katherine dunham and josephine baker lived on and on long enough to be critics of the vietnam war and the haitian hundred strike. >> that's right. they were still in the struggle in the 1990's connecting art with culture, and both of them with politics resistant. >> and they come out of dissent. depicted in an image getting a medal from george w. bush. >> the final insult. it can happen to radical artists, but these people -- i mean, some of them are really famous, and we remember them, at least most of us remember gertrude stein, billie holiday and others, but we don't -- we don't so easily remember archer wrote. a great italian american poet, a best-selling poet as of 1912 who was also a labor leader and an extraordinary person as i mentioned karl, a host of others who were just outside our memory now, but really are stunning and fascinating individuals who kept the idea of freedom, moving the came to keep two of the flame to keep it alive during the dark days. it would come back from time to time from the 1920's and 1950's. >> these guys to speak to us from the dead, name i did not