philip randolph says to harry truman, you do this again and i'm going to have a march on washington. before monolithic thing, march on washington. you know something, we have taken polls. 30 percent of our black youth will not register for the draft. this is when truman with his back to the wall in the middle of the election knowing that the dixiecrats have already gone about as far as they can and not sure where the black vote in the north will go, this is when he makes his decision to desegregate the armed services. this happens right in the middle of this. in the spring -- actually come into the jury there is a special election in new york. always a special alexian for congress. every week we have a special alexian. this one was in the bronx. a pretty safe democratic seats, and what happens is republicans don't win, but henry wallace supporter wins and sends shockwaves through the democratic party. it's like, well, this movement may have legs. this is in a fairly heavily jewish area. wallace had been on -- taunting chairman as being insufficiently pro-israel. all the candidates ar

philip randolph had a gun to his head in the middle of this election.the southerners had gone off and they have done all this damage. when i say they have done all the damage they can, the dixiecrat strategy is to dump the democrats off the ballot and once truman knows that he is still on the ballot in all of the states he knows he can pull it off in large parts of the south like texas and georgia but up to that point it's dicey for him. so again, people have different -- churchill for example. churchill has some remarkably anti-semitic statements and franklin d. roosevelt, who of course very friendly to the jewish people. it's very interesting to see what he would have done with the state of israel because he was talk in with the arabs just before he dies, with the saudi's i have read that he was part of the board of directors which instituted the numerous classes at harvard which put in a quota system against the jewish and who is really his best friend among cabinet members? it is morgenthau so people are contradictory. there are contradictions among

my name is james brian, director of the philip randolph institute. we have had a long road. this is another long road of history to san francisco. we need to do the right thing. we need to make sure local hiring is an important piece of this process. we need to make sure that all that hard work the board put together in crafting local hiring is put into action. we have heard the authorities. we understand the importance of the committee, this idea of having america's cup here. we understand that it is important to have some contentions. and we are willing. and we are supportive of some kind of cap. we do not want you or anyone else to come to the city and make a financial endeavor and get nothing for it. our family and friends that have grown up here in san francisco -- we need to have the next big event for san francisco, as they had in 1915, as they had in 1939. this is another pivotal moment in san francisco, but i need you all to understand that with every pivotal moment, there is also some flexibility to bring our community together. this local hiring, with some concess

we had philip randolph. >> the organizer of the sleeping cars, the march on washington.e same time? >> yes, same time. he spoke to us about labor conditions, what we could do to better our rights as musicians. it was hard to get gigs, racism was hard, as you know. john henry clarke had also told us our history as african people. you are not going to get history from the school system. we formed the organization. we were frustrated musicians. i was not an organizer. we got together one year, we invited recording companies to try to help musicians. we were working in the clubs with terrible conditions, no dressing rooms. these giant musicians, no place to even changed their clothes. >> very different for white musicians? >> yes. >> right before you moved to africa, you're close friend langston hughes -- your close friend langston hughes dies. he requested that you perform at his funeral. what did you perform? >> all blues. i had heard that he passed away and that i was wanted to play at his funeral. i knew that he'd love blues with a passion. we got to the funeral home, he