yet you never hear of ruben salazar. i mean it's actually a u.s. postage stamp that was made of him recently and that the u.s. postal system recognize but it turns out the journalism schools or the teaching young people about a journalist who is constantly striving to tell the truth and to give voice to the voiceless you rarely hear about him. but there are many others. ida b. wells, the great editor from memphis, richard leah schoolteacher who decides to print a newspaper and in her town of memphis, when three of her friends are lynched by a mob of, in her town she begins writing an article against lynching. her paper is burned down just like manley's paper was burned down. in wilmington, she is forced to flee the town and she begins a campaign across the pavement -- country exposing the epidemic of lynching in the united states. and she was a muckraker long before the muckrakers, but again, her contributions are rarely talked about. there is john roman ridge, cherokee indian writer, who moved to california in the 18 fifties, found that the sacram

, ruben salazar address that, he addressed the black latino tension that existed in the late 1960s.was a columnist but he worked as a correspondent and he was a little bit out of touch with what was going on. when he comes back he writes beautifully about it. he actually becomes the news director for km bx, station in los angeles and he fought the racial tension and community. he organized the conference, national chicano media conference at the plaza hotel where to try to get mainstream press to understand the problems going on and how devastating it is. we have this beautiful passage in there and it's really hard wrenching the way he describes what is the practical impact. so back to william wright though, what he was organizing the african-american -- we talk about in her book -- the department of justice actually had a program in 1964 that created the community relations service and the idea was to try to heal racial, the racial tension going on in our society. the former head of the ndp who was very sympathetic to issues of race was the head of it, he tried to get mainstream ne