black members of congress to serve in this body were republicans. as a matter of fact you probably also know that frederick douglass who went and worked with abraham lincoln to emancipate the people of color in this country said he would never be anything but a republican. >> we do not seek to judge people by the color of their skin, rather the con at tent of their character. byron donalds is a good man raised by a single mom who moved past adversity, became a christian man at the age of 21 and has devoted his life to advancing the cause for his family and for this country. >> well, joining us now new cnn political commentator adam kinzinger. he served six terms as an illinois congressman. we're happy to have you. good morning and welcome to the family, as they say. so much to talk a

how come nobody seems to have noticed horace greeley frederick douglass are still arguing for a firm? emancipation policy in september of 1862 where they just not in the loop as to what the government was actually doing as far as emancipation is concerned or am i not in the loop? it's a very interesting question and i've struggled with it myself. i am in the process of writing an article based on a wide sampling of newspaper and diary reactions to general benjamin butler's contraband ruling in the late may of 1861 in which lincoln's order response to the contraband policy was as you know to send a letter telegram to butler in in fortress monroe saying your decision not to return to fugitive slaves is is approved. that that telegram was reprinted in newspapers all around the country and republican newspapers accompanied with editorial saying we told you so we told you you wouldn't get your fugitive slaves back and southern newspapers published it and with editorial saying we told you so we told you they wanted to keep our fugitive slaves and wouldn't return them that they would emancip

in fact, some of these progressives took down the statue of frederick douglass, and don't be surprised if they're coming after the statue of martin luther king as they migrate with is anti-christian, anti-american theme using the civil rights movement as the moral bludgeon to destroy this country. but they are using it and we must push back against it. host: robert woodson, more information for our viewers and listeners at the woodson center

the first time we met was in his office under the watchful gaze of frederick -- of a frederick douglass painting. and he told me in that office, on the eve of the 2019 state of the union address, that there's nothing that could be said or done during that address that embarrassed him more than the fact that when the democrat side stood up, they would look more like the united states of america than we did. and he set out not to compromise our values, not to compromise our ideology, but to work harder to make sure that more people with diverse perspectives and different lived speernlses could be here -- experiences could be here. and the very next election he won 14 seats up from 199, and all the seats he won were with minorities, women and veterans. the very next cycle, this next cycle, he wanted me and my good buddy and classmate helped double the number of black republicans in the republican nominee. we have a long way to go but we've come so far. we've come so far. we can't quit. we can't quit. you don't fire a guy who is winning. and when you look at the governor's mansions and the

and of course, frederick douglass later denounced the american colonization society.in the end, about 16,000 american blacks did go back to africa, and a couple of more from arlington house. and they wrote to mrs. lee cautiously to keep in touch with her and said they were doing well there. so i'm so pleased that in the modern era that i get to individualize the enslaved persons a little more than perhaps what was done, you know, in decades past. so there are three major individuals and families that i want to highlight at arlington house. selina gray and her husband, thornton. she is best known. she was mrs. lee's chambermaid and she rescued the washington treasures at the start of the civil war when the union troops were arriving to occupy arlington house. and she arranged for them to be stored at the us patent office. then you had the parks lawrence the father and james, the son. this is a drawing of laurence parks, an enslaved man done by mary lee, when she was probably teenager. she used to draw a lot and son james parks is so interesting because he was born as a

let me start with this, frederick douglass who knew something about power, power concedes nothing without a demand, never has and never will. this is never about kevin mccarthy, this is about power for the american people, and with all due respect nancy pelosi ran congress like a prison camp with no accountability and the american people are very, very tired of this gang of seven, gang of eight, literally seven or eight people or just a few people in washington, d.c., running all of the policy for the american people, so when we had a framework of the agreement where the american people can be in charge, their representatives can actually bring amendments to the floor in good faith, said, sure, if we can do that i'm all in. >> but that was the one concession you made, also, what were the other specific promises particularly on the debt limit? >> well, as i said it's a framework of an agreement, so there are numerous things, it's accountability for the speaker, it's about making sure that we have a budget that we can agree upon that just continually increase spending, but then we appropria

democrats that frederick douglass was a republican and would only ever be a republican.n from there, nominated byron. amy: four seconds. >> making on identity politics. amy: we will continue to cover this, ryan grim d.c., bureau , chief for the intercept. and greg casar of texas. happy birthday to clara ibarra and belated happy birthday toxx announcer: this program was made possible in part by caesars entertainment, tom campion, utopia foundation, the cloobeck family, masimo foundation, mgm resorts, and nv energy.

douglass -- freeman's introduction is probably longer than that. it forced me to sort of boil the water a lot and get down to some of the critical things. i came across some things that i'm guessing were in freeman but maybe he didn't emphasize them enough. ways in which lee was taking risks in odd places. a few days after the battle of antietam, lee called his officers together and indicated he was ready to go after -- again. he wanted to cross back to the river and fight him again. his officers were gentleman, they were proper but they probably gave him that gentle southern equivalent of are you crazy? and they laid out for him the losses of officers. units that are not functional anymore. any reluctantly agreed. this i think speaks to that sense of mission he had. next time you hear someone say chancel ville, lease greatest victory. you have my permission to laugh at them. a robert e. lee thought chancellorsville was anything but even victory. this is a quote. we had gained not an answer ground and the enemy could not be pursued. he had taken se

the first time we met was in his office under the watchful gaze of a frederick douglass painting ande told me in that office on the eve of the 2019 state of the union address, there's nothing that could be said or done during that address that embarrassed him more than the fact that when the democrat side stood up, they would look more like the united states of america than we did. and he set out not to compromise our values, not to compromise our ideology, but to work harder to make sure that more people with diverse perspectives and different lived experiences could be here and the very next election he won 14 seats up from 199 and all the seats he won were with minorities, women and veterans. the very next cycle, this next cycle, he won me and my good buddy wes hunt helped double the number of black republicans in the republican -- [ applause ] we have a long way to go but we've come so far. we've come so far and we can't quit. we can't quit. you don't fire a guy who is winning and when you look at the governor's mansions and legislatures we've lost and the gains that kevin mccart

it has won several major awards, including the frederick douglass book prize, the ralph waldo emerson award, the national book award, and most recently, the candle history prize out of canada. professor miles, congratulations. and we appreciate your time today. thanks so much, peter. and you're watching about books, a program and podcasts produced by c-span booktv. next, we want to look at some reviews of some recently published books. the washington post's book world, which publishes on sundays, looks at novelist paul auster's bloodbath nation. now, this is a nonfiction book that looks at gun violence in the us and is described by reviewer alex kotlowitz as a, quote, sobering, impassioned plea to end the cycle of shootings. restrict the availability of guns. and as auster writes, conduct an honest, gut wrenching examination of who we are and who we want to be as a people. the national review magazine regularly reviews books and it says that timothy sandford's freedom's furies how isabel patterson rose wilder lane and ayn rand found liberty in an age of darkness, delves deeply into th

as a matter of fact you probably also know that frederick douglass, who went and worked with abraham lincoln to emancipate the people of color in this country said he'd never be anything but a republican. would never be anything but a republican. i am here to nominate byron donalds because he's accomplished somethings. -- accomplished many things. he's a man of faith. he's a businessman. he's a man of community service. he's come from the school of hard knocks. because not all outcomes in life are equal but america is the place where we can each do great things regardless of our humble beginnings. each one of us. byron is the product of a single family where it's not easy, it's not easy. but he has succeeded in america and that's a testament to what we have create here and what we're trying to save. he's got a record of accomplishing things. he has a record of being on the right side. he is respected. he's trusted. he's capable and he achieves results. byron has a big mind and he's big in stature as well. he's very nice. but i will tell you this. in a negotiation, in a negotiation wi

i'm going back as frederick douglass next week. [cheers and applause] $3,000. >> wanda: well, did you learn anything? >> honestly, i came up with a real appreciation for the founding fathers. founding fathers like ben franklin. founding fathers like andrew jackson too. >> wanda: no, what did the course teach? it can't be that good if it's run by a bunch of missouri republicans. >> i mean, actually, i learned a lot. i learned missouri is one of the most important states in the union. did you know, without missouri, iowa would fall into arkansas? and it would just be chaos. just a big hole in the middle of the country. it is structurally important. all republican history is very interesting. a very interesting course. i learned that abraham lincoln was assassinated by hillary clinton. and this is -- i learned this, this is in the book, i also learned, harriet tubman -- you know harriet tubman? she was really a white man. you can't run from the truth! you can't run from the truth! [cheers and applause] i'm telling you what i learned!

the new tunnel will be named in honor of frederick douglass. it is expected to improve train travel in the northeast corridor. >> when the project is done new trains will travel through this tunnel, 110 miles an hour instead of 30 miles an hour. marc trains will go here to washington in 30 minutes. >> tomorrow the president will travel to new york to talk about plans for another new rail tunnel under the hudson river. >>> the big issue for the country is the looming debt ceiling which hits in june. president biden wants the federal government to increase the $31 trillion national debt ceiling. speaker mccarthy says he is open to that with proef igs that the vote includes cuts in the current national budget. they meet this wednesday. with us now our political analyst larry gerston. i believe this would be the first real tangible meeting between the new speaker and president biden. what is at stake here? >> it is the first meeting but probably won't be the last between now and june. at stake is what we do with this debt. do we find a way to pay i

when it's done it will be renamed for maryland native frederick douglass.my diamond joins us live from baltimore. so what more are we expecting from the president? >> reporter: well, president biden's about to step on stage here, flanked by an amtrak car and these railway tracks leading into this 150-year-old tunnel, which is now going to be replaced with a new tunnel thanks in part to the bipartisan infrastructure law. it's a $6 billion project. about $4.7 billion of which will come from federal funding. and it's expected to try and relieve this second largest bottleneck between washington, d.c. and new jersey, allowing trains to go up to 110 miles an hour instead of the current 30-mile-an-hour that they go through, causing massive delays. but of course this is part of president biden's overall salesmanship effort. a week out from the state of the union address. this is one of three events that president biden is holding touting some of these new infrastructure projects. he'll be in new york tomorrow and then in philadelphia on friday. and all of this of c

one was his grandfather's, the other belonged to famed abolitionist frederick douglass. is only the third black person, all men, to be elected governor in the u.s. that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings," and follow us online at any time at cbsnews.com. reporting here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. >>> this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. president biden will survey the damage on california's central coast. he is scheduled to meet with locals and federal responders to discuss what federal support is needed. at least 20 people were killed in those storms. >>> house lawmakers must agree on raising the national debt ceiling or the u.s. could default on its debt for the first time. treasury secretary janet yellen warns that could set off a financial crisis. >>> and new zealand's prime jacinda ardern is stepping down next month after recent polls put her party behind its conservative rivals. the country will elect a new leader on october 14th. for more,

the first time we met was in his office under the watchful gaze of frederick -- of a frederick douglass painting. and he told me in that office, on the eve of the 2019 state of the union address, that there's nothing that could be said or done during that address that embarrassed him more than the fact that when the democrat side stood up, they would look more like the united states of america than we did. and he set out not to compromise our values, not to compromise our ideology, but to work harder to make sure that more people with diverse perspectives and different lived speernlses could be here -- experiences could be here. and the very next election he won 14 seats up from 199, and all the seats he won were with minorities, women and veterans. the very next cycle, this next cycle, he wanted me and my good buddy and classmate helped double the number of black republicans in the republican nominee. we have a long way to go but we've come so far. we've come so far. we can't quit. we can't quit. you don't fire a guy who is winning. and when you look at the governor's mansions and the

the other belonged to famed abolitionist frederick douglass.l men, to be elected as a governor in the u.s. and that is tonight's "cbs evening news." i'm norah o'donnell. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh >>> a san francisco gallery owner taken away by police after being caught on video spraying a woman with a hose. the charges just announced. >>> after a few sprinkles in the north bay this afternoon. actual showers drop in from the north, a quick round of rain will not amount to month. we get dry weather in the forecast. details, coming up. >>> rain tonight, but then the storms may be moving out. landslide that is still hanging over homeowners and for others, canceling their commute. >> i had fallen asleep, finally, and then, boom. >> the 49ers are marching toward the super bowl, but first, they have to go through the dallas cowboys. vern glenn previews the game in our red and gold reports. >>> this is cbs news bay area, with juliette goodrich. >> good evening, let's get right to it. paul heggen him

one was his grandfathers, the other belonged to frederick douglass, mooree is only the third black personu.s. that is >> judge judy: she said, "i'm so excited. my mom got me tickets to go to the concert on my birthday!" >> announcer: a chance to see the latest teen heartthrob... >> judge judy: the defendant's two daughters started to pester her and say, "we want to go. could we go? could we go? could we go? could we go?" >> [ chuckles ] relentless. >> announcer: ...but these tone-deaf moms ruined it for their kids. >> the price changed. over time, it was not what we originally agreed on. >> judge judy: what's your problem? >> the limo. she doesn't want to pay it. >> judge judy: who gave you authority to do that? >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter the courtroom of you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution michelle miller is suing the mother of her daughter's former friend, lisa moore, for money owed for a concert ticket and limo as well as punitive damages for bullying and an assault. >> byrd: order! all

this journey, he spent quite a bit of time in illinois traveling by train because of the lincoln douglass debates. bob, you want to talk a little bit about mr. lincoln's problems with the illinois central railroad during that period of time? >> well, i feel good story about that is one i found in a book called working in the railroads, over 227 hobbes. -- i had no idea that it existed before i gotten into the research of this book. you can buy these books from libraries if they have them. everywhere -- i finally got a copy, only 200 river printed, i opened it up and the previous one had but not been taken apart. no one had read the book. i carefully took it apart and took the book home, copied every page in it. my favorite story, running for a newspaper in new york city, told about a conversation he had any boxcar. he and i met accidentally. 9:00 on sunday evening in flagstaff, that is where a train stops on tradition if someone is there to be picked up or dropped off. it's not a regular stop. he had been given to the station. the train that we intended to take was not to. after waiting f

nat turner influenced fighters like frederick douglass and others. turner's legacy will to be remembered and, honored through his family that continues to share his story through oral history and documentation. his great great great grandson, bruce turner, spent most of his childhood living southampton county, whereby he received an abundance of information on the nat turner legend from grandparents, great grandparents, aunts and uncles. since the mid 1990s, bruce devoted serious research and invested into the history of nat turner and the southampton slave insurrection, 1831. nat turner continues to live on through the life and legacy of brewster as visionary liberator. legend legend. i want to thank you all here in spokane for allowing me come and talk with you today with about nat turner. he was a man who. efforts to correct the terrible wrong did define a moment in the history of which we all studied today. his in time was when a man as a slave was not human. i want you to keep this in mind. he was a thing. he was just a piece of property. he was

with several noted organizations and projects including the national park service, the frederick douglass national historic site and the smithsonian institution national museum of african american history and culture. before she took those brilliant talents to memphis, she has been a contributor. the african american intellectual history society's blog and was featured in free and an underground special for the wgn america drama underground. one of our favorites, personal favorites. and dr. trent has also travel internationally presenting lectures at the european solidarity center in poland and has been a part of the memphis in poland festival. dr. trent has served on several triple-a film boards and i'm sorry, conference planning committees that remember many, many, many meetings with her. and now she has ascended to the. 22 confer program chair. so we have her to thank for this awesome experience that we're to enjoy this week. so please welcome dr. trent. and nex. i have the pleasure of introduce saying what i'll just say is one of the best ever. do it when it comes to the the business

programs at the historical society have to do with american and affirmation american history, frederick douglass made this speech in 1869 against chinese exclusion he said it is true there are a very large population of chinese, there are true, there are millions of them. he said let them come i believe migration is a human right, let them come and they will join and be part of making this country great, all of us together. i think that is astounding as an astounding insight that he had that he was not afraid of so-called too many chinese coming. he said we can all live together, i'm paraphrasing but that the threat of his argument. >> that's a great segue to the first question. >> were there any organizing groups both within and outside of the chinese community that were advocating for acceptance and fair treatment of chinese immigrants. >> that's a great question, there were. in addition to like people like frederick douglas. there were the christian missionaries, who wanted to have good relations with chinese who did not think that they were evil or enslaved. there were men that i describe as

bring a motion -- >> in the old days before cable news, before social media, he quoted frederic douglasseasier to build strong children than to repair broken men, that republican caucus is broken, it's broken because it has a split personality. the freedom caucus unlike the progressive caucus that nancy pelosi could bring to the table the freedom caucus held out because they want committee slots, they want to run the rules committee, they want to make sure they're on the so-called appropriations committee, they're going to create havoc not only for kevin mccarthy but for the united states of america. >> we heard kevin mccarthy saying that donald trump deserves a lot of credit, does he. >> i don't know he did matter at the end in that very final motion to adjourn right before they voted in mccarthy, he made calls to matt gaetz. that's a problem for kevin mccarthy it's not just scott perry but it's this matt gaetz group, he kept his people together and he's in a pretty strong position with mccarthy. >> chris, let's talk more about what's going to happen going forward, open amendments on ev

the first time we met was in his office under the watchful gaze of a frederick douglass painting. he told me in that office on the eve of the 2019 state of the union address that there's nothing that could be said or done during that address that embarrassed him more than the fact that when the democrat side stood up, they would look more like the united states of america than we did. he set out not to compromise our values, not to compromise our ideology, but to work harder to make sure that more people with diverse perspectives and different lived experiences could be here. the next election, he won 14 seats up from 199. all the seats he won were with minorities, women and veterans. the very next cycle, this next cycle, he won and me and my buddy helped double the number of black republicans in the congress. [ applause ] we have a long way to go, but we have come so far. we have come so far. we can't quit. you don't fire a guy who is winning. when you look at the governor's mansions and legislatures we lost across the country just this past cycle, when you look at the gains that

douglass family, which was a leader, a leading family, and the fort and women and the purvis women, well, were very adamant that the sisters were coming into space that was already an activist. and so i really wanted to ensure that and point out that that was where that what gave the white family sisters the audience for the activism that they were producing because the black community already been doing it. and i also wanted to show that francis james graham key one of the key white family sisters nephew black nephews into the fort and family, his wife was charlotte fortin, who was the granddaughter of james morton. charlotte fortin was an extremely bright sort of intellectually black woman growing up in philadelphia. her mother had also been the product of a relationship between a white man and a black woman in north carolina. and so charlotte fought and was born and she absorbed this black this black activist tradition. and she absorbs that. that's what informed charlotte fenton's own activism. she becomes the first black woman to graduate from a state normal school, which was the tea

out of protest what they are saying is ween need to transition out of struggle and as frederick douglassaid we need that struggle for the fires that will create the kind of changes we want to see. someone, people have asked me a version of that question if you think jay-z sold out and i want to be like no not at all but you have to understand he's a billionaire. he's acting in accordance with his station and a society and what he's trying to angle to words is if he wants to do that more power to him but what that does the family of george floyd i don't know but in the communities that deal with police occupation, i do not know.o it doesn't do a lot. meanwhile what colin kaepernick was doing was inspiring people to actually self actualize themselves as changemakers and there's so much more that comes out of that historically than just saying we need some sort of action plan that we go to because what that tends to lead to is a group of leaders in the movement given the responsibility of basically negotiatingba the terms of people's oppression in terms of having people, the masses of peopl

army veteran using a bible that once belonged to frederick douglass.slap and his wife. schlapp's attorney says the allegations are false and says the family is considering a countersuit. >>> governor ron desantis trying to permanently ban covid restrictions in schools and businesses. desantis promoting the policy saying in his view, quote, when the world lost its mind florida was a refuge of sanity. a high-five agreement. look at this. senators joe manchin, kyrsten sinema celebrating unity on blocking filibuster reform in the united states senate on a panel together in davos. appreciate your time today on "inside politics." hope to see you back here tomorrow. erica hill picks up our coverage on a busy news day right now. >>> thanks for