and then there's steven wahl. >> so steven was the last? he's the last colored wahl, is he not? >> right. so he -- the last of o.s.b. wahl's line. so he stays in the howard hill neighborhood for a long time, and then the children decide that they want to sell the house. you know, you have the parents that died. the thinner all own it together. they decide to sell the house. they sell the house. it's razed, and a segregated school is built on the site. and with that money with his share steven wahl moves to a different neighborhood near catholic university. and he decides he's not going to change his name and he continues to work at the government printing office where everyone knows he's african-american. he's going to become white by keeping his mouth shut, and it works for a little while. >> this is an interesting thing because i was telling daniel those of us who are black, especially of my age born in the years after world war ii, all of us know a friend or a relative who has move fbd across the color line to become white, and it was lost to us.d fbd across the color line to

he raised steven wahl, raised steven wahl's brothers and sisters, to expect any kind of -- any right, any opportunity that any other american could expect. >> another parenthetical. so we have this gentleman, and i have to go back, because you skipped one of my favorite parts. o.s.b. wahl, an abolitionist, they're risking their lives and not to mention their livelihoods to rescue escaped slaves. when these guys back in overland rescue this one slave, they become kind of celebrities. who shows up in jail to visit them? john brown. i mean, a fearsome cat shows up. but back to washington. so o.s.b. wahl comes to washington and starts a political career. he sits in the legislature. he becomes the first black justice of the peace. they call him judge from then on. but then we see -- we see that washington begins to take that inevitable turn toward profound, deep disenfranchisement of blacks and profound segregation. so what is happening for the wahls, which, you know, an elite family, what's happening to the wahls is that their world is circumscribed to places they cannot go, places they c