luther king, the reverend martin luther king, jr. that was the person who was born just up the street, a block up the street at 501 auburn avenue. and that was the person that i hope as you saw that birth home, you kind of had in your mind what kind of a influence would that historical building have on the making of martin luther king? and fortunately we not only have the birth home but we have a few documents. not as many as when he becomes famous, you know, thousands and thousands of letters that we have, documents that people who wrote to him, all of those things are part of the papers of martin luther king. but when we look at when he was growing up, his formative years, we don't have a lot to work with. basically what we have are a few documents and a lot of memories. some of the memories are not as reliable as the other memories, but just think of a document that most of you have. it's called your birth certificate. we have that from martin luther king. and it tells us some important things about him. it tells that he was born

martin luther king. because, one of the advantages of using a a setting like this is that we can really practice history the way it should be. it shouldn't be about names and dates that you remember. it should be about the study of the things that survive from the past. that's why a historical site is so important, and that is why when coretta king asked me to edit the papers she understood that what in the long run were going to survive are the papers that martin luther king produced in his lifetime. so all of that is what i would call the legacy of martin luther king. and if we want to get close to who he really was, that's the best window that we have into the past. so martin luther king produced a lot of papers. one of the things that has kept me busy for the last 30 years is bringing together hundreds of thousands of documents. as any great person, you have so many materials to work with and all of these are important windows and that's why i feel that my life is well served by doing this, is that i

this is about an hour. >> who is martin luther king? when we look at martin luther king, there is one side of him that is famous individual. he is the 1964 winner of the nobel peace prize. he's the person who really was the most influential leader of a great social movement.

martin luther, jr. >> thank you, mr. randolph. i would like to say that this is simply one of the great days of america, and i think that this m march is going to go down of the one of the greatest if not the greatest demonstration for freedom and human dignity ever held in the united states. >> the slumbering conscious of america stood aroused, tall and awakened as the twilight fell over the march in washington. it had emitted a sense of shame, and the pain that had been overlook nand so doing, america reminded herself of her destiny, and of her aspiration, and the dream that brought forth the birth, and america turned her eyes on the freedom and justice and issues for all. and she turned her attention the civil rights bill before the congress which is currently under examination of the elected representatives of all of the towns and cities of the land, and she turned her thoughtses to the job ahead, and the sound and spirit of the massive remind ore of the reminder of freedom, and through august 28th, rightfully emitting from th

martin luther king, jr.'s early years this coming monday at 8:00 eastern here on american history tv. >> on november 8, 1942, british and american forces launched operation torch, the invasion of byth africa then occupied nazi germany and vichy france. she tells about her book, ."estination casablanca both co-hosted this 90-minute event. it is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce our speaker, meredith hindley, who is the author of the new book,

martin luther king jr.'s early years this coming monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, here on american history tv. x up next, on the presidency, host three group authors who discussed various aspects of abraham lincoln's life and career. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> welcome to the december meeting of the lincoln group of the district of columbia. the lincoln group was formed in the 1930's to honor

martin luther king jr. and the southern christian leadership conference are investigated for communist party links beginning in the late 1950s. here are the things that prompt that. martin luther king jr. gave a speech at the highland folk school accused of being a communist training center. here is a billboard that floated around the south. martin luther king at communist training school. there he is. it is not a communist training school, spoiler. this billboard accusation is rooted in an inaccurate history of the communist party supporting civil rights for african americans. any did that to further the party's interest and saw that as a great wedge issue. this is spread by many segregationists that the civil rights movement is a communist front being orchestrated by moscow to create social unrest in the united states. martin luther king jr. sent a thank you letter to an ex city councilman who happened to be a member of the communist party because that person donated flood to king avenue was stabbed. a me

martin luther king jr. gave a speech at the training school accused of being a communist training center. here say billboard that floated around the south, right? martin luther king at communist training school. there he is. that's not a communist training school. spoiler. but this billboard accusation is rooted in inaccurate history of the communist party in the '30s especially, supporting civil rights or african-americans. they did that to further the party's interest and saw that as a great wedge issue. but this is right on the fear that will be spread by many segregationist, that the civil rights movement is a communist front being orchestrated by moscow to create social unrest in the united states. martin luther king jr. saint thank you letter to someone who donated blood to king after he was stabbed in 1958. a member of the socialist workers party offered to join as a clerk in the main office. i don't think he got the job. hoover quietly tells congressmen, senators and kennedys that stanley levinson i

within a few months, martin luther king would be assassinated and then john kennedy would be assassinated. >> and then we get hundreds of riots in major american cities in the spring. >> let's go to tom in california. go ahead, please. >> yes. i am 71 years old. as far as i can see, what we are constantly doing is making excuses for people instead of people taking responsibility for their own lives. in my life, i was married at 16, dropped out of high school, had two kids when i was 20 years old, and i had never received a welfare check, never received an employment check, no kind of government help. i work and did my job -- i worked and did my job. my kids went to college and did well. we need to stop making excuses for people and have them be responsible for their lives. >> tom, thank you. elizabeth: thank you for that. the same time, we have to take into account our history and the history of systemic discrimination that has handed out some opportunities to some, and missed opportunities or prevented opportunities for others. >> when you are in the classroom trying to explain this to t

martin luther king jr. and the southern leadership conference are investigated for communist party links beginning in the late '50s. here are the things that prompt that. martin luther king jr. gave a speech at a school. the social justice leadership training school. here is a billboard that floated around the south. this billboard accusation is rooted in an accurate history of the communist party. especially supporting civil rights for african-americans. they did it, of course, to further the party's interest and saw it as a great wedge issue. but this is on this fear that will be spread by many segregationists that the civil right the movement is, in fact, a communist front being orchestrated by moscow to create social unrest to the united states. martin luther king jr. sent a thank you letter to excity councilman who happened to be a member of the communist party. they donated blood to king after he was stabbed in 1958. a member of the socialist workers party offered join the sclc. i don't think he got t

anthony and martin luther king jr., we gather to recognize another american champion, senator robert joseph dole. and this pantheon of patriots, we are privileged to honor this leader of great integrity, deep dignity and extraordinary courage. we are blessed to be here with senator dole and his extraordinary wife elizabeth with whom he has just shared, they just celebrated 42 years of beautiful marriage. [ applause ] >> elizabeth -- elizabeth is an american hero in her own right. i join steny in recognizing her. our nation is better for her strong leadership and her service in the cabinet and the united states sen at that time. we now thank her for her tireless work on behalf of our hidden heroes, the military caregivers who sacrifice every day for our veterans and our country. thank you, elizabeth. [ applause ] >> senator bob dole has demonstrated his steadfast commitment to country right from the start. when the second world war broke out we all know bob left the wheat fields of russell, kansas, to fight fascism in the hills of italy. bob's courage in battle was legendary. for his

martin luther king jr.'s early years this coming monday at 8 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. up next on the presidency, columbia law professors sit down at the new york historical society to talk about presidential war powers and how they have evolved over time. this is one hour. >> if you are not a lawyer, which most of us are not, reading the columbia law review is unlikely to get you very excited, with all due respects the two great lawyers here. matthew waxman, the chair of the cyber security center and the

he is the founder and director of the martin luther king jr. education and research institute. he was the senior advisor for eyes on the prize, at a time when no one thought it could be made. i would like to ask each of you, starting with clayborne to talk about did you have in mind for series that ended up providing a template for how to do things in the future that had not really been done? >>, one of the things that is so interesting to listen to the previous panel is that just yesterday, i was lecturing at stanford to my students who were born well after all of this had happened, and i think that they periodelling me about a before i came on the scene and i suddenly felt younger than the folks. i got a call from henry hampton who should be here, but unfortunately he passed away, way too early but he was the prize.ry of eyes on the i just accepted an invitation to edit martin luther king's papers . it was not like i was looking for work. i realized that this was going to take decades to edit and publish his papers, but what he was -- he talked about his idea for a series and

. >> this coming monday professor a classe carson teaches on martin luther king jr.'s early years at ebenezer cap district in atlantic where mlk and his father were both pastors. here is a preview. >> so, let's just look at these documents. one of the things we find is how was he born? birtf the things that the certificateh indicates is that there was a midwife and a doctor. and the doctor also lived on auburn avenue. so, what does that tell us about martin luther king, that this neighborhood was diverse? a doctor could live on this neighborhood but there was also working class people living here. but also the factor was a midwife at the birth, which indicates that we're still, his family was somewhat privileged, at least the was a doctor also attending. but we can see from that but martin luther king's early upbringing was kind of a mixture guess what i would call the striding for -- striving for middle-class status and the people who were predominate in this neighborhood, that is working-class families. so, we can also see from this document that at that time his fa

clayborne carson is the founder, director of the martin luther education institute. he was the senior advisor fries on theprize -- eyes prize at a time when no one thought it could be made. i would like to ask each of you, starting with clayborne, to talk mind what did you have in -- each of you had the experience of a series that ended up really providing a template for how to do things in the future for filmmakers. it really had not been done. clayborne: what if the things to point out is, yesterday i was lecturing at stanford to my students who were born well after all of this had happened and i think that they were telling me about a period before i came on the scene. i certainly felt younger, in a sense that, i got a call from , who unfortunately passed away way too early. he was a visionary. eyes ons a visionary of the prize. i accepted an invitation from kuroda scott king to edit martin luther king papers. it was not like i was looking for work. i realized it would take decades , and a has taken decades to edit and publish his papers. he talked about his idea

i had people -- virginia was the first state to have a legislative holiday for martin luther king. it took me eight years to get it. i would get it passed in the senate, the house would kill it. i would get it passed in the senate and house, the governor would veto it. i get it passed in the house and senate, and that process went on. when you're changing the constitution, you have to wait until a brand new election of the forebody comes in. that's why it took eight years. many of the people who voted against the measure ultimately ended up being patrons of the bill and helped me to get it passed. that single experience showed me that as hard as it is to understand virginia, of all places, being the first state to have a legislative holiday for martin luther king, if that could happen, other things could, too. >> can we talk about when chuck dod had come to you to try and rally the -- >> chuck robb. >> sorry, robb. the minority vote, what was your reaction when he first came to you asking this? >> well, i helped him to get to be elected lieutenant-governor, and that was done relati

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monday,r: this coming professor clayborne carson teaches a class on martin luther king's early years. here is a preview. >> let's look at these documents. -- let's look at these documents. how was he born? one of the things the birth certificate indicates was there was a mental life --midwife and a doctor. the doctor lived on auburn avenue. this neighborhood was diverse. thistor could live in neighborhood but there were working-class people in this neighborhood. and there was a midwife. asis indicates this family w somewhat privileged. there was a doctor also attending. we can see that martin luther was a marly of bringing for midf the striving dle class status and the people predominate in this neighborhood. working-class families. we can see from this document that his father is a preacher. right here. we can see there is another person in this household and that is both his grandparents are still alive. his grandfather is the minister of ebenezer church. findre are things we can looking at the autobiography of religious development. you can see these were the forces that shaped him

one of the first things we looked for was martin luther king. >> low-hanging fruit. we know we shot him. let's go see what else. it happened i started with the most popular photo i knew of him, the times ran hundreds of times. i went in to reedit that family expecting to see a port trat series when, in fact, that wasn't the case. it turned out he was at a round table event. he was speaking. he left the event, and he was attacked. he was egged. the next day there was a page 1 story in the paper, right at the top of the page about the attack. happened in brooklyn. and there was no photograph. well, the photograph that was shot that day was a portrait of him. it didn't make sense for the story. when i opened up the pictures. it wasn't a series of portraits. it was distance shots of thoo round table event. at the end of the event, they walked out the door and they went home. they weren't there. they had gone home already. oh, i got my shot. i'm leaving. i'm out of here. and that, to me, sort of epitomizes what happens sometimes when the press isn't there. >> i was just g

and started with martin luther king and rosa parks and the familiar names you would expect us to start with. what happened was the discovery beyond that, the accidental finds and names we never in a million year expected, the ordinary people. that's really what drew us in. and eventually, the book started to take shape because we want to include those unknown people. >> so how long did this process take? how many photographs are we talking about here? >> the times archive, they know they have 10 million print photographs in the archives. 10 million. of that 10 million, about a third of them are from "new york times" staff photographers, one third from the wire press and another third were handout, from theaters or corporations -- >> like publicity. >> right. in addition to that, if you have 3.5 million staff photographs, they had the negatives stored from those events. so if one print got made, there's potentially 36 frames, 35 frames left over or more in some cases and we'll show you some examples in the book. some of the photographers went out and shot hundreds of rolls of film. >> w

luther king and others were putting forth, who tried to continue the poor people's campaign. you really had this ideological split that ultimately became, flowered into what became known as the black power movement. there was a year the civil rights movement ended, it was probably 1968. >> you don't have to travel far from where we're at to still see some of the devastation caused and theiots demonstrations. dr. king talked about nonviolence yet his , assassination led to violence in detroit, washington, d.c., chicago, your home city of new york, and elsewhere around the country. why? >> it was actually the fourth straight year, really fifth straight year of urban , rebellions that were happening all over the country, in which people were upset. people were angry. people were angry at the violence in their neighborhood. they were angry at what they considered to be exploitive businesses in their community. they were angry that they felt their government, their local and federal governments were not speaking to their concerns. they were angry, of course, about police brutality

martin luther king, rosa parks, all the familiar names you would expect us to start with. but what happened was the discovery beyond that, the accidental finds, the names we never in a million years would have expected, the ordinary people. thin.s what drew a eventually, the book started to take shape because -- drew us in. tontually, the book started take shape because we wanted to include those people. >> how many photographs are we talking about? >> 10 million. the 10 million in the archives, one third are from staff photographers, one third agencies likei eddie images, and another third are handouts, public images. so if you have three and a half million staff photographs, they fromhe negatives stored those photographs, so if one print got made, there are potentially 35 frames left over. some photographers shot hundreds of rolls of film for one or two images. >> and we are talking early 20th century through present? >> i think we hired the first in --photographer >> i believe it was the 1920's. the negative collection is pretty well from the late 1940's on. there was a

we started with martin luther king and rosa parks and all the expected names. what happened was the discovery beyond that, the accidental finds, the ordinary people, that was what drew us in. eventually, the book started to take shape because we wanted to include those unknown people. how long did this process take? how many photographs are we talking about? archive, they know they have 10 million print photographs in the archives. of that, about a third of them are from staff photographers, about one third are from wire agencies, and another third are handouts from theaters or corporations. >> publicity type images. >> in addition to that, they have negatives from those events. made, there got are potentially 36 frames left over or more in some cases. wentof the photographers out and shot hundreds of rolls of film. >> we are talking early 20th century through present? >> i think we hired the first staff photographers in the 1920's. >> i believe it was the 1920's. , thereatives collection was a period of culling in the early years. >> with this call to do somet

and so if i a hhad a chance to tweet him, i would say what i said at the martin luther king luncheon, mr. president, either you honor all people who want to live in the nation, native or foreign or you need to leave the white house. >> we want to thank the pammists, michael, javier, michelle, mitch and marc, thank you so much. >> all right. thank you. >> before you leave, we have one more speaker e before you go. and you are going to want to hear him, because last but not least, mayor emanuel who is leading one of the great cities of america is here with us. in the two terms he has implemented growth and jobs to the neighborhoods of chicago. like all of us he wants more opportunities and a passionate advocate for children and he wants to address us on the issue of oquality schools, not only as an education issue, but economic issue as well. he is leading us, and will will continue to do so. please, help me welcome the great rahm emanuel from the sciy of chicago. >> i am going to be quick, because i know that it has been a great panel and other people have calls and all of us. and look

the martin luther king fbi files. the files on justice marshall. susan b anthony. and now, the first photo of harriet tubman that was ever taken, that shows are not as the older woman we all think about with the shawl, but harriet tubman as she led the underground railroad. to coordinate with the african-american museum to purchase that photo and make sure it was there. but to also have those pinch me moments, i call them, and to share these treasures. everything, these are collections that you go through and you see in the stack areas, 830 six miles of shelving. they reach from here to davenport, iowa. 30 million items to be catalogued and made available. the papers of 33 presidents from george washington to calvin coolidge. you walk down the aisles, as i did recently. because i have had the experience in baltimore, in maryland, and really, connected with frederick douglas's quote, once you learn to read, you will be forever free. i am going through the aisles in the stacks underneath the building, and i am passing by thurgood marshall, oliver wendell holmes, ralp

martin luther king jr. was a sophomore at morehouse when robinson signed that contract. president truman would not integrate the military until a year after jackie. so for all intents and purposes, this is what started the ball of social progress rolling in our country. well, the integration of our sport is bittersweet. it is bitter because i'm not sure the african american community was aware of what it was losing when we lost the negro leagues. the negro leagues had been so greatly impactful in spawning black businesses and helping create the dynamics of a thriving black culture. when we lost the negro leagues, we lost a lot of that. yeah. segregation mandated ownership. and so with integration we did lose that. and so the degree of ownership that was so prevalent during that era of segregation in the african american community, i don't know if we will see that level of ownership again. i certainly hope that we will. but we lost a lot. yeah, and so it was good for the soul of our country, integration was. and ultimately the integration of our sport which triggered inte

here we are on martin luther king weekend. one year ago many of us came together determined to protect the affordable care act. we launched our campaign working with indivisible and many of the groups to protect the affordable care act quoting dr. king of all forms of injustice, the inequality of health care is the most inhuman because people can die, he said, using him as an inspiration, we protected the affordable care act, they've damaged it but we have saved it and we will continue to improve it. so i thank you for all you did which means our maneuvering was important. the outside was essential and made the difference. here we are one year later, seems like yesterday but also seems like a very long time. [ laughter ] one year later again inspired by dr. king and his remarks about equality and justice and economic justice. and really saying that he didn't think that it was intended to have a society, a country where people lived in excessive, excessive wealth while others were living in abject poverty. that's what he said.

the martin luther king fbi files. the brotherhood of sleeping -- susan b. anthony and now the first photo of harriet tubman that was ever taken that shows her not as the older woman that we all think about with the shawl, but harriet tubman as she thaty left that -- l ed underground railroad. and to be able to correlate with the new african-american museum to purchase that photo in to make sure it is there. but to also have those pinch me moments, i call them. and to share these treasures. in baltimore with the rosa parks papers. just recently, the papers of frederick douglass. now, i have to tell you, when you are at the world's largest library with collections that date back to -- i don't know the and everything, these are collections you go through and we see in the stack areas. 836 miles of shelving and reach from here to davenport, iowa. and 30 million, her eyes are open like this, yes. bemillion items ready to catalogued and made available. the papers of 23 presidents from george washington to calvin coolidge. you walk down the aisles as i did recentl

luther king gave the speech, he was addressing the plague of racism across the country. he was a campaigner for acceptance in a world where there was none. well, i too, have a dream, i have a dream that one day lgbt plus youth will no longer live in fear, that one day they will truly be a time of acceptance among people of all orientations and identities. that cannot be obtained without the support today. i believe it won't be realized today, or tomorrow, but to set that dream in motion to begin to right the injustices felt by lgbt plus constituents, that's what we can accomplish today. as according to the qualities act of 2010, sexual orientations and gender identities are protected characteristics, but this legislation does not always translate into the real world. as is often made apparent, discrimination is not an intrinsic feature to the human condition, it is a learned behavior, which begs two questions. where is it -- this hateful attitude so harshly felt originate from and what can we do to combat them. ignorance breeds contempt and education is the key. accordin

luther king, rosa parks, familiar names you'd expect us to. what happened is the discovery beyond that, accidental finds, names we never in a millionilli years expected. the ordinary people, that's really what drew us in many. and eventually the book started to take shape because we wanted to include those unknown people. >> so how long did this process take? i mean, how many photographs are we talking about? >> the "times'" archive, they know they have 10 million print photographs in the archives. 10 million. of that 10 million, about a third of them are from "new york times" staff photographers, about one-third are from the wire agencies like associated press, getty images and so on. another third for handout photos meaning photos from theaters or corporations. >> like publicity. >> publicity-type images. so nin addition to that. i figure if you have 3.5 million staff photographs, they had the negatives stored from the events. if one print got made, there's potentially 36 frames, 35 frames left over or more. we'll show you some examples in t

as martin luther king junior said, tomorrow is today. when we invest in education today, we make our kids more competitive tomorrow. when we modernize our infrastructure, we lay the ground work for the jobs of the future. when we stand up for common sense approaches to health care and get more people covered, we lower costs and save lives for years to come. these core priorities aren't always glamorous. they don't always get big headlines. but that's part of the colorado way. this is the colorado that has lured generations from across the country and around the world. it's why we swell with pride whenever we tell outsiders where we're from. and it's why they smile in response. it's what walter cheeseman and claude becher and bruce randolph all worked toward, and what emily griffith invested her life in. there's no other place like it. david mason said it best. some come out west to beat the odds and find out the sky's the limit. some simply stare, no end to it. the way you can love a land and quite a few of the people in it give me the s

nd i think it's also true that many times the economic '60s is erasedthe from martin luther king jr.'s and we forget all these moment, ese important you know. or on the other side, things economic attack by the white citizens councils across the south. but, part of what is of interest the ways in which these locations people acquire a voice. particularly people who aren't supposed to have a voice. orkers aren't supposed to say things. they're not supposed to express things. they're not supposed to have apart from tivity official union location and so forth. nd so part of moving to politics and the ability to peak in the '60s in some ways s an assertion of the ways in which one political subjectivity emands more than the little boxes they're in at the same time without forgetting what that is. if i can have the very last word. don't think it's particularly ew to say that '68 represent a moment of pride in class. in that -- that quite the contrary. but that class becomes more and part of what bill was saying in my own studies., you look at china world classes name of peaks in the the wo

martin luther king jr.'s early years this coming monday at 8 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. up next on the presidency, columbia law professors sit down at the new york historical society to talk about presidential war powers and how they have evolved over time. this is one hour. >> if you are not a lawyer, which most of us are not, reading the columbia law review is unlikely to get you very excited, with all due respects the two great lawyers here. matthew waxman, the chair of the cyber security center and the cochair of the program on national security and law road -- wrote an article that is truly intriguing and you will all agree. it is worthy of serious discussion. it is called "the power to wage war successfully." it touched on many things that we at the society are interested in. first and foremost, it centered on a truly historic figure that sadly, few of us know much about anymore and has basically been lost to time. i don't like that phrase but it has been lost to time. it is the extraordinary charles evans hughs. mr. hughes had

nd i think it's also true that many times the economic '60s is erasedthe from martin luther king jr.'s and we forget all these moment, ese important you know. or on the other side, things economic attack by the white citizens councils across the south. but, part of what is of interest the ways in which these locations people acquire a voice. particularly people who aren't supposed to have a voice. orkers aren't supposed to say things. they're not supposed to express things. they're not supposed to have apart from tivity official union location and so forth. nd so part of moving to politics and the ability to peak in the '60s in some ways s an assertion of the ways in which one political subjectivity emands more than the little boxes they're in at the same time without forgetting what that is. if i can have the very last word. don't think it's particularly ew to say that '68 represent a moment of pride in class. in that -- that quite the contrary. but that class becomes more and part of what bill was saying in my own studies., you look at china world classes name of peaks in the the wo

martin luther king jr.'s early years this coming monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, here on american history tv. x up next, on the presidency, host three group authors who discussed various aspects of abraham lincoln's life and career. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> welcome to the december meeting of the lincoln group of the district of columbia. the lincoln group was formed in the 1930's to honor the memories, the legacy, the principles of abraham lincoln for over 80 years we've had programs like this with outside speakers and our own members. and today, we are very pleased to have three of the members of the lincoln group of d.c. who have authored books related to the life and times of abraham lincoln. each of our speakers will talk for about 15 minutes, and then the three will gather here and have an opportunity to take your questions. so keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. i will introduce them briefly. all three of them. and then have an opportunity to say a few more words about eac

martin luther king jr., that reverberated over to vietnam. what was the effect of that killing in your unit? >> first of all, there was a certain amount of segregation in the army then, even though it was apparently against the law. it was more of self-segregation. i know in your unit we never had any problems. we had people from every ethnic group serving together, everybody got along, and part of it is because of the nature of the unit, you had to rely on each other. so there's no place for prejudice, racism and that. but after the news came that dr. king was killed, there was a separate, almost automatic, immediate separation of races into different sides -- literally different sides of the camp. there was a lot of tension and a lot of anger floating around. of course, what that does to a unit, you don't know if you can trust the same buddy you had before. we were lucky enough to have an officer, an african-american officer who addressed it. do you want to talk about that? >> tom framed it exactly right. the racial tension was palpable. an

martin luther king retreated there. blacks and whites could meet there. it was a very important place. the board loves penn center. june, down with them in just six months or seven months before final action was taken by january 2017. june 2016, and we are at the site, and we in the federal government said, you know we can only do , that if the objects of historic interest are on lands owned by the federal government. and we had no authority to buy your land. it is not within the boundaries of our current national -- we do not have any authority under our legislation, to buy your land. there is a party under the antiquities act to accept donations of land. and the meeting just stopped. and one of the board members said passionately you are asking , us to give up some land? do you know how important that is to us? as dr. foner said, this was a place where ownership of land, one of the places this was worked out for reconstruction own that land to was important. that is why the construction of this national monument with the donations and the understandings

reverend martin luther king, senator and presidential candidate bobby kennedy were assassinated. civil rights act of 1968 was passed, hoping the promise of fair housing. tet offensive was launched by the north vietnamese, resulting in the bloodiest year of the war and the bloodiest battle. the most significant battle was the battle of hue. john, "stars & stripes" photographer was operating with u.s. marines when they were attacked and chronicled the event. he still chronicles it today. we're here to help tell that story, as our mission always has been. his photos were published by "stars & stripes" and published by other organizations at the time, including "life" magazine. john's mosque, iconic photos resulted in john being honored with the award as the best photographic reporting from abroad, requiring exceptional courage and enterprise. as you go through this, you'll hear that john was there in the thick of the battle. that took a lot of courage to take the photos, chronicle the event, tell it and not lose his cool. the partnership between the newseum, john ol sochlt. n, "star

martin luther king, jr.'s early years this coming monday at 8:00 eastern here on american history tv. >> on november 8, 1942, british and american forces launched operation torch, the invasion of byth africa then occupied nazi germany and vichy france. she tells about her book, ."estination casablanca both co-hosted this 90-minute event. it is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce our speaker, meredith hindley, who is the author of the new book, "destination casablanca," recently published by public affairs. she is a historian and a senior writer for the magazine, "humanities," which is the quarterly review of the national endowment for the humanities and among her scholarly credits are articles in holocaust and genocide studies and intelligent -- intelligence and national security. she has also written for the new york times, salon, long reads and other periodicals. she received her phd from american university and today, she will be speaking on the new a book, "destination casablanca." meredith hindley. >