at the same time you had ida b wells, working very much outside the system to effect change. so the two go hand-in-hand. i think that is true throughout the history of black road tests, -- black protests, and it is still very much true today. >> announcer: you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of program on american history on c-span3. follow us on twitter for information on her schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. next, on history the exile that saved american independence. she reflects on when john quincy was appointed to the ambassador to russia. while there, the family built trade relationships, solidifying america's credibility as a nation.

on monday april 16th, when she arrived at ida b. wells, the school was like a ship turned on its side in turbulent waters at sea. educator austin urned it the school around. she implemented the 3as, which the school uses today, first is for attendance. second is for attitude. third is for achievement. she coined the terms i rise for the exemplary saturday school program held at dr. martin luther king middle school in partnership with the sfusd and the san francisco alliance of black school educators. ann austin passed away on march 13th, 2018, and the board of education, the superintendent of schools extend our deepest sympathy to her husband of 52 years, dr. therman austin. she now takes her rest. however, she will never be forgotten by her students, colleagues, parents, and family who make up the sfusd. thank you to virginia and emily for providing us this beautiful tribute to educator ann austin. thank you. [ applause ] >> so at this time, we would like to take any public comment for those who have submitted speaker cards for closed se

money to erect a monument in chicago to celebrate famed journalist, abolitionist and suffragist ida b. wells. people have already donated tens of thousands of dollars to the fundraising effort, which was launched by ida b. wells' great-granddaughter, michelle duster. graduate students nationwide are ramping up demands for the right to form a union. at northeastern university in boston, about 100 graduate students and their supporters marched tuesday to demand the university allow them to hold a union election. this is phd student alicia verticelli. many campuses fighting for justice. strong because we are many. we are here and we won't be gone until we get our dignity and respect. thank you. amy: students at harvard university are scheduled to begin voting on unionization today. in new york, columbia university's graduate student union has announced plans to go on strike next week unless the university agrees to negotiate a contract, which it has refused to do for more than a year. the right of graduate students to unionize could be under threat after the u.s. senate confirmed trump nominee

money to erect a monument in chicago to celebrate famed journalist, abolitionist and suffgist ida b. wells. people have already donated tens of thousands of dollars to the fundraising effort, which was launched by ida b. wells' great-granddaughter, michelle duster. graduate students nationwide are ramping up demands for the right to form a union. at northeastern university in boston, about 100 graduate students and their supporters marched tuesday to demand the university allow them to hold a union election. this is phd student alicia verticelli. many campuses fighting for justice. strong because we are many. we are here and we won't be gone until we get our dignity and respect. thank you. amy: students at harvard university are scheduled to begin voting on unionization today. in new york, columbia university's graduate student union has announced plans to go on strike next week unless the university agrees to negotiate a contract, which it has refused to do for more than a year. the right of graduate students to unionize could be under threat after the u.s. senate confirmed trump nominee

ida b. wellsbeing one and learning in the ways that these women negotiate their identities and also supported each other and passed on their legacy is one woman to another. and so, yeah, i wanted to go unknown because everyone can name a few women who did any category of things. one female artist or mathematician. if you only know one woman in each field, you might feel little bit like they are the exception of the rule. i want people to know that just because you have only heard of grace, there were so many messages from the time when i started thinking about what if we had numbers, since the very beginning of any field you're interested in. because i'm interested in writing i have a lot of women who do that here. i wanted to at least touch upon any field that someone young might be interested in getting into. >> passing on a legacy from one woman to another and you talk about this book being written -- but i see it being written in a specific voice. the process of writing this book in your own v

instead, it was black journalists, mostly notably ida b. wells, who exposed the horrors of lynching to the world. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. history was made on the korean peninsula today. jong-un and i declare together that there will be no more war on the korean korean president moon jae-in as he held a historic summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. after shaking hands of the demilitarized zone between the two countries, the two leaders pledged to work to denuclearize the peninsula and to declare the official and to the korean war. today's historic summit marks the first time a north korean leader has ever set foot inside south korea will stop north korean leader kim jong wrote in a guest book "a new history starts now, in age of peace from the starting point of history." kim and his south korean counterpart pledged to pursue talks with the u.s. aimed at negotiating a formal peace treaty to replace the uneasy truce that was brokered after the 1

instead, it was black journalists, mostly notably ida b. wells, who exposed the horrors of lynching to the world. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. history was made on the korean peninsula today. jong-un and i declare together that there will be no more war on the korean korean president moon jae-in as he held a historic summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. after shaking hands of the demilitarized zone between the two countries, the two leaders pledged to work to denuclearize the peninsula and to declare the official and to the korean war. today's historic summit marks the first time a north korean leader has ever set foot inside south korea will stop north korean leader kim jong wrote in a guest book "a new history starts now, in age of peace from the starting point of history." kim and his south korean counterpart pledged to pursue talks with the u.s. aimed at negotiating a formal peace treaty to replace the uneasy truce that was brokered after the 1

ida wells advice. when people went to west they created their own chocolate cities and their own first nation villages. what are some of the things you find, kendra customer. >> ida b wells in particular had losten a) appears and others in memphis and it was tom who said if you must kill us, turn our faces to the west or at least that was the reporting on it. they pick up on that and says let's head west and hold churches pick up and will communities andnd migrate to indian territory and for a brief period oklahoma was the place that many african-american and black southerners as well as some from the north were heading toward and there was a proposal on the table for, to become an all-black state in the late 1880s and there was actually this hearing of this with president harrison at the time and that did not pass but what did was the rise of the townni d community and some incorporated and some not in indian territory in oklahoma but of course this was also indian country so the indians and others were there in this lens that had promised to them and inadequate compensation for forced indian removal and death and illness and destruction that accompanied them. tha

i even had a girlfriend who was a sister to elaine turner who introduced me to ida b. wells.e was a tradition, that i was not alone. >> right. okay. i did not have to reinvent any wheel. >> was she assistant? okay. i'm sorry. >> that's all right. >> we'll get you a little water. we'll get you a little water. >> when i learned of -- when i learned that my grandfather was a garveyite, and he had gone to new orleans to protest for garvey's presence in the country, he told me that when they got there, the police came to break up their meeting. the police raised up their guns. he said then we raised up ours. we had more than they did. >> yeah. >> but now he was a christian man. he did not -- >> right. let me get you some water right there. >> thank you. i had no idea that he was such a militant person. >> right. >> my father was also an interesting man. he was a union member. and worked out at international harvest. my father was go out as a steward when their leader would come to town and they would sleep around his house in order to protect him. so i learned is that the idea of