i also teach jim crow in america. i teach a graduate class called racial literacy for historians about understanding the way races moving from the 1500s into the current day in how it's moving through the archives and how we can understand the way power and inequality gets replicated from one era to the next of how racism functions and may also teach a course on urban and suburban america coming metropolitan history course. the book that you are discussing today has a lot about miami in the context of jamaica and cuba and dominican republic. i tried the best i can to make sure students read outside the u.s. it's important to have a comparative perspective. >> what is the photo you chose for the final? >> that is my favorite photo you there's a lot of pictures. this is a park established in 1969 in the central niekro district after the interstate highway comes through and displaces some 50,000 residents. it's actually created by a city commissioner in the city of miami and she is also a landlord who s. property not in

. >> in your book, "a world more concrete" real estate and the remaking of jim crow south florida" what is your goal? what you try to explain? >> there two big pieces to this story. one is to think about the creation to use the states or private capital to turn it into the capital as baby has a reputation now but it took a lot of work to figure of how they would bring in labor or the to restore the real-estate. syllogist how violent of the processes said? to the positions it interests of property owners. to be a core piece of political culture but the most important take away for me was to think about a series of negotiations between property owners of white a and black. with those biases with the landlords are, and to know the authority it needs with the landscape to determine for the sake of the common good. >> jim crow segregation with a population lens was perceived racial lines. happening piecemeal across the country and to the disenfranchisement between april 8 to 84 those that were disenfranchised down at 1300 but also is carving up the land. to make to the populations don't run

of the color line whether specifically jim crow were those who want to live among their own to have access to amenities to not be worried about crime rather detriments. >> host: and cover of the book. "a world more concrete" real estate and the remaking of jim crow south florida" john hopkins professor n.d.b. connolly. thank you very much. >> host: daniel webster have a year in the united states today? >> it is difficult to estimate bennett is the range of 250 million gallons. beagle guns. >> host: handguns shotguns or rifles? >>. >> host: how many illegal guns? mcfadyen difficult to determine. anything in the market is difficult to measure. but it gets confusing with legal and illegal. most hour legal reading the possessor is not prohibited the dozen is legal. so mostly we talk about individuals who are prohibited by law to have guns. that is difficult to estimate because we don't have access to measure those individuals. >> host: our most gun crimes committed with register unregistered guns? >> it is surprising that we don't have a registry at the federal level it may not maintain

no body today engaged in the crusades or jim crowe today.ey are interesting subjects to look into but the president is unwilling to condemn this for what it is. it is radical islam. it is linked to the religion. if you are not able to articulate the ideas you cannot deal with them. >> i take my family to church every sunday and i am offended not as a christian but a religious person. i think what he says gives them a religious out saying this is a religion. >> he is right in the abstruct that religious fanatics have led to depravement over the centuries. >> let's go back to the beginning of the last millennial time to make christians feel bad. it was a christian holy war in response to the muslim war. >> isn't that the point? at a time he should be saying what ambassador bolton is saying, standing up for the peaceful people of islam and otect them. why doesn't he say they preverted it. >> or at the least -- preverted -- give a speech about unity and the good that comes from people's faith. call it what it is: evil. >> evil that needs to be w

in the deepest recesses of the jim crow baltimore was segregated, washington dc was segregated. but they were not segregated in the same way that rural north carolina was segregated at that time. of course thurgood marshall was no stranger to segregation and the ravages of segregation on a young schoolboy, but he was abosolutely shocked at what they found. these buildings even mocked the very notion of being schools, ofbeing places of education for young children. man's voice: is your school a wooden structure? boy's voice: yes it's wood man: is any part of it brick or stone? boy: no sir man: do you have an auditorium? boy: no sir man: do you have indoor drinking fountains? boy: no sir man: what do you use? boy: water pumps and water buckets man: is there a desk for each child? boy: no sir man: do you have teachers for every grade? boy: no sir man: do you have indoor toilets? boy: no sir rawn james: an astounding act of courage. houston and marshal traveled down throughthe south. and these are the days before the eisenhower interstate system. so they went in between what i would

of jim crow seems to be the violence of reconstruction, a complete inversion. i would say the great fear is what we saw constantly through the movie, the ultimate fear, the fear of white women being available to black men. we just saw it again and again and again. if you could comment on that gentlemen. thank you. >> i keep going back to wilson. wilson talks about this, the white men of the south being put under the heels of black men being dominated by them in the politics of today. there is this fear of african-americans being assertive. wilson even says in his book that the klan was justified in attacking northerners because they were teaching the negro to be assertive. attack an innocent teacher who is simply educating someone. with wilson and griffith, what i would ask them, i would ask, do you really believe this is in the best interest of our country? is this really in the best interest? do you really care about this nation? what will you do now to heal the wounds? >> hari jones is the curator of the civil war memorial freedom foundation and museum here

inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and jim crow.

in our home country, slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. it is not unique to one group or one religion. there is a tendency in us a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith. >> chief white house correspondent ed henry is live for us tonight at the white house. ed. >> megyn, his aides say this was merely the president adding a little historical context as he slipped into what really sounded like preacher mode or maybe it was law professor mode as his critics say he was really just trying to downplay the current struggles with islamic militants because he was pointing out acts that date back to the middle ages. they say the president was downplaying what's happening now as his aide susan rice gives a major speech tomorrow laying out the president's national security strategy. remember, when they leaveaid out the strategy five years ago in a similar speech, they downplayed counterterrorism, said there had to be a lot of other focuses we had to get out of a war footing. that's why i pressed josh earnest today saying do they have a

what point was the president trying to make by bringing up the crusades and jim crow?y says he sounds more like al sharpton than the commander in chief. i'm embarrassed for him. and christine says the lunacy has reached an all time high. he talks about crap that happened 1100 years ago. but jessica says president obama spoke the truth as he is known for doing. really, jessica? do you still have your same health care doctor? and that's it for us tonight. i love reading what you guys think and make sure that you log on and send me your thoughts on tonight's show. friend me on facebook and follow me on twitter @judgejeanine. and great behind the scene photos coming up. i'll post pictures of my dogs in the snowstorm that the northeast is supposed to get yet again tomorrow. you don't ever have to miss justice. set your dvr and tell your friends to do the same. >>>. ♪ the gop has no shortage of prospects with their eyes on the white house. some are traveling across america. some are traveling overseas. some are already done. >> the third time will not be the charm for mitt r

so they took a stand against jim crow, against segregation, against whites-only access to public accommodations and to being seen as a first-class citizen. they came here to this woolworth building and this lunch counter to sit down and be treated like a first-class citizen and be served against their policies and practices. this is the actual lunch counter area that's been preserved. some seats have been taken out in other areas that are at thing smithsonian and other musics. the four young men that sat in here have talked to us about around where they sat, so a lot of the things you will see here are the actual advertisements around the different menu items they offered and the prices. these four were franklin mccain, ezell blair, joseph mcneal, and david richmond. they were freshmen at north carolina a&t state university, a historically black university here. they came to the store, sat at the lunch counter and asked to order i believe some coffee and a piece of pie. the response was really mixed. "you boys go on from here," i think another waitress was saying, "we don't serve colored people

you know michelle alexander's great texts of the new text the new jim crow.zero, absolutely. >> thank you for being here. my question is not about the case, the fact verdicts, but what do you think martin luther king would say about the reaction and protests and ferguson? >> from the young people themselves? >> what i am saying is maybe how i feel martin luther king stood for peace and peaceful protest. i am wondering what do you think he would say about what is going on there. >> i see what you are saying i can speak on behalf of martin but based upon his life, his work his witness he would call for resistance, resistance, but it would be nonviolent resistance. that is the kind of whether he was. resistance but nonviolent resistance which is to say he would not go to ferguson and say we have got to cool things off. the cool things off you end up in a deep freeze. the challenge has always been how do you channel your rage into love and justice rather than hatred and present? that is the question, and that is the question martin luther king was wrestling with

at terrorism supported jim crow and segregation and humiliation experienced on a daily basis part of my education. i couldn't go to public schools of the little boy. i thought my parents humiliated on a regular basis and we haven't talked about that. as a result of that, there are presumptions of danger and guilt that her people like walter mcmillan and make it easier to have been convicted. so we've got to do some work in montgomery is as great a place as any to do that work because we've actually been there in the middle of the slave trade in the 1840s and 50s. we were there during the terrorism error. i am hoping we will be there when we get to change the talk about these issues and create truth in regulation for all americans. that is my hope that we can do better to overcome this legacy of racial inequality. >> my guess is a lot of first-time authors don't have tracy kidder and desmond tutu better be in the back of their book with desmond tutu: you america's nelson mandela. >> well, i feel really honored and fortunate to be encouraged by extraordinary people like that. i have be

one way in which it reasserted itself was to institute jim crow. in that way, they felt they had gotten at least back to their way of life. you have to understand what we were doing. we were not simply trying to get people to register to vote or enter a place of public accommodation. we were threatening the way of life of a whole section of the country. we were saying everything you believed, everything upon which this section of the country has been built is wrong. you can't preach that to people, but you can show it to them. when you saw unarmed people, and particularly was important -- this is what we learned as a part of nonviolence -- when the police came at you -- this happened at the funeral -- with the police, it happened much more with sclc. martin luther king imparted to all of us when these police came at you full of hatred, just one year knees -- just go on your knees. the southerners were very religious people. the southern blacks were baptists too. when i saw those black people go on their knees much harder to raise your nightstick. s

our home country slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. lou: well, as you noted the reaction from his audience, quiet. we'll be getting reaction from two leading christians in this country. catholic league president bill donohue. and bishop harry jackson. new testimony pointing directly at america's top cop as the one person responsible for an unlawful prisoner exchange. obama administration officials say none other than attorney general eric holder is responsible for breaking the law. and for the administration's refusal to notify congress before the pentagon traded five taliban terrorists for army sergeant bowe bergdahl last year. full report coming tonight. they're trying to stop violence from eastern ukraine from spiraling out of control. german chancellor angela america la. french president franÇois hollande making a surprise visit to the capitol. pressing for a cease-fire. secretary of state john kerry making it clear during his own visit to kiev that the united states has no plans to send arms and support to ukraine. (?) >> we're no

in our home country, slavery and jim crow, all to often was justified in the name of christ.here is a tendency in us a sinful tendency that can prevert and dist ort our faith. >> and live tonight with the reaction. trace. >> reporter: among those criticizing his comments are historians who compared crist chnz to isis a mis misrepresentation. and christian tolerance has reformed and that islam should do the same. he reminded the world that mare cuhas america hasn't repented. >> we are on high alert, not our high horse. and we would like for once that you are willing to defend christianity and america and not islam. >>> and he said many people have used the name of geez christ to accomplish evil flingz their own desires but he taught peace, love, and forgiveness. this also opens the door for republicans to weigh in. and governor of virginia says this goes further to the point that president obama does not believe in america or the values we share. and the medieval christian threat is under control, mr. president, please deal with the radical islam threat today and the white hou

in our home country, slavery and jim crowe all too often was justified in the name of christ. >> let'sthe rev rend susan johnson cook and dr. judy jasser good to see both of you and dr. j asser is also the author of "a battle for the soul of islam". what did the president mean in your view? >> me meant exactly what he said that there have been those in our own history that have used religion to the terrible evil things as a descend dent of those who are enslaved slavery and jim crowe were not easy to live with and as a desend dent you're talking about generations that follow that are still feeling the terrorism that happened on our own shores. we can't deny history, yes we have to look forward to what is happening now. >> what was the interpretation particularly in the muslim-american community? >> well i think it depends on which part of the community, we're a diverse ideological community. i will tell you among reformers, today we need the help of those christian community leaders who are leading a country that is post liberty and freedom that fought against thee o'clock si to help l

was general because it was under wilson's watch as president that the national government went to jim crow backsliding. segregation and the treasury and other federal agencies was unprecedented. and it drove trotter nuts. >> it is in the public domain and they can go to youtube and find opportunities to watch the whole thing. i will show excerpts through the hour. we will talk about after we start it. some slaves shown in demeaning roles in the early part of this movie. [video clip] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> what is the time period? >> before civil war and this is what is known as part one of the movie. the notion here is to show that -- in demeaning roles, but they are a fun-loving bunch of slaves, a kind of harmony about it. and peace and well-being in a way. this is part of looking back to the pre-civil war years that is part of the so-called lost cause and nostalgia for a time that was not so bad really for everybody. >> where was this location? >> in the fictional town of piedmont, south carolina. >> one of the things you notice when you watch the movie is some blacks are actually black people and o

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think as early as taking black history courses at harvard and that was the idea at the height of jim crow, so the idea that self empowered african-american male with an army uniform, who was a citizen, could somehow change the status quo, and was really threatening to particularly southerners, but lynching happened all over the country, and there is a huge amount of photographs that were done that documented the lynchings, and they were also sent in the mail without any kind of covers or cards, people also cut hair, and so those images were very prevalent at one point and there was a big exhibition. when i first encountered them it was called, oh goodness, it has just skipped my mind, anyway these images have been put together in a book, but they are also on sale on ebay, you can find them everywhere. you can't find as much online, but you can't find -- you can find them at a variety of different places. not only the lynching images but people find stereotypical images, for instance, the image of the black person with a watermelon, we were doing a digital roadshow in houston, and a woman

is a lot of imagery of activity that was classified as a crime that got black men arrested during jim crowor life. brian lamb: what has been for you is the most interesting reaction to you have seen in say, young black people, when they watch this? thomas allen harris: people cry, people come back and they see this and they see this too and three and four times people feel validated, they feel transformed, their relationship to their own family albums is also transformative. this -- they all of a sudden realize that the tradition that has been handed from their grandparents has this political, social value that they had no idea before. so that is something that has been reoccurring, and in many ways, the way in which we set about the production, in terms of its transmedia aspect led to this, because when we started making this film, well i started the film around tenure to go, about 2003, 2004 and around 2008, 2009, we developed a digital family reunion. it was supposed to be an online people could upload their family photographs to become a larger family album and i was very much aware th

even after emancipation, we had jim crow laws. today, shaw alexander wrote about the new jim crow, mass incarceration. with very disproportionate numbers of african american men in our prison system. mass incarceration, the numbers are staggering in the sense that i think there are more men subject to our prison system, on parole, or on probation, having been in the criminal justice system. those numbers are greater than the number of slaves. prior to emancipation. we cannot ignore that disproportionality. we cannot ignore that history. i think the police have co-opted blue lives matter. police serve and important role in our society and take risks. and most are dedicated to being public servants and upholding the law, observing the constitutional protection. but there are bad apples that need the weeded out. we need to understand through education. to answer your question, i hope we will address these problems in our programs by facing history. i think some of the students here are part of an serve that purpose. i see people from

because it was under wilson's watch as president that national government went jim crow.here is an enormous amount of backsliding. segregation and other federal agencies was unprecedented and it drove trotter nuts. >> our audience should know this is in the public domain so they can go on you tube and there are plenty of opportunities to watch the whole thing. we'll show excerpts through the hour. here is one. it is a minute and 16 and we'll talk about it after we start. it is slaves shown in demeaning roles in the early part of the movie. ♪ >> what is the time period here? >> before the civil war. and this is -- what is known as part one of the movie and what not. and the notion here is to show that they are kind of -- they are demeaning roles but they are a fun-loving bunch of slaves. there is a certain harmony about it and peace and well being in a way. this is part of looking back to the pre-civil war years that are part of a so-called lost cause and the nostalgia for a time that wasn't so bad for everybody. >> and where is this actual location? >> this is in the fict

in our home country slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. >> reporter: now republicans are now jumping on the fact that the white house denied a previous request from jord ton get drones to target isis. tonight, congressman duncan hunter writing the president, demanding those drones as well as ammunition, saying the white house needs to show they are all-in with jordan. brett? >> henry live from the north lawn. thank you. my colleague shepard smith is once again in amman, jordan tonight, shep, how are people react to be the bombing, increased bombing of the isis terrorists? >> well, i spoke with the foreign minister on that matter today, he said it was ex-a lick the what jordan promised to do and exactly what jordan has done. 20 jets according to our people at the pentagon, some ten time what is we would see on a normal day. the foreign minister said, we will get to discrepancies here, the foreign minister said jordan is operating wherever is necessary. listen. >> we are doing all we can to target isis. isis has, or dash has removed a physical border be

the idea of the cast system which is what people fled during the jim crow era, the higher arkies and values attached to different people exist to this day. over-policing is a representation of absorbed biases that all of us have been exposed to. it's behind policing, the difficulty of employment, and research showing african-americans going for a job are less likely to get the job regardless of the education. it's a black applicant with a college degree may have a difficult time getting a job when they have the same credentials against another person who happens to be white. the economic challenges that are faced by people in today's economy goes beyond just the obvious policing, beyond the - even employment. it goes to housing, segregation and housing in all spheres of our economy and society. >> from what cities to which the african american population that the north and west derive, benefit from greater economic growth or something that is drawing people back in a reverse migration, and to what degree has this got anything to do with individuals. are they going back to the grandpa

what it was for the rest of african-americans and particularly in the south, it was a matter of jim crow segregation. that is, if we went downtown to the movies, we had to sit in the balcony in the closed section. if we went to a place to eat, we may or may not -- and probably not -- will not get served. what happened at will words they enjoyed sell your snacks but you had to stand up at the end of the room -- woolworth's, they enjoyed selling you snacks but you had to stand up at the end of the room. in some places you were not welcome whether you had the money or not. basically it was life and apartheid. it was life that was secret and segregated and second-class citizenship. when people begin to think the same way and somebody else begins to think the same way and ideas take off for reasons that nobody quite understands. i think it was time. you know, people were fed up and sick and tired of being sick and tired, of being second-class citizens, and so they all had that same kind of sense, it is time to do something. dr. king came to bennett college and spoke in 1958. there were things

and our home country, slavery and jim crowe all too often was justified in the name of christ. >>> so critics slammed the president, calling his comments a false morals comparison. among them jim gilmore of virginia who accused the president of offending all christians in remarks he framed as the, quote, most offensive i've ever heard a president make. >>> so what many would call a bad week for new jersey governor and possible 2016 county chris christie has gotten worse. bennet farland confirmed he made with two federal investigators about his self-suit. >> the attorney general basically swooped in and killed the case after these three individuals were indicted. that raised political flags, especially given the fact that one of the defendants after being indicted specifically said -- and this was reported in the local papers governor christie is going to come in and kill the case. frankly, that's exactly what happened. and the citizens for ethics is now calling for a state ethics vgz of christie. it is related to a "new york times" story this week that the governor's private plane wen

they don't want to hear about the jim crow laws. there are christians, other muslims being slaughtered in the middle east, they don't need a lecture from obama about christianity. the fact of the matter is obama is not doing anything effective or substantive to stop genocide in our time. >> why would the president build this strawman argument though and go back a thousand years, 700 years 500 years? why would he do that? and yet to this day does not recognize the reality. for example, this week we saw how the jordanian king responded when a jordanian pilot was burned to death. he ended up killing terrorists they had in prison and then he bombed the living daylights out of them. when we have the beheading of james foley, within three minutes after a quick statement the president was on the golf course for five hours. how do you compare and contrast the two different responses? >> because he's not the man of compassion and empathy that he claims to be. obama has a very high tolerance for misery. not his own, but for everybody else's.

he pointed to the crusades, then he pointed to slavery and jim crow as well.'s saying we can't lay the evil deeds of isis at the feet of islam. what happened is that the right jumped on that and set the trap. and unfortunately, a lot of folks responded to that. but now today we see people taking the president's side, from the center left, to the center right. and folks are saying, i think the president had an important point there. and it was an important point that he made. >> you worked in the office of faith-based initiatives. is that one of the speeches that they run by your shop before it goes out? >> we're certainly involved in the speech but always, of course, the president has the final word. and the pen is in the hands of the speech-writing office, but yeah, typically, these speeches -- >> if we're looking at it as speech-writing staffers, is there anything in that draft that you would have changed that ultimately went public? >> i think the speech, that's specific segment in the speech was inartful and had in it some assumptions that maybe weren't ne

in our home country slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ. it is not unique to one group or one religion. there is a tendency in us, a sinful tendency that can pervert and distort our faith. >> trace gallagher live tonight with the reaction. trace. >> megyn, among those criticizing the president's comments at the prayer breakfast are historians who called a comparison of isis to medieval crusaders to manipulation and misrepresentation of historical evidence. even some who normally support the president are baffled mr. obama didn't at least make the point christian intolerance has reformed and islam should do the same. religious leaders say the president's statements follow a long pattern of reminding the world that america hasn't fully repented for its sins. listen. >> they called us crusaders and you just confirmed it. mr. president we are not on our high horse, what we are on is high alert. and the american people would like to know for once you're willing to defend christianity and defend america instead of defending islam. >> franklin gra

and our home country, slavery, and jim crow, all too often was justified in the name of christ. >> welldidn't take long for those on the hard right to pounce on the president slamming him for drawing a moral equivalency between christian and former terrorists. and 2012 presidential candidate rick santorum said today's remarks by the president were inappropriate and his choice of venue insulting to every person of faith at a time when christians are being crucified, behead and persecuted across the middle east, and former virginia governor said, "the president's comments at the prayer beck fist are the most offensive i've ever heard a president make in my lifetime." he has offended every believing christian in the united states. this go further to the point that mr. obama does not believe in america or the values we all share. for more i'm joined by tonight's roundtable. clarence page, column icht with the chicago tribune, april rhine, white house correspondent poor american urban net wors and author of a new book. talk about that in a minute ap i'll give april time in a minute. start wi

if you ask alabamans of harper lee and the jim crow south, is she well thought of? >> there has been two minds or two opinions about harper lee. on the one hand there's a progressive attitude. she wrote a tsunami of historical change. we were on the lip of the civil rights movement and she brings us a compassionate book putting us in the hands of an innocent 9-year-old and walks us through a dangerous situation. there's those that think she sold out the south. she received a lot of hate mail after the book came out. and there are those that think it's paternalistic, no longer relative but i disagree. >> "go setter watchman" was set in the "50, closer to the time it was written, and a complicated time in alabama. >> there was an overlap. the title refers to the moment when attacus is sitting outside the country gaol waiting for the vigilante mob. he's the watchman. in that moment the u.s. constitution and the legal system is invested in a humble country lawyer who will see that his client gets justice. in the iconic scene, and if that's the heart of this novel, how m

the idea of a caste system which is what people were fleeing during the jim crow area, those hierarchies and values attached to different people exist to this day. so the overpolicing of the representation of the -- of these absorbed biases that you know all of us have been exposed to. and it goes beyond just the policing. it goes to the difficulty in getting employment. there's a great deal of research that shows that african americans going up for a job are less thrieblg get likely to get that job regardless of their education when they have gone up against people, white americans, white counterparts who may have a criminal record. it says that a black applicant with a college degree might have a more difficult time getting a job when they have the same credentials against another person who is -- who happens to be white. and so the economic challenges that are faced by people in today's economy, goes beyond just the overpolicing, goes beyond the -- even the employment, it goes to housing goes to segregation in housing and education and all spheres of our economy and our society. >> to