part of that is houston and my goodness, part that is for frederick douglass as well as frederick douglass in abraham lincoln. abject poverty. lincoln, one year of formal schooling he learns to read learns write runs for office loses most the time, loses a senate race and, captures america's imagination, starts this new party at the perfect. the party splits enough for him to win with 5% of the vote and half the country voting for him ends up being arguably our best president. and when i talk about a in frederick douglass born in slavery, never knew his mom, never knew his dad, just determined to matter in life, got himself educated, overcame things i can't imagine reminds me of half luther king, malcolm x or third malcolm x up luther king and muhammad ali. he was privy active. he was direct. he was he was charming, was charismatic. and the guy had a inspirational. he ends up being his own editor, publisher a self-taught, charismatic speaker. i can't begin to tell. can't get my head around what he overcame to be this impactful player. one of the greatest americans ever that had every reaso

part of that is houston and my goodness, part that is for frederick douglass as well as frederick douglass in abraham lincoln. abject poverty. lincoln, one year of formal schooling he learns to read learns write runs for office loses most the time, loses a senate race and, captures america's imagination, starts this new party at the perfect. the party splits enough for him to win with 5% of the vote and half the country voting for him ends up being arguably our best president. and when i talk about a in frederick douglass born in slavery, never knew his mom, never knew his dad, just determined to matter in life, got himself educated, overcame things i can't imagine reminds me of half luther king, malcolm x or third malcolm x up luther king and muhammad ali. he was privy active. he was direct. he was he was charming, was charismatic. and the guy had a inspirational. he ends up being his own editor, publisher a self-taught, charismatic speaker. i can't begin to tell. can't get my head around what he overcame to be this impactful player. one of the greatest americans ever that had every reaso

frederick douglass did have a little bit to say about prisons, but not that much. and angela davis basically this essay wishing that he had taken it up as a major cause when convict labor practices were in their infancy, by which she meant the hope. the post post-civil war. and she was to the south. but where we when we understand that actually convict labor began in new york state which was where douglass was living the fact that he never took it up is all the more astonishing. if we are thinking from our perspective. so one of the things that i'm doing in this book is really answering this question why was it not a major a major rallying cry for a amazing people, brilliant geniuses like frederick douglass, also harriet tubman, who lived in auburn. she lived in auburn to miles away from the auburn state prison for the second half of her life, from the 1850s, through her her passing in 1913. so why why wasn't there more organizing against the prison? and in answer to your question about his family, his family loved him. his family really loved him. and that was rea

frederick douglass' paper had at its peak about 3,000 subscribers, and that was about the same as the liberator as well, so in a population which in 1860 is about 33 million, having 3,000 subscribers isn't huge, but of course given that they are ant fringe movement evn on the eve of the civil war, the abolitionists gained several thousand subscribers for many of these newspapers. actually doing a pretty good job getting the word out. so, douglas follows garrison's example in first and foremost trying to expose this is what slavery is really like. we are going to make it impossible to ignore all these facts. so, large parts of the newspapers were consistent of reports of brutality, these are just several examples of one issue of the north star incl the late 1840s, talking about slaves hung in south carolina and another wasav hung in virgia for stealing some pork. they would pack the readers with example after example. t again the idea being to saturate the newspapers with evidence of the realities of slavery. so, in all kinds of ways, abolitionists were trying to use the power of the p

he's frederick douglass. interestingly, douglass, as you say in the quotation up here, he he's inspired in part by the example of william garrison and the liberator. so douglass is working slavery in many different kinds of ways he's he's published in his autobiography. he's giving these spellbinding lectures on the lecture circuit, trying to persuade northerners to oppose slavery, but then inspired in part by, the liberator, he decides in 1847 that he's going to start publishing his own newspaper. and you can see here he's picking up on on the the style of the liberator and goals of the liberator to express sympathy for african-americans in slavery. he's talking about this sympathy for my brethren in bonds. and he's talking about it's scathing denunciations of slaveholders, again, exposing those sins is much of what the abolitionist presses is trying to do is faithful exposÉs of slavery. all of this impresses douglass. and so he decides in 1847 he's going to create his own newspaper. and this is called the n

now, what booker t washington said, what frederick douglass said was leave black people because the things that you're to do on their behalf are harmful. many news stories now have covering the serious level of crime when woke days won't. here's what will cover when a tourist comes to town and gets harmed or injured when they break into someone's house in new beach. those kinds stories are still making the news. but what's not making the news are the overwhelming number of black americans who are almost systematically and when officers in chicago go in detroit even though detroit claims and they're having a lot of progress, you're seeing police officers, leeds, new york city. we need those especially in black communities. one of the charts that you have in your book is about prison rates. so explain that. so in beginning of the 20th century, black men were least likely to be in federal prisons. if you say that, the trend that we see, the phenomenon that we see now is an outworking of slavery. what explains this drop the? truth of the matter is this is all the police did was people convict

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allow me to quote from one of my favorite americans, frederick douglass. former slave turned abolitionist, who had every reason to hate america. but eventually became one of her greatest defenders. this is douglass. i affirm that the broadest and bitterest of the black man's miss fortunes is the fact that he's everywhere regarded and treated as an exception to the principles in maxims which apply to other men. douglass thought this would brand them with the, quote, stigma of infearity. in other words, it reinforced the myth of white supremacy. our panelists in their own ways reject this kind of black exceptionalism. for the sake of what i call american exceptionalism. they affirm the central idea of america. the principle of human equality. the idea that every person, regardless of race or ethnicity, possesses the god-given, natural right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happyness. -- happiness. to shift away from equality and each person's right and therefore responsibility to develop their natural capacity to govern themselves in their pursuit of happ

the first african-american special decision murray williams to perform at the white house and frederick douglass introduced her. nellie taft is on the bottom right hand corner developed cultural diversity when they were in the philippines and taft was thee governor general at the time. she found there was the line and filipinos were not being invited to events. she changed all ofe that. she invited them to white house open houses which had not been done before and the african-american step but she believe education was b a great equalizer and supported the start of kindergarten classes for black children. she is best known from bringing the cherry trees to washington ursula rights activities were certainly very important. next to her in the middle of the road is allen nelson who is woodrow wilson's first wife. she was a southernerwh whose family were and she was not the most progressive first ladies in this particular area but she did do some things that were very important and something similar that we can talk about with lady bird johnson and that was there were the housing situation was for a

first african-american professional musician, marie williams, to perform at the white house and frederick douglass introduced her. she also invited other black music groups, including students, to sing at white house events. helen nellie taft, who's in the bottom left hand corner, developed an appreciation for cultural diversity when they were in the philippines and. that taft was the governor general of the philippines at the time. she found that there was a color line and that the soul pianos were not being invited to events. well, she changed all of that. and they really considered her to be very egalitarian. she also looked at the plight of african-american immigrants who were in washington, d.c., and tried to do some things for them. and she invited them to white house open houses, which had not been done before, and added african-americans to the staff. she believed that education was a great equalizer, and she supported the start of kindergarten classes for black children. well, she's best known for bringing the cherry trees to washington. her civil rights activities are lesser known, but t

only pastor her church but demand rights for freedom, but also, of course, the usual suspects, frederick douglasse tension between him and elizabeth cady statin when she wanted women to have the right to vote, and then she started making racist remarks and he was like, that ain't what we be talking about. so those kinds of issues there, and these people pop up, and ordinary citizens. people think the founding fathers were for democracy for everybody and voting. they were like, nah, we don't want the african american people voting, the enslaved people voting, women voting. let's come up with a rule, you have to own property. now, they gave it -- they punt it to the states. the federal government said let's let the states allow. new jersey was the only state to allow women to vote for a while. black people could vote in some states and not in others. so it was wildly unpredictable, wildly varied but ultimately, the struggle of black people consolidated forces in defense of truep democracy, like we were on january 6th when black women and black people continued to save this democracy. >> trying to s

endorsed mark robinson, is that it calls back two years ago when he called out of the blue oh, frederick douglass, i hear he's doing really good things are i'm paraphrasing, but something like that he's sort of playing himself when he just reaches four a famous or revered black name to compare to someone who is just a garden variety statewide politician. and i don't think that plays well even with people who are inclined to vote for him all right, david swerdlick, always great talking to you. thank you so much and sharing a truck here and there as well all right. >> coming up all ballots must now be hand counted in georgia. >> that new rule coming from the state's gop majority election board. what it can mean on election day plus israel and hezbollah are exchanging fire across lebanon's border. we'll have a live report from lebanon for the latest attacks newsroom brought to you by progressive, progressive commercial insurance protect small businesses with affordable coverage options, quote today. >> and progressive commercial.com when you're a small business owner, you to do list can be a lot wha

a phrase picked up by henry clay and then by lincoln, frederick douglass. after the civil war, insists on the urgent importance education as being crucial to self-improvement. that's why he says that equal access to education is necessary, the pursuit of happiness. and then emerson defines the american as so self mastery and intellectual liberation. so it's just this extraordinary throughline throughout, ancient history all the way up through american history. and it persists in america, the 1950s, and then it just drops of the literature and this was news to me. i never read these books when i was in college, despite my, you know, the great teachers that i had. and something happened in the sixties, happiness changed from being good to feeling good. let it all hang out. you do you, you know, and and now we have a different meaning. and that's why it was so to recover the classical definition of the pursuit happiness. carlos i. i wanted to tell you that at some times and i was reading your book, i felt like you had predictive and i know you're about to say

yeah, well, i tried use the same test that that douglass frederick douglass did when he dedicated a statue here in washington to my to to lincoln and to emancipation and douglass gave this really, i think, beautiful speech about lincoln in which he said this is, i think, about ten years after the civil war, in which he said, know, lincoln was you know, he was was a white man's president. he was, you know, this that you know that they all criticisms he said but judged by the tenor of the times and the environment that that he was in, he he was at the forefront of the movement for black advancement. and that's the appropriate measuring is did he lead or? did he try to you know, pull the country back? and so that's that's the reason i bring measurement in for four statues. that's the way i look at lincoln is that's the way i think it's reasonable to look at any historical figure is did they lead and push or did they do that to retrench and try to pull back? well, among lincoln obsessives, but to me, there's always a raging debate of what reconstruction would have looked like if john booth had

when you think about frederick douglass, a rhetorical master, most eloquent man of the 19th century three, or elizabeth cady stanton, there as a feminist arguing america has always been at his best when we have come together to leverage the authority and the validity of our citizenship in the name of true democracy. but look at the election of 18, 76, when you got the birth of the red shirts and they were out there writing in rough shot against african people who were simply trying to vote. and then congressmen and senators were going on the floor bragging about how they had undercut and suppress the black vote. and to the extent of killing black people to preserve white supremacy. and on january 6, we saw that three issue itself. again from post-reconstruction to what's going on in this third reconstruction as dr. peniel joseph causes this is a ready example for us to look at what we point out in this book is our opportunity to make america truly what it is meant to be, not make america great again, make america better and better than it's ever been, because we're committed to the fundam

you know, he shared a pulpit with frederick douglass in 1844. he actually intended to praise douglass in his speech. and for complicated reasons, he did not. i would love to know whether this did two people talk to each other. i mean, i wish there was some way to find out, but emerson's interactions with actual black people were scanty. and i think that's unfortunate, but that's the way it is. what you've assembled is extremely impressive of the way you deal with it, the way most have immersed yourself and all sorts of emerson. that's for sure. to ask one of those naive questions, which is why emerson walked through this huge labor. yeah, that's a good question. i haven't been an emerson fan boy my entire life. i really think was. around 2000, 25 years ago. the short version that i was having a very miserable time in my life in all sorts of different ways and as i've discovered, people who are in the midst of great tribulations are kind of often drawn to emerson. and it doesn't seem logical in a way, because he's not a personal essayist and he c

frederick douglass. john marshall. john ross. elias boudinot. daniel webster. william johnson. john calhoun. many others. these producers of constitutional discourse understood themselves as obliged to honor structure of the constitution. in some ways, they were committed to constitutional interpretation through argumentation, spoken as well as written. so now i'd like to turn to a set of court episodes in the book chapters that concerned south carolina in the 1820s and 1830s, but they are not usual stories of south carolina in this period or south carolina in, say, 1861, at the beginning of the civil war. nor do they focus on the usual carolinians of the period. these episodes concern two searing moments of legal and political controversy that began in charleston, but reverberated throughout the nation and across the atlantic. so here we see an image of charleston in 1776. and as this suggests, the city was the creature, its enormous harbor. the point at which the ashley and the cooper rivers opened into the atlantic ocean. by the 1820s, the waters were still the highway conne

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frederick douglass, who was the most famous black journalists and the most respected of his time, his printing press was burned down. idb wells chased out of town for telling the truth. so this is this is a continuation of what black people have encountered throughout history when we have tried to tell the truth. but we can't do your so just kind of expanding on on that idea of you know the idea of of censorship ship across the board. do you feel or experience a sense of censorship when you approach a topic considering you know what the reaction to your work or maybe you don't and and why or why is that. well i don't know about them, but i'm every time i get a book contract, it's like, did they read my last book, i mean, i think it's always more difficult for for us, but somehow those of us here have have found ways to to be published. so i don't feel that my work been censored. in fact, i'm a little insulted that none of my books on a book i said i might my books, except i said that the other night i can't i don't want my books to be banned feel a sense of censorship at all. i you kn

frederick douglass, they came together.eren't. it caused consternation. as you said, the fight for the right to vote has been, from the beginning of this nation. i'm sitting next to history in that sense. when we trace it back from frederick telex douglas and when we talk about what happened with the struggles in the 19th century and 20th century, a philip randolph and others making strides, you have to continually fight for the right to be of to vote. >>> any awarding actor and producer john leguiziamo taking a look into the contributions and the history of the latino community. unity. ♪♪ tresemme, style your way. ♪♪ from this can't miss moment... ..to this hello new grandpa moment... ...to that whatever this is moment... your moments are worth protecting against rsv. if you're 75 or older, or 60 or older with certain chronic conditions. you're at higher risk of being hospitalized from rsv. and there are no prescription rsv treatments. you have options. ask your doctor about pfizer's rsv vaccine. because moments like these

frederick douglass, elizabeth stanton.the movement because black men were getting the right to vote and white women weren't, so it caused consternation. but the fight for the right to vote has been from the very beginning of this nation. i'm sitting next to history in that sense. when we trace it back from frederick douglass and talk about what happened with the struggles there in the 19th century and the 20th century those making strides to vote, ida b. wells, name the roll call of people on the front line, making sure african american people, indigenous people, they had struggles, as well, immigrants coming to the nation. it is a passing of the baton to say it is never a given. you have to continually fight for the right to be able to vote. >> i'm curious. i know fundamentally that older black women are foundational to any democrat winning any election in this country. >> right. >> period. >> mm-hmm. >> most reliable voters. the most margins for the democratic party. i also have seen, especially over the last 10, 15 year

articulated is in my view of the best of the american tradition, stemming from the original frederick douglass in a composite nation, who stood up for chinese immigration and talked about a nation of all nations, and then dr. king given that voice in the civil rights movement, leading to the immigration reform act so that my parents could come to america. reverend jackson really articulated the vision of what that cohesive, multiracial democracy will look like. it is amazing to me that he did it in 1988, not just talking about black-and-white america, but black and latino and americans of all different backgrounds. it is obama who built on that and now kamala harris who is going to build on that. when we do become the first cohesive multiracial democracy in the world, it will be a large part because of rep. jackson: -- because of reverend jackson's efforts. john: thank you, ro khanna. a round of applause for katrina band and hoople, larry cohen -- katrina vanden hoople, larry cohen, and ro khanna. [applause] >> wow. i always want to take one of those nation trips that katrina leads. all my lif

lincoln was right, and george washington was right and johns marshall was right and fragrant -- frederick douglass martin luther king are right. we are one nation and one people. the shining value of union and the necessity of preserving and protecting the union is the single most important lesson of american history so let us not forget it today. host: seems like a good place to end. for most mower -- for much more can go to constitutioncenter dot oregon. that event happening at 1115 time p.m. -- 11:15 p.m. eastern. jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo. it is always good to have you, especially on constitution day. guest: thank you. host: coming up and about an hour we will focus on the war in gaza and a discussion with anelle sheline. until then it is the open forum. any public policy issue or political issue you want to talk about, the phone lines are in. they are on your screen now. go ahead and start calling in. we will get your calls after the break. >> c-span now is a free mobile app it -- featuring your unfiltered view of what is happening in washington live and on-demand. keep up with the