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and next person to walk out, frederick douglas. and they go an african-american standing next to the president on the capitol lawn. that symbolizes garfield as much as anything else. in fact, after garfield is elected and moves into the white house, here he is being sworn in. james blain is behind him here. here is the official white house picture. mom, garfield and the wife. she claims -- i don't know if this is accurate but she claims to have been the first mother of a president to move to the white house to take care of the president's kids. may be true. i don't know. gab r garfield's inaugural address will give us an idea of what he wants to have happen. he emphasizes civil rights of african-americans. he believes they deserve the full rights of citizenship. then he goes on to say but they might be literate and stresses the need for universal education in america. then he goes on to talk about agricultural as the key to american prosperity. and says we have all this land and we're growing all these crops and this is all wonderf

and frederick douglas. 19th century figures. 20th century. bill gray jesse jackson. al sharpton.hen you think about reverend carolyn knight. bishop mckenzie. these are tremendous figures who have come from our community, many of them political figures who have been rooted in and supported by the african american church. and the church has been a center of education, of social involvement, of political engagement. and as a result of that an easy target for those who would do the community harm. >> and joy, going back to you, looking forward tonight we are told there is a community meeting. we understand of course everyone there has been following it there locally. what else happens going forward? >> welke tell you ari that the churches in this community are definitely looking for their security. whatever the outcome of the investigation here at mount zion. a lot of people are very much on edge. the churches here obviously around the country feeling very nervous, feeling targeted. but again, a lot of actual support for what's happening in terms of the investigation. people being ca

most an legislation isists who loom large in our history such as william lloyds garrison, frederick douglas harriet beecher stowe and others, wrote articles and books or published their speeches. as i mentioned lucy almost always spoke extemporaneously and even as mitted she disliked writing. thus we have few actual written records of her many speeches and significant role in the antislavery movement. she never wrote about herself. the women's movement was another matter. in the early 1880s stanton anthony, and jocelyn gauge embarked upon a huge project to produce the history of the women's movement. stanton has written a couple of articles and essays on the topic. now the three gap a massive work by collecting sources newspaper accounts speeches, convention reports, letters government documents, and they asked dozens of womens in the national women's suffrage association to write auto buy groove cal entry. stanton asked lucy to contribute but she refused, a she refused every journalist and author who wanted to write about her. throughout her life, lucy possessed a heightened sense of humil

because when i was at frederick douglas high school in west baltimore, the thing that sticks in my mind most was the kid who was a high school senior who said you know i'm smart i'm doing well in school but i don't have any ap courses here i don't have any opportunity. you go to places like sarah good and p tech and you see young kids of color. what sarah good has in common with p tech, you have high minority, high performing, that's what they're doing. they building the pipeline to the future. giving kids opportunity squmpt. that's not a panacea. if you're thinking about how to build educational opportunity, and to take and apply the principles we know work, the principle of partnership, demand driven, the principle of a stem foundation, these programs work. they're open source. you can pick up the phone and call ibm, i guarantee you stan lith ow will take your call and be out the next plane to visit your community and will brainstorm with you about how to build a program. it may be it's a healthcare focus in your city or a aerospace focus somewhere else. whatever the focus is to meet