and when we were finally admitted to central, and mrs. bates sort of served as the mentor and the -- her house was the focal point where we gathered. she had the flow of information from all the journalists from around the world. she helped to keep us grounded. i mean we didn't know all this was swirling around us. we were trying to stay focused on our studies and make sure that we were going to finish out that year. >> and us is the little rock nine of which you are a part. >> yes. >> okay. here is a question. dr. martin luther king said we could pass all the laws we want. we could not legislate the heart. we still have biases and prejudice in america. how are we educating the heart to progress the humanity in all people? ernie green, i'll let you have that final word. >> well, i think we're educating the heart by events like this that really we begin to peel back the cover of the activity that has been going on among these presidents, among their administrations. and it's important for us to tell a story. dr. king's statue didn't just appear

. >> mrs. bates was president of the arkansas naacp. she was the state president. >> mm-hmm. >> we knew her because the family had the weekly newspaper, "the arkansas state press," and it was -- it was a journal that we all read, and so when time came, she had sootued the littl rock school board the year before that we were admitted to adhere to the '54 decision, and when we were finally admitted to central, mrs. bates sort of served as the mentor and the -- her house was the focal point where we gathered. she had the flow of information from all the journalists from around the world and she helped to keep us grounded. we didn't know all this was swirling around us. we were trying to stay focused on our studies and make sure that we would finish out that year. >> and us is the little rock nine of which you are a part. >> yes. >> okay. here's a question. dr. martin luther king said we can pass all the laws we want. we still have biases and prejudice. how with reeducating the heart to recognize humanity in all people? ernie green, i'll le

state naacp daisy bates, and there's a documentary that i think public television has been doing on mrs. bates, but the moment came that i had a chance to say that i wanted to transfer. i wanted to transfer because you saw this huge building. you passed it every day. you knew that i came out of a family of teachers, and they always complained about the resources that central had as compared to what we had, the hand-me-down books, so -- and i figured i wanted to get the best college education i could, so if i want to central, and they had more of what we wanted to have, that this was going to be a good thing. the summer occurs, and it's kind of bumping along, and i get an invitation, my mother and i, to go down to the superintendent's office to indicate that i've been accepted as one of the students to transfer to central that fall. i thought it was going to be a fairly quiet day. and up until -- and so did most people in little rock, and the night before school was to open, the good governor orville faubus comes on television and says that he's calling out the national guard to keep us out of

century, in the 1930s, 40s and 50 there is was this wonderful historian, her name was alice bates-gould. mrs. gould was an incredible researcher. incredible. came from quincy, massachusetts, by the way. she spent years and years in the archives in spain and elsewhere, researching that very question. who were the men who sailed? and of the 100 or so men that were aboard, alice bates-gould managed to find the records of about 90 of them. just an incredible accomplishment. and from her evidence and her research, it would seem that no, these were experienced seamen. these were men who had been to sea. also there's always the claim, well, there must have been irishmen aboard that made it happen. must have been a french man or english man. no. columbus was italian but everybody else was spanish. all of the sea men with him. so they were good experienced sailors. they weren't criminals, et cetera. they were good. which probably accounts for the sailing over and coming back. good question. i kept you long enough, i suppose. don't forget, we don't have a paper tomorrow. actually i don't think i proba

mr. potato head is sell bating his 6th -- celebrating his 60th birthday. >> children are learning about the scientific method, math in a fun way. >> reporter: if you haven't gotten to the exhibit yet it just opened. it's going to be here through the summer, right? >> until september 3rd. >> reporter: excellent . very good. by the way they have sold 100 million mr. potato heads in 30 countries since he was invented. that is just amazing. >> that's incredible. >> reporter: he's a beloved character. >> he is and he's been used as a spokesperson because people respond to him >> reporter: the kids are going to respond to him right here at port discovery. all right. thank you very much . >> you're so welcome. come on over and have a great time. >> reporter: i sure will. there's a star wars mr. potato head character you know whether his name is? >> no. >> reporter: dart darth at -- darth tater. we have to run but also say happy birthday to buck. have a great one. >> bye-bye. >> when i got my first kit you all the arms and legs but had to use a real potato before the body. >> seriously? >> i'm old.