is a profoundly segregated city, and was segregated by a democrat, woodrow wilson. so his appointments i think are quite interesting in that way. you've got harold ickies, harry hopkins, aubrey williams and mary mcleod bethune. i want to say they were the twin towers of the pre-war civil rights movement. so there's a huge risk taking mind-set there. now, does that mean that it goes as far as we want? no. but i have been all over the map on this and i have come to a very eleanor-like conclusion. and that is you can look at a glass and you can see it half empty or you can see the water keep increasing, and what i think both roosevelts did was really introduce to america the concept that the federal government was not just for the forgotten man or for the forgotten woman, but as fdr said, when he spoke at howard, not only will there be no forgotten men, there will be no forgotten races. so we have policies. we have two executive orders that fdr issues, one for the wpa, the works progress administration, that outlaws segregation in wpa hiring practices and then you have

is a profoundly segregated city, and was segregated by a democrat, woodrow wilson. his appointments are quite interesting in that way. have you harold ickes, harry hopkins, aub bree williams and mary macleod buthoon. i used to say before 201 2001, they were the twin towers of the civil rights movement. there is a huge risk-taking mind-set. does that mean it goes as far as we want? no. i have been all over the map on this, and i have come to a very eleanor-like conclusion. and that is you can look at a glass and you can see it half empty or see the water keep increasing. i think both roosevelts did was really introduce to america the concept that the federal government was not just for the forgotten man or forgotten woman. as fdr said when he spoke at howard, not only will there be no forgotten man, there will be no forgotten races. we have policies, two executive orders that are issued. one for the wpa that outlaws segregation. wpa hiring practices, and then you have the fair employment practices commission doing that for the defense industry. do they work? no. do t

cities in particular ways. and these create, again, what mills would refer to as social issues. these create social issues, and crises. there's a crisis of segregation in housing. there's a crisis of poverty and unemployment. some would argue there are crises in crime, in cities. so it's important that we focus on black populations when we're talking about the urban crisis, for those structural issues. what caused the urban crisis. there are, i think four main things that i'm going to hit on. and kind of a half one i'll throw out there right now. you know, one of the things that people caused the urban crisis is black migration. that's one of the arguments at the time. that's one of the arguments -- that's kind of one of the myths and the stories that people who lived in cities who were immigrants, who grew up in communities that they see transform, that's kind of one of the stories and arguments that they make. what happened to american cities, why did they suffer all these calamities. well, it's because right at the time, in the mid-20th century, when african-americans moved to the south in such large numbers, the city begins to decline. the reaso

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petersburg known as midtown-- a predominately african american section of the city that was at one time largely segregated. deqonton believes midtown's problems have had a profound effect on many students growing up in the neighborhood. and two years ago, he noticed a trend of violence starting on social media websites and spreading to his classrooms here at john hopkins middle school. >> my sixth grade year, we had 100 and something arrests and most of the time the fights with some gangs and stuff that happened at home from facebook and twitter and all that stuff from home and they came into the school. we had police every day at the school and i really didn't like that. >> reporter: what the violence did was spark an idea for deqonton. he hoped to shine a light on the roots of the fighting and why it was happening at john hopkins. deqonton led a team of his classmates in producing a video for the pbs "newshour" reporting labs, which showcases student journalism across the nation. >> they put us in groups and they was talking about gangs, drugs and fights and how that's making a bad influence on our scho

the city stayed more segregated even from the start.when it was built, in the '60s it was stopped. finally there was a segregation. many of the problems were right from the building of these. part of what you arguing too, the caller is that, once these entitlement programs start to be seen as mostly black and poor, there's a different attitude% this is also seen a great deal in welfare reform where the idea of the welfare mom is certainly in inner city person of color. when you actually do the statistics, welfare is often a larger percentage of the money goes to white people in the country. that's part of a changing attitude that have become more distant, more abstract. we're able to kind of move away from these programs and not feel as committed to them. host: let's get one more call. henry from new york city, republican go ahead. you're on the program go ahead. caller: hello, thank you for taking my call. i wanted to comment on the housing market and the section 8 vouchers. i think that these vouchers are affecting the rest of people

developed and spread to larger cities and began to cater to specific clienteles, the middle class, the upper class, there would have been more selectivity and segregation. i think that's -- when we get to the discussion of the document, i think that's one of the things that it says that this was largely a white opium den kind of thing. >> another way to consider it is the three chinese you see in these throw pictures are probably facilitating the opium smoking. so in a sense it's like who goes to a chinese restaurant where a bunch of say mexicans work there or whatever, which is kind of odd. most people associate chinese food with chinese waiters and chinese cooks and so on. so i'm wondering if that's simply part of that brand name. you go to an opium den. >> part of the atmosphere. >> part of the atmosphere is being served by someone who's chinese. >> again, yeah, you had to meet the expectations of your clientele. frank. >> early on, cartwright makes a note that it seemed like women made up at least as many or more than the number of men in these opium houses and for the people who smoked. i don't remember whether or not he addressed why that was. >>

segregate lanes, and davis, c -- can we do better? i want to thank my colleagues and former mayor newsom for deciding that by 2020, 20% ou ght to be cycling. and you think 50% of city workers might be biking? we need to do better. we are spending about point to 5% on cycle improvements. -- .25% on cycling improvements. we are making the streets safer for 8-year-old and 80-year-olds. thank you for being here. >> good morning, happy bike to work day. i'm john avalos, i represented district 11, the most southern part of an francisco. we are well past cesar chavez, and this morning we came from naples and geneva, close to the broken record. it is a great place there, some great food. 10 of us rode from there, about 45 minutes from that spot. i have been writing that way for about 12 years, and back then, we did not have any bike infrastructure whatsoever. now we have dedicated lanes, places to turn that are much safer than ever before. it is just the start of all the changes we need to have in the city. it is really exciting to hear from a lot of businesses that are contributing to the bike economy. we need that kind of partnership in the business community to be able

city for history vital. if they were in an auditorium that requires segregation, he would make the move to location. but the face of the culture is the first from the more kind of traditional server did whine before undeniably becoming the faith of christian -- certainly political involvement in the 1980s. the result of that is first about what he shuts down the moral majority after 10 years, and no one really rises to take his place, that through his universe tee, you now have a nice mauler jerry falwell thought there'd people like tony perkins who was at his university and is putting out lots of accolades for the quarter. but no one really replaced him, the person in the bookers of phil donahue, "nightline." [inaudible] >> they had a friendship can usually get phraseology is. falwell is very suspicious. if there is a professor who is a charismatic at liberty university who was fired for holding prayer meetings. so father was suspicious. he had gone to yell. his father had had a senator. the falwell's were always for the wrong side of the tracks. there was that tension in the relationship. also, fa

city for history vital. if they were in an auditorium that requires segregation, he would make the move to location. but the face of the culture is the first from the more kind of traditional server did whine before undeniably becoming the faith of christian -- certainly political involvement in the 1980s. the result of that is first about what he shuts down the moral majority after 10 years, and no one really rises to take his place, that through his universe tee, you now have a nice mauler jerry falwell thought there'd people like tony perkins who was at his university and is putting out lots of accolades for the quarter. but no one really replaced him, the person in the bookers of phil donahue, "nightline." [inaudible] >> they had a friendship can usually get phraseology is. falwell is very suspicious. if there is a professor who is a charismatic at liberty university who was fired for holding prayer meetings. so father was suspicious. he had gone to yell. his father had had a senator. the falwell's were always for the wrong side of the tracks. there was that tension in the relationship. also, fa