in 1935, walter white, who was the executive secretary of the naacp and truly an extraordinary character in his own right, an extraordinary american in his own right. he asked charles hamilton houston, please devise a strategy by which the naacp could seek to desegregate education and transportation in america. houston, who was at the time the most famous african-american lawyer in american history, and certainly the most educated lawyer -- african-american lawyer in american history, but that the budget of $10,000 said, mr. white, unique to pick one or the other. so houston and white take education. charles hamilton houston was a graduate of amherst college in washington d.c., graduated from amherst at the age of 19, serves in the army and went on to arbor bosque will and he was the first african-american to serve on the harvard law review. he earned a doctorate of judicial science from harvard, studied into paying what he why he was at harvard law school and was very famous at this time because he had recently defended a very high-profile sensational murder defendant, out in rural virg

so when walter white asked houston to present a plan by which the naacp could launch a sustained legal campaign to end segregation, houston chartered a novel force. to defeat the law of separate but equal, he would argue for the enforcement of separate but equal. in southern states he would argue that segregation mandates needed to be met. he would seek to end segregation scourge by arguing for its promise. so he was a strategist. if you as a state say that we are secretary are black and white citizens, houston said that's fine, we're not going to challenge that right now. but what we will say is that you need to have these facilities need to be separate and they need to be equal. and they started in the law schools. first, houston hires thurgood marshall, who was his favorite student at howard law school. marshall graduated valedictorian of his class at howard law school, and came to work for the naacp, and they went to work on this mission of desegregation, desegregation schools. they started in the law schools. why? because every judge has gone to law school. and the judges do not n

of coming up with a new dome was given to architect and designer thomas walter and montgomery mix who designed the current white cast-iron dome that we see today. two months after congress authorized the construction of a capitol dome in 1855 sculptor thomas crawford was given a commission to create a statue that would sit on top of the new structure. crawford was a white van who had a couple of run-ins with slaveowner and future president of the confederacy, jefferson davis because of crawford's desire to make a statue one at a freed slave. crawford completed a 19-foot, 16-inch plaster model of the statue of freedom in 1856 while living in rome. according to the arctic of the capitol crawford wanted to top the statue with the symbol of freed slaves in ancient greece, and that is what you see there on top. this is actually a photo of the original luster model of the statue of freedom and at the top you can see the liberty cap i just mentioned. davis, and his then capacity as u.s. war secretary objected to this idea saying in a january 5, 1856 letter that its history renders it inappropriate to have people born

he was recruited by sir walter raleigh in 1582 or 1583. he worked with john white, worked together to produce this map. why would they do that? well, here's those gold bearing rocks from jack lemoine's earlier map right here. and here, see this very faint outline right on the edge of the map. always seems to be on the edge of the map. and here it is. it is either a great lake, england see, or perhaps the south sea. i think it was a way by which raleigh wanted to visualize the connection between these regions, that he wanted to understand that you have the chesapeake up here, the sound here, here is roanoke, here and here, down interior is the south sea and these gold bearing rocks. no english ship is going to sail down the coast down here and try and access the river to the passage. for two reasons, one, the current are against you, and the second reason is you've got a powerful spanish garrison at san agustin, 1565 and you don't want to run into warships down there. so it is a possibility. that's all i'm going to say it is, but here is raleigh trying to visualize