i'm happy we are adding such a tree to san francisco and to honor the vivian brown sisters. now like we've done in many of our events, it's always an honor to introduce the supervisor of the district and like he said, we are very familiar with this piece of land. this land has had many trees that act as a buffer to the neighborhood and the neighborhood appreciates it but we are still trying to figure out who is the legal owner of it, but in that process, dpw and the neighbors always join and the one thing we do know is we need to take care of the trees and we do that with that, i introduce the supervisor norman yee. >> thank you, i'm just one of many san franciscans celebrating this day, arbor okay for vivian brown. i'm so glad that we have an opportunity to have a celebration in this district 7 to be able to celebrate more intensely this great icon of san francisco and i just hope that i get to see the tree when it's a hundred feet tall. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> thank you. also as part of our partnership as many of you know we partner with many of the non-profit

vivian tells the story that she remembers when brown versus board of education was announced in 1954.ught at that time that things were going to change. she said, oh, great, i'm going to be able to, you know, go to any school i want. unfortunately she waited nine years and it actually -- two years for the challenge to even attend the university of alabama. i think she made that decision very early on that, you know, she was going to get the best that alla bamt ma had to offer. >> in the years that followed, she must have been aware of the role that she played. she was a path breaker. >> she was. she was very low key about it. i think that -- i don't think she went to the university of alabama seeking fame and glory. she went there as her right to attend the university of alabama. what happened subsequently, it was a surprise to her that it was received that way. >> it was not clear up until that time just how forceful president kennedy and his brother robert kennedy would be. bobby kennedy in a meeting with j.f.k. >> and if he still refuses, then nick will say we've got this court ord