anisse murillo, a junior at eleanor roosevelt high school in greenbelt, maryland, told us why she'd wantedke part. >> this event today could show all these young people today to go home and find out who marian anderson is and the word will then spread. it taught me actions speak louder than words and you don't have to get all angry. you just have to keep going and kill people with kindness. >> the light in her beautiful voice overcame discrimination. and her voice was much larger than the hall that prevented her from singing. >> brown: following words from u.s. interior secretary sally jewell about anderson's legacy. washington, d.c. fourth-grader sky jabali-rainey took on the role of marian anderson. >> i am marian anderson. i was refused the opportunity to sing at the daughters of the american revolution hall. you see when i sing, i don't want them to see my face is black or white. i want them to see my soul. >> she had the courage to sing in front of thousands of people. you have got to get up and fight the fear. made the message quite clear. concerts by white artists only. an alternati

. >> first lady eleanor roosevelt's reaction to the racism was first to resign her d.a.r.tment of the interior secretary harold to put marian anderson in the spotlight, with a performance on the steps of the lincoln memorial. easter sunday, april 9th, 1939. >> the second left no doubt about his determination to break barriers. >> genius, like justice, is blind. genius draws no color lines. >> in what may have been the nation's first outdoor concert, anderson sang for 75,000 fans. becoming a symbol of racial reconciliation. >> happy marian anderson day. >> skye rainy turns 10 years old tomorrow, she was chosen by the southeast 10 son learning center to portray marian anderson. >> when they said she couldn't sing at the daughters of the american revolution constitution hall she didn't get mad or angry she just kept ongoing. >> after the lincoln memorial concert her fame grew. she was the first black performer at the metropolitan opera, she sang for john f. kennedy's inauguration in 1961 and she sang again in 1963 at the december knowledge civil rights march on washington for

when my predecessors and heroines was eleanor roosevelt. she said that if a woman wants to be involved in the public, and in her case she was talking politics and it is true in many and it is true in many arenas, skin as thickrow as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros. too many young women are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. they are too often selling themselves short. they take criticism personally and that it seriously. you should take criticism seriously, because you might learn something, but you cannot let it crush you. you have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward no matter what the personal setback or insults that come your way might be. that takes a sense of humor about yourself and others. believe me, this is hard-won advice that i'm putting forward. [laughter] [applause] it is not like you wake up and understand that. it is a process. you need other women. you need your friends to some -- to support you. you need male friends as well as female ones. you need good role models. all of that is true. but at the

i think at some point she quoted eleanor roosevelt there in saying grow a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hillary meter runs up and down. one week she's not running, the next week she is. >> people close to her say that same thing, too. >> i think the meter's running "yes." >> what she said there, there are lessons there for both male candidates in the primary who want to run against her and male candidates obviously on the republican side who will face her in a general election. remember what happened de blasio. that's something for the republicans to think of in the primary, who is the right candidate to run against a candidate such as hillary. >> but how formidable will she be next time around because she's run once before. we haven't talk about the lessons that she learned from a 50-state campaign in 2008 in terms of timing, in terms of press, in terms of policy. engaging your opponent. learn the rules of the election process. >> south dakota. >> david plouffe's took over. >> sometimes little states have a little more impact than you might think. >>> tomorrow's news today is next as o

. >> first eleanor roosevelt's reaction to the discrimination was first to why resign her are relationshipharold ickes put marion anderson on the spotlight. in the credit can steps of the memorial april 2nd, 1939. ♪ for thee we sing >> secretary ickes left no doubt about his determination to break barriers. >> genius like justice is blind. genius draws no color lines. >> in what might have been the nation's first outdoor concert anderson sang for 75,000 fans becoming a symbol of racial inclusion. >> happy mairhappy marion ander! >> when she couldn't sing at the daughters of american revolution hall she kept going. >> she was the first black performer at the metropolitan opera. she sang at john f. kennedy's inauguration in 1961 and she sang again in 1963 at the seminal civil rights march on washington for jobs and freedom and then she sang several times at constitution hall, this time invited by the dar. anderson's dress as seen in the old black and white news real did not stand out but on display currently at the smithsonian, her dress is as vibrant as her voice. and the messages. >> as re

like first lady eleanor roosevelt did. >> do you see when i sing, i don't want them to see my face is black, i don't want them to see my face is white. i want them to see my soul, and that is colorless. [ singing ] >> a voice we should all have. please remember if you would like to comment on the stories, log on to the website aljazeera.com/americatonight. join in the conversation on twitter or facebook at any time. we'll have more of "america tonight" tomorrow. >> 100 million indians go to the polls on one of the biggest days of the world's biggest election. >> hello, you're watching al jazeera, live from doha. also coming up, the united nations prepares to vote on a peacekeeping mission to the central african republic as violence leaves 30 dead. >> back in court - the trial resumes of three al jazeera journalists held in prison in egypt now for 103 days. an

eleanor roosevelt had lunch. look, you know, roosevelt, i don't think -- he needs the votes of racing -- segregationists. can you please post bonior challenged segregation. in the meantime, the new deal will offer a technocratic solution to the material poverty of black people in the united states. thinking of that parallel helps us think about this debate. in the end fdr went along because they saw the parallel between colonialism and their own treatment of blacks, material solutions, but not rights, not the right to end segregation, not the right to vote. what happened after the end of colonialism, one thing now was in a story, the end of colonialism was not anticipated by anyone during world war ii. it was really a surprise collapse. there were statements that i could show you. the british expected their empire in africa to endure for generations, if not centuries. this was indefinite justification. but what happened after colonialism did collapse, a new set of parties found technocratic justification's for aut

eleanor roosevelt, save the day. the first presidents wife ever address the convention, she told disgruntled... that we face now a grave situation. >> [indiscernible] buckled and bosses put wallace on the ticket. it would come back with a vengeance. i just heard the news of my nomination and there's just one thing i want to say, i am confident that under the leadership of president roosevelt, we shall have a united democratic party, victory in november, and security for the american people. ofand that was the voice henry wallace, nominated as vice president. oliver stone, your inspiration for this whole series was about henry wallace. why? talk about his significance. >> i was the inspiration is the atomic bomb. i grew up in that period. the bomb shaped all of our lives. .e lived in fear of it we had air raids in school. we have the cuban missile crisis. it haunts our policy. we were in a cold war up until 1989 for 1991, with the soviets. he continues on if you notice it. i'm wondering what happened in the 1989, 1991

between jacqueline kennedy onassis and arthur schlesinger and theodore sorensen and teddy wait for eleanor roosevelt relationships with the number of people who helped to define franklin roosevelt's legacy. my hope for this book will help us to remember as we remember him today and a very real efforts that went into that and a price. thank you. i would love to take some questions if there are any. [applause] >> what is your opinion of daniel epstein's book the lankans man which covers some of the same material that you have talked about? secondly, what do you think about the recent biography? >> i like them both very much. epstein is really a literary man , a poet, scholar of literature. i think he was trying to do a different project. it draws and other characters. we're looking at different questions using the same people, but it's a beautiful read. the biography is magnificent. if you are interested in how comprehensive -- i should not say this. if you're interested in a comprehensive biography don't buy my book, but you want to read both. john did a number of other things that i don't cover. not

country 'tis of thee sweet land of liberty ♪ >> anderson was invited to perform by then first lady eleanor roosevelt the daughters of the american revolution, which roosevelt was a member of, refused to let the african-american perform in their hall. this moment became a milestone in civil rights history and you can join us as we remember another important historical milestone this week, the 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act of 1964. tweet us with the #advancingthe dream or join the conversation with fellow readers on facebook, instagram and msnbc.com and tell us what's important to you. >>> and next, we go in depth on the civil rights era and the relationship between lbj and mlk. and we're getting new details on today's school stabbing outside pittsburgh. the latest next on "the reid report." [ hypnotist ] you are feeling satisfied without standard leather. you are feeling exhilarated with front-wheel drive. you are feeling powerful with a 4-cylinder engine. [ male announcer ] open your eyes... to the 6-cylinder, 8-speed lexus gs. with more standard horsepower than any of its

first lady eleanor roosevelt was outraged when she found out about it and arranged for anderson to performl, on this day 75 years ago, april 9th, 1939, 75,000 people turned out for a public concert that forever changed the landscape of african-americans in music. ♪ >> a quarter of a century later, anderson returned to lincoln memorial, this time singing at dr. martin luther king's march on washington. we see as she sings there, dr. king talked about a dream that day. no one thought the years before that she was barred that we'd ever see dr. king talking about a dream. many things today we'd not achieved, but gives us the faith to know if we have the same commitment and persistence they did, we can make that dream a full reality. and that's why some of us continue to sing and continue to work. freedom song. thanks for watching, i'm al sharpton. "hardball" starts right now. >>> jimmy carter says never bomb iran. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening, i'm chris matthews in new york. let me start tonight with major headlines from my interview this afternoon with president carter. he made som

eleanor roosevelt later said mr.can turn it around the widest which led to me exactly like a sheraton hotel. and jacqueline kennedy later said famously, that the true enter design of the white house was early statler. so a handful of able pieces on the state court were restored and put back, leaving the state for looking at least respected. they had some chippendale's and they did their best. but overall the interior decoration was a bit of disappointment the there was not -- until mrs. kennedy redecorated. i also mentioned a shortage of time, and that kind of leads us to the last portion here. harry truman wanted to come back and live in the restored white house for a least a year, but by the summer of 1951 he was realizing that wasn't terribly likely. he said to jb west, assistant usher quote, i've been using a trick him on the contractors to try to speed up reconstruction. he leaned on them, hurry it up. you would expect a president to say that the unfortunately, that pressure and other forces that would exact a v

when my predecessors and heroines was eleanor roosevelt. that if a woman wants to be involved in the public, and her case she was talking about politics, and it is true in many arenas, she has to grace can as thick as the high -- grow a skin as big as the high they were not service. rhinocerous. to many young women are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. they are too often selling themselves short. they take criticism personally and that it seriously. you should take criticism seriously. you cannot let it crash you. offhave to be resilient and -- enough to keep moving forward no matter what the personal setback or insults that come your way might be. that takes a sense of humor about yourself and others. it hard-won advice that i'm putting forward. [laughter] [applause] it is not like you wake up and understand that. is a process. you need other women. you need your friends to some argue. you need male friends as well as female ones. you need good role models. all of that is true. but at the end of the day, you have to be good.

was written by people that looked at the declaration of human rights drafted to an extent by eleanor rooseveltnd others. considered clinical right. not to be tortured, free expression. due process, all things very familiar with. i will stop my lecture, but why we are happy to have it. why do we feel bound for treaty obligations. why was the treaty entered into? it was entered into 1950 in the aftermath of the second world war. it was it a try to stop some of the horrors that occurred during the traumatic time. the persecutions, the killings, complete disregard for rights by governments in nazi germany that were not popularly elected. and as applied to all the non-communist countries try to bind them together and it had been extremely successful in doing so and they all subscribed to it and they all subscribed to the interpretation to the international court. so we are partly exporting anglo-american values. and we're also binding, and that is the mission. that is why we are happy to consider that as part of the law of the united kingdom. >> it is interesting because the united states system of

predecessors was eleanor roosevelt and she amously said in the 1920's if woman wants to be involved inher case she is talking politics but it true in professions, business, et cetera, she has to grow skin thick as the hide of a rhinoceros. an back then this was obvious point of concern and conditio contention. too many young women, i think, themselves than circumstances warrant. selling too often themselves short. hey too often take criticism personally instead of seriously. you should take criticism simple you might learn something, but you can't let it rush you and you have to be resilient enough to keep moving orward despite whatever the personal setbacks, even insults come your way might be and that takes a sense of humor about yourself. this is hard won advice that i'm putting forward here. t is not like you wake up and understand this. [applause] a process.s and you need other women, you need your friends to support you and you need male friends as well as female ones. role models. all of that is true. the robably at the end of day you really have to be good aspirations.igh you h

between jacqueline kennedy onassis and arthur schlesinger and theodore sorensen and teddy wait for eleanor roosevelt relationships with the number of people who helped to define franklin roosevelt's legacy. my hope for this book will help us to remember as we remember him today and a very real efforts that went into that and a price. thank you. i would love to take some questions if there are any. [applause] >> what is your opinion of daniel epstein's book the lankans man which covers some of the same material that you have talked about? secondly, what do you think about the recent biography? >> i like them both very much. epstein is really a literary man , a poet, scholar of literature. i think he was trying to do a different project. it draws and other characters. we're looking at different questions using the same people, but it's a beautiful read. the biography is magnificent. if you are interested in how comprehensive -- i should not say this. if you're interested in a comprehensive biography don't buy my book, but you want to read both. john did a number of other things that i don't cover. not

when my predecessors and heroines was eleanor roosevelt.aid that if a woman wants to be involved in the public, and in her case she was talking politics and it is true in many and it is true in many arenas, skin as thickrow as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros. too many young women are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. they are too often selling themselves short. they take criticism personally and that it seriously. you should take criticism seriously, because you might learn something, but you cannot let it crush you. you have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward no matter what the personal setback or insults that come your way might be. that takes a sense of humor about yourself and others. believe me, this is hard-won advice that i'm putting forward. [laughter] [applause] it is not like you wake up and understand that. it is a process. you need other women. you need your friends to some -- to support you. you need male friends as well as female ones. you need good role models. all of that is true. but at the end o

one of my great predecessors and personal heroines was eleanor roosevelt. she famously said in the 1920s but if a woman wants to be involved in the public and in her case politics, but it's true in professions from a, and better, she has to grow skin as thick as the height of a rhinoceros. so even back then, this is an obvious point of concern in contention. too many young women i think are harder on themselves than serpents dance is more and. they are too often selling themselves short. they too often take criticism personally and that is seriously. you should take criticism seers because you might learn something. but you can't let a crush you and you have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward despite whatever the personal setbacks, even insults that come your way might be. i take a sense of humor about yourself and others. this is hard advice i am now putting forth here. so it's not like you wake up and understand this. [applause] but it is -- it is a process and you need other women. you did your friends to support you and when it male friend as

that's your next project, from the birth of teddy roosevelt to the are dead of eleanor, who was a niece to franklin roosevelt who was a fifth cousin. >> has more affect than any other family, i'll defend that to the end. this is a very complicated family drama, an american downton 18. abbey. about 3 extraordinary people, whose stories are timeless. what are we debating? what is the role of government, what can a citizen expect from government? how does character form leadership, how does adversity form character later in life and how does that form to leadership skills? these are the central questions of the roosevelts and the interplay of, after franklin was stricken with polio is one of the great american stories. i think we focus too much on the outer stuff. it's all there, the two world wars, the depression, everything that's going on but from an intimate point of view. >> having spent time with franklin delano roosevelt i know you said lincoln is our greatest president -- >> pop music and baseball and the presidency, besides george washington, besides babe ruth besides the beatles

yesterday was the anniversary -- one great lady stood in and her name was eleanor roosevelt. mes first ladies have to take the torch. president roosevelt did not do it because democrats in the south hold the balance of power. mrs. roosevelt had power. she allowed marian anderson to come sing. that echoes throughout the nation. you can bring up all the problems you want. these are problems that plague the nation, not just african-americans. if you go in many rural areas you see how these things have torn up white communities. let's not keep it as a black thing. the nation's poverty rate, the majority of those are right -- whites. host: i want to get your take on a pole from cbs news. they asked whether or not racial discrimination will always exist. 46% said that it would. 44% among whites. 61% of african-americans said it would. what impact has the civil rights act had? guest: i would imagine you would have a larger number of whites who said racism would go. they did not accept the fact that they were racially motivated. it is amazing when you give the numbers, they are equal

inspired by the novel, first lady eleanor roosevelt helped pass new labor laws after touring the shocking conditions of the california camps. the -- "the grapes of wrath quats changed the way we view poverty in this country. that's why it figured prominently in the decision to award steinbeck the noble prize. even today the novel offers us hope, hope that our best days lie before us. steinbeck's words resonate as true today as they did 75 years ago. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> i ask unanimous -- unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> once again through the ryan budget, house leadership is seeking to balance the budget on the backs of hardworking american families and seniors. undermining the economic recovery and ending the medicare guarantee. as an emergency medicine physician, i know firsthand that many of the senior is care for rely on the medicare they've earned. in fact, in riverside county, ca

roosevelt who said, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself." very inspirational, he was an amazing speaker. the first draft, though, was actually, "we have nothing to fear but fear itself and eleanorn the morning. [ laughter ] i'm also not crazy about stairs." [ applause ] next, we have will rogers. will rogers famously said, "i never met a man i didn't like." and will rogers was certainly loved as well. let's see his first draft. "i never met a man i didn't like, but if you want me to be completely honest, jeff could take it down a notch." [ laughter ] no fan of jeff. will rogers was no fan of jeff. next we have yoda. yoda, of course, who said, "do or do not, there is no try." we could all learn a lot from yoda. let's see the first draft. "do or do not, or give it to helen in accounting, doing nothing always she is." [ cheers and applause ] helen -- we all know helen is never doing anything. never anything. next, we have one from jesus. that guy was a quote machine. "blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." classic jesus, loves the underdog. however, the first draft was, "blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit my dumbbells and get swole." does not seem very