in april of 1965, black leaders with the hope of high school students from students from texas southern university and university of houston organized 2,000 blacks for the protest march against gradual desegregation. but they faced a symbolism against similar sum against the city with signs that read stone age schools. [inaudible] >> madison is probably the most famous case the court ever decided. >> it existed here on land where slavery wasn't legally recognized. >> it would take presidential orders and presence of the federal troops and arsenals and the courage of children. >> we wanted to pick cases that change the direction and also that change society. >> so she told them they would have to have a search that they demanded to see his to see what it was and thereafter the police officer handcuffed her. >> i can't imagine a better way to bring the constitution to life than telling and telling the stories behind great supreme court cases. >> they boldly opposed the internment of japanese-americans during world war ii. after being convicted for failing to report for the relocation he took his cas

years later, in april of 1965, black leaders with the help of high school students from texas southern university and the university of houston organized 2000 blacks for a protest march against gradual desegregation. they turned houston's space age symbolism against the city with signs that read, space-age houston, stone-age schools. >> those pioneers who we talk about in the book is a man named frank crossly. frank crossly never worked for nasa but work he did developing alloys for the skins of rocket and missiles was vital to nasa's success. he was one of the u.s. navy's first black officers during world war ii. after the war, he decided on a career in engineering. his family had said no, become a doctor, maybe become a lawyer. he said he was going to become an engineer. but as a black man in america at that time, he knew he always needed to have a plan b. >> if i couldn't get a job as an engineer, i would either go to canada or mexico. canada had the virtue of speaking english and mexico had the virtue of having colored people. >> he said he figured his chances of getting a job in the united s

two years later black leaders with the help of high-school students from texas southern university organized 2,000 blacks were protest march against gradual desegregation to turn the symbolism against the city with space-age houston the stone age school. >> another pioneer is a man named frank. he never worked for nasa but the work he did to develop always was vital to nasa success one of the u.s. first black officers in world war ii and after the war he decided on a career in engineering and to become a doctor or lawyer he said he would become an engineer but as a black man in america at that time he knew he needed to have a plan b. >> if i could not get a job as an engineer i would either go to canada or mexico. canada had the virtue to speak english but mexico had the of virtue of colored people. >> he figured his chances to get a job was 50/50. today equal opportunity and affirmative action bar words but not the case in 1961 but he was refused a management job because of his race and the mentor challenge the decision to say you cannot do that we are an equal opportunity employer when he

graduated from texas a&i university and received her juries doctorate from southern methodist university. director rodriguez, would you please begin. and then we'll call the other director. director rodriguez: thank you, chairman. thank you, ranking member, thank you members of the committee. in august of 1988 i was sworn in as an assistant district attorney in brooklyn, new york. kings county, new york. at the time i was sworn in, new york city like many other large jurisdictions throughout the country, was witnessing unprecedented crime rates. high homicide rates, high sexual assault rates, high robbery rates, high narcotics trafficking rates. it was into this environment that i started as a young 26-year-old prosecutor. among my assignments as an assistant district attorney were homicide investigations, sex crime special victims prosecutions, organized crime investigations and prosecutions. during my tenure as an assistant district attorney, i sat by the side of many hundreds of victims of violent crime, family members of victims of violent crime including homicides. i witnessed the s

southern methodist university scientists, being a small university in dallas, texas, indicated that 2013 northwest of fender-bender was also likely caused by the wastewater injection. now i don't -- i don't see anything wrong with the findings. what concerns me is the denial of the findings. it would seem to me that if these findings continue, even with the university of texas research, are we addressing the findings? that is my major concern. just last weekend, that was a major incident just northwest, i think, of fender-bender, near arlington, where a family's house collapsed and the water was -- everyone was told not to drink the water. i have never found anything wrong with research. but my feeling is that once we find findings, rather than denying it is happening, can we start to address the issue. and what do we get from denying citizens from being so fearful that they don't want to see that near their homes. i would like to see mr. lomax and mr. siegel, would you address that for me? what is the -- i'm trying to get to why we're trying to deny this is going on. i just want the inf

university of georgia press in 2015. her work has also appeared in southern black women in the civil rights era, a state-by-state study, texas a&m press, 0 13, comrades, a local history of the black panther party, and groundwork: local black history struggles in america. dr. morris is a board member of women have options, ohio's statewide abortion fund and has worked with the fanny lou hamer national institute on citizenship and democracy at jackson state university since 2005. dr. tiyi morris. jon hale is assistant professor of history in south carolina. his research focuses on the history of student and teacher activism, grass roots educational programs and segregated high schools during the civil rights movement. his manuscript, "the freedom schools," is currently under contract with columbia university press, forthcoming in april 2016. he is coed to have of the freedom -- coed to have of the freedom school newspapers which was just released from the university press of mississippi. his research has also been published in history and education journals including publications in the journal of african-american history, the

2012, scientists from louisiana state university and the southern climate impact planning program, which is a consortium of researchers from noaa, from l.s.u., from texas a&m, and from the university of oklahoma, reported on the risks climate change poses for louisiana and the gulf coast. they found these things -- and i quote -- "over the past century, both air and wawrpt temperatures had been -- water temperatures have been on the rise across the region. rising ocean temperatures heighten hurricane intensity and recent years have seen a number of large, damaging hurricanes. in some gulf coast locations, local sea level is increasing at over 10 times the global rate, increasing the risk of severe flooding, and salt water intrusion from rising sea levels damages wetlands, an important line of coastal defense against storm surge and spawning grounds for commercially valuable fish and shellfish." and i don't need to tell the presiding officer of the importance of the fish and shellfish industry to the state of louisiana. this study's lead author, hal neidham said -- and i quote -- "climate change is already taking a toll on the gulf coast, but if we act

southern baptist church. she pursued of current social work. at the young age of 16, she had had a part-time job in a weekly newspaper, she attended the university of texas where she graduated in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. she had a brief reporting stent on the morning news. in 1973 she was the political reporter at san antonio light, she joined the hearst bureau with a focus on texas politics. she was a fellow in harvard college in 1984 studying american literature. when she returned to texas in 1985, she joined texas monthly magazine as a magazine is a senior editor. in 1999, her highly praised by a biography of lady bird johnson was published. this trailblazing history highlights little to recognize her understood national, international and social psychological issues surrounding texas. it appeared in january 2015. mrs. russell is also a member of the texas institute of letters and philosophical society of texas. she is vice president of gemini length a literary organization. somehow she is is also found time to serve as the vice president of a foundation which works with contemporary artists. she is a certified first-degree black b

university of georgia press in 2015. her work has also appeared in southern black women in the civil rights era, a state-by-state study, texas a&m press, 0 13, comrades,