island and i got to college and i came across james goodman in a book he wrote called stories of scottsboro. i wrote a class on the american south. we had gone to monticello and new orleans, but i really never thought about a completely different america with different relations and histories and everyone i neo is a few generations in america. generation after generation in different racial politics and i then spent several summers in college in the south. i spent time after i graduated i just thought it was really a world very unlike what i experience, although one of the things i discovered was we think of jim crow is a southern experience and i'll think that's true anymore. there's a lot of that jim crow if you understood it more broadly the mr. of the whole nation. certain forms of the state-mandated aspects of segregation or lurches limited although not entirely at all, but that a lot of the more private economic forms of exploitation and part of why we haven't gone as far in getting to civil rights as i would like to see us do and define the problem as a southern problem of law and wi

he is working on the scottsboro case. these are nine young men ages 12 to 19 who get arrested riding the rails. this is the great depression. quickly, the charge turns to rape, and all are sentenced to death, except the youngest one. >> these are black teenagers and when young women? >> basically, these young boys are riding the train even when they get arrested, it is discover that there are two young women running the train. that is when these nine young men -- the charge then turns to rate. they were not originally charged with rape. this support defense committee grows to defend these nine young men paid raymond parks is part of that movement. he is sort of the first activists that she met. her political development starts would be in a newly wed with raymond and working on the scottsboro case. >> what happens to the boys? >> ultimately, they are not executed. in 1943, she sees a picture of a classmate attending a local naacp meeting, and realizes women could be part and decides to attend a monday meeting. she is the

when they married, raymond parks was working too for the scottsboro boys. dying young man had been caught riding the trains as many people did during the great depression. to why women have been, not trained in the charts quickly turned and they were quickly charged and sentenced to death. raymond and a group of local people became the groundwork to defend the scottsboro boys and rosa joined bremen in this dangerous organizing. the meetings were secret. she recalls one late night meeting at house with guns covering the table and later reflect it she was so scared she forgot to offer any refreshment. .. the with change the course of american history. she tries to three times to vote. a part of the process was a test that the test was administered differently than for white people. on the third time she took it, sure she had passed and she would consider bringing suit if she didn't pass she copied down all the questions and answers, the registrar saw her and she got. the final was once you were registered people were required to pay for taxes, not just from t

when they married raymond parks was working to free the nine scottsboro boys, yawing been denying young men ages 12 to 19 who were caught writing a rail and the trains as many people did during the great depression. two young women were found on that train and it charged -- charge and sentenced to death. raiment and a group of local people sort of became the groundwork to defend the scottsboro boys and rose a joint raymond in this very dangerous organizing. the meetings were secret. she recalls one late-night meeting at her house with guns covering the table and later reflected that she was so scared she forgot to offer any refreshments. in 1943 she saw picture of john carr, classmate in a photo of the local naacp. realizing the organization was open to women she decided to attend her first meeting. the only woman there that day, she was selected secretary. she wanted to register to vote. e. nixon, an activist in the union across borders was heading up this effort. there were only 31 black people in montgomerie at that time registered to vote. nixon came by her apartment to bring her so

they were tried and convicted in scottsboro. 82 years later, it's widely known they did not commit the crimes. only one of the boys was formerly pardoned while he was still alive. >>> the black daughter of former south carolina senator strom thurmond has died at age 87. thurmond who was a staunch segregationist fathered a child with his family's black made and kempt her secret for more than -- kept her secret for more than 70 years. essie mae washington-williams did not reveal who her father was until he died. she said she doesn't want to damage his political career. fred lick douglas -- frederick douglas will find a home at the u.s. capitol. congress approved a resolution to move the douglas statue to statuary hall. it will be dedicated in february for black history month. >>> it is just about 4:35. 37 degrees as you're waking up here in northwest. wintry weather is expected, at least to the areas north and west of the city. howard is back in two minutes to tell you what you can expect. >> more americans have begun to add gas into their family's monthly budget. >> mini seems to be the

bipartisan group of alabama lawmakers is moving to exonerate nine black men who became known as the scottsboro boys. they were convicted of raping two white women. today, lawmakers will introduce a resolution to exonerate them. a second bill would lead to posthumous pardons. only one of the men was pardoned when he was alive. >>> here, it was an all-star tribute to mayor ed koch. clinton said koch had a big brain but a bigger heart. michael bloomberg said koch would be loving all the atntion he was getting from so many political heavy-hitters. koch died last friday, at the age of 88. >> boisterous he was. >>> time for a look at the weather across the nation. rain from seattle to northern california. up to six inches of snow in the cascades and northern rockies. light snow around minneapolis, chicago, detroit and pittsburgh. also, snowing this morning from philly to boston. showers from houston to tallahassee. >> 70s in miami and new orleans. 20s from boston to minneapolis. 40s in the northern rockies. and 50s from seattle to sacramento. >>> and coming up, a secret no more. meet america's young

when they married, raymond parks was working to free the nine scottsboro boys, nine young men ages 12-1-9d who -- 19 who had been caught riding the rails, riding the trains as many people did during the great depression. two white women had been found on that train, and that charge quickly turned to rape, and they were quickly charged and sentenced to death. raymond and a group of people, of local people sort of became the ground work for a kind of free and defend the scottsboro boys. and rosa joined raymond in this very dangerous organizing. the meetings were secret. she recalled one late night meeting at her house with guns covering the table and later reflected that she was so scared she forgot to offer any refreshment. in 1943 she saw a picture of johnny carr, a classmate from miss white's, in a photo of the local naacp. realizing the organization was open to women, she decided to attend her first meeting. the only woman there that day, the branch was having elections, and she was elected secretary. she wanted to register to vote. edie nixon, a sleeping carporter and active in the

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