bill clinton had vernon jordan, was an influential person in washington. president bush, the son, people might not realize, his spiritual advisor was a reverend from texas, and he talked to him regularly. if you go back to theodore roosevelt, there was a case where he tried to get advice from the booker t. washington, and he invited him to the white house for a dinner. it caused such a foss, you cringe at what was said about this in the south, about how terrible this was in the minds of the racist in the south but the president would have an african-american over for a social dinner. from then on, he never had an african-american over for social occasions, but did have booker t. washington over for a device, but only in a business setting. >> i would just like to remind everyone that the book is "family of freedom, presidents and african-americans in the white house" by kenneth walsh. george wilson, you get the last question. >> we have talked about everything except the culinary side. were there any black chefs that stuck out? >> there was a shaft that ge

publisher larry flynt for "hustler" magazine's depictions of interracial sex, and civil rights leader vernon jordan. but there was one murder franklin would not confess to. >> we always could place franklin in cincinnati. we could place him there, but that was it. >> dieters told melissa, though they were sure franklin was the man who gunned down donte and darrel, there simply wasn't enough evidence to take him to court. >> as hard as people tried, he would never admit to cincinnati. so we were pretty much resigned to the fact that he was not going to talk to us. >> may the blessings of the almighty god, the father, the son, and the holy spirit -- >> for donte and darrel's family and for the prosecutor's office, it seemed that justice and closure were all but impossible. almost 20 years later, their hopes would hang on an assistant prosecutor, one who would have to make a jump from parking tickets and paperwork to trying to outsmart a cold-blooded killer. coming up -- >> why did they pick you? >> i'd like to think that the answer to that is they thought that i could do the job. >> melissa powers' r

little known today, but he really inspired a generation of african-american lawyers, including vernon jordan, a lawyer, counsel to the president's who, i'm sure, some of your effort of. the jordan called walden so impressive. he said, i wanted to be a lawyer just like walden. i wanted to walk like him and talk like him and hang out on of bradstreet just like walden. above all else pragmatists like walden and that president prioritized voting rights as the path to black power. here we see walden challenging the so-called white primary, the laws, the tradition of excluding african americans from the vote in georgia and elsewhere. and here is the result of his activism. 1946 after the fall of the white primary all over the streets, eager to exercise land jobs. and yet he and others were called uncle toms. the question is, why would that be? well, it was because he didn't challenge segregation in housing. instead he made deals with local rights to find housing for african-americans wherever he could. the next on the postwar housing crisis. and it this had the effect of maintaining the color line