>> negros who were in world war ii for france like josephine baker and the pilot from world war i thatre within world war ii too, but i can't think of his fellow. >> i can only say briefly, paris to the war was a much more liberated city as far as race goes, i would say, than much of the united states and josephine baker is an example of someone who did not have the challenges she would have had in the united states and as far as african-american soldiers in world war ii the army was still segregated at the time serving in various units and most of you are probably familiar with the tus keegee airmen, a segregated unit who had a record in fighting fighter support for american bombers. a number of african-american veterans from world war i served in world war ii, as well, but again, still facing the segregation that they had experienced in the u.s. army in world war i. so that's about the best i can do on that question. anything else? anything else? sir? >> how tall was de gaulle? [ laughter ] >> how tall was de gaulle? >> his -- the nickname that the americans gave him was -- two meter

just like josephine baker who experienced the east st.louis riots in 1917 and went on to be what she became hooks experience, the tulsa, oklahoma, riot in 1921. she just passed away a couple of years ago. so, yes, that incident amp world war i. >> why was a bomb dropped in tulsa, oklahoma? can you give background to folks who don't know that story? >> a little bit of the background, burned from the top and, of course, olivia hooker, ms. olivia hooker, kind of tells in her story. you know, a lot of these -- attacks -- there were people in uniform and some of them were local national guardsmen. and so there were bombs dropped in the city, and the city burned from the top down. >> and dropped from a military airplane? >> and dropped from a military airplane i'm not completely sure or artillery that was dropped. i'm not completely sure on that aspect of thor to. >> a couple questions from folksen on twitter as we've had this conversation. a couple quick ones. asking black jack pershing but he was white and earned his nick name commanding blac

when i showed up at his apartment, he actually had tickets to josephine baker.father had been stationed in france and we had gone to josephine baker's castle, where she lived and had all the children. the fact that i had to make the decision, do i go and take those tickets to go see her or do i do my interview and i stayed to do my interview. you hear me -- because i asked him finally -- he interviews me first and asked me why i do this work. you hear me asking when he came to new york and it is 1900 and i go wow, because i can't, i am in my early 20's and i am meeting this man. one interview led to the other basically. i returned my senior year to do research on my honors thesis on news and did a whole other set of interviews which i have found and have now had digitized. juan: so when you graduate from harvard law, you go on then to a big law firm, but you have an interest in video. of course you were one of the founders of chicago shopping network which then becomes a model for how people have such channels around the country if not the world. but you cap to

see the modern weimar republic and an obsession with race going hand in hand at the same time josephine bakerwas well in berlin orleans's with her banana dance in 1926 others in germany were worrying about the purity of the german race some of thirties went as far as to consider forcibly sterilizing the children of the occupation. only a few biographies of occupation children are still known today one of them is about greg or butts who was born at the edge of the eiffel region in 1921 greg was father was an american infantryman stationed in the rhineland not a french colonial soldier he came from the philippines. grego barnes was the son of my eldest aren't who was born in 1906 at the time my cousin was born my aunt who was 14 years old if you think about it or even today that would be rather scandalous. but imagine what it was like in 1921 in a staunch catholic society where religion was dominant then it was far more shocking. here's. this is catarina kyra greg was mother this is a miracle i am my mother she was born in 1914 and i think was about 11 or 12 in this picture and that's an acquir

see the modern weimar republic and an obsession with race going hand in hand at the same time josephine bakerwas well going perlin audiences with her banana dance in 1926 others in germany were worrying about the purity of the german race some of thora teas went as far as to consider forcibly sterilizing the children of the occupation. only a few biographies of occupation children are still known today one of them is about greg or bards who was born at the edge of the eiffel region in 1921 greg was father was an american infantryman stationed in the rhineland not a french colonial soldier he came from the philippines. grego barnes was the son of my eldest aren't who was born in 1906 at the time my cousin. i was born my aunt who was 14 years old if you think about it even today that would be rather scandalous. but imagine what it was like in 1921 in a staunch we catholics or scientists where religion was dominant in that it was far more shocking. here's. this is catalina kyra greg was mother this is a miracle i am my mother she was born in 1914 and i think was about 11 or 12 in this picture an

josephine baker who is this amazing doctor in new york at the beginning of the century the first chief of the new york bureau of child hygiene which is the first children's health bureau in the country, she notices that after a successful campaign some of the children in the rich neighborhoods are doing much worse but because they are not a nurse. they are being cared for by trained nurses in uniforms but they are not getting the same kind of care. >> that was pretty amazing i thought and i'd like to talk to you or ask a little bit about that. what was it that made us move as a society from speaking of this is just part of life that babies are going to die. too we should do something about this. we need to get this under control and try to solve the problem. what was that thing that happened? was a gradual change? >> is probably a number of things together. around the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20 century people talked about. there was a book called infant mortality published in england in 1906 and the doctor would be working with the public health statistics. he starts out t

see the modern weimar republic and an obsession with race going hand in hand at the same time josephine bakerwas well in berlin orleans's with her banana dance in 1926 others in germany were worrying about the purity of the german race some will thirty's went as far as to consider forcibly sterilizing the children of the occupation. only a few biographies of occupation children are still known today one of them is about greg or butts who was born at the edge of the eiffel region in 1921 greg was father was an american infantryman stationed in the rhineland not a french colonial soldier he came from the philippines. grego barnes was the son of my eldest aren't who was born in 1906 at the time my cousin was born my aunt who was 14 years old if you think about it or even today that would be rather scandalous. but imagine what it was like in 1921 lived in a staunch we catholics or scientists where religion was dominant then it was far more shocking. here's. this is catalina kyra crego was mother this is a miracle i am my mother she was born in 1914 and i think was about 11 or 12 in this picture a

just like josephine baker.she experienced oklahoma, and she just passed away a little bit of background from the top, there was people in uniform, and they were dropping bombs and the boms also drops. >> do you have the history on that? >> yeah, it is a name that we interpret, we interpret that not too far. he did serve. they used it as a term of endearment. there was another name that he was called that started with an n because he stefbed with african-american troops. so he did have a relationship with african-americans. he had a relationship with luminaries, he was actually at west point. but yes, the name does orange nate from service with buffalo soldiers in history. >> uncle sam writing in on twitter saying was there ever any black generals in world war i? >> no, the first african-american general was not promoted until 1940 that is benjamin o. davis senior. he was several times throughout the exhibition, he was the third to graduate in 1889 and in world war one he was a lieutenant colonel when the war st

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