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

as a matter of fact, law enforcement actually represented the legal extension of jim crow law. for a variety of reasons, law enforcement maintained segregation, and law enforcement had particularly the sheriff's department in escambia county, they had a pretty brutal reputation among african-americans, as sheriffs departments throughout the nation often do, for reasons that i get into in the book. the sheriff's department in escambia county the ended to hire people from white working class backgrounds, they had a tendency to sometimes overstep their legal boundaries. they had a reputation of being white dominated and able to exercise their authority in ways against the black population that they would not be allowed to exert it in the white community. give you a great example of that. and it stems back all the way to the sit-ins in pensacola. one of the tactics that law enforcement had when interrupting the sit-ins and trying to end the sit-ins, which was in 1961 into 1962 in pensacola is law enforcement would approach african-americans who were sitting on their bar stools or s

there was jim crow, or jim crow laws and terrible discrimination in the south.ut there was also jim crow baseball. it didn't start out that way. is in theappens 1870's, a few african-american stars emerged such as moses fleetwood walker. and their presence bother the white players to such an extent that they threatened to boycott against any owner that employed african-americans. by the 1880's, they were shut out of the white leagues. but they have their own leagues and clubs. this is the bristol baseball club. as far as i have been able to determine, i don't know the names or the information regarding this team, but it was on the circuit and played baseball games, they were very popular. uclave a heritage here at that i do want to talk about. the heritage came in mid-1940's, on the left, wearing the bruins uniform is jackie robinson. a -- starredon was sports and ucla in 1945. plays in baseball team jackie robinson stadium. teamsre women's and men's are doing very well this year, we are excited for them. we hope they continue the shining example and add to ucla

will spend the second half of her life as an activist in the detroit fighting the racism of the jim crow no.. she will continue to do that. rosa parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, the active against the war in vietnam, active against apartheid, a picture in my favorites in the book of an older rosa parks protesting outside the south african embassy, she will continue to the end of real-life saying the struggle is not over, there is injustice in this country and she will be resolved to keep fighting and yet i think the way rosa parks is tossed is as a problem resolved in the past when the actual rosa parks said there is much more work to be done. >> host: how did you do the research on this book? >> guest: i had to do a lot of digging. i went to all sorts of archives, in part because part of rosa parks's papers were caught in a dispute over her estate, had gotten the papers to sell with all of her in effect, they languished in new york for a decade until this summer howard buffett made an incredible donation and recently gave them to the library of congress and in february theyo

she will spend the second half of her life as an activist in detroit fighting the racism of the jim crow north. she will continue to do that. rosa parks will call. ♪ maxtor personal hero. she'll be active against the war in vietnam. she will be active against south african apartheid. you are showing a picture when my favorites in the book about all the rosa parks protesting outside of the south african embassy. she will continue to the end of her life saying the struggle is not over. there is much injustice in the country and she will resolve to keep fighting. and yet i think the way with rosa parks is todd is much more work to be done. .. archives, in part because part of rosa parks's papers were caught in a dispute over her estate, had gotten the papers to sell with all of her in effect, they languished in new york for a decade until this summer howard buffett made an incredible donation and recently gave them to the library of congress and in february theyopened. they are re

this is what is fascinating on the war on religion and he war on poverty and my parents group the jim crow south. so it's a two-parent household where neither one of them were there but bringing their five children up in a world of humanism and relativively cycle got very lost. i was a middle child, between a brother and sister older and a brother and stir younger and it was fascinating coming back to this country in the late '60s to see every city on fire. i wanted to be part of the militant black lives because i had adopted this philosophy that whites were my problem, and so i just got very lost. >> host: what's your life like as a black conservative? >> guest: very alone. there aren't many of us that are very vocal. what i find even as a black consecutive is looking at data, we know a third of black people are conservative. they keep telling pollsters they're evangelical and conservative. they just have no voice. to becoming their voice i fine very quietly they'll sea to me urning agree 100% but don't tell anyone i said that. i address that in blind conceit as well. i talk quite a bit a

slavery and jim crow all too often was justified in the name of christ.ster i do reflect on the fact that as a christian, i am supposed to love. and i have to say that sometimes when i listen to less than loving expressions by christians, i get concerned. >> the united states is not and will never be at war with islam. >> islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism. it is an important part of promoting peace. >> our enemies respect no religious freedom. al qaeda's cause is not islam. >> what is your reaction? he seems to bend over backwards. he won't even mention the words radical islam, but then he talks about the terrible deeds committed in the name of christ or slavery and jim crow all too often justified in the name of christ? that's not my reading of history. maybe some extremist groups but i know many christians were part of the movement to free the slaves and part of the underground railroad movement in this country. >> well, let's remember that the civil rights movement was rooted in the church. >> that's right. >> if it were n

the voting rights act that tore down the rotten -- rotten jim crow is not right for some.oining me is a couple of guest guests. we had a short amount of time, as i mentioned with professor font roy since the supreme court decision. what has flowed out of that pretty big change in the voting. >> you have to understand it's not a proposition, it's not do we have the voting rights act. do we protect the right to vote or not. what the supreme court said to this extraordinary provision, section 5, requiring federal oversight of the moral bankrupt. that is no longer justified or constitutional. i agree in 1965, we have the key parts of the voting rights act. section 2, prevents pursuing government or private parties, pursuing stop measures. that is the provision that was used against the voter i.d. law, or section there. if you have too many violations, a court can reinstate five. it's important, and successful. we have you continue to use the tools. it's been submitted that the law things. >> well, it's funny that mr shapiro would mention texas, before the decision came down, t

fathers are the victims to be blunt with you of the new jim crow. many of them are incarcerated, many of them are incarcerated for longer periods of time because of the mandatory minimums that were placed that unfairly targeted communities of color. michele alexander is more eloquent than i am about the pipeline, the new jim crow, one of the side effects are children in the community who are fatherless, and like ronald and donald's and others meeting today. and maybe you could briefly, the user impact session. >> what we do with youth impact, all the youngsters gathered in the community, all the young males, have them come in, we talk to them but listen to them. and going on in their life and their household and education standards and how they are being treated. we like to listen to what their future in tales. what they would like to do. what type of program they would like to see come to the project so we listen to them, that actors so to speak, we put them in a little situation where everyone for the bad things they have done. we make him feel re

that is the heart of the jim crow south. but stephen also has another piece of this story that happened before that that guarantees civil-rights are part of the story. >> now richard has everyone excited. [laughter] so kennedy signed an executive order march 6, 1961 for the realities that he could not get civil-rights through congress so he had to do something to executive power and that is what he did which was an executive order. it shows how effective federal agencies and their contractors. when it was issued to cover 38,000 contractors at the time asset was a young and relatively small agency as it happened so did the importance of this order on agency affairs. lyndon johnson believed there was a link between southern poverty and southern racism. the consols london the other to transform the south. thereby bringing into the mainstream. to be common knowledge that is not intended to use the space program to reconstruct the south. after kennedy placed him at the space council, the vice president found himself in a position

there is jim crow, apartheid , a bill of rights only with the federal government.has run the states do bad things for crop the federal government. there is organized prayer in the public schools freedom of speech is the most never protected by the supreme court's in that is the world of 1936 the warren court will change all of that and though most everyone is hugo black tuesday even before warda joins the court, way before brennan is on the court he is the guy who was one person one vote protection of free speech to inc. against the state's and the quality to give you brown vs. board of education is more criticized than anyone else especially in june to criminal defendants. he relayed data in 1942 so the story is howard down south they come from a fundamentalist tradition. if not a completely different vision from clarence thomas a. way to pay attention to history as original intent as scripture in a way. maybe not very sophisticated the very deeply felt by american patriot with hugo black diamond that tradition to be sophisticated but hugo black understood well li

i wrote a book called ghost of jim crow where i talk about some of the racialized incidents that happened during the 2008 primary campaign. i direct your attention particularly to south carolina to really raise between the clintons and obama. and there were some characterizations of obama as running a fantasy campaign for some characterizations of him being the affirmative action candidate with a black candidate trying to put them in a box. my question is, do you think that this was just politics as usual, two strong candidates competing, or was this hitting below the belt with this sort of using racial codewords of using many in the republican party have done this over the years. >> guest: it is panic. the clintons presume she would be the nominee. hillary clinton,, and then senator obama was elected offender washington. she understood what that meant and fellowship reached out and supportive of them. they never expected. they were start got in and key advisors they presumed worked for him worked for david axelrod. then he wins iowa, a very white state where he just out organize them. by

this really is a sad day for me because it does feel like jim crowe in san francisco. that's what it feels like. i come to speak on behalf of the lost ones. there was not a plaque given in honor of these two people. demario killed the same month as katie style us. he was the grandson. it will be 20 years next year that i will be celebrating my son's anniversary and speaking of the four homicides taken last year. we hit the streets in january. i expect the board to be sensitive to this issue that our community are hurting and suffering. i know you have done an excellent service in serving us at the conference center. friday past was a national day of remembrance. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: good evening, board of supervisors, president, and all the people who stayed in the midst of this long meeting. i know everyone is tired. my name is carlotta jackson. i'm with true foster family services agency. what i want to say to the board is that we are actually suffering from a stat of emergency. the actual violence in san francis

so that in part, the fact this is the heart of the jim crow south will mean that african-americans will have a role but steven also has another very important piece of the story about something that happened a little bit before that, that guaranties that civil rights will be a part of this story. >> now that richard has everyone very excited i get to federal hiring policy. so president kennedy signed executive order 10925 on march 6th, 1961. he did this because he understood the political realities of his time. he couldn't get civil rights through congress. so he had to do something through executive power. and that is exactly what he did, an executive order. this slide shows how that order affected federal agencies and their contractors. when the order was issued, it covered 38,000 contractors. and so the impact of the anti-discrimination clauses was potentially immense. at the time nasa was a young and relatively small agency but it and its mission grew. and as that happened so did the importance of this order and the pceeo on agency affairs. lyndon johnson believed there was a link b

his legal confrontations chipped away at jim crow laws throughout the forties and fifties claiming a landmark victory in 1954 - brown v. board of education. marshall successfully argued against segregation in public schools. a key turning point for the american civil rights movement which would erupt almost immediately following. "little rock arkansas and the first phase of the trouble, the white population are determined to prevent colored students from going to the school where their own children attend picketing the school they clash with the police." throughout the fifties, brown v. board of education would be challenged throughout the south but marshall was always there to push back. "it would seem to me that neither the school board of little rock nor the govern of arkansas nor anyone else can find any legitimate excuse for saying they don't understand what the law is." "it's crystal clear now and any action on the part of any official in arkansas or any private individual to oppose desegregation of the schools of little rock is deliberately a calculated violation of the law th

slavery and jim crow was justified in the name of christ. as a christian, i am supposed to love.nd i have to say that sometimes when i listen to less than loving expressions by christians, i get concerned. as a student of history, i also know civilization's debt to islam. i know that islam has always been a part of america's story. the future must not belong to those that slander the prophet of islam. we have reconfirmed again and again that the united states is not and never will be at war with islam. islam teaches peace. >> that was the president bashing christianity and praising islam. we continue with the authors of the brand-new book, exceptional, why the world needs a powerful america. former vice president dick cheney and his daughter liz cheney. i don't have enough time to play it. but he's constantly reluctant, resistance, mysterious as it is to say radical islam. he's quick to criticize christianity. >> he's doing it at the moment when all you have to do is turn on the television set and you can see news abouti isis and th rape of young christian women across iraq. you

coming out of racism of the jim crow era as they were brave enough they endured terrible treatment. the help no other black firefighter red ever feel as vulnerable as he did in the first days. [applause] >> we have been joined by regina wilson the current president of the fulton society and the first woman to hold that office i am sure she was busy working because they work all the time. [applause] >> this is a good night to have this discussion because this isn't talked about very much but i didn't realize when ginger asked me but to date is metal day. four years i cover city hall and city politics you can see the nonsense but the wonderful things that happen the third wednesday of june? day mtm of the entire plaza at the flags, bagpipes flags, bagpipes, everybody shows up in the address blue uniforms with white gloves and all the family shows up and it is a marvelous and wonderful location. they gather together to honor all of acts of true bravery by firefighters and emergency service responders. they go through one by one but i would get the pitchers and it struck me again that t

the fact that she did so much with african-americans we know that was jim crow in the south.ere is eleanor roosevelt meeting with african-americans and it angered the right at that time. she would've done very well on the media. she wrote on my day, from 1936-1962. that is what blogging was today. she was doing almost daily. that is what i think. people liked her because she told people what she thought. and that -- she had a genius for that. >> if i can piggyback on doug, eleanor would write that the press got it wrong. she held her own press conference. in a great way, she was her own press secretary shaped her own image. >> it brought women -- as the first lady, i want women journalists. they were all being excluded. she started having regular press conference is for women and bring the journalist. looking today at the great women in the correspondent, eleanor is there patron saint. >> we have a tweet here from jeremy. we will put up and use another name that was formative. did louis howe -- >> he became the in-house political advisor. my friend wrote a book about him. he

i wrote a book called goes to jim crow when i talk about the racialized incidents that happened during the 20082008 primary campaign, and i direct your attention particularly to south carolina where it seems to really, the conflict seems to really raise between the clinton's and obama. and there were some characterizations of obama has running a fantasy campaign the black candidate who tried to put him in a box. my question to you is, do you think that this was just politics as usual, two strong candidates competing, or was this hitting below the belt with this sort of using racial codewords that we have seen many in the republican party do over the years. >> the evidence i got from talking with people in and around the clinton campaign at the time was panic. what you saw happen was the clintons plan presumes that she would be the nominee. hillary clinton when then sen. obama was elected and came to washington was a fellow superstar sen. she felt felt she had reached out and been supportive of them and had her pack do some fundraising and helping him. they were blindsided by the idea t

in virginia they had laws, the jim crow laws and the mess otheny statues did not acknowledge indians at all. if you were indian or a little bit indian, under virginia law you were colored. if you had -- the one drop rule. if any ancestors was africa or african-american, you too were colored and you were subject to the segregation laws that jim crow embodied. there was a single exception to that. and it was the polka pontius exception. if the indian that to whom you were related you were not just white, you were like extra white. it didn't get any better than being related to her. so all of the first families of virginia spent enormous effort trying to establish that they too were descendants of the one child of polka pontas and that is embodied in the laws there. and so that is really weird right. and so once again we want people to say why on earth would they do something like. and once again they've taken her, a real person, and sort of made her into something they need in order to establish just how american they have. and that is what has got us intrigued. there she is. okay. i'm

of book about the ghost of jim crow where i talk about the racialized incidents that happened during the 2008 primary campaign and that direct your attention particularly to south carolina for it seemed to really , the conflicts seem to be race between clinton and obama and there were some characterizations of obama as running a fantasy campaign for some characterizations of him being the affirmative action candidate for the black candidate to try to put him in a box. my question to you is, do you think that this was just politics as usual, two strong candidates competing for was this sort of hitting below the belt with this sort if using racial code words that we have seen many in the republican party? >> guest: the evidence that i got from talking with people in and around the clinton campaign at that time was that it was -- what he saw happen was the clintons both present she would be the nominee and they never thought he was on the horizon. hillary clinton when senator obama came to washington was a fellow superstar senator and she understood what that meant. she was supportive o

jim crow. the jury segregation, apartheid over much of america.th the bill of rights does not apply against the states but the federal government whose organized public prayer. freedom of speech is almost never been protected by the supreme court. wwor >> key is the one that is more criticized by his social circle than anyone else. and as you have said, the right to criminal defame islam, he had laid the table for that in 1942. so the story talks about how people down south come from a fundamentalist tradition and they teach in on sunday school, and it it's not a completely different vision from clarence thomas come also from the deep south. that includes taking the text seriously and treating it as american scripture in a way. but it's very deeply felt by an american patriot from the southland and i am in that tradition. the folks at harvard kind of mock battle. they were a little bit more sophisticated about all of this. but they understand what he was trying to do and he understood having grown up in this way that we were not living up to the p

their organization have been forged out of the races of the jim crow era when few blacks were brave enoughto try out for the job endured terrible treatment. the vulcans were founded so that no other firefighter will feel as vulnerable in the fire house as he did. [applause]. so we have been joined by regina wilson who will join us in a minute. she is the first woman to hold the office of president of the vulcans society. she has been busy working. [applause]. i will turn it over to tom. >> good evening, it's a really good night to have this discussion. any night would be a good night because this is something that doesn't get talked about very much in new york. it's it's a good time. but i didn't realize when ginger asked me to do this that today is metal day. for years i covered city hall and city politics, you see a lot of nonsense that goes on around town. one of the wonderful things that happen every year is the first wednesday of june, they empty out the entire plaza in front of city hall, flakes, buntings, bagpipers, bagpipers, everybody shows up in their dress uniforms. the chiefs a

if they got masters or phd's they connected because of the jim crow laws.so many came back and taught at dunbar. i'm sure many of you heard stories about people having a high school teacher with a phd , atath and the languages the competition story, the first two earn all her credits for a phd at radcliffe. she graduated at dunbar high school and got her phd at radcliffe, even in the process when she went to the south you can knock it in a certain libraries. they were not n. she still managed to complete it. that was the kind of teaching course that was at dunbar high school. it also attracted people who had degrees in law. there were the medical doctors. one of the principles was a lawyer. when someone asked him why he was teaching he said it he like the paycheck. [laughter] alison: the reputation of the .chool really grew it became a way of life to be at dunbar high school, and there was a certain code of behavior and certain things were expected of you, and one of the things that i love to reading more than anything in my research with the handbooks. ins

you know, white supremacy and the legacy of racism and jim crow created this kind of segregation andrty. the poverty created these "pathologies." you hear this all the time as embodied in the moynihan report. those pathologies lead to elevated levels of criminality, which then led to disproportionate incarceration. that's the kind of story mainstream politics tells about this era. what's wrong with that story? >> i don't any there's anything pathological about the african-american community at all. i think the african-american community, you know, if you go into particularly deprived or poor african-american communities and you see certain behaviors you that feel may not be suitable, say, at harvard or, say, in a boardroom or say in a job interview, i think viewed within the context of the african-american community and viewed within people who are struggling with elevated rates of violence, viewed from the perspective of people who are very much concerned about getting from point a to point b on a given day, and i mean that geographically, those behaviors automatically make sense. i

but it's her ability to say why curse hitler and support jim crow?hy curse mon and silence marion anderson. so marion anderson, a. phillip randolph, one of the leaders of the marion anderson event as well as the first march on washington which is planned for to ban -- to force fdr to ban discrimination -- federally -- i'm sorry, to ban discrimination of the defense industries. eleanor is right in there with him too. she's close. >> we only have a half hour left. and as you mentioned, eleanor roosevelt did travel to the pacific. here's a speech she made to some of the troops. [video] >> also very sad, looking very upset that he could not come out to the troops. he said i just can't -- so the officer said, well, listen, i'll tell you what to do. you go over to that ridge over there and say all of a sudden, and they'll jump on other people -- he'll say to the death. looking very gloomy and he said, did you do what i told you to do? and yes, sir. yes. i ran up there and i said to hell and they just jumped up as you said they would, but they -- [laughter]

this really is a sad day for me because it does feel like jim crowe in san francisco. that's what it feels like. i come to speak on behalf of the lost ones. there was not a plaque given in honor of these two people. demario killed the same month as katie style us. he was the grandson. it will be 20 years next year that i will be celebrating my son's anniversary and speaking of the four homicides taken last year. we hit the streets in january. i expect the board to be sensitive to this issue that our community are hurting and suffering. i know you have done an excellent service in serving us at the conference center. friday past was a national day of remembrance. >>supervisor london breed: thank you. next speaker, please. public speaker: good evening, board of supervisors, president, and all the people who stayed in the midst of this long meeting. i know everyone is tired. my name is carlotta jackson. i'm with true foster family services agency. what i want to say to the board is that we are actually suffering from a stat of emergency. the actual violence in san francis

anderson could perform in the district, but it's her ability to say, why curse hitler and support jim crow? why curse mein kampf and silence marian anderson? so marian anderson, a. philip randolph, who was really one of the leaders of the march -- of the marian anderson event, as well as the first march on washington, which is planned for -- to ban -- to force fdr to ban discrimination in federally -- i'm sorry, to ban discrimination in the defense industries, eleanor's right in there with him, too. so she's very close. mr. slen: well, we only have a half-hour left, and as you mentioned, eleanor roosevelt did travel to the pacific. and here's a speech she made to some of the troops. eleanor roosevelt: an officer found a private feeling very sad, looking very depressed. and he said, "what's the matter with you?" and he said, "oh, i just can't go home. i haven't shot a jap." : and so the officer said, "well, listen, i'll tell you what to do. you go up to that ridge over there and jump up, all of a sudden, and say, 'to hell with hirohito,' and they'll jump up, other people all around, and if

reason americans are sensitive to the race issue, particularly because of legacy of slavery and jim crow. that is why we have civil rights laws. that's why we have affirmative action and set-asides. but then suddenly one day out of the blue, people you talk about integration all the time t was integration. don't discriminate against black people which we had to spend 100 years teaching democrats not to do. but that is all about american blacks. it is not about someone who has never set foot in this country before. it is liberals who are the racists you're all brown, we'll treat you like american blacks. and it is, really kind of shocking. i don't know if problem, maybe some of you know this, jesse jackson used to stand at border denouncing illegal immigrants coming across. caesar chavez, denounced them as wet backs driving down wages of the poor. but today, you can arrive from, you know the sudan, yesterday, you will get affirmative action applying to college. you will get, you will get affirmative action applying for government business loans. one of the tricks, the cheap labor devotees

you know, white supremacy and legacy of racism in jim crow created this segregation and poverty.ed these quote pathologists. you hear these all the time. as embodied in the report. those lead to elevated levels of criminality which then led to disproportionate incarceration. that's the kind of story mainstream politics tells about this era. what's wrong with that story? >> well, i don't think there's anything pathological about the african-american community at all. i think the community, you know, if you go into particularly, you know, deprived or poor african-american communities, you see behaviors that may not be suitable at harvard or board room or a job interview. i think viewed within the context of the community and viewed within people of struggling with elevated rates of violence, viewed from rates of the perspective of people very much concerned about getting from point "a" to point "b," and i mean that geographically, those behaviors make sense. i've long maintained this long before i was doing this piece that within the context of racism. all the behaviors within the

1977 issue of spin the second half of her life as an activist in detroit fighting racism of the jim crow north. she will continue to do that. she will be at it again the war in vietnam. she will be a hit against south african apartheid. you are showing a picture of an older rosa parks protesting outside the embassy. she will continue to be an everlasting the struggle is not over. there is much injustice in the country and she will kind of be resolved to keep fighting. yet the way of rosa parks has taught as a problem is solved in the past when actual rosa parks that there's much more to be done. >> how did you do your research on this boat? >> i had to do a lot of digging. i did all sorts of archives and history interviews in part because part of rosa favors are caught up in a dispute as she had gotten papers to sell. with all of her effects they languished for about a decade until the summer howard buffett made an incredible donation and recently gave them to the library of congress and february they opened. they are remarkable. the library of congress is open to anyone who wants to vis

and race between the late 19th century in the mid-20th century but period which encompasses the jim crow era and the bacteriological revolution from me at the end of antimicrobial therapy. to his right is professor chris lebron. he received his ph.d. at m.i.t. and is the author of the award-winning book imani perry, race and justice in our time. he has written pieces on race in america for "the new york times" philosophy column and a stone into his right is that those are nell irvin painter who currently lives and works in newark new jersey has an author and historian. she is the edwards professor of american history america of princeton university and has authored several books including "the history of white people" african-american history in its meaning and sojourner truth a life of cymbal preach is also a professional painter for a she works digitally and manually on artist books, most recently on art history by nell painter volume 27. conceptual art. professor painter received her ph.d. in history from harvard and her mfa in painting from the rhode island school of design. please j

jim crow, apartheid. how much do you think in our ociety or the movement, people are cognizant or thinking about that? >> are thinking about history? i'm not sure of the answer. i think they are thinking about history. i guess what i would say to that is the concern i have come of the way we analyze the history and do not fantasize it. particularly within the african-american committees, we may have fetish in of the civil rights movement. to say the least. it is challenging because that does not allow us to have intergenerational struggles. we have a generation of people who pride themselves on the amazing work they did at a particular time. however, for my generation and younger, we have seen less results from that. on the one hand, we have -- we need to look to that history. but part of that analysis needs to be what has changed. how have the dynamics of power fundamentally changed. what are we up against and fighting for? imagining and envisioning for ourselves? on the one hand, history and anybody who

there is no doubt in my mind there are jim close -- there are jim crow racists out there but there is no doubt a pattern like this is not reduced by that sort of racism. it is a different racism, maybe a more fundamental racism, a more fundamental inequality. if we were to talk about how to solve that, we would look beyond the simple image of a hateful person we would look for structure of poverty or the stupid war on drugs. structural problems that require we think of a more difficult task, a task that solving this inequality without focused, picking out the evil of individuals, picking out the evil or outrage, but we don't do that. we can't do that. not because it's hard for people to understand these issues as contributing to these kinds of racism, but the focus on simple injustice, the focus on the outrage, the focus on the difference between the good and the evil in this story pays structures of media that talk to us about this. it pays the activists organizations that want to rally us about this. keeping it simple keeps the fury going. so while we get nothing done, we remain ang

police, it changed the country's legitimacy of police, ultimately leading to the destruction of the jim crowg restrictions. undoubtedly this is why king and others were monitored, harassed and threatened by the fbi. tactics deployed by the fbi to even greater effect later in the 1960s against the black panther par party. the 10-point platform of the black panther party rendered black parties illegitimate. and they engaged in actual shootouts with police. law enforcement, including the fbi, sought to delegitimize and destroy the panthers. a backlash of those who challenge a state's monopoly on violence is the plot of the development of the number one movie in the country right now, "straight outta compton," which talks about the hip-hop groups declaring their lyrics at the police. recall what happened to new york mayor bill de blasio at the end of 2014. black lives matter gripped the country as they refused to hold up an officer in the choking of eric garner. de blasio struck a decidedly different tone, invoking his own differences of raising a black son. >> i couldn't help but immediately th

hope to enshrine is a tired old quiet seamstress who one day in 1954 just decided she was tired of jim crowietly submitted to arrest and stepped back and let men like martin luther king lead the movement. if this isn't an image you share, the real mrs. parks is the story in "the rebellious life of mrs. rosa parks." in 1954 mrs. parks was not tired or old, she was a trained activist, an organizer who planned her disruption carefully. after montgomery she was neither quiet or invizbsible. she opposed the vietnam war and u.s. complicit with south african apartheid. she opposed clarence thomas and condemned the militarized response of the u.s. government following the attacks on september 11th. in short, parks was, as theo harris characterizes her, a life-long critic of american racial and social\s and the interlocking nature of economic and interracial injustice. when the presidential candidates fall all over himself's to nominate rosa parks for the $10 bill, they aren't talking about the real rosa parks. they mean a fully sanitized is h dp historic illusion of parks. we render black women as

what michelle alexander titled her book, the new jim crow, we see policies now that are resegregatingn incarcerated, especially for nonviolent drug offenses. it's wrong. it's morally wrong. it's destroying many, many families. >> that's exactly what we're going to go. when we come back, we're going to dig into those sets of policies and what this administration might, might be prepared to do better. my guests are coming back. but coming up, president obama weighs in, yesterday, at the white house, on prison reform. and batman meets black lives matter. seriously. plus the intergenerational struggle continues. more mhp at the top of the hour. the promise of the cloud is that every organization has unlimited access to information, no matter where they are. the microsoft cloud gives our team the power to instantly deliver critical information to people, whenever they need it. here at accuweather, we get up to 10 billion data requests every day. the cloud allows us to scale up so we can handle that volume. we can help keep people safe; and to us that feels really good. when you think of th

he dedicated his life to bringing down the pillars that maintained jim crow in mississippi. the heroic life he lived and the remarkable legacy that he left are unquestioned. today's bill will further cement the role that he played in advancing civil and human rights in our nation. with that, i urge you and my colleagues to join me in supporting h.r. 959. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california. mr. mcclintock: i'm ready to close when the gentlelady from michigan is. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from michigan. mrs. dingell: i urge all members to support h.r. 959 and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from california. mr. mcclintock: medgar evers was a patriot and a civil rights leader who gave his life to realize the full promise of the american declaration of independence. his memory is revered by every american who lived through those years. it is for us to preserve his memory with the many generation of americans to follow who will have to look to history to know him. this bill is a ste

montgomery but she has to leave my every to spend the second half of her life in detroit fighting jim-crow racism in the north. she will be active against the war than vietnam, a south african apartheid, with a whole other rosa parks and will continue to the end of her life that there is injustice to be resolved to keep friday but the way she is taught is the problem is in the past. >> how do you do your research on this book? >> i had to do a lot of digging. em part of those caught in a dispute to get the papers to sell in a europe for one decade and tell making an incredible delegation recently paid it to the library of congress. so they are remarkable. the library of congress you can see them too redelivers you can hear her voice. i very much recommend them. >> you're spending more time of the library of congress. the rebellious slave of mrs. rosa parks. this is the 15th year we have been live at this festival. we're at the convention center here in washington and. live from the history and biography room we will take you up there now. next we will hear from the most recent book called

will spend the second half of her life as an activist in the detroit fighting the racism of the jim crow no.. she will continue to do that. rosa parks will call malcolm x her personal hero, the active against the war in vietnam, active against apartheid, a picture in my favorites in the book of an older rosa parks protesting outside the south african embassy, she will continue to the end of real-life saying the struggle is not over, there is injustice in this country and she will be resolved to keep fighting and yet i think the way rosa parks is tossed is as a problem resolved in the past when the actual rosa parks said there is much more work to be done. >> host: how did you do the research on this book? >> guest: i had to do a lot of digging. i went to all sorts of archives, in part because part of rosa parks's papers were caught in a dispute over her estate, had gotten the papers to sell with all of her in effect, they languished in new york for a decade until this summer howard buffett made an incredible donation and recently gave them to the library of congress and in february theyo