and dubois took on that school. and the chief consultant to our series is so ironic that he is our leading reconstruction historian, at columbia university, it's almost as if, he's about to publish his 10th book of reconstruction. on the 13th and 14th and 15 the minutes. which will be out in september. it is a personal mission for him to refute the terribly racist claims made by the dunning school, his own predecessors in the history department at columbia and set the record straight. so he had us read dubois's book on reconstruction and a book by logan. most of you have not heard of rayford logan. he was the third or fourth black man to get a phd in history from harvard. at one time he was engaged to patricia k2 is my great aunt. i'm very biased about rayford logan. he wrote a book called the betrayal of the niekro. it is about this. immediately following reconstruction. reconstruction people argue about it, 1865 to 1877. so dubois's book ends in 1877, logan's book begins in 1877. and that is the period of the roll

joining me now is joshua dubois, the former religious affairs director under president obama.hanks for joining us. you advised president obama following the mass shootings at sandy hook and charleston. did president trump squander any opportunity in el paso and dayton? >> he missed a huge opportunity here and the challenging and the sad thing is, don, president trump cannot help but make everything about him. i mean, he started off fine. you know, he's going out to meet with and mourn with hopefully these grieving families, but then come the tweets. you know, he's attacking beto o'rourke. he's meeting with the families and then he's walking out of there and attacking the senator from the state where the massacre occurred and the mayor as well. and what's tough about this is he's making it about himself. he's bringing the attention back to him instead of where the attention should be, which is these families that are grieving at this unimaginable time. so, you know, the number one rule in moments like this is humility. it's not about you. it's about the people who are impacted

dubois was a regular visitor. as was langston hughes, paul robison, even martin luther king is at her home. as i say, many key black intellectual and cultural figures of the day. and spencer. she was constantly writing, devoted to her craft. she would write verses on any available piece of paper. we call these h.e.r. scribblings, we have several examples of her scribblings that she kept around her home. even though and spencer -- anne spencer was constantly writing, she wasn't a poet who actively sought publication. only about 30 of her poems were published during her lifetime. generally had to be prodded into sending her poems into the injury -- literary journals and other publications. she was not seeking that kind of recognition. we do have an example from the lyric magazine from the virginia published literary journal. her works are included in all the major anthologies in american and black poetry of the period. she was a civil rights activist. in stopped taking the bus lynchburg to protest segregated busing.

dubois thank you for the question. admittedly, these student insecurities are becoming much more of the dialogue with community college leaders. who would have thought that we occasionally have students that have to live in a car or are going hungry? what are some of the things we are doing? we aren't doing enough. we have food pantries at all of the community colleges but we can't food pantry ourselves out of this. we need faculty and staff that know how to help someone in who is eligible to sign up or snap. help is critical for these students. they also need more help than that because it will cover the mandatory cost to attend, the but these students are facing all of these other difficulties so we are doing everything from asking the philanthropic community to step up. the best dollar we can raise is for student emergency funding. students don't have just one emergency. we are doing all that we can with the resources that we have , congresswoman, but we run out of those resources very quickly. quick thank you. i'm

dubois. we have a letter from him to and spencer. they first met in 1898 and became very close friends. this is a letter from w.e.b. dubois, mentioning he's a visit he's going to be making in 1934, and asking her about her famous garden. -- duboistwo boys was was a regular visitor. even martin luther king visited her home. blackay, many key intellectual and cultural figures of the day. and spencer. she was constantly writing, devoted to her craft. on anyld write verses available piece of paper. we call these h.e.r. scribblings, we have several examples of her scribblings that she kept around her home. even though and spencer -- anne spencer was constantly writing, she wasn't a poet who actively thought -- actively saw publication. she generally had to be prodded into sending her poems to a literary journal and a blur -- and other publications. example from the lyrica magazine from the virginia published literary journal. her works are included in all in major anthologies american and black poetry of the period. she was a civil rights

maurice dubois learned about the hardship she had to overcome from one of gibson's closest friends. >son was a great talent on the tennis court but lonely off it. in 1955, she met her match in angela buxton, england's top player. >> nobody even spoke to her, let alone played with her in her own country. >> reporter: buxton is jewish and back then wasn't embraced either. >> not once did the british girls invite me to join them for a meal. not once. >> reporter: experiencing similar indignities created a bond. >> i was very, very friendly with her. >> reporter: they became doubles partners and won the french open and wimbledon in 1956. one local newspaper reported the historic feat with a small two-word headline, "minorities win." >> well, all england club had to say something. they said the very, very smallest thing they could. >> reporter: they remained friends for decades, even in tough times like in 1995 when a 68-year-old gibson called her old friend out of the blue. >> said, well, i've run out of money. and i can't stand it any longer. so i decided to kill myself. >> reporter: she

it wasn't easy for her back then, as maurice dubois found out from one of gibson's closest friends. >gibson was a great talent on the tennis court but lonely off it. at 1955, she met her match in angela buxton, england's top player. 's nobody even spoke to her let alone played with her in her own country. >> reporter: buxton is jewish and back then wasn't embraced ether. >> not once did the british girls invite me to join them for a meal, not once. >> reporter: experiencing similar indignities created a bond. >> i was very, very friendly with her. >> reporter: they became doubles prtners and won the french open and wimbledon in 1956. one local newspaper reported the historic feat with a small two- word headline: "minorities win." >> well, that is something, so it was the smallest thing that they could. >> reporter: they remained friends for decades, even in tough times, like in 1995 when a 68 year old gibson called her old friend out of the blue. >> she said "well, i've run out of money. and i can't stand it any longer so i decided to kill myself." >> reporter: she said those words. >

it wasn't easy for her back then, as maurice dubois found out from one of gibson's closest friends. >reporter: althea gibson was a great talent on the tennis court but lonely off it. in 1955, she met her match in angela buxton, england's top player. >> nobody even spoke to her let alone played with her in her own country. >> reporter: buxton is jewish and back then wasn't embraced either. >> not once did the british girls invite me to join them for a meal, not once. >> reporter: experiencing similar indignities created a bond. >> i was very, very friendly with her. >> reporter: they became doubles partners and won the french open and wimbledon in 1956. one local newspaper reported the historic feat with a small two- word headline: "minorities win." >> well, that is something, so it was the smallest thing they could. >> reporter: they remained friends for decades, even in tough times, like in 1995 when a 68 year old gibson called her old friend out of the blue. >> she said well, i've run out of money. and i can't stand it any longer so i decided to kill myself. >> reporter: she said th

and dubois even globalized the black negro. the paris world fair called the paris exposition in 1900, dubois cure rated with negro exhibit and he took 633 photographs of black people, many of whom were not even visibly black, because he wanted to show the genetic diversity of the african-american community and they're all of course upper class black people, because he's trying to defeat this racist image that had been created by the redemptionist movement. it was true in art, novels, and even if you read joel chandler harris' uncle rhemus tales, sometimes he'll put words in uncle rhemus's mouth like black people don't need the right to vote or all that education. that's a mistake, a waste of energy. it was true in the social sciences and it was true with racial science. you all know about the science of eugenics. a person who claims that they are a descendant is suing har ward for using those. but the professor was a stone cold racist. so all the discourses were united, social science, literature, politics, in order to put that

dubois clubs, the student nonviolent coordinating committee going for us.e could include the black panther party and a dozen others. at the university of chicago in 1966, the student peace program committee made up of leftists met an answer to an appeal set out by a communist for a nationwide student-faculty strike. the house committee on un-american activities reported, "the proposal for the nationwide student strike was completely communist in origin. the aim of the dominant communist element in these movements is to undermine the united states, promote communism in vietnam and generally advanced world communism." the group with the largest representation at the conference was sds. one principal speaker at the conference, the initiator of the idf or a nationwide student-faculty strike and author of this book, "big business and the american university," was patina aflac or -- patrina. >> it consists of 15 organizations plus for people from the preparation committee. organizations include sds, the student nonviolent coordinating committee, the southern chri

they were always experimenting and thinking about dubois had radio shows.here's a lot we can do to, again, i think let us know we've been here before by looking back at earlier historians and how they've engaged in their moment and did so with great fluency. >> well, that back story is a perfect way to end this panel. i want to thank my colleagues on the panel and most of all i want to thank the audience for terrific questions and for coming to this session. remember, don't be a stranger. [ applause ] >>> all week we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span, lectures in history, american artifact artifacts, reel america, the civil war, oral histories, the presidency, and special event coverage about our nation's history. enjoy american history tv now and every weekend on c-span3. >> weeknights this month as a preview of what's available every weeblgd on c-span3. tonight we continue our look at apollo 11 starting with "moonwalk one," a 1970 documentary commissioned by nasa. the film covers preparation

contract for billboard that owning the already ran it had to resort to full page ads in newspapers and dubois to get her to justifiable but the city settled out of court with bell's family ready mychal bell's father his use of the settlement money to put up billboards around the state calling for a change in the way these investigations are handled backing a bill that would require officer involved deaths to be reviewed by an independent authority. to use. what profession is fine and asking himself you cannot have colleagues and asking colleagues and think you're going to get an objective report you're not and there's no profession on earth who can do it so why would we expect that of law enforcement when the stakes are so high. the law had just passed and john trey hamilton cased happened a week later and i don't think the city was ready for the new laws require that it be an outside agency other than the marquis police department to investigate the evidence to interview witnesses collect the evidence that would then be provided to the district attorney's office what we found pretty early on

influence by black reconstruction by dubois, the naacp sent a list of monica trail and elimination of demeaning portraits of african americans. mgm did not go as far as was hoped because they consulted a professor i won't name, who advised that the original script was just confirmed by consensus. which was true at the time. yet some scenes that he cut were reshot making the more human. and many scenes with african americans were deleted. there are few in the film. historians of the civil rights movement had sometimes pointed to this alliance. as a strategy that would work in the civil rights movement. at the same time, conservatives even today point to this as an example of political correctness leading to censorship in hollywood. all three then, all agree on the politics of reconstruction and they all have a common source which is the impeachment trial of andrew johnson 1903. i will give you a sense of what that agreement about what reconstruction was, people don't remember this. but they came back to the senate in 1875. this is to wit describing johnson's return. great as was his pe

. >> joshua dubois, thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. a cnn exclusive. the mother of the el paso shooting suspect called the allen, texas police department weeks before the shooting because she was concerned about her son owning a weapon. that is according to the lawyer for the family. she was told by police that her 21-year-old son was legally allowed to purchase the firearm. the mother did not provide her name or her son's name and police did not seek any additional information from her before the call concluded. police say the shooter is a white supremacist, but according to tucker carlson at fox news, white supremacy is not a problem. >> but the whole thing is a lie. if you were to assemble a list, a hierarchy of concerns, of problems this country faces, where would white supremacy be on the list? right up there with russia, probably. it's actually not a real problem in america. the combined membership of every white supremacist organization in this country would be able to fit inside a college football stadium? i mean, seriously, th

dubois, when he said a revolution of enslaved workers, he says, they were free for a moment, and then there was a counterrevolution of property, and that gave us the reconstructionist south and the gilded age north. so instead of seeing the 1880's coming as an outcome of the civil war, it was a counter revolution to the civil war. a lot of people miss that because it was so quickly undone by counterrevolution. and keegan is not the only one who missed the real revolution. prof. schoen: americans had a variety of different motives to fight for, and some were not pursuing radical ends, they may have been pursuing conservative ends. great. over here to the right. sandra: sandra from british columbia, canada. it is my understanding that about 40,000 what were to become canadians enlisted in the war and fought. do you think their motivations may have had to do with worry about the war spilling over or changing something about the north, or do you think there is no knowing about why they would enlist in the civil war? prof. fleche: well, certainly some canadians were motivated by anti-slave

dubois a french african and american descent would write we are also thoroughly mixed and yet the black man as a person who -- jim crow in georgia. the bitter joke was there was no scientific reality of race in the social reality of racism through with race-based rights now the lava lamp racism was real even if race was not. the epilogue of my book traces some of these families, mixed-race families into the jim crow era and you see a pattern of bisson meant. but to some it can work in different ways. in the cardozo family via next side which incidentally is openly jewish and latino but now in this white category rises higher and higher. by 1932 benjamin nathan cardozo is appointed to the united states supreme court in washington d.c.. meanwhile across town his cousins from the openly mixed side are running the cardozo sisters hairstylists operation in the red line neighborhood near howard university. both sides of the cardozo family are excelling but they are excelling in different competitions. one for the mixed-race side the heist accomplishment is owning a successful small business a

dubois, when he said a -- there was a revolution of enslaved black workers. he says, they were free for a moment, and then there was a counterrevolution of property, and that gave us the post-reconstruction u.s. south and the gilded age north. so rather than seeing the south, seeing the 1880's coming as an outcome of the civil war, it is seen as a counter revolution to the outcome of the civil war. i would say a lot of people miss that revolution because it was so quickly undone by a counterrevolution, or largely undone, to a certain extent undone by a counterrevolution. and keegan is not the only one who missed the real revolution. prof. schoen: it could also be remembered that americans had a variety of different motives to fight for, and some were not necessarily pursuing radical ends, they may have been pursuing conservative ends. mainly, the preservation of the union. great. over here, on the right. sandra: sandra from british columbia, canada. my question is, it is my understanding that about 40,000 of what were to become canadians enlisted in the war a

i'm happy when i go back and read quicks essay written by dubois or others. and realized they were doing a version of this. they weren't you'll peer reviewed and in journals. there is way to look back at historians and realize there was always a way they were engaging, playing with form and thinking about did nef radio shows. c.r. james was a journalist. there is a lot we can do to let us know we've been here before by looking back at earlier historians and seeing how they engage the doing in their moment and did so with great fluency. >> well that backstory is a perfect way to end the panel. i want to thank my colleagues on the panel and most of all i want to thank the audience for terrific questions and for coming to the session. remember, don't be a stranger. [ applause ] >>> week nights this month we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on cspan3. tonight we continue our look at apollo 11, starting with moon walk one, a 1970 feature length documentary about the mission commissioned by nasa. the film cove

dubois book with black reconstruction followed by another black harvard educated historian rayford loganirport book called the portrayal of the nay. the voice was, the book's subtitle is 1860 to 1877. rayford logan goes to 1950. my whole exposure to reconstruction which i had never heard of until i took this course because it wasn't taught at my school was my whole exposure to reconstruction was with redemption. you might want to ask yourself why the rise of white supremacy would be called redemption. that was a metaphor that confederate states use because they were redeeming the purity of their movement and they named their movement a lost cause movement. what is astonishing to me is the rollback of reconstruction lasted far longer than reconstruction itself. the reconstruction most historians date from 1865 to 1877 by definition. but then the rollback took a long time. i'm not going to give you a lecture for construction but just a couple amazing things that i had no idea about. and that poke your period only men could vote. 14 to the house and two to the senate. here's the most amazin

dubois, who she is writing extensively to, he is getting advice from her, and even in putting together the program, he is relying upon her ideas, he is drawing upon her recommendation, so she doesn't quite make it in the room, but she is certainly in the room. and i think about all the informal ways that people are in the room, when they are not physically in the room. i hope i haven't lost you, but to think about someone who i write about, and i often pause and think about her standing on street corners, speaking boldly her ideas. this is someone who doesn't necessarily have the means to travel, so she won't make it to the fifth pan-african congress, she won't be in these spaces, but i think about what it means for her to occupy a -- that space, to speaker truth, and for people to walk by, may be people who would be in that room, and to imagine that impact in that moment. to me that is so powerful, and gets to the point i was making about pushing beyond the notion of former pollock -- formal politics, because it is in these informal spaces that many transformative things take place, a

dubois to receive a phd from harvard. what i will say in closing about carter woodson, he never lost that poor, working-class background mentality when he entered the academic world. he took that struggle to manifest in his academic struggles. so he thought that the study of african american history was a life-and-death struggle, and i think that is largely because of the parallels to his everyday life of struggles. >> what do you think dr. woodson would have to say about today? prof. dagbovie: i think carter woodson would be happy. i don't like to speculate, but i think he would be happy simply by the fact that his association is still going strong. he founded this association in 1915, and here we are over 100 years later and the tradition is living on. i think he would be very happy. i think he would also be challenging us to work with the children to make sure this continues into the future. professor woodson loved working with the youth. he wrote children's books. he wrote magazines aimed at children, and oftentimes l

. >> john paly, josiah dubois, randolph paul. these are major figures in this history, yes. thanks. >> commissioner kirsanow. >> what, if any, individuals in congress could you highlight as being advocates for greater refugee influx, doing anything, were there factions in congress, because it strikes me that was notably absent from much of the discussion we had and you would think that there might be more involvement from the legislative branch. >> sure. i talked earlier today about a bill for child refugees that is sponsored by robert wagner, a democrat from new york, and edi edith norse rogers. emanuel seller a democrat from brooklyn is a constant voice on behalf of refugees. samuel dicksteen as well, a new york democrat. constant voices. emanuel seller is -- the hart-seller act which replaces the johnson-reed immigration act is emmanuel seller 20 years after the holocaust finally repeals or overturns the johnson-reed immigration act. that is a career for him spent advocating on behalf of more immigration to the u.s. there are -- a lot of the senators and congressmen who b