angela: yeah, it was t the women's s house ofof detention in greenwich village, yeah. yeah, they took me -- first they tookok me to the fbi's office.. i mean, they -- well, i'm having to go back inin my memomory 48 years. and i reremember being onhehe elevatorr and knowing that they had found us. i was traveling with a man by the -- who was actually really amazing. and he ended up being arrested -- david poindexter. and he finally beat the case. but i i remember -- we were going up to the hotel room, and i remember thinking that this is it. i coululd sense that i it was going to happen.n. and as soon as we got up to the floor, they grabbed me, they grabbed him. they snatched -- i had a wig, because i was in disguise. they snatched my wig off. and -- only time i've ever worn a wig in my life! and my brother saw -- my b brotr saw a picture or something, and he said, "that's not my sister." but they kept asking me, "are you angela davis?" and, you know, i learned when i was a very young child not t to talk k to the fbi. you do not say anything to the fbi. i learned when i

so the greenwich village movement was there to celebrate people's culture. >> if you like the music,ally signing on for their ways of looking at the world, too. ♪ and then, eventually, one guy emerges as being special. ♪ ♪ a bullet from the back of a bush took medgar evers' blood ♪ >> during that time in the '60s, as that cultural revolution was slowly bubbling and kids were starting to question authority, question what was happening in their country, they're looking for answers. >> bob dylan thought that folk music was poetry. he took beat energy and mixed it with folk culture, and it's more lyrical intensity than anybody's put to song before. ♪ and the negro's name is used, it is plain ♪ ♪ for the politician's gain as he rises to fame ♪ >> up until the time of bob dylan, there were the songwriters and there were the singers. dylan started writing his own music. >> he says, i am going to comment on the world, i'm going to comment on the nature of this human experience. bob dylan was sort of in this white-hot moment of saying more in the popular song than anyone ever had before. ♪ on

. >> an elegant townhouse in new york's greenwich village was destroyed by a series of dynamite explosions. >> authorities first assumed an accidental detonation in a gas line had been responsible, except that the blast had been too powerful, destroying the $100,000 house and badly damaging the two neighboring homes, one belonging to actor dustin hoffman. and as firemen picked their way through the rubble, they found a basement workshop with sticks of dynamite and the materials needed to make bombs. three bodies were found in the rubble. members of the violence-oriented weather underground group. >> the new york cell of the weather underground was beginning to build bombs that were to be placed that night at an officers' dance at ft. dix, new jersey. however, something went badly, and three ended up dead. >> the daughter of the building's owner and another girl fled right after the blast. >> i just went into survival mode, both to get out of the house and then to get away from the police. at that point, i was a combatant. >> the student protesters of the '60s have turned into more serious

for a little bit of history in the late 1800s this area around the bookstore here in greenwich village was the epicenter of publishers and booksellers, charles scribner and sons was here. dodd mead and company, divine press, they all had editorial offices, and down below the all had their bookstores to display their new books. along for the avenue just around on that side was known as book row. at its height there were 48 used bookstores of which strand is the sole survivor. as the owner of the strand with its 18 miles of books, i am not easily phased by a thousand books, but james e bucket list, tonight featured book, has stopped me in my tracks. [applause] his expansive scope is coupled with a delightful wit and a perfect eye for surprise detail. never again will you have to wonder what to read next. "1,000 books to read before youy gift for anybody who likes books, and who doesn't like books? t i had to say i do not think of a better person to have written a book like this then james mustich, princeton graduate with a degree in english literature and a veteran bookseller who started

. >> i can never say bohemian enclave, because you think of greenwich village. i mean cedar rapids. she got a degree in slavic languages and was a house worker baltimore. she had been hired by congressional commission to conduct an undercover investigation of class conditions for eastern europeans bound for the united states. that summer, several members of congress, along with their wives , and staff, sailed to europe to interview port agents and examine villages populated by immigrants. a few months later, columbia university's crew measured the heads and bodies of schoolchildren in new york city. meanwhile, in johnstown, san francisco, duluth, new york, fresno, and beyond, researchers, many of them, half of them women looked at living conditions and schools. in many areas, women and men went undercover in boarding houses and bordellos to explore the murky world of white slavery , what we would now call sex trafficking. they were part of this billingham commission, the subject of my recent book. in it, i do examine the largest study of immigrants ever conducted in american history

>> greenwich village is one of the most condensed places in the world. we live in manhattan.illion square feet, an extra 1.7 million square feet filled with 7,000 new employees in greenwich village. how will they squeeze all those folks in? they'll try to do it. if you have any real estate in new york it became more valuable. it says google is doing fine. it says two things. google has a lot of cash to spend and they will be spending it in manhattan. good for people in new york. it also means that they care a lot more about talent because new york is a magnet for talent whether you talking theater, music or business. they care more about talent than they do about tax rates and regulations because new york is one of the most highly taxed, over-regulated cities in the world. and yet these -- the mayor of new york and the governor of new york are getting cut a huge break by google. there was pressure on them to pull back on taxes, to pull back on regulations. now google and amazon made it less likely they'll do so. >> bill: ain't it funny how that works. thank you, david. >> gre

my name is nancy bass wyden i'm the proud owner of the bookstore here in greenwich village. a a little bit of history, the strand was founded by my grandfather in 1927, and then passed on to my dad, fred, and now on to me. it was part of an

my name is nancy bass wyden i'm the proud owner of the bookstore here in greenwich village. a a little bit of history, the strand was founded by my grandfather in 1927, and then passed on to my dad, fred, and now on to me. it was part of an area called book row that was located around the corner on fourth avenue the rent from union square to astor place and at its height it, there were 48 bookstore. >> where the sole survivor from those times. in the 91 year history of the strand and talk about important ideas, and it's program about racism is what of special relevance. folks sometimes argued that the moral blot of racism is gone but there is a discussion of the news yesterday about public hangings in mississippi, state with a tragic history of lynching. tonight we have professor yves ewing with us to discuss her brand-new book about racism and bureaucracy in education. "ghosts in the schoolyard: ract professor ewing draws on her experiences first as a student, then as a teacher, and out as a skull in her native city school system in this powerful and necessary investigation

tucked away along a two-block stretch in new york city's greenwich village insulated from an evolution. it's one of the few shops that has its roots firmly planted in old new york. keeping the books in order, kelly's 93-year-old mother dorothy. >> new york city is so special. the neighborhood has gone through lots of changes. a lot of the old places, old haunts came and went. a lot of the clubs are going under. >> reporter: even in a digital age where production is rapidly trending towards automation, everything here is still crafted by hand. >> a lot of wood out of chelsea and chumlee's. that's the old speakeasy on bedford. >> reporter: the sawdust that lines the floor boards at carmine street were once part of the city. old cultural landmarks, many that no longer exist. you call the reclaimed wood that you use in these guitars the old bones of new york. >> the bones of old new york, yeah. it's because it's the bones of these buildings. all these buildings are framed in this old wood. they throw it away. i find it in dumpster. i do a lot of dumpster diving. i have managed to get nice