and so his criticism of paul robeson really stung a lot of people who believed that paul robeson was a heroic figure, one of the great americans of the 20 century. he spoke about 15 languages. he could sing and all of them. he was a great opera star. he was a movie star, he was a broadway star. he was an all-american football player when he went to rutgers. he went to columbia law school. his resume is just remarkable. but he was a radical. he was close to the communist party and his passport was taken away. jackie robinson is reflecting that tendency during the cold war. later when jackie robinson, before he died in the art of making sevens, he wrote his autobiography and he said, human pashtun key making mistakes in his life he really regretted. what is he really having endorsed richard nixon for president in 1960, which he did because it interviewed both nixon and kennedy and he thought that nixon was more pro-civil rights and kennedy. he had originally endorsed hubert humphrey, but when humphrey didn't win the 1960 democratic presidential nomination, he endorsed nixon. he regrett

he said he regretted his criticism of paul robeson. he said, looking back and realize that he was a principled and heroic and courageous figure who basically gave up his career and his fame for his political principles. he felt very bad about that. by then robison had died, so it could not personally tell him he was sorry. and so that is another example of somebody who was a hero, but not a saint. robinson regretted it, but he was flawed and made a big mistake, what he owes a big mistake, and i agree with him. a few other examples of some people in my book that maybe you have heard of in a you have not. but i think the plan important role in building our society. in the last ten years in america , the issue of same-sex marriage has come to the forefront. only a few years ago, to a 12 years ago, public opinion pollsters did not even ask the question, what do you think a bus in six marriage because it was not on the agenda. no more than half of all americans and about 75 or 80 percent of americans under 40 believe that same-sex marriages

everyone from paul robeson and pete seeger who should win the nobel peace price before repasses. we find a way to get him the nobel peace prize. bob dylan, the most recent one is bruce springsteen, riders and playwrights like arthur miller and tunney kirschner it is the author of the film playwright and the author of the film lincoln . photographer like lewis hine, an unknown figure among most americans who is as responsible as anyone for ending child labor by being a great photographer who did incredible documentary photographs of the abuses of children working in factories and mines and other dangerous workplaces. he really held a mirror up to america and said, these are your children. these are the conditions there working in. and the child labor movement really took off with the help of people like jane addams and florence kelley and other people . and the national consumers league, which was a leader of that movement against the child labor. we have sally in the room tonight who is our current leader of the national consumers league. and figures like abraham joshua, the grea

runs in her family if they founded the african-american newspaper her on call was an associate at paul robesonor political office in several times and her father was the second african-american judge elected in baltimore. laura murphy. [applause] >> you met tonya robinson earlier but let me say more about her background. she currently serves as the special assistant to the president for justice and regulatory policy. a position that she has held since february of 2012. she manages a team within the white house domestic policy council that focuses on among other things a broad range of civil and criminal justice policy matters. she also convince the president's national equal pay task force. prior, she was a partner where her practice focused primarily on complex commercial litigation and investigation including congressional investigation as well as this great civil-rights matters. she's also served as the council joseph biden when he was in the senate with the senate judiciary subcommittee. and i think that we have a duke team going on because she was the first african-american woman to be el