not so frederick douglass. that year, around 16 years of age, he is still a slave and the victim of repeated whippings by a brutal new owner. one day, he decides he must resist or be killed. he bravely fights back. he is never punished again. freedom from abuse is not enough to quench his thirst for liberty. soon he he is hired out to yet another owner as a field hand. william freeland. you couldn't invent such a name. he recognizes something special, nothing to liberate him, but enough to allow douglass to go to school, where he is soon teaching 40 other us -- enslaved people. he is working in a maryland shipyard, but required to turn his wages over to his owner. he meets a free woman of color named anna marie and get engaged. when his master orders him back home for punishment for attending a revival meeting douglass believes he will be sold. he resolves to take anna and escape. in 1838, he leaves baltimore by train, then switches to a steamboat, reaches the free city of philadelphia, then heads to new york.

abraham lincoln and frederick douglass. as these early photographs show, they not only had compelling platforms but unforgettable faces. no one who met either one ever forgot meeting them, or how they expressed themselves publicly and privately. tonight, by using the very words lincoln and douglas wrote and spoke to one another about each other and to the public, and by deploying the portraits for which they sat around the time of many of their major meetings and orations it is possible to , see and hear them confronting each other again over their shared aspirations and differences. the result, we would like to think, is an authentic lincoln douglas debate. in some cases, in actual regulated -- recollected conversation save for a few , conjunctions, each and every word you hear was actually written or spoken by these protagonists themselves. tonight, we will hear them again just as readers and audiences did in the 19th century. beginning with their first attempts at autobiography. mr. lincoln: i was born february 12 and 18

despite significant financial contributions from figures such as frederick douglass, greenback failed, leaving tens of thousands of depositors and financial ruin. shortly, a panel discusses will poverty in america 150 years after the creation of the free grand site. but first a brief history by reference archivist damani davis . this is about two hours. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] post: good evening and welcome to the national archives. we wanted to give you a brief presentation on the free demands records -- freedman's bank's records. the largest number of people we have coming our genealogical -- our genealogical researchers because due to programming the institute of genealogical research has skyrocketed among african-americans. so you can have it -- have an idea of the kind of information we can find in these records and if you have ancestors who might have made deposits potentially you can find information about thes

despite significant financial contributions from figures such as frederick douglass, greenback -- the friedmans bank failed leaving tens of thousands of depositors in financial ruin. shortly, a panel discusses poverty in america 150 years after the creation of the freeman bank. but first a brief history by reference archivist damani davis. this is about two hours. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] post: good evening and welcome to the national archives. we wanted to give you a brief presentation on the free demands records -- freedman's bank's records. most people are not familiar with the record. it's here at the archives, we have the largest number of people we have coming our genealogical -- our genealogical researchers because due to programming the institute of genealogical research has skyrocketed among african-americans. so you can have an idea of the kind of information we can find in these records and if you have ances

also the church of sojourner truth and frederick douglass, joseph charles rice. but importantly the church of corunna scott king, down in marion, alabama. the lace where martin luther king the third's grandfather was the preacher steward and the chairman of the trustee board at the same time. he was a powerful somebody. i stand here today -- i talked to my cousin earlier and i was reminded that my aunt margaret my mother's sister served as a domestic for u.s. senator john sparkman. a senator from this state, in alabama. she was his domestic worker for 30 years. when his neighbor, general omar bradley would have a luncheon or a dinner, he would share his domestic with his neighbor. i said to myself, how ironic it is that now i am presiding over the state where the individual who accepted the hell up fairly paid to help now has a son of the help coming to stand in the midst. there's a lot i want to say today, but it reminded me of one who was named matilda. matilda worked in the master's house. after the dred scott decision, master came in and said matilda black pe

we know frederick douglass. some of them like harry jacobs who pops up in these records tubman but most of them we really know little about what happened after they manage to get to freedom. >> host: it's extraordinary too how willing people were to go to great lengths for freedom. they are walking great distances, men and women. >> guest: some of them did. >> host: if i have to walk more than a few blocks i'm getting into my car to do it that these folks are walking sometimes 200 miles. so it's just extraordinary. these are extraordinary stories that you have in this body. what would you like the reader to take from this? >> guest: well thank you by the way. this book is a little different. i've written a lot of books but this one is different because i did want to humanize it not that the others were automatons but with these individual stories of unknown people which can be gleaned from the documents that we have put together here and i just wanted people to get a sense of what it was like to escape and some

frederick douglass, 1865.o years as president lincoln initially struggled to keep the border states within the union, douglas had been a relentless critic. only after the president promised freedom to enslaved men and women in the seceded states did douglas temper his criticism. but even then, he continued to press lincoln for greater concessions, especially equal treatment for black soldiers. as lincoln grew in his recognition of the role black men were playing to win the war for the union, the great abolitionist and or greater --orator became more confident that the president would work on behalf of all americans, including african-americans. in this regard and many others lincoln second inaugural address did not disappoint. when the former slave attended the inaugural reception, the president asked him what he thought of his age. douglas assured him it was a sacred effort. one imagines that was left the reception convinced that in lincoln's second term, african-americans would secure the freedom and equalit

that was not frederick douglass's favoriete part of the speech. he called the speech a sacred effort, but he concentrated more on the passages of slavery, that this war was about commentating in some sort of larger sense for the sin of slavery, and that is where you get that for every drop taken from the lash will be paid with one from the sword. for african americans -- or member, this war was the war that illuminated slavery, that while abraham lincoln was giving this speech, the 13th amendment had been put out to the states and the 13th amendment was what had abolished slavery. the 13th amendment that had been proposed in 1861 was to leave slavery alone. four years later, the 13th amendment is going through. there's a lot people can look at in this speech in terms of what lincoln thought was the cause of war was for how you going to the future. many historians have called this a jeremiah of sorts. this is a speech that has a lot of biblical references. taking people to task for some fault of theirs. purtians had jeremiads all the time about, th

with lincoln's imperative of a just and lasting peace in mind frederick doubtless -- frederick douglassold his supporters that permanent peace could not be accomplished without justice. today we would say no justice no peace. justice in 1850 five required going beyond legal freedom to encompass voting rights. slavery, douglass believed, is not abolished until the black man has the balance. that is what lincoln meant too, parent in his calls -- a parent in his calls. or at least that was the case made by african-american victors turned mourners, when they look to the spirit of the martyred president to realize their visions of freedom and equality. that's why frederick douglas concluded that his words to the colored people lincoln's death was an unspeakable calamity. the assassination had opened the eyes of these radicals, both black and white, to the necessity of revolutionary policies following confederate defeat on the battlefield. because defeated confederates who held political power could still win the war off the battlefield. two years later, when the radical republicans in congre

i'm looking for a frederick douglass chairman of that bank. i'm looking for billions of dollars being invested in that bank. not only from african-americans, but from those who say this is a great bank. this is a bank that is not going to go broke. this is a bank that has a door open for people from all walks of life. this is a bank that has staying power. this is a freedman's bank of the 21st century, this is america's bank. thank you, john, for telling me about this great day and inviting me. so good to see you again. count me as a soldier on the battlefield for ensuring that we are lifting ourselves up so that we fly high where the eagles fly. we flight where we belong. god bless all of you. god bless the united states of america. [applause] john: give it up for our panel -- donna owens, barry wides, bernice king, the introvert ambassador andrew young. [laughter] [applause] andrew: i really was being good today. [laughter] the thing i find about all the time, whenever we start blaming the problems on ourselves, what we have done wrong -- th

could you comment on frederick douglass? >> frederick douglass is a fascinating figure. he was the preeminent african-american political leader of the 19th century. i think we sometimes have a tendency to have to stand in for all of african-american thought in the 19th century. and that's a mistake. george washington williams and others were important voices too. and there were political disagreements in the black community as one would expect. but douglas plays a very important role in the story i have told, in the sense that douglas will say very famously in 1878, there was a right side in this war in the wrong side in this war. no sentiment ought to cause us to forget. why would douglas say in 1878, we need to be reminded that there was a wrong side in a right side in the war? he thought people were forgetting it. in a sense, the case the confederates began to build up even appomattox, that they were blameless, that they were the equals an opposite. as to the northerners, that they had not lost their principles would not really push their principles, they would not yi

frederick douglass comes in and the gamers come in and game the back and changes the bank charter and over 10 years ruins the bank. come in with a stellar reputation, not a spot, not a blemish. not only did they produce is like they put in their own money with the treasury department tells me today is $20 million. it was million dollars of his own money for a bank he knew that every chance of failing. -- $20 million of his own money for a bank he knew had every chance of failing. today it would be one of the top 100 banks in america today. imagine how that would change everything. so when you say how important this is, i felt like this is like the magna carta. underneath all of the problems with poverty. roland: indeed i have a dream speech, your father only mentioned equality one time. if you will go beyond the soundbites people here every year, the mountaintop speech and he talks about boycotts in that speech. he talks about freedom and inalienable rights meeting i want the same thing the white folks get when they are born. he was dealing with economics because he came to a conclusi

because you said all abolitionists, whether they were, you know, frederick douglass, or modern-day abolitionists like you, there is an emotional cost. you talked about... i didn't know that fredrick douglass had had a breakdown, an emotional breakdown. help us to understand, then. you know, because people are like, "i've got enough emotional stuff going on in my life. you want me to... i'm not going to go there." help us to understand why... >> well, you can see, my work is full of inspiration. you know, when we see people come out of slavery, which we see every week-- we see people coming out of slavery every week-- you can't feel anything but... >> hinojosa: i'm just... honestly, i'm stuck with that. i'm just like... every week you're able to document people getting out of slavery? >> yeah. we get photos being sent to us from all of our field offices if we're not there visiting. and people are, you know, saying, "look, here's a family who's out of slavery. here are 20 kids who are out of slavery." and i've got to say, you feel pretty good at the end of the week, right? but at the same time, yo

the other thing, that was actually not frederick douglass's favorites part of the speech. but he concentrated more on the passages with slavery, that this war was about compensating in some sort of larger sense for the sin of slavery. that is again where you get that "for every drop taken from the lash will be paid with one from the sword." for african-americans, remember this war was the one that eliminated slavery. while abraham lincoln gave the speech, the 13th amendment had been put out to the states. it abolished slavery. so the 13th amendment that had been proposed in 1861 was to leave slavery alone, four years later, the 13th amendment is going through. so i think there is a lot people can look at in the speech in terms of what lincoln thought was the cause of war was for how you go into the future. many historians have called this a jeremiad. this is a speech that has a lot of ethical and religious references. a jeremiad is taking people to task for something that some fault of theirs. puritans had them all the time about here is where we have gone wrong. but at th

with lincoln's imperative of a just and lasting peace in mind frederick doubtless -- frederick douglassold his supporters that permanent peace could not be accomplished without justice. today we would say no justice no peace. justice in 1850 five required going beyond legal freedom to encompass voting rights. slavery, douglass believed, is not abolished until the black man has the balance. that is what lincoln meant too, parent in his calls -- a parent in his calls. or at least that was the case made by african-american victors turned mourners, when they look to the spirit of the martyred president to realize their visions of freedom and equality. that's why frederick douglas concluded that his words to the colored people lincoln's death was an unspeakable calamity. the assassination had opened the eyes of these radicals, both black and white, to the necessity of revolutionary policies following confederate defeat on the battlefield. because defeated confederates who held political power could still win the war off the battlefield. two years later, when the radical republicans in congre

we know frederick douglass. some of them pop up in these records but most of them we know little about what happened after they managed to get to freedom. >> host: it's extraordinary how willing people were to go to great lengths. they are walking great distances men and women. if i have to walk more than a few blocks but these people are walking sometimes 200 miles. these are extraordinary stories. >> guest: thank you for saying that. i've written a lot of books as you've said. these are stories of unknown people which can be claimed for the document that we have put together here and i just wanted people to get a sense of what it was like to escape. they are walking hundreds of miles. some of them were arrested and then he escaped from jail and continued on their way. so i think it's just that these stories of ordinary people we know little about other than how they escaped but i also would like people to take away admiration for the people working on the underground railroad. we've gone from a fairly tense. c

frederick douglass, of course, did that in 1838. if you could get the free papers of a free black person, you could just get on a train and go to the north, and that was a lot easier than doing it through the woods. some of them stole or appropriated the horse-drawn carriages of their owners and fled from maryland to pennsylvania. many of them escaped in groups. that was another thing that really surprised me groups of relatives. sometimes women with small children even, inpants. -- infants. very difficult to do that, of course. and they were helped by all sorts of people. the mason-dixon line they were generally helped by black people, either slave or free, who would point them on their way or give them some food or hide them along the way. they didn't go from station to station the way we sometimes think. there weren't these stations in the south really except for one or two. they were sent -- they just relied on the help of black people they encountered until they reached maybe wilmington, delaware, which is just below the mason-

frederick douglass elementary. let's show those kids. theer thooez are the second gaders towards loudoun county. a great group of kids. in this second graderip tomorrow that would be cancelled if they were delayed or closed tomorrow. so they do not want to see the snow but unfortunately, loudoun county could be one i think that at least has a delay. storm team 4 radar clear right now. look to the south and west. here's where all the moisture is. there's a lot more back toward the west here. this is what will eventually come our way. as temperatures dive tonight and dip down closer to the freezing mark, that's where we have a chance for snow. the advisories and winter storm warning for martinsburg, hagerstown places to the west towards morgan county then a winter weather advisory clark and warren county page over toward western loudoun, wernimont gomry and frederick. it does not include fairfax, du not include prince george's county does not include the i-95 corridor. i think we'll still have some problems there early tomorrow morning but

reverend frederick douglass reese and sadie mitchell moss recall that day. >> we saw a lot of state troopersacross the highway. and we were asked to not go any further, that we are going to be denied the right to continue that march. so we were somewhat concerned about that and decided that we were not going to turn this we returned. that caused the state troopers to move in on us with their billy clubs literally went down the line of marchers, toppling us over as if you would topple over bowling pins in a bowling alley. >> i felt if we turn around or give up, it will never happen. so in order to make sure that this does become a reality, we must continue. and that is just the way i felt. and i must admit, i didn't want to die, but that feeling is always there. i think i'm quoting king correctly, anything worth living for is worth dying for. i just couldn't turn back. i thought we are gone too far, especially in selma. amy: activists and politicians including president obama, john lewis will converge on some of this weekend for events marking the anniversary. democracy now! will broadcast fr

frederick douglass did that in 1838. if you could get the free papers of a free black person you could get on a train and go north and now it's easier than going through the words. about the installer appropriated the horse-drawn carriages of their owners and fled from maryland to pennsylvania. many escaped in groups. post another thing that surprised me. groups of relatives sometimes women with small children. they were helped by also as a people. below the mason-dixon line they were generally held by black people either slave or free you would point them on their way or give them food or hide them among their way. they didn't go from station to station. there were stations in the south except for one or two. they just relied on the health of black people they encountered until they reached maybe wilmington, delaware just below the mason-dixon line and where there was tom iscariot and irregular rights group in wilmington helping fugitives. once i got over the border into pennsylvania, they encountered many quaker farmer

he decided to call himself frederick douglass.an: ruggles would confront slave captures who are trying to grab people off the streets? >> he is a very militant guy. he went into a house in brooklyn -- there were many slaveowners who came up to new york city with their slaves. new york had very close economic ties to the south. the cotton trade, all that. even after slavery is abolished in new york state, there are still slaves on the streets. ruggles goes into someone's house and says, the slaves are free and you don't have a right to bring them into new york anymore. there's an altercation. he gets one out to become free. he challenges ship captains. he is a very militant guy. amy: tells about richard riker in the kidnapping club. >> those who saw the movie "12 years a slave" a couple of years ago, that is about a free black and who was kidnapped really from upstate new york. there was a lot of kidnapping a free blacks in new york city and in philadelphia, mostly children. there were these gangs would grab someone off the street,

frederick douglass, 1865. president lincoln initially pursued a policy of appeasement and struggled to keep the border states within the union, douglas had been a relentless critic. only after the president promised freedom to enslaved men and women in the seceded states did douglas temper his criticism. but even then, he continued to press lincoln for greater concessions, especially equal treatment for black soldiers. as lincoln grew in his recognition of the role black men were playing to win the war for the union, the great abolitionist and orator became more confident that the president would support the interest of all who helped quell the rebellion, including african-americans. in this regard and many others lincoln's second inaugural address did not disappoint. when the former slave attended the inaugural reception, the president asked him what he thought of his speech. douglas assured him it was a sacred effort. one imagines that was left the -- that douglas left the reception convinced that in lincoln

come from slave backgrounds -- new but he knew people who had come from slave backgrounds like frederick douglass. did he have any sense of on ceiling black potential -- unsealing black potential? mr. wilson: he doesn't really talk about this, you have to intuit it from his attitudes and so forth but he is professionally closed mouth. all of his friends talk about it and not even his friends know his deepest thoughts. i do not have to tell chris matthews that when a politician opens his mouth, nothing but the truth from his art comes out. -- heart comes out. [laughter] mr. matthews: dr. king, do we know he was a socialist or duty of ideology? mr. wilson: -- mr. carson: he was not political because the goals he had in mind -- one of the things i invite you to do is in the latest book, "martin's dream," i have a chapter about the love letters he wrote to coretta when they were dating in 1952 and it just did the question is useful for list, yes he is so from us, the and an anti-communist socialists but definitely -- yes -- is he a socialist, yes he is a socialist, a christian socialist, an anti-comm

rich bostonians and new yorkers funded the abolition movement, including supporting frederick douglass, who came up with one of the greatest civic insights of all: "power concedes nothing without a demand." and if we are so, so shorn of any morale that we don't even demand anymore because we've given up on ourselves, why should the power brokers give us the time of day, especially when they got two parties dialing for the same commercial dollars? so here we go. you'll never hear this type of proposal. ready? justice needs money. the environmental movement was funded before it became a membership base by a few rich people. the early civil rights movement, heavy funding from the stern fund in new orleans, the curry family in virginia. the women's suffrage movement was slowing down until some rich women helped fund it in the 19th century. a small portion of very rich people, especially in their 70s, 80s, and 90s, where they have a different perspective on life. they want to look their grandchildren in their eye. they're thinking of not wanting to leave this country, heading for the cliff.

i'm looking for a frederick douglass chairman of that bank. i'm looking for billions of dollars being invested in that bank. not only from african-americans but from those who say this is a great bank. this is a bank that is not going to go broke. this is a bank that has a door open for people from all walks of life. this is a bank that has staying power. this is a freedman's bank of the 21st century, this is america's bank. thank you, john, for telling me about this great day and inviting me. so good to see you again. count me as a soldier on the battlefield for ensuring that we are lifting ourselves up so that we fly high where the eagles fly. we flight where we belong. god bless all of you. god bless the united states of america. [applause] john: give it up for our panel -- donna owens barry wides, bernice king, the introvert ambassador andrew young. [laughter] [applause] andrew: i really was being good today. [laughter] the thing i find about all the time whenever we start blaming the problems on ourselves, what we have done wrong -- there

also the church of sojourner truth and frederick douglass, joseph charles rice.ut importantly the church of corunna scott king, down in marion, alabama. the lace where martin luther king the third's grandfather was the preacher steward and the chairman of the trustee board at the same time. he was a powerful somebody. i stand here today -- i talked to my cousin earlier and i was reminded that my aunt margaret my mother's sister served as a domestic for u.s. senator john sparkman. a senator from this state, in alabama. she was his domestic worker for 30 years. when his neighbor, general omar bradley would have a luncheon or a dinner, he would share his domestic with his neighbor. i said to myself, how ironic it is that now i am presiding over the state where the individual who accepted the hell up fairly paid to help now has a son of the help coming to stand in the midst. there's a lot i want to say today, but it reminded me of one who was named matilda. matilda worked in the master's house. after the dred scott decision, master came in and said matilda black peop

this excellent study compels us to draw concentric wing from tucson to blow the chair and frederick douglassand william wells brown to the human rights movement burgeoning in america today. wendy strassmann will ask that for david ryan davis. [applause] >> david brion davis is ill and would've given these words if he could have been here tonight. today the third i'll enough my problem with slavery trilogy has won the national book critics circle award brings back and reinforces the excitement i felt 48 years ago when the first volume when the pulitzer prize for nonfiction. 48 years. i'm deeply moved by the extraordinary prestige of this award and unconscious of the competition i faced from for outstanding works of nonfiction. since the second volume of the trilogy won the national book award and the bancroft prize it is throwing the third volume has today won the national critics circle award. i send my deepest appreciation to all those involved. thank you. [applause] >> good evening. my name is mark at pakistan has been my great privilege for the past year to serve as the chair of the nbc f

this compels us to draw links to frederick douglass to the human-rights improvements burgeoning in americaoday. [applause] >> day que so much. david brion davis is so ill but would give the is worse if he could be here. hearing the third volume of my children she has won national book critics circle greetings back to reinforce the excitement i felt 48 years ago when the first volume won the pulitzer prize for nonfiction. 48 years. i am deeply moved by the extraordinary prestige of this award been conscious of the competition of those for outstanding works of nonfiction since the other volume glenn the bancroft prize at the second volume in this rally and that the third volume one national book critics circle. thank you. [applause] . . lily king, you for ya euphoria. [applause] lee, river head. [applause] >> marilyn rob robinson, leila. and the recipient of this year's award in fiction from the nbcc is leila, by marilyn robinson. [applause] marlin robinson fills the third novel with glorious young shot through withlight -- with light ask grace. we're wild, more live in us than we can bear.

lincoln, frederick douglass, teddy roosevelt garvey, susan b.hony margaret sanger, jackie robinson john lewis and dr. king jfk and lbj, vivian malone. harvey milk. barack obama. [applause] we should not fear change. it is part of who we are as americans. it is what distinguishes us. it is what makes us unique. now, i leave this place proud of what we have accomplished over the last six years and grateful for all that doj has given me these past 39 years. this has been my home, and you will always be my family. i thank the parents who raised me and the west indian sensibility that they instilled in me. .. you know who you are. and my crew on 24th avenue and 21st street. and more recently a president and colleagues in this administration who stuck by me when i didn't always make it the easiest thing to do. i'm grateful to this great nation who gave a black kid from east amherst queens, new york city, more support and opportunities in any individual could have hoped for. thank you, america. to the wonderful, dedicated, accomplish men and women of t

going back as far as prince hall fred -- frederick douglass and, of course, benjamin banneker and the first spozzedly, the date sometimes is in controversy but it's been said that samuel cornish started the first black newspaper in 1827. so through american history, the trials and tribulations, the progress and the backlash, through lynching and segregation up until today we have the black press play a very important role. some of you might ask, and you should, but what about the women? those black women? well, we had ida b. wells barnett who, a journalist, once a teacher who then became person who recorded the lynchings in america. and she did travel internationally to talk about these issues. her newspaper was fire bombed. that's why she moves up north to chicago where she began another career altogether. but never lost sight of the fact that the black press played such an important role. and, of course, there's daisy bates, the journalist in little rock arkansas, who had a newspaper there "the arkansas state press," but it had to go out of business in 1959. why? because daze is cit

that's why we're in with frederick douglass started and put a thousand in these bank branches. >> johnt's a great message. also i need to say i misspoke when i introduced john i mentioned warren buffett. >> freudian. >> it was not. i said he thinks there's going to be less employment. >> and you say we worry about -- but you worry about. we've had tech visionaries on here saying there's always been this disrupt of progression. it never displaces. >> i'm not alone. >>> when we come back we'll also be hearing from the ceo of lamborghini. plus nasdaq 5,000. we'll talk to rick sherlund. also david rubenstein is our guest host. "squawk box" will be right back. [ male announcer ] at northrop grumman, we know in the cyber world, threats are always evolving. at first we were protecting networks. then, we were protecting the transfer of data. and today it's evolved to infrastructure... ♪ ♪ ...finance... and military missions. we're constantly innovating to advance the front line in the cyber battle, wherever it takes us. that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. >>> the nasdaq hitting

frederick douglass was an exception. he said to mr. lincoln afterwards that was a sacred effort. in the century and a half since his death, we have made unequal progress in achieving the kind of america abraham lincoln believed we could be. a full century passed before african-americans in the south were guaranteed the most basic right of citizenship the right to vote. if president lincoln were here today, i think he would be happy to see our union has survived. i think he would be pleased and astonished to see that america had elected and re-elected another lanky lawyer from illinois and an african-american to be our president. i also think he would challenge us when our government of the people by the people, for the people is under threat from a cabal of secret special interest money that can buy elections i think lincoln would tell us we have unfinished work to do. when we negligent to bind up the wounds of war of even one soldier returning from war negligent to care for widows and orphans, lincoln would remind us we have unfinished work to do. and when the right to vote is u

in the same league john louis as martin luther king or frederick doug doug douglass and the president previously said -- he's not only the bravest man i know, but the sweetest man i know. that's what people love about him. he's the moral voice of capitol hill. he's somebody who puts his christianity first in the head of politics in a sense of message of universal love so the crowd's going to go wild whenever he's evoked in the president's speech today. >> and we'll also be hearing from him, i understand i cannot imagine what he heart will feel like literally feet from where he was beaten and to be standing there next to the first african-american president of the united states redeemed by -- listen when you're beaten within an inch of your life you're not thinking out 50 years, but 15 minutes. >> i spoke with foot soldiers who said just that. they did not think they would live through to ever see the fruits of their labor. >> yes. >> they knew it was a sacrifice they were willing to make. andy young made that point. maybe you saw the piece earlier saying, you know what? we were not su

despite significant financial contributions from figures such as frederick douglass, greenback failed, leaving tens of thousands of depositors and financial ruin. shortly, a panel discusses will poverty in america 150 years after the creation of the free grand site. but first a brief history by reference archivist damani davis . this is about two hours. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] post: good evening

debate and part by the writings and correspondence of president abraham lincoln and abolitionist frederick douglass. although the two met on a handful of occasions, they never actor stephen laying and norm lewis take on the roles of lincoln and douglas, and harold holzer moderates. mr. holzer is also the chair of the centennial lincoln foundation. the metropolitan museum of art posted this event. [applause] mr. holzer: in their entire eventful lives, be met only -- they met face-to-face

, a debate inspired by the writings and correspondences of abraham lincoln and abolitionist frederick douglass. although the two men met on a handful