this is a period of negro firsts and mary anderson is known as a civil rights icon as having given the concert on easter sunday in 1939 after she was denied the use of constitution hall in washington, d.c. by the daughters of the american revolution in an act of discrimination, so -- but here she is doing the slave spiritual which begins they crucified my lord, and he never said a mumbling word. ♪ ♪ and he never said a mumbling word ♪ ♪ not a word ♪ not a word ♪ not a word ♪ he bowed his head at dark ♪ and he never said a mumbling word ♪ ♪ he bowed his head and died ♪ and he never said a mumbling word ♪ ♪ not a word ♪ not a word ♪ not a word >> it's an integrated audience. so we talked about jazz as a site for this protest music and charles mingus is denouncing governor orville faubus, and it's interesting to think, you know, well, this could have been a genre of songs condemning segregationist governors of the period. you know, you had george wallace of alabama, ross barnett of mississippi, you had lester maddox of georgia, but this is really occasioned by the little rock crisis, and

washington, paul roberson, mary anderson doing the concert, saw was at 16th street baptist church.this became the quote, unquote, headquarters of the children march, operation "c." dr. fred solicited dr. martin luther king to come to birmingham after a couple of failed campaigns that dr. king had, particularly after the one in albany, georgia. and dr. shuttlesworth wanted to confront the power structure here in birmingham about desegregating the schools. he was already unsuccessful in enrolling his children in phillips high school. matter of fact, he was beaten very badly when he tried to enroll his kids to the high school. so they began to meet here in april and may on mondays, then they would strategize in the basement, come up to a packed house, and then they would go out into the park and demonstrate, confronting the power structure of birmingham to desegregate. the church bombing happened months after the whole operation "c." the demonstration, the water hoses, the dogs and the park happened after dr. king's famous "i have a dream" speech in washington, d.c. 18 days after that

. >> mary it is true -- >> anderson -- >> private equity firm perspective, thinking about investing,hey never talk about we are here to create jobs. they are there to make money for those who rip vesting in them, as you said. >> that is correct. and the obama strategy presumes massive ignorance on behalf of the voters. private equity invests in firms that need capital, they need expertise, who would otherwise go under, like he extended the life of that steel firm, by the way, by eight years. and after his initial investment, it was $1 billion company for a couple of years. it was -- went under by greedy unions, foreign competition, dumping in all the rest it also presumes ignorance of steel contraction, which people in swing states understand. so privatety equity, by investing in firms that create jobs, private equity creates jobs, the beginning of it is investors making returns on end product as jobs are created f people are so -- obama has to depend on people not making that connection and being that ignorant, well, then we are in big trouble. but people aren't ignorant. they do un

anderson? >> who is marie callas? >> who is archie bunker? >> he's the one. >> canada is right. >> that's it. >> that's it. indeed. you're the leader and the winner today. >> all right. second time, not only did i lose, as i've said before, i lost to cheech. as in cheech of cheech and chong. >> cheech? >> what is camelot? >> yes. you're the winner today. >> i know what you're thinking, all the stoner movies how could anyone lose to cheech marin? you're forgetting the panther like moves he developed on nash bridges. it's not like i lost a spelling bee to a 12-year-old. >> m-a-l-i-a-b-l-e. [ laughter ] wait a minute, what did i say? hold on? m-a-i-l-a-b-l-e. >> sorry. >> i hate this game. >> not only did i lose to a 12-year-old. he spent the entire time just laughing at me. as for chris on jeopardy, by the end of last night's game, he was pretty fed up wi

. >> the point is, anderson, you have to -- >> let cheryl finish, then marie, you can join in. >> okay>> the point is they torture disabled children. exactly what you see on the video is exactly what they do. >> that is not true. >> the crazy part of all of this is that it is true. >> that is not true. >> they don't deny what they do as you see my son getting shocked, running underneath the table, trying to get away from them, they pull him out and tie him up on a board for seven hours and shock him 31 times. he never hit anyone. he didn't curse. he was screaming. and crying for them to stop. >> michael, how controlled are -- are these shocks administered? because it does seem that if you have teachers or assistants who are authorized to shock kids that can very easily lead to abuse. >> right. and that's why it doesn't happen that way. the clinicians have to get the treatment plans approved by the court. the treatment plans have specific behaviors and only those behaviors that can be treated, the behavior are chosen based on how dangerous they are and how they lead to dangerous behavio

previous recipients include frederick douglass, mary ann anderson, eleanor roosevelt, james baldwin. in 1957, martin luther king jr. and jack robinson were both on marie recipients. --- jackie robinson were both on marie recipients. 15 to 20 years from now, when i graduated, he did not occur to me that i would one day serve as the u.s. secretary of education. i have a much more sensible plan to play in the nba. clearly, that did not work out. if you look to the left and right today, in front of you and behind you, you will see america's future leaders. few universities can claim as many firsts. toni morrison, the former member of the faculty was the first black woman to receive the nobel prize and a pulitzer prize in literature. [applause] your extraordinary university provost is the first african- american president of the american college of surgeons and the american cancer society. [applause] other howard graduates or the first african-americans to be elected to the u.s. senate, a u.s. governor, mayor of new york city, and u.n. ambassador. and last but not least, the mighty thurgoo

anderson cooper asked him something else. ignored the question straight through. >> bret: mary, the latest poll from the apc/"washington post"nt obama with a slight lead. we have seen in a couple of polls but on the issue of the economy dead tied. 47-47. >> on the issue of whether romney experience is a positive or negative, it's equal and rasmussen poll. a lot of people can be convinced. to the point i think it's a fair attack from democrats to examine this. but this allowed romney to frame the issue. limit attempt to bring it back later down the line. >> i don't think they give up on this. this is something they have evidence that worked in the past. might not work again. they are convinced this is a strong line of attack. i goes after what he says is the strength. polls do show equal number of people say it will make them vote for him or against him. majority says it is not a major factor at all. i agree this is about the economy. about the policies, both men are espousing. romney has pointed to his private sector experience as one of his number one qualifications. he hasn't talked about being for of massachusetts. he tal

anderson and others. you'd bring them in, they would work with him. but the organization itself like someone like mary ann shedd carey and the same with others like harriet tubman and those in other positions they're in place to do something else in the strategic plan. >> but what about mary ellen pleasant, though? >> i'm not an expert on what her contribution was. yes? >> is there any evidence of how the spy network got information to each other or to back and forth between union army and -- >> well, we know the past system is in place like let's take lucy carter. how we know about her, she has a pass and they november and out. a lot of the individuals are also masters of disguise. that's one of harriet tubman's keys. she goes behind enemy lines so a lot of it is runners, messengers. messengers that are coming in and some are the individuals who are in fact conducting the work so it's disguises, messengers. you can also accompany confederates officers when they would go and make -- they might be coming in to do a prisoner exchange and the manservant of one of the confederate officers is actually the

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mary nor theresa called police. theresa's sister bob bibooth, told cnn's anderson cooper she called police when her sister wouldn't.estigators on saturday because the statements she were making were concerning me. >> reporter: late tuesday, friends held vigils for the missing girls. one of them told us she remembers the last time 14-year-old adrienne told her good-bye. >> the way she said it, i think she knew that something was going to happen. >> reporter: they're praying on it here. many prayers going up for mississippi and tennessee this morning. authorities tell us they can't explain exactly why. but they do believe that those two missing girls, george, are still alive. >> thank you, steve. >>> let's get more from our legal team, dan abrams and nancy grace. nancy, you've been all over this on your hln show, "nancy grace," try to dig in a little more where steve just left off. why the police may believe these girls are still alive and what they know about whether their appearance may have been altered. >> several things, about why their appearance has been altered. number one, if you look at that just-released s