congress, including marian anderson, (inaudible) rosa parks, and mr. martin luther king junior. and whereas, the smhsonian institution in partnership with the national veteran's network has organized a 7-city tour to bring the medal and a story to communities throughout the country and will come to the mhd in the museum on june 29, to august 24, 2014 and whereas the partnership has developed the curriculum for elementary and high school levels and the high school curriculum is piloted at the toren unified school district and in addition in january of 2011, the board voted to adopt a resolution in observations of the civil liberties and the constitution and to commemorate the courage of coramatso, a recipient to challenge the constitutionality of the war time incarceration. and has alled developed the curriculum for elementary and middle and haol sky level and these kits include the video giems and lesson plans and posters are available at no charge to teachers. therefore, be it resolved that the board of education encourages the faculty and students to visit the gold medal exhib

the daughters of the american revolution over its refusal to let the african-american singer marian anderson give a concert in the constitution hall. they called the column very naive but today we would call it a blog with emphasis on where eleanor went, and a chatty, informal style. and mainly as a reflection of the lenore's desire to make money. and for 12 years. and the draw of these women eager to gain access to the white house. detractors said they weakened the status of women journalists. and encourage dependence on one source. eleanor was careful what she said to these women. also she would stipulate they not face certain things. and running for reelection in 1936 she told the women to related to birth control that come up at these conferences last because that was a politically volatile subject. black's closeness to roosevelt did not help her career. he became known as roosevelt's apologist, obtained a government position with eleanor's help that did not work out. and alcoholism and mental problems and identify. and wrote in her autobiography that i pitched my wagon to a star. and th

next day, they were assigned to handle security around the podium where celebrities like singer marian andersonwe knew it was important but we didn't know that it was historic. >> reporter: tens of thousands descended on the mall. black and white. rich and famous. working and middle class. as you looked out, all you could see is a mass of humanity, the reflecting pool. you couldn't even see the grass. >> all of us should be prepared to take to the streets. >> reporter: beginning at 9:00 a.m. a steady stream of speakers and singers took to the podium. finally by late afternoon... >> dr. martin luther king. reporter: ... the last speaker was announced. >> i have a dream. that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. i have a dream today. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: the words dr. king spoke that day signaled a turning point in american history. but as for the three pages they were written on, george simply took them away in an autobiography of harry truman and forgot about it. he e

marian anderson walked right by. i was scared of her entourage. i was listening to mr. king and charlton heston and different movie stars. that was my second time having seen king when he came to dayton. things have changed. newsee more blacks in the and on communications. we still have a long way to go. host: how did you get to washington? did you drive? bus.r: we left dayton on a d had a leader here in ayton. thomas the spitting image of martin luther king. they invited me to come down. wayal estate lady paid my or gave him money so i can have money when i got there. i had two little girls at the time. that motivated me. if i did not go and if i survived, if someone were to ask me what was my contribution, what was i going to be able to tell my children? me toeally motivated help. it was a great experience. i was 23 years old at the time. i am 77 now. host: thank you for your call. this comes from gene with reference to the clip we showed about charlton heston. there will be a medal of freedom honoring. there is a piece about his role. president obama will honor him.

roosevelt goes out and embraces marian anderson. she was going to perform an operatic performance. the daughters of the american revolution found out that she was african-american and did not want her to perform. eleanor roosevelt goes onto to the fields and teske -- in tuskeegee and championed their cause. mary todd lincoln collected food and clothing for slaves to move to the capital city. betty ford did more to promote breast cancer screening among women than anything before or since simply by her being the first lady. i cannot imagine have thousands of women -- there are letters from thousands of women who went out and got screened because of betty ford going public. there is a social influence that goes into the office we cannot measure as easily. >> is it too easy to dismiss, quite rightly, to condescend the fashion and style. there are reasons why we talk about certain first ladies as having both style and substance. for some, style is substance. the president has become celebrity in chief. it is no accident that his wife has higher poll ratings, sells more books, is that be