a gorging and nucleus between what we do here and what we're celebrating and baseball and jackie robison number 42 actually spoken spoke but with wigging e willie mays i said that when he willie was in california whites refused to sell him a house in their communicated they loved his talent but didn't want him for a neighbor i just should dinner with someone that actually saw that happen he was a young kid huge baseball fan couldn't believe his hero was red rind from his neighborhood never got the chance to see willie mays when we fail to actually segregate our society just segregates doesn't it and whether it is in baseball or in housing or how we actually find housing for your neighborhoods in the word community has the word unnight there can be no community without unite amen you know today is also a memorable day in history i love history bear with me being a chinese-american today was also a day when the place i worked 90 for the state of california passed the chinese x cares aqua a nexus of a day this is here i am standing as part of an immigrant family as i know many of you are we

it was robison's first time flying.e hopes to start a new treatment program at johns hopkins soon. >>> well, you remember the scene. a cvs burning in downtown baltimore during last month's riots. today the city's mayor announced she plans to make resources available to help those businesses. but as megan bring elle reports, nonprofits are suffering, too. >> reporter: this was saturday april 25th the first time there was violence and destruction in baltimore. a rally to protest the death of freddie gray got out of hand and protesters clashed with police. >> it was really tough to watch the news and know this may impact our biggest fund-raiser of the year, in addition to just being concerned about the community. >> reporter: this woman is with the maryland aspca. they canceled their march for the animals the next day. >> we are concerned we won't have as many people turn out. we want to make sure this gets us to our goal. we want to raise $400,000 with this event, which means a lot to us. we don't get government funding.

when you talk about ira aldridge in england and in russia i am curious if there is any connection to robison? was he an inspiration to him? >> i am sure he was aware of him. the boys was aware of him -- dub ois was aware of him. europeans more or less remember ira aldridge, most americans do not. he met richard wagner, one of the great german composers. he is one of these characters like george c marshall. if you ask haskell students in america who was george c marshall, one of the men that winston churchill said one -- won world war ii, if you ask american haskell students, they may not know him. but if you ask german students they know marshall, he was part of the great master plan after world war ii. there are certain americans almost better known in europe and -- than in this country. >> thank you all for coming. thank you, jim. we will be back next month. [applause] >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of american history on c-span3. follow us on twitter. for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. all weekend long american history tv featur

center that south of market and what with our the liaison between rec and park and the community with robison and the rec directors and the community-based organizations in south of market created us to work very, very closely with the community to advocate for programs the community was really needing at this point it was not just rec and park department huge recreation park it was more important that we continued to support us in collaborating in those efforts i left gosh 16 years ago to raise my children i said good by and worked with the community and as a volunteer coming back and looking forward to the right. >> event >> thank you very much (clapping.) i know we have a representative from supervisor kim's office so, please. >> thank you commissioners and i'm joined with april from also from your office we are just incredibly proud and so chieftd to celebrate the silver anniversary i wore silver together t