can you talk about tr's relationship with booker t, washington? oh, i'd love to and it's especially fitting now tr is the first american president to break bread with an african-american in the white house to have dinner with an african-american of course, but booker t. washington is a looming important figure and activists in american history at that time. interesting to note tr got an awful lot of backlash from basically white supremacists that were in the south of that time and he never invited booker t back for such a public meeting again, but booker t washington came became one of these four most correspondents and roosevelt listened to washington over a number of his other advisors actually so he became an important part of that influential group of people that wrote to roosevelt. no, this question is coming in from mike glaser. who asks is it true roosevelt was chosen for vice president because his detractors felt it was a place that would basically shut him down where he would be powerless. that is certainly one interpretation. i thomas co

t. washington had been the focus of the black community in that town. the teachers lived in the same community as the students. they socialized together. it was a close knit operation. they were none too happy when three years after i went to anderson at the supreme court did strike down the freedom of choice plan and everybody had to change schools. there were a number of african-american kids who collapsed the story and they made it as though i were the impetus of all of this. the courts put this in motion and people to cook -- took it out on me. i recall -- as i talked about in the book, a guy hitting me repeatedly. i didn't even know who he was it was just a surreal experience, why is he doing this, i don't know who you are, and others who were very hostile to me because they thought that i was the reason for all of this, and i wasn't. one of the other things that happened, this was the causes of the dissolution of my parents, and this happened all over the south, there was integration of the children but not the power structure. sometimes teachers

t. washington community center and going through orientation and thought, man, i'm going to make money this summer. and the entire time minimum wage was $3.25 an hour or something like that. $4.25 an hour. but it was everything to me. and i ended up working at a place called the family school. the family school was for women over 18 who wanted to get the g.e.d. and women who had babies in their teens and needed some additional support to finish school. there was an onsite child care upstairs and a job at work in the summer that the people at family school and i am still in touch with today that they saw a potential. at that time it wasn't social media. it was typewriter, answering the telephone. and i never answered a telephone or worked in the office in my life. who are you looking for? i was at home. they made me write out the script where all of a sudden it is like, hi, thank you for calling the family school. i'm london breed. how may i help you? i know that by heart because they made me write it out and say it several times. it changed even how i answered the phone. learning those kind

the tens i of thousands of foams that came to t washington d.c. wererw peaceful and came to demonstrate peacefully and that's their right. i will support and defend them ins doing that and i would support others i disagree with. >>reporter: senator, i'd like to turn to a big decision we are expecting tomorrow relating to facebook. we find t out if president trump can return to facebook. the company's new board will announce their decision. what do you think of the board? >> well, it's sad right now free speech that americans enjoy depends on the whelm of monopoly corporations. i don't know how the board works. not one company should have this kind of power. facebook has tremendous power and, so, i don't have an idea of the over site board's decision and it's less important of the of power they exercise and total lack of transparency.an that's why we need to break them up. facebook and google is a monopoly. the power a is unlike anything e have seen in the country. the impending decision of the board underscores and amifies that. >> what would trum

t. washington well. he owned a clothing store that the newspapers described as being outfitted with marbles floors and chandeliers. tell us more about him and the family business. >> thank you. my uncle tj, also known as julius l it was a pioneer in the 18 territory for african-americans establishing businesses. he was on the executive committee of the national negro business league and he was head of the oklahoma state negro business league. so in all of the businessmen and women in the state, african-american businessmen and women. he had eight siblings, the majority of which all had their own businesses as well but tj was with significant in that he spearheaded creating this umbrella of businesses including office buildings, a hotel, theater bank. they had three or acres and a department store, the first win in muskogee, the second when he opened in tulsa and by the time of the tulsa massacre the store was called elliott and hooker clothing store, and he was in business in that site with -- one of the

t. washington had been the focus of the black community in that town.he teachers lived in the same community as the students. they socialized together. it was a close knit operation. they were none too happy when three years after i went to anderson at the supreme court did strike down the freedom of choice plan and everybody had to change schools. there were a number of african-american kids who collapsed the story and they made it as though i were the impetus of all of this. the courts put this in motion and people to cook -- took it out on me. i recall -- as i talked about in the book, a guy hitting me repeatedly. i didn't even know who he was it was just a surreal experience, and waned, but over time it was picked up by more and more husbands and wives, the two become one and one with him. it was integration but on the terms of whites. on the other hand, if i go back to my hometown now, it's -- the social situation is much calm in the sense that you can go to the stores and you can sit where you want to sit in the movies. the question of black contr

t. washington well.e owned a clothing store that newspapers described as being outfitted with marble floors and chandeliers. can you tell us about him and the family business? mary: thank you. my off -- my uncle t.j. was a pioneer in the indian territory for african-americans establishing businesses. he was on the executive committee -- committee on the national need -- negro business league, so he knew all of the african-american businessmen and women. he had eight siblings, the majority of which had their own businesses as well, but tj was significant in that he spearheaded creating this umbrella of businesses including office buildings, a hotel, theater, bank, they had 300 acres of land and a department store. the second one he opened in tulsa. the store was called elliott and hooker clothing store and he was in business with s.e. hooker who is the father of olivia hooker, one of the survivors that you showed. so tj elliott was involved with the business around the state and known as the merchant prin

t. washington.e owned a clothing store that newspapers described as being outfitted with marble floors and chandeliers. can you tell us more about him and the family business? mary: my uncle tj was a pioneer in the indian territory for african-americans establishing businesses. he was on the executive committee of the national niekro business league, and the head of the oklahoma state negro business league. he had eight siblings, the majority of which all had their own businesses as well, but tj was really significant in that he spearheaded creating this on bella of businesses, including office buildings, hotel, they had 300 acres of land, and they had a department store. by the time of the tulsa massacre, the staller -- store was called elliott and hooker clothing store, 20 was in business. tj elliott was very much involved with the business around the state, and known as the merchant's prince. his clientele was black, white, and native american. tracy: we will talk more about him in a few minutes.

t. washington reaching across divides of race, religion, and region, partnering with black communities andools remain, relics of a time before legal segregation ended in 1954. some have been repurposed or rebuilt. many are in disrepair. forgotten by the communities they served. filer spent 3.5 years documenting them. his photographs are on display at the national center for civil and human rights in atlanta, an effort to help preserve their legacy. why don't we know this? >> julius reasonwald is a very modest man. he did not name these schools rosenwald schools, they've become known as rosenwald schools. one of the reasons why we don't know the rosenwald name as much as we know the names. some of his philanthropic contemporaries like carnegie, rockefeller, ford. >> they were monument builders. >> they were. >> he was a legacy builder. >> yes. >> that legacy is still being felt. many of those educated at rosenwald schools went on to higher education and, in turn, educated future generations. ♪ >> blacks and whites together -- >> and prominent leaders of the civil rights movement like medgar

well, greenwood was an amazing place. booker t washington, the very famous historian, author, speaker, at the time in 1917 did name this place, the negro wall street, and the name has stuck with the neighborhood ever since. it was $36.00 blocks of an incredible business district that had just an inspiring amount of wealth and vibrancy. enjoy. and i see your great grandmother wrote an account of what happened in the tulsa race masika. did she also talk about what greenwood was like? yes, she did. she came to tulsa from rochester, new york, and she said that she was drawn not only by opportunities to make money, but by the sense of cooperation and community that was so strong. there, there were civic organizations, churches, places where people could participate and feel the full expression of their american citizenship in freedom and insecurity. so these are the elements of tulsa greenwood district that drove her there and others. i mean, to be clear, this was segregated america, this is why there was a black neighborhood and then across the train tracks there was a white neighborhood.

t. washington. people that are still going to movies in the dreamland and cotton theater.heir lives, aren't aware of what's happening. >> we went down to a late show movie. somebody came in and shouted nigger fight, nigger fight. we went out the door. just got there when a negro's head reached out. he had a revolver in his hand and they wouldn't let anyone touch him. he was the first man who shot the riot. >> nobody cares about dick. the white mob is out to get any black person in their sights. >> the teaming white mob spills over into the greenwood community carrying rifles, pistols. matches and cans of gasoline. in the words of one of the massacre survivors, all hell broke loose. looting, shooting, burning, destroying everything in sight. >> people are taking shelter in their homes or packing up their stuff and fleeing, whatever they can. >>> mother would say here they come, here they come. they came in the house and they set the house on fire. oh, it was like a nightmare. everything was in flames. >> on the evening of may 31st, a little girl had not retired but was watc

t. washington, that was their attitude. >> host: with regard to know community is it probably as true as it is with regard to black americans? ronald reagan's famous statement think of is not the solution, it's the problem. >> guest: yes, i think so and that was sort of how, thomas sowell started out as a marxist. he started up thinking the government did have a positive role to play, and through his 20s who remained a marcus even after stating economics under milton friedman at the university of chicago. he was still a marxist and he says what changed his mind was working in the government, and the department of labor one summer. what he saw was that the government was not always a benevolent force and that it could be a quite harmful force particularly what thomas to low income minority groups. in his case it came after a study of minimum wage laws and what they were doing in terms of their affect on unemployment. >> host: you mentioned studying under miltonn friedman. did milton friedman have a big impact on him? >> guest: yes, in several ways. milton friedman, i think one of the big

t. washington. and it was his teacher that conveyed the information to me. i learned it through my family history. oral history. reading about it. for so many, though, for so many, it was an issue that was not to be discussed and one, some people did it to survive because they knew who are we going to talk to about the injustices because, for now, a century now, there's been no repair. there's been no one charged for the crime. so we do sit on sacred land. there's blood in the soil, and i tell you, even today, there are those that don't want to speak of it. i will tell you this. i got to let you know this. we had a house resolution 1040 that we barely got passed. i offered the language. and it simply spoke of the work that representative don ross had. we had -- it's factual. it's history that a commission was convened in 2000. that there was a 200-page report and in that 200-page report, reparations were recommended. they did not want that language in 2021 in the oklahoma state legislature. and it wasn't until i said, if you choose not to do that, then we wi

t. washington who had founded trustee and became this enormous advocate of african-american homes.they were teaching students and basically running a de facto employment agency but she also did an enormous amount of education and community activism. she started a women's club tuscany, this is like the club women's movement, totally forgot now. this amazing amazing movement of social activism among women and among otherthings , took over the youth reformatory in alabama. her teenagers because they had run it better and more empathetically. then the white people who were running it. and she truly believed that along with her husband, her husband said something like there's as much dignity in telling a field as there is in writing a poem. and she believed that the solution, the home economics was the solution to the ongoing effects of enslavement. she was surrounded by poor people, and former plantations and she believed that having them be able to keep house and cook healthy foods and bring up their children, would give them self respect and dignity. and she thought that white people

t. washington, k - 12. and members of the community thing, the teachers live in the community. there are sometimes relatives of the kids. they were part of this unified place. i was thinking, what was my mother and what were they saying about the black schools. they would send me to the white schools. an my two brothers remained in the black schools in the making a comment about the schools. if there was a problem with the schools. they thought that they were doing something in the kind of backup from this later years. but everything about the idealistic thinking that this was part of the new world and then i was going to be part of that new world. and they felt making that new world rated was not about the quality of washington schools, is about what they felt would be the future of the country. sue and i would love for you to read passage from the book and when we talk about this just before our formal interview was tardiness takes us back to that time we were six years old and you are integrating first grade at that school so if you wouldn't mind reading a passage it would g

t. washington described it as being like a whole nation trying to go to school, right? so imagine everybody trying to get into the schoolhouse to get education and to learn to read to learn math to learn all the elements of what education afforded. and so some of what emerges during this time are missionary and common schools. so in places like port royal a lot of the missionaries go and set up schools, but they also find they're already schools there. so people like mary peake who's pictured here up in the corner as a free black woman in hampton who have already been running a free school a free school in hampton for free black folks before the war. so it's already sort of this infrastructure for education of a sort right among free black folks to educate other black folks and so that just sort of continues on during the period of emancipation and on right that there's already these sort of places where people are sort of creating schools and then you have people like charlotte fort in and here at jacobs who go to the south and help establish schools and help teach the

t. washington community center and going through orientation and thought, man, i'm going to make money this entire time minimum wage was $3.25 an hour or something like that. $4.25 an hour. but it was everything to me. and i ended up working at a place called the family school. the family school was for women over 18 who wanted to get the g.e.d. and women who had babies in their teens and needed some additional support to finish school. there was an onsite child care upstairs and a job at work in the summer that the people at family school and i am still in touch with today that they saw a potential. at that time it wasn't social media. it was typewriter, answering the telephone. and i never answered a telephone or worked in the office in my life. who are you looking for? i was at home. they made me write out the script where all of a sudden it is like, hi, thank you for calling the family school. i'm london breed. how may i help you? i know that by heart because they made me write it out and say it several times. it changed even how i answered the phone. learning those kinds of skills from

well, earlier i asked t w's, washington correspondence. stephan simons of president biden's agenda for the nato summit in brussels. where there, it's blending in a little bit with what we have heard in the piece we just saw about what was discussed and agreed upon in terms of pledges. at the, at the use of the g summons g 7 summit. so here it is, like, look at america back, we are committed, fully committed to nato, to collect if defensible commitments. that is important. that's where allies were wobbly in the last few years. because donald trump didn't mention any of this, and for donald trump, it was all about money and how many, how much money, or how many dollars or euros? there is europe, partners, and nato allies spend on defense. now that is still important for joe biden. however, the main message here is united the allies where back we are committed to nato and to the mission of nato, against a russia, autocrats. democracies with the nato unite against autocratic systems. example, rush up bellows and even china, the euro 2020, the netherlands, have beaten groups, the rivals ukr

t. washington in 1881, it's historically black higher education institution, eleanor roosevelt was a great fan of the tuskegee institute's work. she would go down there after the war department sets up at fdr's order the war department will set up a flight training program in the deep south for african-american pilots. because eleanor roosevelt was such a tremendous believer in civil rights for people of color, and also in aviation and the power of technology to, quite literally like move us into the future, she's insatiably curious. she goes down there and is making a point to make sure that this is photographed because she wants to argue with the two fundamental presuppositions of the jim crow south, the two fundamental presuppositions of the jim crow south, and this surfaces in all kinds of correspondents that she receives both hostile and favorable, is that, well, there's an intellectual inferiority issue here and so nonwhite people can't be trusted to do things like operate complex machinery or -- and they can't be trusted to do any kind of knowledge work whatsoever. it's a bit parado

on for a moment the backstory here is that of course the tuskegee institute founded by booker t, washington in 1881. it's historically black higher education institution eleanor roosevelt was a great fan of the tuskegee institutes work. she will go down there after the war department sets up at fdrs order. the word department will set up a flight training program in the deep south. for african-american pilots and because eleanor roosevelt was such a tremendous believer in a civil rights for people of color and also in aviation in the power of technology to quite literally like move us into the future. she's insatiably curious she goes down there. and she will make a point. of making sure this is photographed because she wants to argue with. the two fundamental presuppositions of the jim crow south right? so the the two fundamental presuppositions of the jim crow south and this this surface is in all kinds of correspondence that she receives both hostile and favorable. is that well there's an intellectual inferiority issue here. and so non-white people can't be trusted to do things like oper

john hope franklin bc franklin's son i grew up in tulsa graduated from historic booker t, washington high school in 1931. he was valedictorian the valedictorian of tulsa central high school. mr. borston he and mr. franklin were honored at a ceremony at i believe the mayo hotel again. these are valedictorians one from the black school and one from the white school and in his memoir mirror to america john franklin talks about the fact that these are both valedictorians yet at ceremony honoring the two of them. he is forced to sit in an anti-room outside the main hall. again, this is for a ceremony honoring him because of the rigid segregation that existed in tulsa. so john franklin went on to have a distinguished career. he went to harvard. he taught it university of chicago he ended his career at duke university is professor emeritus. he is the imminent historian of black history and again a son of tulsa who visited often there's a park down at franklin reconciliation park name for him and a center that works on intercultural interracial relations and john franklin center for reconcil

t. washington high school. woods set the standard for high expectations at school. john stanford was the owner of a 45-room luxury hotel in greenwood. largest black-owned and operated hotel in oakland and one of the few black-owned hotels in the united states. he was the son of an escaped slave, came to oklahoma in 18 9, and was -- 1899, and was the wealthiest man on black wall street. simon barry owned a knick ol ride service, a bus line, a bow teak hotel and a chartered plane service. john williams, in the 1911 luxury touring this couple launched multiple venues, a theater, confectionary, a rooming house and a garage. buck franklin, an attorney in deep greenwood, he was known for defending the survivors of greenwood massacre and the father of civil rights advocates and historian franklin. these successful black leaders all faced darkness of the 1921 massacre. john stanford's hotel laid in ruins after the burning of the deep greenwood and was never rebuilt. stanford was indicted for inciting a riot and fled greenwood. the mount sinai black baptist church was just 4

t. ron says, washington can have no justification if it is ne, indeed behind these moves. or we have to remember that even if the laws that are being cited in the actual announcement on the web page, even if the reason cited would be in the gym in which i should be, isn't we have to remember that the, these are u. s. internal laws and assets, it would be ridiculous to seize an international, new size based on domestic us thought it like the other situation would be i pathetically, if iran would come and see the c n n news website, based on internal uranium laws, it doesn't really make sense and i think it's a clear violation of hugh freedom of expression. the 1st to ever transgender athlete will go to the olympics this year. laurel hubbard, who is a weight lifter, will join new zealand team in tokyo, but it has sparked anger from campaigners calling to save women's sports. and they say that her superior muscle mass is unfair competition. however, the olympic committee says that she has met all of the necessary criteria artillio, trego picks up the story for us. it's offici

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progress, but differences still remain diplomat sipping negotiating since april to bring both t ron and washington back into compliance with the agreement. the united states is in, in direct talks with iran and says there are still several sticking points for the head of the iranian delegation. things that quotes closer to the end, but the most difficult issues all yet to be resolved the cases and going back to the capital for more consultations and they'll return after 10 days from washington . his christian salumi, the key issues seemed to be the lifting of sanctions that were imposed by the united states. when president donald trump withdrew from the nuclear agreement, the iranians went into these talk saying that they would not go back to full compliance with the deal until the sanctions were completely lifted. and national security advisor for the united states, jake sullivan is saying that the united states does retain the right to impose unilateral sanctions on non nuclear issues like human rights abuses or ballistic missile issues. we know that missiles while not covered under the original

where does this election when leave the relationship between washington and t, ron? i think it greatly complicates the relationship. a few weeks ago i spoke to the state department said that there were the regard to saudi over kingdom of saudi arabia. that america is foundational values are going to be paramount in any and any good talks with saudi arabia, so that must also be applied to iran. now, with president raising and his background, i think it makes it very difficult for the president united states, the state department to have negotiations with racy. but we also have to see how this works out. the idea of treat is coming to washington tomorrow. to discuss the regional challenges that israel faces. and i'm sure this will be a very important topic of that conversation. mr. i sees domestic agenda, of course, is dominated by turning around the economy. much of that depends on sanctions being lifted or sanctions being east. so that aspect of what he has to do kind of comes down to joe biden. no, well, it does. and mr. biden has understand either some sanctions al

t. washington harriet tubman and great figures of our past i'm all for that don't take down the indispensableo it. thanks, cassie, appreciate it. >> absolutely, thank you. brian: meanwhile, straight ahead. we have actually a fox news alert. families demand answers in the aftermath of the florida condo collapse. we are going to talk to one researcher brian: who says there were signs of structural damage in the building back in the 1990s. ♪ flushed last year by next guest resealed the land it sits on has been gradually sinking a little bit of a time since the 1990s. ainsley: florida international university professor shimon joins us now with his findings good morning to you, professor. >> good morning. thanks for inviting me. ainsley: you are welcome. tell us what you found when you studied this building. >> okay. i was study focus on miami beach and norfolk because these two communities have been flooding and sea level increases that were more flooding in community and we wanted to evaluate what was the contribution of [inaudible] because flooding can occur sea level siding or the length of ti

t. washington community center and going through orientation and thought, man, i'm going to make money this summer. and the entire time minimum wage was $3.25 an hour or something like that. $4.25 an hour. but it was everything to me. and i ended up working at a place called the family school. the family school was for women over 18 who wanted to get the g.e.d. and women who had babies in their teens and needed some additional support to finish school. there was an onsite child care upstairs and a job at work in the summer that the people at family school and i am still in touch with today that they saw a potential. at that time it wasn't social media. it was typewriter, answering the telephone. and i never answered a telephone or worked in the office in my life. who are you looking for? i was at home. they made me write out the script where all of a sudden it is like, hi, thank you for calling the family school. i'm london breed. how may i help you? i know that by heart because they made me write it out and say it several times. it changed even how i answered the phone. learning those kind

t. washington in his own words. he says everything starts with education.got educated. then you do this thing called quality of education. that's when people turn around and say okay, your schools suck, so i'm going to give you a ivanka trump to go to a better school. then one party stood in the way and said no. that's bad for the teacher's union. i'm not going to send to you it that school that makes you wear a tie and demands that you go to school instead of six hours, eight hours and has after school activities and puts life skills along with math skills and english skills in your life. maybe for the first time. it just makes no sense. so, those are the things is he saying. yeah. there are problems in our society. but if i can't educate kids equally, can i never have equality. lawrence: there is a common myth and we will talk more in the next hour, that these folks want handouts. they don't want handouts. they want government to be moved out of the way so they can fight for their own individual liberty. we will talk about it more in the next hour, anyway

t. washington and frederick douglass all in there. don't vilify one race.ead and examine and study our history. don't vilify people today who are proud to be american and proud the way we have progressed. guess what? america is not the only one that progressed. society and civilization progressed. i don't think we should be judging people in the past as if we are high and mighty. ainsley: or judging people on the color of their kin. brian: absolutely. can would he be americans first? steve: the way it boils down you are either a victim or a bad guy. it all depends on the amount of melanin in your skin. brian: by the way it the only people that benefit this are our enemies who want to see america collapse on the inside. ainsley: we are not teaching that in our household we are teaching her to be a christian and love everybody and treat your neighbor as you want to be treated. brian: and win at all cost. steve: where did that come from? it was going so nicely until now. brian: i had to throw that out. steve: equality. prosecute. ainsley: bring home the -- ste

t c. this is the agency that deals a lot with monopoly matters. the judge in washington dc said that the f t c had not provided enough concrete facts to support its assertion that the, that facebook was acting as a monopoly in social networking. however, the judge did not entirely dismiss this case. instead, it gave the f t c agency, 30 days to come back with a re filed complaint. presumably with some more facts in an separate matter, the judge, same judge, dismissed a series of lawsuits filed by state governments. that said that facebook had attempted to extend its monopoly power by buying up nascent competitors like whatsapp and instagram, which the company did in the early part of the last decade. and the judge said that too much time elapsed since facebook made those acquisitions for this to go through . so what it means ultimately is that it's very difficult or more difficult than many people would think for the government and its agencies and its lawyers to take on internet giants and try to prove monopolies. they can't do it their own. they've got to get a judge t