schoolsone of the four operating in topeka in 1951 when the brown v.oard of education case was filed in district court. the brown v. board of education case is a small these of a much larger case that started back in 1930's that0's and was part of the national association for the advancement 's shovel toeople overturn segregation in public education. they were attempting to file cases that would eventually lead to overturning a case called plessy versus ferguson, a supreme court decision in 1896 that allowed the state of louisiana to segregate railcars by race. once the supreme court made the decision that that was constitution, you saw an explosion of loss in the south, that permitted -- of laws that permitted segregation in all sectors of life. the naacp was attempting to overturn the president. they could try to do it in one case, but if they lost, that would the end of their tents. beginning in the 1930's, they began to file cases to chip away at that president. the strategy was to and segregation in law schools and graduate schools and worked on t

for instance, the militia here in topeka, it goes to lawrence to defend lawrence. and john brown and his family come up to lawrence to help defend lawrence. you have all of these people coming together at lawrence and the proslavery people reinforce one another and the antislavery people reinforce one another, that new network is created as a result of the various antislavery people coming together at lawrence. and john meets john brown and they become associates in the whole resistance by two of the efforts of the missouri institute control and promote and expand slavery. this house, we do not know exactly what it was built, but i think it was built in that summer and fall of 1856. this wall, which was right behind me, is an example of the intense conflict going on. structurally, the wall does not do anything holding the floors up or anything like that. but someone went to a lot of trouble to haul that in here and put this wall in from the basement up to the ceiling here on the first floor. i think it was built because of a need to reinforce the exterior walls. yo

in north topeka, 1860 . kaw, osage, french, and white dissent. his father is a white man, owen curtis. he comes originally, his ancestors are passengers on the is mader, a lot of hay with that. when he is a candidate. it's got the indian on one side, pilgrims on the other. piece. great p.t. what makes and so remarkable, i think, is the fact that he is a mixed blood growing up in a time that makes that very difficult. any somehow, i think by sheer force of his personality, makes all that an advantage. i know one historian said he played the indian card when it worked, he played a white card when it worked. that might be true, but i think that it oversimplifies his experience and it is unfair to him. me'ink he chose the white s becauseworld society forced that choice on him, but it most certainly did. charles curtis' family, his mother's family, operated the ferry that went from north to begin the south size of the kansas -- side of the kansas river. he does not come from a poor family. they are always working, but their people of means. has an all

these were professional jobs for african-american women in the city of topeka, so that was going to beost once these schools were integrated, so while some wanted integration, there was some resistance, thecially teachers and local chapter of the naacp who feared the loss of those jobs, and that was not unwarranted when the middle schools integrated a few years before. there were african-american teachers who lost their jobs, so the feeling, there was very much division between what was going to be gained, which was full access to neighborhood schools where these african-american children lived, but there was also a sense of loss of what was going to be happening to the teachers and students. the museum was designed to describe the broader struggle , and it goeshts back to the origins of slavery in the united states, so when you and to the building, you will be greeted by a park ranger, and then the focal point of the exhibit is a 25 minute series of films, which is a dialogue of a young woman an older man which basically traces the origins of slavery, the and itsn of slavery replaceme

senate refused to even discuss the topeka constitution. so it died in washington. that was the very first constitution that was written in kansas. and weond constitution are looking at the title page of lecompton constitution, that was written in the fall of 1857 in lecompton, kansas, inside samuel building.odframe this constitution would have made kansas a slave state. it was endorsed by president james buchanan from pennsylvania. he was a northern man, but he was strong proslavery. his predecessor was franklin pierce, president franklin pierce, from concord, new hampshire. a strong pro-slavery mantra. the democratic party in the by thecontrolled southern influence, strong proslavery. what president buchanan was not counting on is stephen a douglas, the father of kansas in thery, who believed concept of popular sovereignty, let the will of the people bespoke. stephen douglas was outraged by the lecompton constitution. when the lecompton constitution arrived in washington, douglas got on the floor of the senate and called the lecompton constitution a swindle and a

topeka-span, we are in interviewing nonfiction authors. are there any authors who have had an impact on you? a lot.rnor brownback: i am reading one which i have reread several times. the author was a chinese writer --t wrote a series of books the one i am reading now is "the normal christian life," and he ended the last 20 years of his life in prison in china for his faith. but it is a beautiful one. sandberg'sng carl books on lincoln. i am looking forward to it. lincoln is a

[applause] >> on topeka we spoke with us or indeed w. carter about his book may be over wichita which details the worst military aviation disaster in kansas history. >> the house was shaking and i looked out the window and my sisters and brothers -- i couldn't get here fast enough. i couldn't realize all this going on. i started going up and down the street until i got here. >> the plane crash occurred and jane are 16, 1965 and encouraged early that morning around 9:30 a.m. they went down on pine street in wichita, the northeast end of wichita. it crash landed there is typically referred to as the african-american community. 97% were living in this section of wichita so it goes down at about 20 of 10 highest-rated we are talking a 500 foot-high fireball "-end-quotes the entire block. 14 homes immediately destroyed. buyers everywhere, distractions everywhere and ultimately 30 lives are lost is a tragedy. i found anything in the historical record that says this is why the story did not get the attention it deserved. what i did find if ther

.- in topeka the browns the board of browhnon please -- the piece wasf education part of the naacp struggleo overcome discrimination in public education, so they were thatpting to file cases would end up reversing cases, ferguson,ssy versus which allow the state of louisiana to segregate railcars by race, and once the supreme court made the decision that that was constitutional, what you saw was an explosion of loss, and the south, specially, which prevented segregated facilities in all sectors of public life, so the naacp was attempting to overturn that and they knew they could try to do that case, and they began to file cases to begin to chip away at that precedent, and the strategy was to

the heat is going topeka today. we -- going to peak today. drizzle on saturday morning is the transition to cooler weather this weekend. the winds are three miles per hour at san carlos and concord. 12 at sfo and 18 in fairly. everyone else is calm. the major players take up the entire screen. you can notice how neither is moving. that is why it willen hot inland the next two days until the low starts to take over and bring us cooler weekend. we have high clouds like yesterday afternoon but it will be three or four hours later and it will be a gorgeous sunset tonight. you can see the picks send it to us at abc7news.com. 90 in milpitas. 92 in san jose. it will be hot in the south mid-to-upper 90s in los gatos and hot on the peninsula, low-to-mid 90s redwood city and palo alto and menlo park and mountain view and mid-to-upper 80s millbrae and san mateo. check out the coast: mid-70s with water temperature in the mid-60s. we will hit 82 in downtown. nearly 80 in south san francisco and 84 in sausalito. inland, 20 degrees warmer, low-to-mid 90s pe

it is the c-span cities tour of topeka, kansas today at 6:00 piec p.m. eastern on c-span. oil and gas fracking says is there is in a new phase of production. it has a long way to go before it competes with fossil fuel. here's a preview. >> here is what is sort of fascinating could unwillingly, when investor started pouring billions of dollars to find alternatives, it the people who have really change the game are the guys in such invalid who have created the information for structure with big analytics, which will unlock even more cheap oil and natural gas producers. check it out. there will be three company things that take place over the next decade. get improvements of the underlying technologies. the drilling, the operational capabilities for pumps, the sizing mapping, all that stuff would aggregate up to 400%-500% in that will happen again to that is not over to the second is that we will later in new stuff with vast automation. only 10% of sellers are automated. computingve mobile and add things like robotics and industrial drugs. that will help the system can insult

announcer: the c-span cities tour is in topeka tomorrow night as we look at the literary life of the kansas state capital. in the leadt books entry into the civil war. tuesday at 6:00 p.m. eastern. the c-span cities tour, visiting cities across the country. this weekend, we are joined by charter communications to learn more about the history of grand junction, colorado. a certain mineral had a long-term importance in this part of colorado. >> all over the colorado plateau, we are surrounded by morrison rock. we find a lot of dinosaur bones, fossils, and that has intrigue scientists for a long time. the other thing we find in the morrison is a rock hard carna tite. it contains radium, which was used by marie curie. is it also includes a mineral, vana dium. carnatite also includes uranium. announcer: a congressman was largely responsible for development through his legislation. >> he fought the bottle to reserve -- the battle to reserve water for western c colorado to make sure we got our fair share. how did he do that? beginning in he is state -- beginning in his state career, he was

monday, we travel to topeka, kansas. we will hear about the violent confrontations in 1850. we will to work -- tour the state capital and we have a conversation with the kansas governor. easternt six apart p.m. here on c-span. -- at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. announcer: monday night on the "communicators," this summer marks the 25th anniversary of digital television. we discuss how modern television has changed. >> many of us, and that is increasing every day, are watching in a multi screen world. and that has been one of the more exciting outcomes of this whole digital revolution. so it used to be that there was a stationary screen. and with hd tv, that was a big screen in the living room. but with the internet and the wireless world extending things, now you have tablets and smartphones and wi-fi all over the place. such that tv is not just a stationary lean back experience in the living room, but it is very much a mobile experience wherever you want to go. and it is not just tv, it is also video. announcer: monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. announcer: p

bugles, lieutenants and lieutenants, it brought together young men from toronto and young men from topeka. they served and trained together and they sacrificed together. the book of john says "greater love has no man that this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." in the first special service force they were neighbors who wait a minute allies who became friends and were willing to sacrifice for their friends and for the principles that the unit stood for. this shared sacrifice between our nation began before the devil's brigade. i was on the hallowed grounds of arlington today to see the canadian cross of honor erected in 1930 by our government in those majestic fields to honor the 3,000 americans who died in world war i serving with canadian units. and the heroics of the devil's brigade continue. our joint defense of north america through norad, korea where tommy prince served in the battle of kapyong, in the korean war. in afghanistan, where the 40 americans who died serving alongside canadians in kandahar are held as close to our chest as the 158 men and women we frost that d

it bought together young men from toronto and young men from topeka.that a man lay down his life for his friends. in the first special service force they were neighbors who became allies who became friends and were willing to sacrifice for their friends and for the principles that the unit stood for. this shared sacrifice between our nations began before the devils brigade. i was on the hallowed grounds of arlington today to see the canadian cross of honor, erected in 1930 by our government in those majestic fields to honor the 3,000 americans who died in world war i serving with canadian units. and the heroics of the devils brigades continue. our joint defense of north america through norad, korea where tommy prince served in the korean war. in afghanistan where the 40 americans who died serving alongside canadians in kandahar are held as close to our chest as the 158 men and women we lost in that dangerous province. and today our royal canadian air force and our soldiers from the jtf 2, the successor unit to the devil's brigade are serving in iraq in

bugles, lieutenants and lieutenants, it brought together young men from toronto and young men from topeka this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." in the first special service force they were neighbors who wait a minute allies who became friends and were willing to sacrifice for their friends and for the principles that the unit stood for. this shared sacrifice betwe

today we travel to topeka, kansas. we'll hear about the violent confrontations over whether kansas would be a free state or a slave state, we'll tour the state capitol, and we'll talk to kansas governor sam brownback. the c-span cities tour in topeka, kansas, today at 6 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> next, the center for strategic and international studies discusses their recently-released report entitled "the new ice curtain: russia's strategic reach to the arctic," which denials russia's -- examines russia's security strategies and aspirations in the arctic and the evolution of the kremlin's arctic policies over the past decade. from earlier this month, this is about 90 minutes. >> well, good morning, everyone. welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. my name is heather conley, senior vermont for europe, eurasia and the arctic here at csis, and we are delighted -- i don't know if it's something you should talk about the arctic in august, cool thoughts, warm weather, but we are delighted that you are

the c-span cities tour of topeka, kansas, monday at 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> monday night on, "the communicators," the 20th anniversary of digital television. mark taher discusses how modern television has changed. >> what many of us, and that is increasing every day, are watching is a multi screen world. that has been one of the more exciting outcomes of this whole digital revolution. it used to be there was a stationary screen, and that was a big screen in the living room. with the internet and the wireless world extending things, now you have tablets and smartphones and wi-fi all over the place, such that tv is not just the stationary lean back experience of the living room, but a mobile experience wherever you want to go. it is also video. >> monday night at 8:00 eastern on "the communicators" on c-span 2. >> republican presidential candidate scott walker outline his foreign policy goals on friday in a speech at the citadel in south carolina. the governor called for a no-fly zone over syria, increasing military spending, more gov

it's a tough job.y stress like anything else, no p matter if you're programming a p radio station in topeka, kansasv where we have a great cluster o. stations or in new york like hi3 craig is with 77, it's the sameo it eats you up if you don't deal with it. you've got to have outlets. i think it comes down to, and l. this will tie into sort of genius of that question, it tiee into balance.ne balance in life. i've got a very great family. i'm very fortunate about that a. well. great wife, three kids, one on l the way.ible i started late.o? so that is a whole other fun thin for me. i it's nice to have a balance. it's nice to come home.in kids don't know what you do, wha you are, they just know you're a dad.i they jump in your lap and make sure they keep dry cleaners in business and it's all good. i feel very fortunate that way. balance is important.tics, i think part of what we'll talk about in this 30 minutes s. together is balance and content. really the way forward in content. i'll let michael take the lead. >> before we get into that, onea cannot ignore, one of the things people were sayi

. >> there was a recent headline when you spoke back in kansas, topeka capital journal, where the headline said mike huckabee, republican presidential candidate won't rule out employing u.s. troops, fbi to stop abortion, is that the fallout from invoking the fifth and 14th amendments? >> those weren't my words. that was something that the "rolling stone" reporter said, and we know how reliable "rolling stone" is as a journalistic tool. so, what i'm saying is, the real issue not are we going to give money to planned parenthood the bigger issue is, is that unborn child is a human being, because if it is, then the fifth and 14th amendment apply. >> what does that mean, though, in practice? >> it means that you guarantee due process under the fifth amendment. it means under the 14th amendment there's equal protection under the law. exactly how that plays out is one of the ways we discover, what does it take for americans to finally wake up to the fact that we're violating the constitutional rights of human beings. in law enforcement to prevent abortions? >> i think the bigger question is, let'

we begin in topeka, kan. where we learn about the worst military aviation disaster in that state's history. >> i was watching and the house was shaking and i looked out the window at our house was on fire and i had to get my sisters and brothers out and took some across the street. >> i couldn't get here fast enough. everything was getting in my way and i couldn't realize what was going on but i started running up and down the street until i got here but i couldn't see my house until i got in the house. >> the plane crash occurred jan. sixteenth 1965 and it occurs early that morning at 9:30 a.m.. it went down in 20th and pine street, it crash landed in a section of wichita typically referred to as an african-american community. 97% of the african americans living in this section of wichita so it goes down and we are talking 500 ft fireball engulfed this entire block, 14 homes are immediately destroyed. fires everywhere, destruction is everywhere and ultimately 30 lives are lost through this tragedy. anything

it takes one man, werner schreiber went to law school in topeka and he helps to let the $5000 bid. by that time most big guns had litigation through their own attorneys. justice lewis been one of them and they looked the least they could receive compensation outside of the administrative claim process. it really didn't help that it does and not added to the tragedy because in the end most received a few thousand dollars for the loss of a loved one with the lowest payment was $400 for the life of an adult $700. we're not talking about great amounts issued out. in many cases the loss of property or property damage paid more than loss of a loved one paid monetary compensation can never equate to loss of life. in this case it created that are nice because they did not feel there is restitution. in many cases, the same across the board with e. janine or has been gets a knock on the door and realizes it's the air force and the chaplain and she can't the heartbreaking news that her husband has now perished and she is given a thousand dollars by the colonel who is there. he hands her that

the c-span cities tour of topeka, kansas, monday at six p.m.an. >> so thrilled and excited to be here. we are covering this national book festival. we have a beautiful sunny day. >> one thing to remember is they are the exception. >> thank you all for coming today. that is the case -- we're in heaven at this national book festival. >> young people at the leaders of tomorrow. i am a youth leader for today. >> there was an article in the city atlantic china show -- trying to show -- when interviewed people -- there was a little divide. political scientists were in town. they were as polarized as washington. >> i hope they realize whatever they had done in life is something that will be recorded. that is the way that we learn. we try to understand the past. all of us have the past. >> you really only focused -- you don't really talk about guam. >> this is a great question. it goes at the heart of all of the questions we have been talking about. we realize that there was no way we could tell the whole story. there is no way we could be short of any

. >> 75 million people across this country know it, whether you're in topeka, kansas, or wherever it be, every man and every woman has at least heard of nascar, and i want to bank on that. >> it doesn't matter. it doesn't do anything for me. >> we have a company here that does $1.6 million a year, and these guys think that they're too good for a company like nascar that's worth billions. i'm speechless. >> that's the person that goes to nascar, that drinks the beer, that does the nascar stuff. i mean-- >> i have this weird feeling that you have disdain for nascar and the people that go to the races. >> i could give a [bleep] about nascar, to tell you the truth. >> you absolutely embarrassed me. that will never happen again. bill's got a very tough 13lie here...... looks like we have some sort of sea monster in the water hazard here. i believe that's a "kraken", bruce. it looks like he's going to go with a nine iron. that may not be enough club... well he's definitely going to lose a stroke on this hole. if you're a golf commentator, you whisper. it's what you do. if you want to save

today we will travel to topeka, kansas.we will hear about the violent 1850'stations of the over whether kansas would be a free state or slave state. we will have a conversation with governor sam brownback. the to be cut, kansas cities eastern.ix :00 p.m. and tonight, a discussion on shale oil production. we will hear from mark mills, a senior fellow at the manhattan institute. here is a preview. unwittingly, when the silicon valley investors started pouring begins into finding alternatives to hydrocarbon, the people who have changed the game are the guys that silicon valley the information exchange which will on leak -- unlock even more energy in the future. first, we will get underlying improvements to the existing technologies, at least equal to that that has already occurred. the operational capabilities, the pumps, the seismic mapping. all of that stuff. is an aggregate equivalent of 400%, 500%. secondly what will happen, we will air in new spots of advanced automation. are 10% of our refineries totally automated. we wi

today topeka kansas and the violent confrontations of the 1850s, over whether kansas would be a free or a sliv state. also, a tour of the state capitol. and a conversation with the state's governor. >>> when congress returns from its august recess, one of the first items of business will be a resolution of the nuclear agreement with iran and other world powers. starting tomorrow night, we'll bring you key statements and hearings that took place after the deal was announced in mid july. including a speech in early august by president obama at american university. statements for and against the agreement by senate leaders. congress has until september 17th to pass the resolution. >>> next, look at the challenges faced by patients and health care providers in rural communities and hospitals, with government officials, ceo's and specialists from missouri, mississippi, washington and kansas. a senate preparations committee held the hearing earlier this year. >> the appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education related agencies will come to order. we're glad to

and at&t and various legislators in topeka tried to stop that. and, you know, we are going to be a gig economy and we need a gig type -- which is ten times -- which is 100 times faster than the regular internet and ten times faster -- i mean and the new norm is only going to be ten times faster. and we need this, these small towns need this to not only run their hospitals, et cetera, but to create economy, you know. and i just wanted to make that comment. >> okay. barbara, take a look at the map. this map shows -- this is the percentage of county population with download speeds of 25 mega bits per second or greater. the brown sort of maroon areas across the country, that's where it's 0% of the population has internet that fast. the gray areas and the real dark area of black is where it's 100%. so take a look at the map. you can see which states have that greater speeds, download speeds compared to the rural areas across the country that are looking at zero, zero download speeds of 25 megabits per second or greater and that's the standard that the

. >> welcome to topeka on american history tv. with help from our cox communications cable partners, and the next hour we will explore the history of kansas's capital city. about the fight for control of the kansas territory, the violence that took place in kansas's early years would come to be known as bleeding kansas and helped trigger the civil war. not developould further until it resolved the issue one way or another, is slavery going to expand or is it going to receive. resolved, it was moved to the forefront and then it becomes all-out war. >> later, we visit one of these supportersne of the of the segregation case. of theirere very proud schools, because these were excellent facilities. the teachers all had bachelor's degrees, master's degrees. these were some of the only professional jobs for african-american

we continue on monday with a trip to topeka, kansas, and hear about the confrontations over kansas being a free or slave state. we will tour the state capital and have a conversation with sam brownback. monday at 6:00 p.m. on c-span. sunday night on q&a, senior talks about state building efforts in afghanistan. the u.s. did achieve improvements, but it depends on how it ends. i hesitate and i interrogate myself and question myself. we don't know how it will end. it is possible to see five years down the road we will be back in a civil war in afghanistan. i see this emerging in the country, it is worse than the taliban. the taliban is deeply entrenched. if we end up five years down the road and a new civil war in afghanistan, a new safe haven for the taliban and isis, i would say it is not worth the price. easterny night at 8:00 on q&a. weekend on politics, books, and american history. at 6:00 p.m., hurricane katrina's 10th anniversary, with a public commemoration. speakers include bill clinton. and sunday evening on our road to the white house coverage, speakers from hillary clinton and