king and thurgood marshall then there was between king and johnson. thurgood marshall, he felt very uncomfortable with us breaking the law. the concept of civil disobedience was not something he adhered to. the first time i read an article about civil disobedience was written by harris morford in the howard university law review. i always thought he was black. [laughter] >> it is that famous exchange between wilkins and dr. king about, wilkins demanding to know, what have you desegregated? dr. king's reply, only a few human hearts. one of the hearts was apparently john kennedy's. >> i would like to say that he was moved by dr. king's words and example in the movement. after birmingham, demonstrations spread over to 200 cities like wildfire. president kennedy said there were even demonstrations on military bases overseas. we are your going to -- we are either going to put it out one at a time or bite the bullet. i think the sympathetic demonstrations that spread from birmingham created the pressure that pushed kennedy to give that speech. on the other

and that's really hard to reconcile with the sustained -- nominating thurgood marshall in the middle of the vietnam war, i think that that tends to show the longevity of that record through the upheaval and the backlash against civil rights, show that those were probably his sincere views, and my guess is that they were formed long before it is popular to believe they were there. >> george, one of the revolutions to doing this book and you know both families, both men, is john kennedy's acquaintance with black people is limited to his two valets and to the leaders of the movement himself. johnson had known personal pryvation, he had known what hate can do to the eyes of a child in cotulla. what was your experience with him in his own discussions about these questions and how they came to us? >> i have no doubt. i only knew him really in the last years of his life in 1967 until he died. but there was no question the time i spent with him in the white house and then on the ranch he was proudest of civil rights of anything he had ever done. and he knew that it would stand the test of ti

vanessa goes to thurgood marshal high school and i believe is going to davis. carlos via, also received an educational grant award, he is a student at san francisco international. he has been in this country for just two years and brought with him to our office a support group of about 6 at least people. >> teachers, parents. >> we then gave three awards in the honor of our past presidents, for each scholarship, the students are asked to write about the particular area of focus of that president. for james ballard, michelle wrote about the involvement of politics in daily life and she is from galeleo high school, and for shelly's award, shining you wrote about the value of being bi lingual and having multiple languages, sandavol was awarded the cent mitchell award and she is from george washington high school and so she talk about technology and the advance of technology, and the hearty award went to madali. perez who went to the school of the arts and is going fwaok go to school in boston at berkeley school of the arts. >> and the richard darling ton award wen

one is thurgood marshall high and will and the other one is [speaker not understood]. all of these schools have dedicated librarians, future librarians and this is true across the schools in san francisco. ~ two we have invested in athletics especially at the secondary level. including everything from uniforms to facilities improvements, equipment, more transportation for competitions. in the physical education arena, significant improvements to staffing as well as budgets for each school, middle school and high school. equipment, teachers, professional development. very different investments in p-e than what was possible before peef. arts teachers, we have our arts education master plan. every student every day receives an art instruction. and there is a whole array of resources that go into all of our schools in the area of visual and performing arts. these are just a few examples. and in the area of learning support, school district nurses, counselors, social workers, [speaker not understood] support services, very significant as supervisor kim mentioned. the array

board decision as the professor noted her former boss when she clerked for the legendary thurgood marshallrgued that the brown case i wondered what each panelist would say about brown today. we have free segregated to the point where in many communities the levels of school segregation are deeper than they were in 1954. so let me go starting all the way down this way. how would you respond to the brown v. board decision reflecting back over 60 years and how would this court will today ask >> let me take issue with the premise of your question. the number of segregated public schools in the united states in 2014 has not stayed the same or anything like that the number of segregated schools in 2014 is zero. segregation means telling children that they cannot go to the same school as children of a different skin color. that doesn't happen in the united states anymore ever. what we have is racial imbalances as a result of residential living patterns and things like that and we can talk about whether what to do about that or to what extent that's a problem but it is not a problem of jim crow se

king, what thurgood marshall supreme court justice felt and said about dr. king. was the nose -- the most controversial figure in the country including inside of black america. he was murdered on the stock in the in memphis a year to giving a speech, he died not having any idea of the monument and the holiday and the postage stamp. it took a long time to come to term with the department is the reason i wrote this book is he's become so sanitized and so sterilized and even lionized that we will haven't come to terms with who he really was and what he really wanted us to address and we tried on him on the cheek if you will but we still haven't come to terms with addressing that triple threat of racism, poverty and militarization. what you know be on those issues every day. >> how did you research this book? >> with the help of a young man named jared hernandez. one amongst a people who i want to give a shout out to. a lot of good research, to pull these facts together, number one. number two, david rich did a wonderful job on this. number three, and i could have sta

the justice thurgood marshall civil rights hero to commercial exposure in narrating the clips for the special benefit of justice john marshall second and elegant wall street lawyer who was by then losing his eyesight, so he would basically say okay look what's happening now. look what he's doing. look what she's doing. mocking the issue i know it when i see it i called out in the dark i see it. [laughter] in 1968 about 20 years after serving in the u.s. navy a still youthful stuart reflected on the times and can't fight it in a particularly curious clerk. you might wonder who that is but i guess he had indeed seen it. i sent mr. justice have you seen it and he said just once off the coast of algiers, and that is all that i was ever able to learn about what it was that he saw. that's all they want to say about the book and i really welcome your questions. thank you for your attention. [applause] you had your hand up. please. >> week sure you have the microphone. >> is a tradition to say what the law is. >> that is john marshall. >> my question is about the case in jerusalem and citizen

because you eat their hamburgers, not because you agree with their of politics.urgers, nobe so thurgood marshall noted that there was a distinct corruptingr affect in taking that money a symbol for economic purposes through lots of state conferred bandages, perpetual license, limited liebowitz shareholders, thbled treatment of the assets of theis country. this goes off without for two centuries, this understanding of why the corporations got to be conf confined to the economic realm. the court did say, i wish senator hatch was to do because he said that i was somehow some unfair in taking a case it was just about a not-for-profit use of movie and saying that it applies to all of the private corporations in america. i agree it's in there but it not wasn't my decision. that was the decision of the supreme court. when the case came to thee camet supreme court there was a simply claim made by the citizens, whih united group which i think the' should have wo one on. it was a statutory claim. they said we have a pay-per-view pay on demand movie that we're putting up, it's not like a ad 30-second attac

do want to pay homage to that decision, pay homage to the work of my former boss, the great thurgood marshallbrown v. board of education has paid tremendous benefits to this society. much of the benefit is psychic. within one generation of that decision, we went from a country where the majority of people in the society were committed to racial hierarchy, the idea of, you know, one group being supreme, to where a majority of the people rejected that idea. and that was tremendous. and for a while, the country was making good on the promise of brown. ironically, i feel privileged to be middle-aged. because i went to high school in huntsville, alabama, in the south at the moment when the country was coming closest to living up to the promise of brown. i went to high school in the late '70s, graduated in 1980 from s.r. butler high school a well-integrated, pretty good resourced school that enabled the child of broke activist parents who couldn't afford a fancy neighborhood or a fancy school to thrive and take ap classes and do well. but much has changed since 1980, as we know, because the supreme

appointments include the late president when he was a general, dwight eisenhower, the justice thurgood marshallarl warren, alan greenspan, the former federal reserve chair. the supreme court today said there are recess appointments and there are recess appointments. they were ruling against one type of recess appointments. >> this tug of war has been going on for a long time. what the republicans have done is have tried to keep the senate in session for longer for so that these recess appointments could not take place. what the obama administration said was those -- that's not real that those are actually not -- the senate is not really in session. they're really in recess so i can make these appointments. supreme court said no. the senate can make its own rules and the senate says they're in session, they're in session. >> even between let's say between christmas and new years they could have one senator show up for 15 seconds, gavel, we're in session. 15 seconds later saying gavel, we'll go out of session. we'll take a break. the supreme court ruled that is not a sham. they are in session if