roy wilkins worked with thurgood marshall and other naacp lawyers to devise a strategy for a supreme court test. they enlisted expert witnesses who testified about the harm of segregation to black children. they argued that racial segregation violated the united states constitution. on may 17, 1954, the court handed down a momentous decision. in the field of public education, the doctrine of separate but equal has no place. separate educational facilities are inherently unequal. the naacp had been instrumental in winning the most significant civil rights victory since the end of slavery. >> as far as the impact of the decision, brown versus the board of education of topeka, kansas, had, it simply meant that the system under which thousands and thousands of negroes had been educated prior to that time, was dumped out the window. and there could no law be passed that my children could go to the school, and if i were white, they could go to that school. >> 1954 decision spirit of the naacp and other activist groups to challenge segregation in housing, transportation and public facilitie

i thought i was the best at thurgood, and i am oh, so wrong. we -- commissioner -- vice president sanchez and i passed a policy for dual enrollment so students could be in ninth grade, and they didn't have to be in the school. we had some back and forth about how that should work, but it would be great to get an update from staff in one of the upcoming curriculum meetings to see how that process is going, and hopefully, we can get that report to the parent c.a.c. so you can get an overview of what that policy is and how it's working, and now you can go home. oh, sorry, unless there were other questions. okay. okay. are there any appointments to the advisory committees by the board? commissioner lopez? >> commissioner lopez: i'd like to appoint diana payne to the pcac? >> president cook: section c -- on the appointment? okay. >> commissioner lopez: well, i just wanted to remind folks that we're going to have a new charter and we're going to appoint folks to the charter oversight commission. as we can appoint folks, we can have folks supporting m

and as a community, i want to push for that especially at thurgood marshall and the bayview. with y we really, really need this program. >> so another area that c.a.c. members have been focusing on is to look at examining other areas around equity, in particular looking at equitiable fund raising at our schools? and with e've been focusing at other school districts and schools are looking at fund raising and creates some opportunities of creating a central fund. so today, we met with deputy superintendent gentle blythe and the new director of development out of the development office to discuss these possibilities to get an idea. really important to this is to look at we want to reach out to other school communities and parent organizations to get an idea of what their questions might be, their ideas, concerns around this whole idea, but to look at how can we leverage funding across our schools where we're not able to currently generate family giving. and finally, we are recruiting new members for next -- for the c.a.c. next year, so if you know of parents or -- please spread

. >> this is, right now he's appointing thurgood marshall to the supreme court, so i'm writing a line'm going to say, 'thurgood maighall said it, you didn't wait for the times, mister president, you made the times.' >> brown: in an adjacem, just some of the hundreds of files of interviews, clippings and notes gathered over the years. and more i into how caro works. >> i take the interviews in a stenographer's notebook, and my rule is that i type it up every night before i go to bed, no matter how tired i am, because i want to remember the eression on the face. >> brown: the exprsion on the face? so, that kind of detail. ea yeah, yeah, i think you a lot. >> brown: all together: a kind of master class in interviewing, reporting, researching, writg. and, perhaps most relevant to todas how to think about fact and truth. >> there is no truth. it's just ridiculous. but there are, let's say you ed to find out how lyndon johnson ran the senate as a majority leader. f the mots about that, the more you finwhat did he do with the unanimous consent agreements, who did he put on committees, how di

this is from a con occurring opinion in the case by thurgood marshall. a court's inquiry in a setting is limited. if the senator's actions were within the legitimate legislative sphere, the matter ends there and they are answerable no further to the court. i mean, you could be forgiven here if the side you were rooting for was the anti-war activists funding these little g.i. coffee shops near army bases, right? if you're sympathies here were not with the segregationist white supremacist senator who was running his own personal dissent smashing subcommittee in the u.s. senate. i also think it's fair to assume that justice thurgood marshall who vote the con occurring opinion in this case, he was not a huge fan of james eastland in most of the things that james eastland did in the u.s. senate. but so much more to the point here, that the law here ever since 1975, reaffirmed over and over again since then, is that even when congress is terrible, even if the worst case scenario when congress is being a bunch of freaking jerks, even when congress plainly is is

he belittled the one black member, supreme court at the time, thurgood marshall. white house staff. that was it. >> one of the challenges was that he had a democratic senate and democratic house of representatives and he wanted to be reelected so a lot of his so-called progressive legislation comes in the first two years of his first term because he thinks he's going to be running against somebody and set himself up for re-election. i don't believe he believed in that legislation and what the tapes show us is that in 1973 he wanted to dismantle most of what we now associate him with. most of the liberal programs. he wanted to dismantle them. he did them because he needed to be reelected. once he was reelected in a landslide he wanted vengeance and he wanted to remove a lot of his first term legacy on the first time. >> he didn't care much about the domestic policy. >> we'll take a break. do the similarities between nixon and trump end at the special counsel's doorstep? and how can history predict what will happen is next? after the break. ♪ applebee's bigger, bold

an african american on the supreme court replacing thurgood marshall and that was the sensitivity.mber the high tech lynching charge? that scared the white guys, if you will. biden and the rest were not worried about clarps, bence, bu anita. >> he was chairman of the senate judiciary committee. >> what's stopping him from saying i did wrong or i didn't do enough. >> i learned lessons since then and i would do it differently now. we can hear him say it slow or fast. the answer that i'm sorry that she was treated badly does not take any personal responsibility for the action. >> he is taking shots from bernie. bernie is going after his home. he does like big contributors and she is going after -- elizabeth warren said they are all from delaware. the corporation. >> when you are the front-runner or a kind of front-runner, you don't want to overstate that. you have the lead to take away. you are going to hear that not just from the liberals like elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, you are going to hear from the centrists. >> you are not my age, but close enough to understand the love

he was equally proud graduate of howard university law school, where he was taught by the great thurgood marshall. it was lyndon johnson who put damon keith on the federal bench just three years after the civil rights act. it was jimmy carter who elevated him to the circuit court of appeals. judge keith was simply one of the most important federal judges of the last 100 years. while his legacy lived on forever, in housing an integration cases, his most famous ruling led eventually to the release of the watergate tapes after he found the transcripts must be released if wires had been tapped without a warrant. nixon's attorney general john mitchell sued judge keith, but the supreme court had his back, unanimously knocked that down. years later, the judge stood up to bush 43 on illegal deportations after 9/11 and he won. judge keith always helped the next generation up. one of his former law clerks, jennifer granholm, went on to become governor of his home state. judge keith presided as a senior federal jurist until just recently, and this man who served in world war ii in a segregated army

he was soon to unroll alongside thurgood marshall at lincoln university. he was destined to emerge one day as a poet and social activist. his name was langston hughes and this is what he wrote in 1926, true then, true now, and true hopefully it will be true always. let's go see old abe, sitting in the marble and the moonlight, sitting lonely in the marble and the moonlight. client, for 10,000 centuries, old abe, client for 1 million million years, client and get a voice forever against the timeless walls of time. old abe. daniel chester french had endeavored to produce an adequate statue of the nation's best-loved man. and in so doing, he produced the nation's best-loved statue. it took a while for it together -- to gather the gravitas and multiplicity of meanings it's now evokes, but what could be more fitting and proper, that this and driver now reflects the full panoply of hopes and dreams of all the american people. thank you. thank you. thank you. i am sure that is mostly for jen daniel chester french but i'll take what i can guess. i am told by edna