some people are going to be like frederick douglass. some people are worried about families. some are worried about -- are going to see this in a religious framework. some are worried about their lives. there is going to be lots of different responses and we need to be aware in the way that the historical moment creates opportunities. at ed gallagher's talk, he was like -- freedom follows the union army. that is important because think about the relationship of events to moments. one thing you notice in the slave community is there are not a lot of slaves who are going out and saying, i am going to do this no matter what. there are some. what you have is a lot of people making decisions based on what they think is the best way going forward, not knowing what the future is going to bring. that is how nat turner worked and that is the story i try to tell in my book. thank you. [applause] breen: we have time for questions. the way it works is if anyone has a question, they can come up to a microphone. >> hello, dawson from illinois. my question is, to what degree do you think th

seeing this like frederick douglass. some people are seeing this as a political move. this is one of the important lessons we need to pass along to scholars and students. people do things for different reasons. mean -- you do not want to sit there and say they did it for one reason or another. they like slavery or something stupid like that. you don't want to say that but you do want to be open to the differences in views of people. now, turner is expanding it. what is -- what is the other thing this means? if there are differences between five people, are people -- are these five people following nacht turner blindly? blindly?rner what did give nat turner the confidence that it was time to begin? what was the sign? the sun appeared blue. who is into reading harbingers in the sky, but that would make me twice. that's a little weird. this is time to begin. the revolt begins paired with or they do? here's a map of st. luke's parish. at josephing to start travis' house. he is the man who is net turner's guardian. they're going to set out and followed this past towards jer

for frederick douglass, and i love that quote, so thank you for digging it up. for frederick douglass and for many other people early in the there was a certain nobility in their acts. when we get to the modern league, ithe men's see a couple of groups of people. the first are what are called the bohemian sexual radical. max friedman and his friends in the village. max believes that women should have the vote because it will make them better lovers. there will be an equalizing of gender roles, and women will stop being silly, and men can stop being profligate. betterht get to a relation. of hisell was another thought thee, who really theement, feminist cause, would liberate men, because they wouldn't have anwork, there would not be obligation on their shoulders to support women and children. and they are quite enthusiastic. max called suffrage the great fight for freedom in my lifetime. this is at a time of all these is the he says suffrage main cause here. but they soon lose, i don't want to say they lose interest, but they leave the league. start to leave the

is he thinking about it like frederick douglass does? i don't think so. i think he is religious. right? say, july 4n they comes around, what happens? this is what he said. it was intended to us to begun the work july 4 last. it affected my mind to such degree that i fell sick and the time passed without our coming to any determination on how to commence. he got worried. another sign he is not crazy. ok, we are going to die. why? god wants mewhy? because they want to. well. what did give turner the confidence it was time to begin? a new sign? what was the sign? the sun appeared blue. i am not into reading harbingers in the sky but that would make me think twice. ok. yeah. all right. that is weird. revolt begins. here's the map where the revolt will take place. they start at joseph travis's house, the man who is turner's owner -- not his owner, his guardian of his owner -- anyway, they will set out and follow this path toward jerusalem. ok? what do they do? they start squabbling in the yard of joseph travis is about who will hit first. turner says, you are talking, let's go do it.

for frederick douglass and for many other people early in the was a certaine ability in their acts. when we get to the modern see a couple of groups of people. the first are the bohemian sexual radical. that women should have the vote because it will make them better lovers. be an equalizing of gender roles, and women will stop being silly, and men can stop being profligate. the women's movement, the feminist cause would liberate men because they would not have to work, that there would not be an obligation on their shoulders to support women and children. they are quite enthusiastic. weman called suffrage the great fight for liberation in my lifetime. they soon lose -- i don't want to say they lose interest, but they lose belief. they start to lose belief by about 1912. max says that he prefers the cause where you can suffer a little for the good. by 1912, it is getting very mainstream. they sort of peel away. most of the members of the league are now good government reformers. these are people who join any movement to reform the public space. they join all kinds of causes. readjoi

i wanted to work on black abolitionists and therefore one lands on frederick douglass because he left by far the most sources and material. why one chooses to stay with douglass for so long, i mean, i wrote a lot of other books along the way, although douglass was some little piece of most of them. it is because we do get obsessed. there's no question, but then the question, what do you get obsessed with? and in douglass's case, as many of you surely know from reading him, it's the words. douglass was a word master. he became with time. he certainly didn't -- you know, nobody is born a genius with words. it took him time. he was a terrible speller. he had to learn how to put all those metaphors together that kept flying in his mind. but the only real power frederick douglass ever had, and to the extent he changed the world and is one of these change makers, that's what we're talking about today, is that he did it with language. and that is never easy to pin down. how do you pin on the wall the moment when he changed the world with language? or the next moment, or the next moment, or d

i remember, i think john conyers was the first person who ever quoted frederick douglass to me, saying, "power concedes nothing without a demand." will.er did, and it never he understood that. dr. king days after was killed in memphis, he foroduced the first bill martin luther king day. [applause] former pres. clinton: it took 15 years to pass, but john never gave up, and he kept reaching out to republicans as well as democrats, and he passed it 15 years later. president reagan signed it into law. [applause] former pres. clinton: it was more than a day on the calendar. it recognized that the struggle for equality deserves a special awarenesshe nation's and reverence and dedication, and we could find no better way to do it than by honoring its most eloquent spokesperson. price forhe ultimate convictions we should all share. after matthew shepard and james were murdered in 1998, he sponsored our bill, my administration's bill, to strengthen and expand the federal government's power to prosecute hate crimes. we tried and tried, and i could not get it passed in my eight years, but john kep

her friends abolitionists frederick douglass and john brown.was a campaigner for women's suffrage alongside susan b. anthony. she spent the last 50 years of her remarkable life here in auburn, new york, where william henry seward, president abraham lincoln's secretary of state and his wife francis offered their friendship and support. >> she was a regular guest here. social visitor, welcomed here. so we're in the old house kitchen. >> reporter: jeff ludwig is education director at the seward house museum in auburn. >> it was known that harriet tubman was looking to place her family somewhere and to plant roots somewhere, to build a home for herself. and so they offer her a piece of land. >> reporter: seven acres. a black woman, technically a huge 5 slave buying a farm? unheard of. in 1869, she got married again to nelson davis, more than 20 years her junior. >> this is an amazing house. it was one of nine cottages. >> reporter: in her 70s, she opened an old age home for formerly enslaved people and an infirmary providing free health care to any

in 1852, the smithsonian refused to let frederick douglass speak in the smithsonian. when he was asked, did he despair for this country, for the racial issues that divided us, he said, my hopes were never brighter. his optimism came from a belief in america america, in their institutions, and most importantly, in their ability to change. today, we are here speaking in a place as an african-american where frederick douglass could not speak, but we are a different institution. we have made great changes and continue to do so. nothing is impossible. i ask you today, to join me in sharing his optimism for the future. to realize that we, the smithsonian, can bring to the nation and to the world the richness of understanding, the resources to meet our challenges, and the courage to make lasting change for the benefit of humanity. with your support, as douglas wrote, my hopes are never brighter than they are now. thank you all for a day i will treasure. thank you for trusting me in the institution we all love. thank you so much. (applause) >> please welcome member of the boa

today, we are here speaking in a place as an african-american where frederick douglass could not speakt we are a different institution. we have made great changes and continue to do so. nothing is impossible. i ask you today, to join me in sharing his optimism for the future. to realize that we, the smithsonian, can bring to the nation and to the world the richness of understanding, the resources to meet our challenges, and the courage to make lasting change for the benefit of humanity. with your support, as douglas wrote, my hopes are never brighter than they are now. thank you all for a day i will treasure. thank you for trusting me in the institution we all love. thank you so much. [applause] please welcome member of the board of regents committee. lavizzo-mourey: good afternoon. the first time i met lonnie, it was obvious he had not only vision, but the knowing of the why and how our people should celebrate its people. you probably don't remember, but we met at least the construction site for the national museum for the african-american history and culture. in the trailer that used

i was a graduate student in ended up writing my dissertation on frederick douglass. what attracted me to douglas and the african-american experience generally i would say is if i s reading -- i am a political theorist by training this is in youisn'tyour typical book but ie interested in these ultimate questions about

he built a place for his father, but frederick douglass is said to have never had the opportunity to enjoy the home because he died in 1895 before it was completed. natchez --d on the national register. this does not appear in the green book and i think that is purposeful. they tried to maintain their exclusivity and there's even an article in the paper were there charges that they are trying to become less exclusive and they say, no, this is who it is for. they did not want this information to get out. it's still a resort community to this day. frederickscendents of douglass and booker t. washington still have residence at the resort. we talked about the guide and i would like to close with these advertisement guidebooks might prescribed,ut the but not necessarily the lived experiences. they are telling you where you should go, not necessarily where they went. where do we find this information? it would be great if we had diaries like the judge had. i was so jealous when he brought that out, but it's often not the case. a lot of people did not write .iaries if they did, they are not

frederick douglass, i tell them about him. born a slave in the united states of america and because of his leadership and what he did, he saw human slavery and in this country in his generation. and you know what? i think that frederick douglass is as much a founder as the people who wrote the constitution. that's what i believe. that's what i believe, iowa and i believe the women that fought for my daughters to have the right to vote our founders just like the people who wrote the constitution. that's what i believe, iowa. and that's what i think of all of you. that's your job ascitizens in this republic . we are founders of the republic. it is that elevated sense of what your responsibility is and when you have a president who doesn't believe in the ruleof law , who doesn't believe in the separation of powers, who doesn't believe in the independence of the judiciary, doesn't believe in the freedom of the press, evendoes not believe in our democracy, you have a job to do . you may not have asked for it but you know what your

can you explain this frederick douglass, someone that is really inspiring to you? why?hat is your relationship with the community? i think the problem that mayor pete has is that he comes across is a very good student, someone who is deeply studied and can understand issues, but doesn't have a context oftentimes or a story to back it up. people reaealize that and recognize that. he is a millennial who does not have, right now, black k friends out there talking about him. that is worrisome. amy: explain what happened in south bend, indiana, what happened during his campaign, the killing of an african-american. >> both the police killing and the ongoing way that he has had problems with pulleys tension, the firing of the black police chief who is working to expose racism in the force. this is someone who has had deep challenges with racial justice in a relatively small city that most people probably can't .2 at the map -- on the map, who now was to be president of the united states. racial justice is done aside peace. it is not charity. and while it is moral, it is actual

it is a two-person show where frederick douglass and susan b anthony engage in a dialogue and transcend their friendship. you will understand the close interception between race and gender in that timeframe and also with the movement. we will be sponsoring -- since it is touring around the united states in 2020, we will be sponsoring high schools to be going, high school history students to go see that play. it is a great way to engage. we are targeting 11 graders to be able to go and learn a little bit more in depth about history. >> in my presentation i mentioned the suffrage caps and we have a coloring page for susan b anthony at her house in rochester, new york, the design your own suffrage star, and all of those have history about why those are there. those are aimed at younger kids or adults who like to call her. we had an all hands staff meeting for cultural resources at the parks service and after some trepidation, there were lots and lots of grown adults sticking pom-poms and coloring caps. we arethe other things offering, and we had a pilot project this past summer, was a seri

and frederick douglass -- i love that quote, so thank you for digging it up. for frederick douglass and those in the movement, there was a certain nobility in their act. when we get to the modern movement, the league, men's league, i see a couple of groups of people. the first are the -- what are called the bohemian sexual radicals. and these are max friedman and his friends down in the village. max believes that women should have the vote because it will make them better lovers. there will be an equalizing of gender roles and women will stop being silly and men can stop being profligate and might get to a better relation. floyd dell was never of his friends there who thought that women -- that the women's movement, really the feminist cause it would liberate men -- >> not to have to work. >> -- because they wouldn't have to work. that there wouldn't be an obligation on their shoulders to support women and children. and they are quite enthusiastic. max friedman calls suffrage the great fight for freedom in my lifetime. so, this is at a time of all these isms,

i hear frederick douglass is still doing amazing things. [laughter] but yet, for your this project i was able to interview not a lot of the students who posted baldwin buckley with us, i was able to interview them and how they remembered what happened that night and their interactions with these two. and also of the blue inverter interview people who knew baldwin and or buckley in in some cases some people managed to be friends of both. and you say that is a really important thing in thinking about it. i've had some great conversations of people just remembered, one of the encounters. if you've ever seen both of them on television, the reaction they've had. i really powerfully sprints on site at whittier college, and one of the faculty members remembered as an african-american back that she remembered watching the debate with her parents. and her parents reactions to this experience. and i say to be able to have a history is close enough that we can continue actually hear people news accounts, is really powerful. i see should i should see b

i think that frederick douglass is as much a founder as the people who wrote the constitution. i believe. that's what i believe, iowa. i believe the women that fought for my daughter's to have the right to vote are founders just like the people who wrote the constitution. that's what i believe, iowa. and that's what i think of all of you. that's your job as citizens in this republic. you are founders of the republic. it's that elevated sense of what your responsibility is. when you have a president who doesn't believe in the rule of law, who doesn't believe in the separation of powers, who doesn't believe in the independence of the judiciary, who doesn't believe in the freedom of the press. he does not believe in our democracy. you have a job to do. you may not have asked for it, but you know what your job is? it's to save this democracy for the next generation of americans. that is what you're being asked to do, iowa. that is what you are being asked to do. and i know you won't shirk that responsibility. we can't and live up to the example that our parents and grandparents did

state with washington and franklin that are unique and similarly with the documents and then frederick douglass was a fourth of july meant to the slave. and that is a characteristic of a free society these philosophies to be rest assured it's not self perpetuating our fate is in her hands that something that has to be done and keep being done and this will only be obvious to us in the future could you pick something since reagan quick. >> i could but i'm not going to say i don't want to turn anybody off the story i'm also not writing a book of policy prescriptions. this isn't to hold your hand and what's most important with american exceptionalism. since roosevelt's triumph had begun to emulate in certain ways so are we less exceptional today because we have liberty and democracy and in particular how canada and holland differ at times and the closest for canadian politics. and to be a canadian that's why he was aware of it. and then to say he ran it because he was a canadian. like the canadians. but they are different. there is no first amendment for one - . it doesn't happen a lot because can

good and if the answer is therefore we are doing fine because of free speech and referencing frederick douglass it's a little shameless and it's a selective. yes we have an amendment. the parts of it that are being left out how does it then follow that is the only good we are pursuing and that is the only freedom that matters especially with douglas and came to give me money through their time and dttention that isn't what freedom means. it's a kind of freedom if you want to find it in some kind of a new speak sense and the thing that has been left out a wee don't think of them as being able to have complex trade-offsi among them. it is a time when things need to be said for the first amendment is lovely, i love it lets not get rid of it. and i don't want anybody with that political idea being sent to jail so i am advocating for is that not be the end of the discussion and it's geared to how we establish those very simple facts and imagine if we did that in the second amendment or we have established if you say there's the right to bear arms to raise the complexity it flies in the face of this

on the frederick douglass planned that i propose has intentional as the marshall plan with this timeare testing it right here in the united states. to deal with systemic racism and has brought just the things that get talked about most. in his right press to talk about criminal justice reform because we need reform. if you made it safer, we'd be the safest country in the world. something simple. we need to cut the good incarceration. especially at the racist biases we do with the numbers. but we also need to look at solutions coming from within the black community like entrepreneurship. there is tremendous opportunity for more economic growth and prosperity to be delivered by minority entrepreneurs and i will commit the federal government to doing a better job of making our purchases reflects the diversity in this country. and making sure we have policies that promote the creation of economic opportunity for people and communities who have been systemically included and we see it now. the black female patient is three times likely to die in childbirth is alive and even we do control

president bill clinton >> i remember, i think john conyers the first person that ever quoted frederick douglassg power conceives nothing without a demand never did and never will he understood that >>> thank you very much. take a look at the markets right now. we give you a check on the day when a dow hit a new high. s&p is higher. it's the russell that does about a 1% away or so. it cut revenue guidance for the rest of the year next strikyker is buyin inin iit medical. twilio lowering its earnings outlook. it had already lowered that guidance once last week when it r reported results >>> let's send it over to tyler. >> one place where it's been written is unlikely. it will be a million unfilled tech jobs in this country and a lot of them are in coding. the gentleman you're about to meet, a venture capitalist founded a group called the last mile which teaches convicts in prison in san quinton how to code and then gets them jobs how did the last mile start? when did it start? >> we started in 2010 and i was invite into the prison to do a talk to a group of men about business and entrepreneurship

long listed for the national book award for nonfiction and winner of the guilder lemon center frederick douglassrize. she's also written for numerous publications including the new york times, huffington post, boston globe and washington post before we begin i would like to say if you can silence cell phones anything that makes a noise and they also realize i forgot to mention the name of our wonderful trustees in the audience, clean Ãthank you to trustees for all the wonderful work they do for us. join me in welcoming our guests. [applause] >> thank you alex for that very nice introduction for both of us. i'd like to welcome all of you to our public program on the second founding, how the civil war and reconstruction remade the constitution by ericy eric foner. of course he's an american historian and you already heard the accolades he has won. but i thought i would also introduce him today with a contemporary description of the radical republican congressman thaddeus stevens of pennsylvania doing reconstruction. i just came across it so it struck me as very appropriate. the observer said "over

they have a two day meeting in one of the more famous people who attend is frederick douglass from rochester new york and the only known black person although there are 12 people of whom we know nothing so possibly others. and what is interesting about the meaning that even here the issue of women voting controversial because many of these women were quakers and quakers by this point are thinking, the whole political system is corrupt. it supports slavery, we don't want anything to do it we should agitate our politics but participate is playing the doubles game. elizabeth cady stan says if you are not voting you are not represented and you have no guarantees in the ways of protecting your own station and your own rights. and i think she is guided by the fact that her father was in politics and her husband was in politics and she's been observing politics her whole life so she knows the importance. she wins this point and it gets in the document. i will skip ahead, obviously the civil war sucks up everyone's attention, after the civil war western states and territories do individually allow w

honest abe and frederick douglass. given to us by the hand of almighty god.plause] guided by that immortal truth, republicans are fighting for incredible jobs, great schools, they streets, farewells, and a government that listens and answers to you. we are talking about replacing the corrupt politicians, crony lobbyists, bought and paid for. they bring a minute pay forum. they are disgracing a class of people in a group of people. i'm not talking african-american but all agree american. disgracing us as a nation. they have hurt you for far too long. it is time to see what is happened over the last short. of time. we have a lot of great commentators in front of a lot of commentators and back. have a couple of really great commentators in the far back. what are you doing back there? they are great and they get it. they know what is happening. some of them did not get it at the beginning. but they have seen what is happened. their day is over. your day has begun. [applause] everyone ande need every like-minded voter nationwide to take part. toa righteous campaig

she meant slavery, segregation and the civil rights movement, frederick douglass, sojourner truth and rosa parks, martin, malcolm and others. february stories, which has american stories belong to her, this white american woman, more than they do to my daughters. i am an african who lives in america come isabella explained one day.. she was recounting a conversation she had with aou third-grade classmate. the african children's choir had come to burlington into the class had taken a field trip to see them perform a. later that day come isabella's classmate a in an attempt to identify the difference she perceived between isabella and the children on stage had referred to isabella as an african-american. isabella corrected her. while it may think that i'm an american, i am african. when i came to this country, she continued, astonishment made it difficult for me to continue paying attention that my daughter had such a fine sense of her place in the world might have been known. her implicit assessment of my role as essentially a porter in the stage of her life journey felt appropriate. m

problem, so to fix this problem buttigieg has released something called a douglas plan is in frederick douglasseving racial harmony of sorts. the plan was illustrated with the photograph of a black woman and her child. the problem is the picture was of people in kenya, not the united states. and then last week, buttigieg released a list of 400 black south carolinians he claims have endorsed him in his douglas plan. problem? a lot of the people in the list appeared to be surprised that thereer there and in the most hilarious detail of the year so far, most half of them are actually white. mark steyn is an author and columnist, he [laughs] i just couldn't resist. i don't really know what to say about it. what do you make of it, mark steyn? >> while the whole democrat theory of elections in the modern era is that if you put together the rainbow coalition and you bring them all together, they'll outvote all the racists on the republican side. and also their interests don't coincide in the whole point about the rainbow coalition's are actually trying to find a candidate who appeals to w white libera

one of the more famous people who attends is frederick douglass. he comes down from rochester, new york. he's the only known black person there, although there are 12 people of who we know nothing. so there possibly were others. and what is interesting to me about this meeting is that even here the issue of women voting was controversial. because many of these women were quakers. and quakers by this point are thinking, well, you know, the whole political system is corrupt. i mean, it supports slavery, you know? why have anything to do with it. we should agitate outside politics. but to participate in it is playing the devil's game. and elizabeth cady stanton says, no. if you're not voting, you're not represented, and you have no guarantees, no ways of protecting your own station and your own rights. and i think she's guided to this by the fact that her father was in politics and the fact that her husband was in politics, and she's been observing politics all her life, so she knows the importance of it. he wins this point and gets -- she wins this p

abe.onest republicans are the party of lincoln and frederick douglass.ublican party knows that our rights, liberties and freedoms are given to us by the hand of almighty god. are fighting for fair laws, safe streets, and a government that listens to you, the american people. when we talk about draining the swamp, we are talking about politicians,rupt crony lobbyists -- they bring the men and they pay for them. they are disgracing really a class of people and a group of people and i am not talking african-american. . am talking all americans they are disgracing us as a nation. they dismiss you. they hurt you. they sabotaged you for far too long. it's time. it's time to see what has happened over the last short time. we have a lot of commentators in front. we have a lot of commentators and back. we have a couple really good commentators in the far back. what the hell are you doing back there you go but they are great and they get it and they know what's happening. some of them did not get it. but they see what happened over the last three years. but their

he's the author of the political thought of frederick douglass and editor of the essential douglass and abraham lincoln and liberal democracy. his work has appeared in "the new york times," salon and many other publications. he is the elizabeth morrison glickman political science at lynnfield college in oregon and lives in portland. tonight he's here to present his book the fires upon us james baldwin william f. buckley junior and the debate over race in america. please join me in welcoming nicholas. [applause]

pete buttigieg actually came out with the frederick douglass plan. to address racial inequity in the united states, and that's a lot more than we've seen from some other folks. that doesn't mean he gets a pass. what it means is that let's have a productive conversation instead of just trying to cancel one another every chance we get. >> well, we are in the midst of a cancer culture here. i will say this about mayor pete buttigieg. i've had the opportunity to spend some time with him. in fact, i did a piece several months ago down in south carolina. the mayor is acutely aware of his problem with black voters. he is aware that there is this perception that, yes, you might be a road scholar and you might be viewed as progressive on a number of issues, but you don't have the kind of street credit takes to win over large swaths of black voters. this is part of what he told me months ago down in columbia. >> i've seen a number of your rallies, fairly homogenous, racially speaking at least. how do you plan to speak to african-american voters specifically? >

abolition which was long listed for the national book award for nonfiction and winner of the frederick douglass prize. she is also written for numerous publications including the "new york times," "huffington post," "boston globe" andg the "washington post." before it began as always i would like to say if you can silence any cell phones you might have to anything that makes a noise, and i also realize i forgot to mention the name of her wonderful trustees in the audits, pat, so again thank you to our trustee for all the wonderful work they do for us. now please join me in welcoming our guests. [applause] >> thank you alex for that great, very nice introduction for both of us. i'd like to welcome all of you to our public program on "the second founding: how the civil war and reconstruction remade the constitution." of course our guest is a preeminent american historian and you've already heard all the accolades that he has one. but i thought i would also introduce him today with a contemporary description of the radical republican congressman stevens during reconstruction. i came across it so i

went to frederick douglass high school where my father taught many moons ago. he desperately wanted to go to the flagship law school in his home city, university of maryland law school. back then, blacks were not admitted. went down to louhoward law scho and started studying an he was discovered by the dean. dean houston was actually the first african-american editor admitted to the "mharvard law review." this portrait is the only portrait that sits in the "law revi review" building. just charles h it was because he discover the thurgood marshall. as a dean, he saw this student who was so brilliant. a better oralist, advocate, writer, he'd ever seen and mentored him and graduated at the top of his class and could have gone to any law firm, any clerkship he wanted to, instead, he went back to baltimore and fresh out of law school, he hung up a shingle on a redwood street, right downtown, and in his first year he filed a lawsu the university of maryland law school for admitting blacks. he made an argument no one ever made before. he made an argument no court had

republicans are the party of lincoln and frederick douglass.il rights act and hard-working american patriots of every race, religion, color and creed. the republican party knows our --hts, remedies and freedoms liberties and freedoms are given to us by the hand of god. of truth,that democrats are fighting for -- publicans are fighting for safe streets, and a government that listens and enters to the american people. when we talk about draining the swamp, we are talking about replacing the corrupt bureaucrats and politicians, crony lobbyists, they bring the men and they pay for them. class ofdisgracing a people and a group of people and i'm not talking african-americans. i'm talking all americans. they are disgracing us as a nation. you, hurtdismissed you, and they have sabotaged you for far too long. it is time to see what has happened over the last short period of time. we have a lot of great commentators in front. we have commentators in the back as well. we have some in the far back. what are you doing back there? they are great. they get it

the idea is, it's named after frederick douglass he demanded our country be closer to the cup to its professed ideals. i think we should call the plant and him after person to remind people that it could be as impatient ambitious as the marshall plan except this time let's invested like it at home one of the reasons why in addition to things like it often the most discussion what comes to problems of a racial inequity like an equity in our criminal justice system. i'm really focus on solution side. solutions come in from within the black community and entrepreneurship i proposing the federal government have 25% goal for business led by people have been historically excluded. it's why we're proposing a walk of this initiative that would provide what we call a debt for jobs guarantee to remove the debt from pell eligible students who start small business. people face what's informally called a black tax can basically the fact and entrepreneur of compass more likely to be inspected to find relatives and support family members because of that same wealth gap you are talking about. whethe

like fort monroe national monument in hampton, to the frederick douglass house in washington, d.c. to the med grand merle he evers to the reconstructed park in south carolina. these places tell the story of the african-american extremes in the united states. and it is for this very reason that we have sponsored previous sessions at the conference focused on the national park system. and while the national park service is in charge of managing these parks, they do not do so in isolation. like the npca advocacy partnership, the national park service partners with organizations in their protection, preservation, and interpretation of african-american sites. tonight we will hear valuable stories about black migration, how the national park service is bringing this complex and significant history tonight to life. we will hear how preservationists are working with communities to preserve their historic sites and cultures, and how advocates and scholars are pushing for the creation of new national park designations and for national institutions to tell the full story of african-american h

well and frederick douglass, and he was going to come back to study in hampton institute at hbcu and my alma mater as well. so when he went down there, and by the way, he was at the world's columbian exposition raising money for hampton as part of the quartet. so that is how they used to raise money for the hbcus. so he came back to chicago in 1905 with pennies. he did become a lawyer, and had a law education later in chicago, and then he was told that he is too black to be able to be a lawyer. so, he just kept saying that i wanted to be a defender of my people. so, his landlady gave him an opportunity to start his newspaper "the chicago defender" in 1905. and so in 1905, he started to go door-to-door and getting news and it is interesting, because on the newspaper, when you are seeing the first newspaper on one side, it says good news and on the other side it said bad news. so he would report on what was going on in the neighborhood and this is in 1905 and really set the pace, and he began and at the right place at the right time. as time went on, and by 1910 in five years from then