february 29th, the kerner commission releases its report on race relations in the country. of course april 4th, martin luther king jr. was assassinated. the days after martin luther king jr.'s assassination, rioting in chicago, baltimore, washington, d.c., and other cities. on april 11th, president johnson signs the fair housing act. on june 4th, 5th, and 6th, robert kennedy wins the california primary. he's shot after his victory rally. he died the next day, on the 6th. october 16th, that iconic image of olympic athletes tommie smith and john carlos. november 5th, the impact. we'll be talking about that on the movement. we'll talk about all of that in our special series. special phone lines if you want to join the conversation. 202-748-8000. if you're 29 years old and under, for those 30 years old to 60s years old. 202-748-8001. the phone line for those 61 and older, we want to hear from you, your memories of that year, 202-748-8002. kathleen cleaver, we introduced you as well as your position at emory as the former communications secretary for the black panther party. how

all right and our political correspondent on your kerner is tracking this story for you good to see you i guess can you please contextualize we talking about an isolated case here or is far right extremists pervasive within the german police. the police are not ruling out the possibility that this is a case of much bigger than mentions a task force has been installed to investigate the allegations in the recent months there have been some incidents which alarmed officials in some a in the east german town of cam that's some release took place following a murder case and a participant of one of these rallies insulted and attacked the camera team and later it turned out that this man is a member of the state office of criminal investigation furthermore the head of the foreign intelligence service mohsen downplayed some of the excesses which took place in the same demonstrations so at this point there is no knowledge of a right wing structure within the police force but officials are alarmed they are alarmed all right now as we heard in that report were so striking is that these police off

and it's directly when the stuff of dusky sally comes out in the press and kerner calls this domestic performance and that possibly by the president's very white, very respectable daughter coming and making herself visible that she's helping soften it. i don't know how you feel about that. >> the chapter on the jefferson first lady is about martha and the other sister, too. >> they were flying visits. >> whaft was it? >> flying in, and they were hostesses and the author of this interesting piece and the companion, makes it a point that she, writing from monticello was really like this soccer, s-o- krfrmt c- c-c-o-r and this brings up the issue of the first ladies under the time of buchanon, for instance and people often died in the white house and also included lauren and florence couldn't continue because that was sort of the end of his term and there were oftentimes these cases where these men came and they didn't have wives relatives to take it on, but picking up on something you said about the context of the time of dolly and the jeffersons and also in the 20th century, a very int

have been held in geneva the talks were mediated by a un envoy and former german president horst kerner and they will be continued early next year today about sixty percent of the former spanish colony is controlled by morocco but the western sahara territory is also claimed by the polish are your friends in the pendants movement years of fighting between the two groups ended with a cease fire in one nine hundred ninety one it has since then been monitored by the united nations but efforts to reach a final settlement have failed now two days of roundtable discussions hope to jumpstart a settlement of this decades old conflict. has been living in refugee camps for the last forty years she refuses to return to our homeland back to western sahara because morocco is still in charge there. hundreds of thousands of people are stranded here in the algerian desert they call this that are we and they live in depressing camps almost completely forgotten by the outside world. when spain with jurors from western sahara nine hundred seventy five morocco and explodes ways of the region many said how

but there are these moments where she does show up, and i'm thinking of the work of cynthia ke rrk kerner and it's when the news about domestic work comes out. >> the jefferson first lady is exactly about martha and the other sister, too. they made two sort of long visits. they were called flying visits, i guess. >> what was that? >> flying visits, because they sort of flew in. you can't really fly in in those days, but they came and left and stayed for quite a while. cannotly exactly as you were saying, they were hostesses. she coming from monticello was really like the sucker, the ss -- succ-u-c-c-o-r -- she was serving in a role with him at the white house and this brings up all the surrogate first ladies under the time of buchanan, for instance, or a number of others. people often died in the white house, including forest moran, but then florence couldn't continue because that was the end of his term. these men came and they didn't have wives, they didn't relatives to take it on. but one thing i wanted to mention, picking up on something you said about the context of the time of dolly