on july 8, 1917, w.e.b. duboistook the train along with a social worker to investigate the riot on behalf of the double on behalf of the naacp. the assembled a staff to stay for about a week. aftered with anger hearing dozens of tales of herible abuse and murder, learned that at least as many as 200 blacks had died in the riots. pleas for federal , a hand-delivered petition from the naacp containing 15,000 signatures that called for an investigation and federal anti-lynching legislative, president woodrow wilson continued to ignore the riot. prominent blacks led by weldon johnson decided to catch the attention with an unprecedented demonstration in america's largest city. they waited until w.e.b. dubois returned and he and johnson joined 8000-10,000 blacks marching down central avenue. theilent protesting against riots calling for immediate action on federal anti-lynching legislation. some of the marchers carried signs addressed to wilson. mr. president, why not make america safe for democracy question mark your ha

as w.e.b. dubois and upset as the veb dubois writes. it is difficult to write about houston. we do not condemn what the soldiers did, but we certainly understand the despair and rage that moved them to act in the first place. >> as far as when the soldiers are returning from war, does how they are treated change? adriane: no. in some ways, having houston is the opening story of african-american involvement in military service, it is a little bit of what will come afterwards in terms of those but americans committed to white supremacy, working to use means, violent and otherwise to make sure soldiers do not think that loyal service brings just compensation. soldiers returned from france, weary because the war is an awful war. right? so, weary from experience of battle and very from the labor of supporting battle. also this incredible disillusion and heartbroken by the realization that their service does not simply earn their respect. it insights a reaction to keep them that more insistently in their place. and what they are met with upon returning is a wave of racial violence

he reflected back on what w.e.b. dubois told him. when there's great pain, when there is great pain, there's radical activism. which means change. a couple weeks later i called harry belafonte to do another interview, and i said so how is everything going? he said i'm not too happy about what i'm seeing itch don't see the activism that i anticipated. i don't seal the pain that i thought i would see. and he is remembering the '50s and '60s. one of the greatest movements, civil right movements in this nation. what is happening now? what is happening now? so, we have an author here, civil rights icon, who is penned a book, holiday history teaches to us resist ." talk to us about history, yesterday to today, is harry belafonte right? >> well, harry, my good friend harry is always right. let me just say that what i talk about in this book is what i think is important for this hour. hadn't planned to write any other books. tired of writing books. but it was time for this one. what talk about is all the movements in the past where people ha

dubois, booker t says i don't agree, w.e.b. that's what is happening in terms on the kernel, the seed. some be some way to bring you together on those things, and i think if martin and malcolm were an trajectory -- this is my proposition -- they were moving in such a way n their ideas were coming closer and closer together. particularly from a malcolm perspective. maybe less so with martin. but malcolm began to say -- first of all, he began to tamp down his holy attack on the big six, the leaders of the civil rights movement at that time. and become less absorbed with that and keeping his eye on another prize. and i think you have examples of that when he spoke at the brown memorial church in selma, alabama. this is like -- he's reaching out to the civil rights movement. in africa in 1964, he ran into john lewis, who was traveling with don harris. they were traveling and had this encounter, john lewis talks about walking -- in his out autobiographyy meeting mall culp and how con jean al -- congenial the situation was and coming