white house. and said he was so nervous that he forgot about the left of the car and the president harding had to stand for the white house bible as a token of appreciation president harding gave all the members a license to so they could run red lights without being. the next step and really was one of the pioneers and getting the klan to lose credibility on the national stage and on making this an acceptable behavior that people who are in politics and then the police and whatever they should not be part of this method actually of terrorism. when the civil rights movement essentially it was successful the klan really did fade away. what they call the fourth era klan when it came back was the clan of david duke which peers in the late seventy's and really david duke was all about the idea of kind of let's get rid of the ropes let's put on business suits let's hold meetings and motels we need sort of get out of the cow pastures and into the motels. greensboro was an amazing moments that came relatively late. in the century at a time when people really did not expect the klan to be picking up weapons and murdering their enemies

there were white parking spaces and colored parking spaces in calhoun, mississippi. when north carolina court house, even though white bible and a black bible. what this meant was that people who might have gotten along famously had it not been for the color of their skin never got the chance to know one another, to truly know one another. one of the south's greatest resources, its people and particularly the black people whose forebears had helped build the south without pay did not get to be their fullest cells. my mother grew up in round georgia once said that there was a really nice white lady who brought laundry to my grandmother. they used to have -- she used to have a wonderful time talking with my grandmother. they got along so well that they might have been the best of friends in another time and place. the caste system of jim crow meant that they both knew that they could only take it so far. they are both dead, it is too late. what a shame and what a loss to both of them. you think of it. millions of other people who lost out on getting to know when it's other. it is a lesson to all of us to not let that be a ba

bibles to schools and churches until pirates sea jacked their yacht. their last location on the 1st of -- >>> now this morning the white house is assessing possible responsesing which happened two days after a somali pirate was sentenced to 33 years in prison for the 2009 hijacking of the mersk alabama. the state wide average for a gallon of gas is $3.55. political unrest in the middle east along with state refineries operating below capacity have led to those high gas prices. we checked gas buddy.com. in the east bay the costco in concord is charging $3.29, you can seat the cheapest gas in the south bay on the peninsula check out the trenton gas in redwood city, there it's 3.37. coming up this morning on "today in the bay," we will have more local news for you and of course extended weather forecasts that will impact how you plan your day. we'll be back in a half hour. >>> good morning. welcome back, everyone, to "today," february 13th, 2011. we had spring here. that was yesterday. now we have winter. there is more talk of snow and ice on the way. we're not going to put the shovels away just yet. >> it was so nice yesterday. >> it's not too bad out here.