and that did an enormous amount for the naacp.this star lawyer who was legenday for his courage. it took the organization to a different level. marshall really made the second coming in the naacp from the mid-40s on. narrator: as the cause moved forward through the 1940s, the u.s. entered world war two. marshall was now faced with one more distraction from the education strategy, as he was forced to defend black soldiers who were victims of discrimination in the segregated services. roger wilkins: i think the war really changed things, because these guys came back and some were dead and some didn't have arms or legs or whatever. and they were fighting for freedom in the usa and the american way. they were fairly young men and they had lives to live, and, you know, and they would stand up for themselves in ways that black people earlier had not done. jose anderson: they had been to europe, they had been to places where they could eat where they wanted. where they were not thrown out of public accommodations, and they were not going

like the naacp. you need an organization that is willing to take a bold stand in difficult times. an organization that understands that it is not easy to be on the right side of right. but that understands also that a great country has to move forward and to do so, it must be on the right side of right. let me pause for just a moment because we've had a great sage to come into the chambers tonight. and he is, of course, the sage from new york we know him as the honorable charlie rangel. i know him as a friend to all of humanity. a person who has consistently been on the right side of right. a person who speaks with clarity with force, sincerity, and actually calls them as he sees them without any fear, without any belief that there are consequences that can be of great harm to him such that he should not speak truth to power. so tonight i'm honored to ask my dear friend if he would join me and give his commentary on the naacp and i will now yield to the gentleman from new york city, the honorable cha

hicks was running against the naacp philosophy and she swept aside all opposition.he whole white community supported her in opposition to the naacp's desire for integrated schools and housing and otherwise. i say that to say this. even the jewish community, which is supposed to be pro liberal, went against the naacp, or against integration in practice. but they're for it in principle. so the only solution is separation and the honorable elijah muhammad says this can be brought about simply by allowing our people to be exposed to the truth about ourselves, about the white man and our condition in this country and once we are exposed to the complete truth about things as they actually exist in this country, the masses of black people will choose complete separation from this entire system, economic system, political system whatever other adjective you want to attach to it. let us go back to our own people, live among our own kind and solve their own problems ourselves. if the white man doesn't want us to, since we can't get along together in peace in this country -- l

the naacp. wayne watson says his uncle and several other men he named were members of the ku klux klan. this is a clip from his 2013 interview and then president of the naacp ben jealous. >> people tried to bribe me. >> why does this case bother you so much? you have a lot of people after you to keep your mouth shut. why the state interested? >> because i'm tired. you're living with lies or you are living with people talking about things. i wanted all over with. the racism, i mean, i've been on the streets. i told people i blade -- dated a black woman and everything. why men says he dates a black woman, you can get any money from a bank, they turn you down. >> this week, the guardian newspaper reported that after wayne watson's interview the fbi spoke with one of the men he identified -- his uncle, his father's brother, and a man named charlie peppers who is now 86 are sold. peppers said to fbi agents visited him last to question him for about 40 minutes. the fbi has not confirmed. for more, we'

the naacp is rising. i think it helped the naacp. trotter does not get much from it.his newspaper's "the guardian" and he kind of fades away. >> let's go to gym in apple valley, california. what are your thoughts about the film? >> i just wondered if anyone saw the wider picture of everything watching part two, the scene where they dumped the body on the doorstep. they used the term "aryan" in the film. hitler was a product of his time. i don't know if the author touched on this, but this was a broader perspective view have this film, pseudoscientific studies on the size of african-american brains, studies in eugenics, into the holocaust as well. >> thanks for the call. dick lehr? >> we did address that earlier. the notion of white supremacy was featured in all walks of life at the time. this is a reflection of that era griffith himself considered this to be accurate. it was a huge disconnect. he did not get it. he did not consider himself to be hurtful here and harmful to black america. yet, one of the things that is always puzzling, here he is being confronted, seve

it was a break out year for the naacp. but trotter would not be part of it.rongly that it could be integrated but it wasn't run by blacks. he felt that sent a wrong message. >> so, in his last few years -- >> he made it into the 1930s and he was in his early 60s. he was a broken man. health wise, he was coming apart. the paper was barely making it out. he lived on his own in a rooming house. he was known to be agitated and worrisome and would walk around the flat roof that they had triple deckers in boston. and he either slipped or fell to his death. was e it was on his birthday. there's a lot of the early reports in the paper that said he jumped. it was a suicide. the family always said he would never do that. i think this's a strong case that could be made that the timing of it on his birthday and what not, he was failing health that he may well have jumped to his death. >> how long did d.w. give filth? >> he lived a bit longer. i can't remember off the top of my head how old he was when he died. but he retired and lived in hollywood for a number of years.

the naacp was tracking lynchings. ida b.lopments around 1915, there were going up again. and the film is so inflammatory that that was a big part of the protest it would incite even further lynchings. it inspired a rebirth of the klan which, by 1915, had fizzled out. by the end of this year, the the film had moved through the north as some kind of film campaign and move the south and opened in atlanta in early december of 1915 and within days, a man by the name of william simmons, would later say he was inspired by the film that took a number of confederate supporters and went to stone mountain and burned a cross. and revived the klan and grew exponentially. in the late teens and through the 1920's. >> where are you from originally? >> connecticut. >> where did you go to school? >> harvard. >> and so did trotter? >> a few years ahead of me. [laughter] >> how did he die? >> in terms of his career, 1915 was the high water mark. he founded a radical newspaper in 1901 to take on booker t. washington, a civil rights strategy to s

for more on that, we turn to cornell william brooks, president and ceo of the naacp and richard beary, president of the international association of chiefs of police. thank you both for joining me tonight. months later, after all the discussions of ferguson and staten island, what progress are we making mr. brooks in trying to get to police reform? >> i'm hopeful there is an emerging consent in both our ability to bring about policing reform and a concrete set of policy proposals. so whether it be at the federal level and the racial profiling act, which would tie federal funding to the training of police officers so that they don't engage in racial profiling to the naacp-supported and passage of the death in custody act. up until a little while ago you would ask the common sense question: how many police-involved homicides are there in the country? there's no way to answer that question. i believe we're on our way to answering that question. to more flexibility in terms of promoting appointing special prosecutors. so there are a number of concrete proposals, reforms that we can pursue

he won election in december 2014 taking over for longtime naacp head jerry mondesire.there are still some fights. >> jerry started the fight to combat against voter suppression efforts for pennsylvania. that fights not over yet. >> i'm roz mcpherson, president and ceo of the urban league of philadelphia. >> their mission to increase economic empowerment for african-americans. >> the urban league is the bridge to possibility. we are the connectors of the business community to our community. in terms of jobs, entrepreneurship, education, youth programs and housing counseling. >> they offer a career center. >> we help coach on resume preparation, we conduct mock interviews and we have corporate partners that come here to interview on-site. >> they present small business contract coaching, as well as leadership training for young professionals. >> we offer counseling. a lot about how to navigate the corporate world. >> it's been around since 1964 where dr. leon sullivan with one particular mission to help people help themselves. we provide a number of services here for the

naacp must find its way into the 21st industry. else the leader of islam mosque in philadelphia. he won in december, succeeding jerry mondesire. jerry started the fight against voter supression. that night is not over. the urban league's mission is to increase economic empowerment to african americans. we are the connectors of the business community to our community in terms of jobs, entrapreneurship, education and youth programs and housing. they offer a career center. we coach on resume preparation. we conduct mock interviews and we have corporate partners who will come here to interview candidates on site. we have a urban leadership form we provide people with counseling, how to navigate the corporate world. i'm ceo of opportunities industrialation center. been around since 1964 with dr. leon sullivan with one particular mission to help people help themselves. we train men and womenhospitali. i'm people from community can come here 1231 north broad street and receive free access to the internet. johnson looks to breaking the psyche of poverty. i'm excited bigoing around and ta

william barber, president of the state's naacp.s us as lawmakers there are just back in session, and republicans control the governorship and both houses of the legislature. today, the first official moral monday protest of the year will include a "people's court" to indict them for pursuing policies that have hurt the people of the state. this kicks off a moral week of action. reverend barber, welcome back to democracy now! how many people do you believe came out this weekend? very poignant, very powerful people marching against hate. >> well, we know there were tens of thousands. we know last year's march and this year's march, and lasted there was upwards of 80,000 after we had had almost a whole year of civil disobedience in constant touring across the state. we had tens of thousands yesterday. some said 40 i don't know exactly what the numbers were. what we do know, these two years represent two things. number one, a coalition that a stay together for more than nine years, which is almost unheard of in civil rights. number two

here on this campus that was a student naacp chapter. the naacp has always had student chapters, and particularly in historically black colleges, which is what this is. of course we had a chapter. the chapter had an advisor, a couple of advisors. in the course of meeting with the advisors and the students who are members of the chapter a lot of conversations took place about what can we do to make things better, do we need to be doing anything, other people are doing things in other parts of the country. over a period of more than a year, there were conversations about what we could do and it kind of boiled down to sit-ins, let's look at woolworth's, let's look at what can be done. these meetings took place right here on this campus at the student union. bennett college and a&t and the bennett college advisors as well. there were plans made to start the sit-ins. those plans begin in the fall of 1959. somewhere along the way they were advised by the president of bennett college, who happened to be my auntie, who said you should really not

he was able to win those better conditions, through his organizing and his alliances and work with naacp and other organizations in san francisco. and he has run and he has raised 6 children in san francisco. and he is actually spent a great deal of time to make sure that he could provide for his children, and he gave them a wonderful experience growing up to show casing the wonderful, beautiful yosimite park and the wilderness around here and like to go camping together and made sure that they have a real strong education and karl barns is here and is a member of the fire department still, retired member of the fire department, and he is actually was able to contribute his services well to san francisco saving many, many lives, but he has always been part of really making sure that the lake view could meet the needs of the african american community in san francisco and because we have a new memorial for his father and because his father has a tremendous impact on san francisco police department, we have him to have a say a few words to him, there was talked about having the color guard

the cops say he placed two bombs at the office of the naacp in colorado springs last month. only one of them went off. nobody was hurt. the incident is being investigated as a hate crime. >>> the united states and europe threatened to slap russia with even more sanctions if it doesn't knock off violating the situation with ukraine. russians were seen celebrating the take overof a key railway hub just two days after the ukrainians withdrew from the area. >>> that is jerusalem, a winter wonderland, thanks to a rare heavy snowstorm that dumped at least 10 inches of snow on parts of the region. residents wore heavy boots at the wailing wall and threw snowballs near the mosque. >>> money you've cleared the driveway and sidewalk for monday's snow because topper says more is on the way. the world is filled with air. but for people with copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours. anoro ellipta is the first fda-approved product containing two long-acting b

he would not join. 1915 turns out to be a hugely pivotal year in the naacp gaining traction.k at the numbers at the beginning of the year and the end. i do not have them. the number of new branches, new members, many of which occurred because of the protests against the movie as it moved through the country. it was a breakout year. trotter would not be a part of it because he felt strongly that the organization crated by the -- created for the advancement of colored people should be integrated but run by blacks. it was not then. in his early years, the top people were white liberals. he felt that sent the wrong message. >> in his last few years? >> he made it into the 1930's and he was in his early 60's, a broken man. healthwise, he was coming apart. the paper was barely making it out. he lived out of a rooming house. he was known to be agitated and worrisome and would walk around the flat roof. triple deckers in boston. and he either slipped or fell to his death. it was on his birthday. a lot of -- in the early reports, and lots of people said he jumped and it was suicide. t

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yet the mayor city commissioners, members of the naacp compound. about a thousand people congregated under the overpass and the thought of as being this great moment of congratulation. racial progressivism, economic growth and this will be a sign of the new interracial culture that takes miami to the next great moment. obviously now that we look at it with hindsight, you see just how small of an investment it is in the community. it nsaid been totally underfunded and underinvested. they don't put up a life that promise. the grass is relatively dead and undercuts. so it becomes a marker for me in the book of the political culture that began under jim crow and continued into the late 1960s and early 1970s. property ownership culture. we have the city fathers negotiating about the best project to placate the poor and seemingly inefficient by the time you get to a year out from the project team van. >> you are from south florida. what side of the color line where you based on? >> so i grew up in a neighborhood called miramar florida in broward county.

i mean the naacp came out against him. the urban league came out against him. the meeting black journalists of his era, another nobel laureate peace prize lawyer came out against him. i can't even quote on c-span what thurgood marshall said about dr. king, what he felt about and during that era. everybody turns on him. that is the life he has to navigate as he is talking about racism and poverty and militarism. nobody wants to hear that. they turn their back on him. guys broke. last year of his life he can't get a book deal, can't get paid speech, he is uninflated to the white house and black churches. the last mile of the way king has to walk all by himself. he takes that let a year later, april 4th, 1967, killed april 4th, 1968. when he is killed on the balcony he believes and bias believing everything and everybody has turned on him. the cosmos has shifted against him. five decades later martin was right and everybody else was wrong but that is not the way he got about it. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> michael shermer is a

but the suspect, 44-year-old thaddeus murphy reportedly was not targeting the naacp that was in that building complex. instead, murphy reportedly told the fbi he was angry at an accountant who he believed had destroyed his tax records and who operates apparently out of the same building as the naacp. according to an affidavit filed in district court, murphy told the fbi he flipped out because of his financial problems and built the pipe bomb as a warning to the accountant. charged now with arson and a felon in possession of firearms. i want to smell the way champagne tastes. i love champagne. infuse your laundry with... ...up to 12 weeks of luxurious long-lasting scents... ...unstopables in wash scent booster. i want my foyer to smell more like a foyer. i want his bedroom to smell like he's away at boarding school. surround yourself with up to 6 hours of luxurious, long-lasting scents... ...introducing new unstopables air refresher. >>> two very strange bedfellows just announced a highly unlikely partnership. coke industries, a left leaning center for american progress are comeing to

the fascinating complexity of this drama is that the civil rights leadership, trotter, dubois, the naacp their goal, practical solution, was to get this film censored. going into the story, when i was researching it to write this book, i found that deeply troubling. trotter is a newspaperman. he is the editor of a black weekly newspaper. you would think he would be waving the first amendment and are. -- banner. that is another thing that requires going back in time, developing context, and how learning that dubois and trotter were both uncomfortable. now we're talking about civil liberties. art, expression and limiting or restricting it, banishing it outright. they were uncomfortable with that. to really drill down, why do they do it? first of all, for a couple of reasons that are fascinating, the first amendment was not anywhere nearly as robust as we take it for granted today. secondly, this is the front end of this new medium. the supreme court of the united states the month before the film opened in boston had ruled unanimously in a case out of ohio that film did not come under the f

the naacp, the sentencing project, "the nation," now celebrating its 150th anniversary, that is pre-john conyers for "the nation." peace action, national people's action, jobs with justice, restaurant opportunities centers united friends of the earth. , social security works. campaign for america's future. progressive democrats of america, council for a livable world, alliance for justice, fund for constitutional government, win without war, economic policy institute, and the center for economic and policy research. [applause] it is wonderful to work with these groups. many of their leaders are here tonight. we all salute you, congressman conyers. i want to thank the owner of eatonville, a leader in many fights championed by congressman conyers, for opening his restaurant to us tonight. we have many more people who wanted to be here. we had to cut off the list because so many people wanted to celebrate congressman conyers. you will hear more about this man's extraordinary accomplishments tonight. we put a one-page summary in front of you. that was a very hard thing to do to put that in o

gordon is a powerful addition to any board having served as top executive at verizon and as ceo of the naacp. to this former executive of the year, the key to attaining the seat on the board of a major corporation is a matter of performance. >> it's hard work and hard work and hard work. i have always believed and confident this is the case that you have to outwork everybody who is around you. you have to pursue excellence. it's not a matter of being as good as your peers. it's being better than your pierce and being the best person in the organization at the job that you do. >> coming up, one organization takes prididide in their promis. >>> welcome back. in america the criminal justice system is in a state of crisis. young people were most vulnerable. but this organization is on a mission to protect as many as possible. here's our slice of life. >> for this group of public defenders in atlanta, providing more than legal aid. dedicating themselves to defendants who can't afford their own attorney. it's been successful it was formed into a documentary. revolutionizing the way america thinks

theatre another showing of selling missouri ma with a group of folks that did a panel that included the naacp and it was we had a young person from the high school that was there representing shows a sophomore forgive me i can't remember her name and i wanted to congratulate the bio young and fellowship community center that celebrated they're ten year anniversary at a wonderful event at the hotel it was a sold-out crowd and as you know many of our filipino students are served by the filipino currently community centers bans in selma and the excelsior the pta had their founders dinner and the president and commissioner murphy attended and there were several pta people 15 we're celebrating over 50 years between having and 97 were the oldest years and loose saturday was the after school conference acquit a representative representations from the excelsior i want to thank all the staffer that went out and tap all we're doing in our after-school programs. >> i want to thank richard the music temper at cob eliminators for a performance of his students two weeks ago and have one announcement i've r

themselves there figures to are, by investigative journalist even as members of the city council or the naacp chapters as well as local elites like judges. >> host: from what you have described, are the manifestations of this still around today? >> some continuity comes to mind and one is profitability we still set housing values the you determine what homes are worth from the distance of the ghettos or the confines population. there is a way we publish the opinions and political authority that they have mastered the political system so democracy and capitalism and that to be an active citizenry to make sure you keep certain voices marginal. so as a quick example, the question of the segregation of beaches or golf courses the people to push of a black landlords who could show they paid into the community chest than they dictated the agenda for cannot organize unions were poverty efforts. what you would see our landlords black-and-white to undermine the ability to have a political voice from those who comepytm6xur to the edge of the political spectrum to keep a constant flow of rent coming int

police in colorado have made an arrest in the suspected bombing that took place near the naacp chapterext month. 44-year-old thaddeus murphy was arrested but not charged. but in a twist, police say they are looking into the possibility that a tax preparation business may have been the target of the bombing, not the naacp. >>> an 18-year-old is in grave condition after he was inspected by a superbug during a procedure at ucla medical center. several people who of whom died, were infected after procedures. and more than 70 more. and the superbug is an anti- antibiotic and many are going after the hard to clean instrument company. >>> and the 2014 tax information have erroneous information on it. the administration said customers will have the updates by the first week in march. [bell rings] you're not mr. craig. yeah, i'm confused where's mr. craig? well, i'm sorta mr. craig. we're both between 35 and 45 years old. we both like to save money on car insurance. and we're both really good at teaching people a lesson. um, let's go. cool. sit down! alright. sorta you, isn't you. only esurance

lucci of the naacp's. you deserved it. >> i thought i deserved it too, but i'm not sure if i actually won, because tracee ellis ross announced that category, i told her, no matter whose name is on the envelope, say my name when she opens it. >> jimmy: yeah, because that's what friends are for, man. >> and that's what she did. the envelope was ripped up. so, i don't know who actually won. >> jimmy: but you have the award. >> i have the award at home on my mantle. >> jimmy: so that's all that matters. you have it. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, tracee. thank you, tracee. i love you. >> jimmy: thank you, very good. good move. >> jimmy: i thought it was sweet, you brought your mom, who i've heard thousands of stories about your mom. i'm in love with your mom. you brought your mom to the awards show? >> i did. >> jimmy: which is so cool. >> she was my date. she was my date. >> jimmy: oh, my god. >> all she wanted for a year, all she's been telling me is "baby, i want to meet oprah. baby, i want to meet o

. >> temple owls when from being a likely naacp pick to a team on the bubble. tulsa is the cause with three season games remaining tomorrow in houston, the owls can not afford any missteps. >> we have to do our job and take care of business, we have to protect our home court and you know we need a win. >> might need a little help to get in the tournament at this point. >> guts glory and goodwill were on the line in delaware county this afternoon. spring lake middle school in media held their hoops for hope, for a school in ugan a, the teachers squared off with the girls and boys basketball team. since 2004, hoops for hope raised $17,000. >>> so the sun is out today. >> it was nice. >> 38 degrees, felt like a heat wave. it's over. it's getting cold and we are getting snow, it's over for a couple of days anyhow. hope you enjoyed it. stormtracker 6 live double scan showing that right now we are dry however in 12 hours storm tracker will pick up snow in parts of you viewing area today the action cam along the ben franklin parkway and the thinker, you know what he i

amos brown president of the naacp i'd like to thank the staffer for its efforts and i also must be dedicated by candor and say it troubles me personally you disturb that entire city still for a two many african-americans who are in this arrest record number 2 we need to have serious collaborative conversations with the police commission and the chief about the fact there's a snail-paced movement on a simple matter that the president of the united states and the attorney general have asked all police departments to death penalty deal with not only this portion of arrests but bad relationships between the african-american communities and the black communities 3 things are this community-based policing sensitivity training, and more inclusive force. >> and after a whole year for some strange reason that police department has not acted on this minor simple request. >> something is awry and we shouldn't rest until we stop this disproportionment number of black students being arrested some of them ought to be arrested we've indicated time he time again if we had for collaboration the witness commu

in that year, african americans formed the branch of the naacp. so this 100th century mark takes on a significance. not only from the national american level but from a californian perspective as well. much of that was contirbuted to the work of the historical society culture and others. the historical society was founded in 1955 again by a small group of men and women who came together to establish the society. the society itself is the lynnal decedent of the san francisco and literary associate that was established by african americans in san francisco in 1853. so this is a long, long history of the african american history and the presence of african descendants in san francisco prior to san francisco even becoming san francisco. there was also a local chapter of the association for the study of african american life and history. these two groups merged in 1958. 2015 marks the 60th anniversary in the cultural society. we join you and the board in saluting your black history month honestries. we would like to offer an annual honorry membership t

here on this campus that was a student naacp chapter. the naacp has always had student chapters, and particularly in historically black colleges, which is what this is. of course we had a chapter. the chapter had an advisor, a couple of advisors. in the course of meeting with the advisors and the students who are members of the chapter a lot of conversations took place about what can we do to make things better, do we need to be doing anything, other people are doing things in other parts of the country. over a period of more than a year, there were conversations about what we could do and it kind of boiled down to sit-ins let's look at woolworth's, let's look at what can be done. these meetings took place right here on this campus at the student union. and they were combined, bennett college and a&t and the bennett college advisors as well. there were plans made to start the sit-ins. those plans begin in the fall of 1959. somewhere along the way they were advised by the president of bennett college, who happened to be my auntie, who sai

here on this campus the campus of bennett college, there was a student naacp chapter. and naacp has always had student chapters particularly in historically black colleges which is what this is. so of course we had a chapter. and the chapter had an advisor or a couple of them. and in the course of meeting with the advisors and the students who were members of the chapter of course a lot of conversations took place about what can we do to make things better, do we need to do anything, other people are doing things in other parts of the country, and you know over a period i suppose more than a year, there were conversations about what we could do and it kind of boiled down to sit-ins and let's look at woolworth and look and see what can be done. so those meetings took place here on this campus and the david lee jones student union. and they would combine bennett and ant fellows and the bennett college advisors and so on. there were plans made to start the sit-in. and those plans began in the fall of 1959. and somewhere along the way they were advised by the president of

. >> reporter: the school has reached out to the naacp and anti defamation league. >> usually when there are hate symbols used in an attack it doesn't just defense the one person who may have seen it. it affects the whole community. >> reporter: students aren't sure exactly what the word was but say there's no place for it. >> i don't think there's like any real hate at radnor. we're such a community just like a great school. >> it doesn't look good for the school. >> radnor police department were not notified initially by the school but it is possible this could be investigated as a hate crime. outside radnor high school diana rocco cbs3 "eyewitness news". >> a woman attacked in philadelphia in the miffled the afternoon and only "eyewitness news" cameras were there when police arrived to help her. this is exclusive video we are concealing the victim's identity identity. police say she was maced and robbed of her smart phone. this happened at 18th north streets in spring garden the robbery and assault is the most recent of six in the spring garden neighborhood this month all believeed to

branch of the naacp is looking into the firings of teachers at howard university middle school. we've reported last week that parents at that charter school say that three social studies teachers were terminated for teaching black history. the d.c. council education committee is already investigating that incident. >>> a local grandmother is demanding justice tonight after her granddaughter was hurt in a deadly hit and run. julia pierce was injured, her fiance was run over and killed last night while trying to change a flat tire on the baltimore-washington parkway. now both families are demanding justice. news 4 dorothy spencer is live with deta these two families are hurting and they're hoping that this driver will do the right thing and come forward. >> she got something in her leg and thigh and a brace on her neck. >> reporter: julia pierce is in a hospital where broken bones, but that's not the worst of what happened. julia pierce's fiance was killed when they were both struck by a hit and run driver. >> i hope whoever hit and run and then you know like he or she should pay