she would follow senator edward brooke. >> senator edward brooke of massachusetts gave a pretty of then president nixon, and that included the still ongoing war in vietnam. >> it hit the wrong chord for all of us. >> hillary departed from her prepared comments and served up an on-the-fly rebuttal. >> she got a standing ovation from the class. but those are sitting on the stage were aghast. >> the next day, hillary was on the front pages of "the boston -- "the boston globe" and the next week, on the pages of -- magazine. >> ever since then, she has not stopped. it has become a larger and larger stage. from wellesley to the united states to the world. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please the city ofmayor of philadelphia, the honorable michael a. nutter. >> good evening, everyone. let me at least acknowledge what is so obvious, that standing here at the national constitution center and of course directly across from we aredence hall, experiencing from everyone, their freedom of speech, and that is a good thing in the united states of america. [applause] we get to have that. it is just a

edward brooks, the first african-american elected -- >> but michael, this is the problem.there are no everett dirks in big events because that's not where the base is at. >> understood. and i think that's where the party needs to recognize it is and where it needs to move to. it needs to understand its history and put it in the proper context. you know, a hundred jesse helms or strom thurmonds in the united states senate does not broadening the party make. does not inclusion make. does not send the kind of message to not just folks who aren't in the tent with us, but to those who are already inside the tent, that you're not really understanding where this party needs to go. >> and part of this, though, is that the incentives are for ted cruz to say things like this. the kind -- this is where i think the rubber hits the road. i understand conservative friends of mine, conservative colleagues of mine who say, don't call us racist, don't call the tea party racist, don't call the conservatives racist, and i say, no, that's painting with a broad brush. but he was a racist. >> t

the country's first black public high school, produced many firsts and famous alumni: senator edward brooket billy taylor, the artist elizabeth catlett and the roll call goes on. >> first black general, first black graduate of the naval academy, second black of the naval academy, first black presidential cabinet member. what do they all have in common? it's this place, it's dunbar high school. so that was a big question i wanted to have answered. >> reporter: and once you >> reporter: journalist alison stewart has told dunbar's story- - how it happened and what followed-- in a new book titled, "first class". for her, it began as a personal tale: both her parents attended dunbar and were shaped by the experience. >> my parents talked quite a bit about dunbar. one, my mother was a school teacher, so part of it was to drill into my head, "we have expectations of you, we expect you to do your best because that's what was expected of us." the second part of the conversation about dunbar was, as african-americans, "education is the key to a better life." >> reporter: through the era of segregatio