they could not overturn the plessy decision, soinstead they would force the states to comply with plessy by providing truly equal schools for african-americans. that would be too expensive for many states and their only alternative would be to integrate their schools. thurgood marshall:we started sitting around with charles houston and we began to work out this attack on the segregated school system. we talked about it, we did research on it, we studied it. narrator: houston drilled the constitution and its amendments to aid in the fight. he brought influential friends like clarence darrow to lecture encouraging students to use sociology and other humanities to enlighten their legal arguments. thurgood marsh:we were trained in a program which houston called "making lawyer social engineers" instead of just somebody going out to make a dollar practicing law. kimberle crenshaw: charles hamilton houston came out of the legal realist tradition in which the law is what the law does. you fight for rights, you fight for recognition, and you fight for equality. it's not something that's just best

and it had its legal beginning with a decision known as the plessy v. ferguson decision, which said, in substance, that separate but equal facilities could exist, and it made the doctrine of separate but equal the law of the land. we all know what happened as a result of the old plessy doctrine: there was always the strict enforcement of the separate, without the slightest intention to abide by the equal. and the negro ended up being plunged into the abyss of exploitation, where he experienced the bleakness of nagging injustice. and then something marvelous happened. the supreme court of our nation in 1954 examined the legal body of segregation, and on may 17th of that year pronounced it constitutionally dead. it said, in substance, that the old plessy doctrine must go, that separate facilities are inherently unequal, and that the segregated child on the basis of his race is to deny that child equal protection of the law. and so, we've seen many changes since that momentous decision was rendered in 1954, that came as a great beacon light of hope into mi

take the basket of plessis food in the name of jesus christ that nourish our body bring a stronger closer to our name. back and really in the black neighborhood treme. we meet up with their dancing at this place. getting ready for celebration. if. everything has to be really nice. because people. giving the fuel for. his serves the best of dignity. for thirty years aaron has been leading the band plays at every funeral. as long as america has been america we have been but know this jazz funeral so it is a tradition that is. very much respected. he wears a black suit. and for his hair or should he needs help somebody's got to tell me you know you only get dressed and get out. of the sight of his wife helps out. so that that. full. house. yeah oh. today the future is being very. gratifying because. in the musicians. these women who are dancing are his daughters. once a man wasn't murdered. he died of old age. aaron the dancing gives the tempo of the sound. he's joined for a week to come and. new orleans is facing an unprecedented crisis every day young people die from gun violence. going. h

britain had decided grenada is going to be the centerpiece for tourism and the contract was held by the plessy company british corporation. the clark family owned it to the right of genghis khan and what being good capitalists did they do? cheap labor? the cubans and i will send you my boys with one caveat that we have to have armed guards and knowledge and understanding was really, really deficient. my point here is that presidents find themselves often too isolated. what we do about all this? how can we fix it? i argue for a range of solutions. i begin to approach the strategic speaking. but yet we don't do it. but entails a brain-based approach? first, the 21st century. we are acting as if it's the 21st century. the attainment. deterrence bipolarity east versus west. how do you deter a situation in which we have the best army and navy and the enemy doesn't have one. how do you deter an idea and vladimir putin from the fact that members of intimidation, propaganda and interference to do all sorts of things. the notion of using 20th century thinking in the 21st century is just not. we have to

the supreme court, plessy v.ferguson about segregation, basically say local practice trump's these provisions. so the supreme court pretty much about the white south to reassert its control. >> how did the public narrative of the civil if opening 1861-agency to five? >> i'm going to extend the question is a bit about the story. it's like we see today, i don't know about you but every time i look at my phone, how's the story unfolding? what's the next installment? every but he has all the time that explains. if you change the into the store you change the beginning of it. they keep going yes, this is, this wasn't the and but it's coming soon and will go back and -- there's getting right in the middle. it was a pivot around everything. the story along the way is that the north is fighting for purposes and have a good, the restoration of the union. notice is a fundamental problem. if you restore the union you restore the union with slave in it. how'd you restore the reunion and get rid of slavery? that's what lincol

got plessy. -- god bless you.he four soldiers killed this year, they were amber. -- they were ambushed. president trump called that wacky. be sorry, i don't mean to disrespectful, you call that lady wacky. host: bring it to the me too movement. caller: women bring us in this world. they bring us in this world, they raise us, we should not be disrespecting women. another thing is -- host: you think that politically enough has been done? caller: never. never. never. i am an independent. unless we get in there, independence, it is hard. we are second-class citizens. host: we will leave it there. james from twitter says what modern woman wants to be part of the me too movement. it is an embarrassment to women. he says he wants congress to release a list of congress people who use tax dollars to pay off hush money. he can make your thoughts on twitter known, you can also call in the phone lines. for women.000 (202) 748-8001 for men. -- talked about the book of impact of the movement as she saw it. >> anytime somebody c

visited, and washington but run across the potomac as a starting point for journeys to annapolis, plessis slept many times. maryland, washington's political neighbors to the ease, started as a formation of the caliber family of yorkshire. -- calvert family of yorkshire. colony was settled in 1634 with the intention of the a place of tolerance in the centers of the church of england. it is not surprising that the colony was caught up in the political and religious turmoil of the 17th century. as a result of the english revolution of 1688, the price -- the proprietorship was resistant -- was rescinded and the colony received a royal governor. in 1695, the governor determined existing capital at st. mary's to be too closely associated with the original catholic century of the colony, and therefore move the capital to anne arundel town.