religious -- gare ston was, he had some principles and strategies very difficult for a frederi frederick douglass abolitionists to follow such as strict politics non-politics. you did not get involved in political policies, they were consistent were with slavery. you had to get your hands dirty in politics. douglass will take time to leave that behind, but involved in politics, you're going to find that out. he loved laid garrison. he was 12 years older. a father figure to some degree particularly for a man who was a genuine orphans. that's one of the first things you need to know about frederick douglass. he never knew who his father was, he was biracial, and garrisonions were at his abolitionist home, and said they were my church, they were my community and once they discovered him as a speaker and took him out to nantucket to do his first public speech in august of 1841 where he still was a trembling kid, he said i shook in my shoes as i got up to speak for the first time to white people. ... so for the next three and a half years they hired him. he went out on the road, i care sony and in min

months after that meeting, frederick douglass wrote that the president, quote, knew that he could do nothing which would call down upon him more fiercely the ribaldry of the voter than by showing him any respect as men. douglass added "there are some men who can face death and dangers, but have no moral conviction to contradict a prejudice or face ridicule. in daring to admit, nay, in daring to invite a negro to an audience at the white house, mr. lincoln did that which he knew would be offensive to a crowd and inside the ribaldry," that is contempt. it was saying to the country, "i am the president of the black people as well as the white, and i mean to respect their rights and feelings as men and as citizens." many years later, douglass wrote, "in my three interviews with mr. lincoln, i was impressed with his entire freedom from popular prejudice against the colored race. he was the first great man that i talked to in the united states freely who, in no single instance, reminded me of the difference between himself and myself, of the difference of color, and i thought that was still

it had the opposite effect that frederick douglass went back to begin. he said it was a great service to the antislavery movement. to me it is an interesting question why, i would revert to mr. emerson with some help from that. he says it was like a sheet of lightning at midnight which leads to the next question what did illuminate and illuminated the fact that slavery was not a southern problem it was an american problem. now you can see a human being living in your city for a decade or for 15 years or for god knows how long, literally being chased on the street by a gang of thugs with badges shackled, taken to the jailhouse, convicted wooden nothing like due process. taking to the. , partnership, and sent back to savannah or to newport news to a very angry master. and this is happening in your neighborhood. so all of a sudden it made the issue come home. >> so you're saying the performance of slavery in the american town square had an effect. >> that is a good word. you don't need it and i don't mean it as intimate grading word but he was a performer.

sadly across our border so the most recent bill the frederick douglass signed two thousand and nineteen doesn't number of things and if you don't mind because of the. because of the extensive. items included in that law i wanted to read to you what exactly the law provides so if you allow it it helps to educate children at schools across the nation with age appropriate prevention programs educational programs it also provides shelter which is the first time that any law in the united states since the first trafficking victims protection act was signed and enacted under president bill clinton in the year two thousand there has not been a bill signed into law that actually provided funding for shelters for victims and this has not just the programs for the victims but the actual bricks and mortar. it allows and provides for funding for the reintegration of victims into society. it also provides and supports corporations to be able to have a traffic free supply chain this is an enormous step in the right direction and it's extensive and we can get into that and at another. time it provides

what we refer to as cedar hill, the frederick douglass national historic site. and i would just share with you the sentiments of another great hero, and her spirits burn deeply within, dr. mary mcleod bethune. so in gratitude to mr. douglass for his enduring legacy who recruited his own two sons to serve in the civil war. and these sentiments i embrace and i trust you will too. in the words of dr. mary mcleod bethune, the measure of our progress as a race is in precise relation to the depth of faith in our people held by our leaders. frederick douglass was spirit by deep conviction that his people would heed his counsel and follow him to freedom. our greatest negro figures have been embedded with faith. we must never forget their suffering and their sacrifices for they were the foundation of the progress of our people. let us not forget and let us do our work. thank you very much. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> and a reception will follow. >> today martin luther king jr. day. at 4:00 p.m. discussion on race in america. >> voter suppression is real. let's n

but frederick douglass said it best, and harriet tubman and dr. knew, to love the religion of jesus is to hate the religion of the slave master. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: when we have true unity, no one will be subjugated for others. it is about fighting for a country with equal treatment, collective purpose, and freedom for all. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: that is who we are. that is who we are. today, i stand before you -- [cheers and applause] sen. harris: i stand before you today clear eyed about the fight ahead and what has to be done. fidelityh in god, with to country, and with the fighting spirit i got from my mother -- [cheers and applause] sen. harris: i stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the united states. [cheers and applause] [chanting] sen. harris: thank you. thank you. sen. harris: and i will tell you , i am running for president because i love my country, i love my country. i am running to be president of the people, by the people, and for all people. [cheers and applause] sen. harris: i

after that yell university history professor recalls the life of public intellectual and order frederick douglass. later donna brazile and others reflect on the friendship and rise in american politics. that's a look at at the next three programs on booktv on c-span2. now here's author ben macintyre discussing espionage during the cold war. >> good evening and welcome. my name is kai bird. i'm the executive director of the leon levy center for biography, which is now in its 11th year here at cuny graduate center. we've given off, given

we learn about the lives of frederick douglass and john marshall. total general stanley mcchrystal and democratic senator, kamala harris. they reflect on their lives. author and white house reporter april ryan, lead the discussion on race in america. that is all this holiday weekend, three days of nonfiction authors and books. for a complete schedule please visit booktv.org.you can also follow us on social media for schedule updates and more at booktv. >> every year, booktv covers book fairs and festivals around the country. more than 300 today. here's a look at some upcoming book fairs and festivals. the rancho mirage writers festival happening january 30 through february 1 in california. then on february 16 over 40 authors will be speaking on the savanna book festival in georgia. on march 2 and third, the 11th annual tucson festival of books held at the university of arizona. later that month, the virginia festival of the book takes place in charlottesville. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals, and to what previous festiva

of slavery they learned it from a different perspective i think then reading accounts from frederick douglass that was eye-opening for me because i never had the prospective but it really blew my mind that that happened and it was still recent. my mother had been a child when this was happening and it wasn't so far in the past. but i'm could be measured in the wrinkles on my mother's skin. it wasn't in geological times. that did really blew my mind. you wind up going to cambridge. did you have an experience of an imposter syndrome when you were there it sounded like a little of what you are describing a professor of chooses you have somebody that has a lot of potential. >> guest: i applied, he told me i should add it and then i didn't get an. this person is learning a lot and is behind and we should give her a chance to ko him a lock for that. you didn't do that interview for the book. >> now come i didn't ask. i had no idea. >> in the beginning you describe a little bit of the imposter syndrome like i don't belong here, these people were different, but there seems to be a turning point where

we look at the lives of frederick douglass and supreme court justice, john marshall. retired general stanley mcchrystal and california democratic senator, kamala harris. both reflect on their lives and author and white house reporter, april ryan leads a discussion on race in america. this holiday weekend, three days of nonfiction authors and books. for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. also follows on social media for schedule updates and more at booktv. >> booktv attends numerous book fairs and festivals throughout the year. recently, we are at the national press club book fair in washington d.c.. spoke with elaine weiss about suffragist history. >> the women's hour is the name of the book. elaine weiss is the author. booktv has covered your book. but we have not talked to you since a big shout out. what happened? >> well, secretary hillary clinton, read the book. and found the story compelling and important. a story that we don't know very well. how women actually won the right to vote, had to fight for it for over seven decades. and she found it a very importa

there's a very famous statement that comes from frederick douglass that says you cannot have the ocean without the roar of the waves. so, assuming that people who hold power are going to concede it without a challenge, and without, just because they are benevolent, is a mistake. it just makes us appear like victims. i totally agree, when we started, data will not get done, repercussions disruption for some of the things we chatted about are definitely accelerated as a change so i don't disagree that we should just wait for people to give us what we want . >> one of the things i wanted to bring that before i ran out of time is, you guys know is one of the recommendations going forward, to make senior leaders champions of diversity. can we make people champions of things they don't care about? >> i don't know, i would disagree somewhat in that i think there's a very clear data- driven case that diversity drives long-term performance. there is also a very clear case that everyone is fishing in one pond. you have differential opportunity if you can figure out how to identify the great tale

history professor recalls the life of public intellectual and order frederick douglass. later donna brazile and others reflect on the friendship and rise in american politics. that's a look at at the next three programs on booktv on c-span2. now here's author ben macintyre discussing espionage during the cold war. >> good evening and welcome. my name is kai bird. i'm the executive director of the leon levy center for biography, which is now in its 11th year here at cuny graduate center. we've given off, given out 44 fellowships now to working biographers. the fellowship is not up to $72,000, so it's a really substantial fellowship. and i'm pleased to announce also that we had just gotten the university to approve a masters program in biography, a two-year degree program that's going to start in the fall of 2019. it's an outgrowth of this program here. all very exciting. but this evening we're here to listen to ben macintyre talk about his new spy biography, "the spy and the traitor", and we're in for a real treat. his new book really does read like a spy thriller it and

the injustice has to be remedied but if you believe in the declaration you have say frederick douglass, or booker t washington they hated slavery and attacked it for all they were worth but they believed in the declaration was the standard through which it could be remedied. that's the difference today. >> cherie: the image of martin luther king. the key difference of two types of revolutions was the insistence that change takes time. and that transformation requires patience. i believe it was the same speech where martin luther king talks about the promissory note and talks about the fierce urgency of now, and the fact that justice delayed is a justice denied. how do you balance those two competing ideas that real change takes time with a recognize that there can be a body count to a lack of justice extended? >> os: well if you look at the history of revolution, the other three, the french, the russian, the chinese were all utopian, mou was a poet. when whenever you have a utopian view of the possibility of change there's a gap between reality and the ideal, and it's always filled wit

frederick douglass' house, it is of the african-american museum. they had to cancel the tour because this dissenting museums are closed. so the african-american museum was closed. so all these two companies are in washington, d.c., who make money off of the government museums, they have been going without cash, as well. federal workers definitely hurting a lot. this is biting deep, but is spreading fear of the economy now as well. >> harris: we will cover the news and it is but anything else happening. we will bring you back. thank you, john roberts. for now amongst shutdown talks, peter doocy's level a-uppercase-letter with that part. >> harris, congressional negotiators might be talking more behind closed doors then we have been led to believe. according to islamic response will for rounding up the votes in the senate. >> conversations of the highest level continued last night and even into today. my only hope is that the president will decide the shutdown has to come to an end. he alone can make that decision and make it work. he alone stood at

essential condition to continue to organize, organize and organized or agitate, agitate, agitate as frederick douglass said, because you have got to get in position, but then you got to keep the cannibal. and that's on the political side. so i think absolutely it's a mixture of both, the political action to get the elected, but you have to be able to hold them accountable. and it doesn't stop on tuesday. >> i know. i was telling them that that's the road to happiness, is to always be involved in politics. did i get any response? [ laughter ] >> i think sometimes that maybe when you talk about politics, people politics in a broad sense, it's the election process. and in some communities, i think that it gets reported at the horserace level rather than say, power politics. the other things we were talking about earlier, the protest is politics as well. but i think that sometimes he gets caught up with politics meaning, oak, that's the party stuff. >> that's really an important distinction, because increasingly and globally we are really talking about civic engagement and civic being perhaps more broadly

power, there is a very famous statement that comes from frederick douglass that says you cannot have the ocean without the roar of the waves, so assuming that people who hold power are going to concede it without a challenge and without and just because they are benevolent is a mistake. it just makes us appear like victims. >> i totally agree. i think when we started, at least my belief is data will not get done. i think repercussions, disruption, some of the things we've chatted about are definitely accelerators of change, so i don't disagree that we should just wait for people to give us what we want. >> and i totally agree. and one of the things that i wanted to bring up before i got ran out of time is you know, you guys note as one of your recommendations going forward -- and there's a lot of amazing recommendations -- is to make senior leaders and managers champions of diversity. can we make people champions of things they don't care about? >> so i would -- i don't know. i would disagree somewhat in that i think there's a very clear data-driven case that diversity drives long-te

in 1874, on his death bed, he's pleading with frederick douglass and others, do not let my civil rightsl die. >> he believed in human equality and he did everything in his power to ensure that african-americans would have the same chance at life as other americans. >> the senate passes the bill after his death and would have been one of the biggest milestones in our national history, except that the supreme court declared it unconstitutional. fast-forward to the 1950's and 1960's. again, debating civil rights legislation in america. congress passes the most sweeping civil rights bill ever to be written into law. five hours after the house passes the measure, the civil rights act of 1964 is signed at by presidentse johnson. >> senators at that time, ofticularly everett dirksen illinois, begin to look back at the charles sumner bill and they shape thenowledge to 1964 civil rights act in a way that it would stand up to muster.tional >> it received bipartisan support of more than two-thirds of the members of the house and senate. an overwhelming majority of republicans and democrats voted f

we have some big projects to be successful in the district currently the largest as the frederick douglass memorial bridge that has a direct connection so these were an opportunity to showcase the work and that connectivity that we were bringing to the region. >> and you have a good sentiment that the officials sought to have a guiding principle and then that conductivity to the region and with that herculean task and that was led by arlington county and we have that involvement to be very clear with some pretty wild headlines about tax breaks and incentives that we only wanted very minimal grants directly to amazon to put that in reinvestment ofin crystal city and arlington county and you see that in our package 360 million of investment of arlington and crystal city. so to have that priority we thought to invest in ourselves of a strong committee - - community. >> what about the greatest challenges you anticipated at the county level. >> as jeff was mentioning them for that dedicated funding without getting too into the weeds the virginia solution came at a heavy cost and the getting tha

currently our large is what is frederick douglass memorial bridge which is half the billion-dollar projecthich has a direct connection for the city with our neighboring jurisdictions. those kinds of projects when opportunity for us to showcase the work we're doing and also talk about the connectivity we are bringing to the region over the upcoming years. >> embedded in your question is a a good sentiment that my colleagues and i as elected officials in arlington county sought to establish as a guiding principle, which investments would make quote for amazon come in investments we've been making what we knew were critical to create a thriving david around crystal city as well as connectivity to the region. the credit for the day-to-day negotiations and the herculean task of preparing a response to that request for proposal goes s for economic development team led by victor haskins and christina in arlington county. we had involvement of only being very clear, particularly as we saw pretty wild headlines about tax breaks and incentives being very clear we were interested in only very minimal

personally, frederick douglas said that abraham lincoln was the only white man -- douglas had met -- dogulas -- douglass said that he was the only white man that never made him conscious of his race. >> can you talk about the humor of abraham lincoln? david: the day, september 22 that he announced he was going to release the emancipation proclamation, he summoned his cabinet. they had an idea of what would happen. this had been discussed in july. obviously, this was a very momentous meeting. they walk in and sit down. lincoln mentions that he just got a wonderful shipment in the mail that he wants to share with them. it is a book of humorous short stories by a comic writer. he insists on reading one of them aloud. it is really stupid, dialect humor. it is about a guy who has a traveling whacks figure museum. some rube mistakes his wax judas for the actual the trainer of -- actual betrayer of christ. it is a stupid story. lincoln bursts out laughing like a horse. nobody laughs. lincoln asks why they don't laugh? he said you are under as much pressure as i am, you would die. a lot of his dogs were long, s