Tapestry and put it together. Because its also for me a love story. A love story through the eyes of this man and one of the reasons i said yes to lee after he was relentless in asking know do it is because i wanted the tapestry the depth, the broadness of that communication between a husband and a wife and particularly a middleclass black family to be seenbly the progressive world. Its something we dont see very often. Women have been the backbone regardless of race for a number of reasons and i wanted to show that level of character. Rose lee daniels the butler for the hour. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose eugene allen was born on a virginia plantation in 1919. He worked as a wait in a country club until 1952. He found a new job as a butler in the white house. He spent 34 years there. He served under eight president s from harry truman to ronald reagan. He saw some of the pivotal events in u. S. History. The cu
Tapestry and put it together. Because its also for me a love story. A love story through the eyes of this man and one of the reasons i said yes to lee after he was relentless in asking know do it is because i wanted the tapestry the depth, the broadness of that communication between a husband and a wife and particularly a middleclass black family to be seenbly the progressive world. Its something we dont see very often. Women have been the backbone regardless of race for a number of reasons and i wanted to show that level of character. Rose lee daniels the butler for the hour. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose eugene allen was born on a virginia plantation in 1919. He worked as a wait in a country club until 1952. He found a new job as a butler in the white house. He spent 34 years there. He served under eight president s from harry truman to ronald reagan. He saw some of the pivotal events in u. S. History. The cu
The panel is framed around what kind of pesksa what kind of progress blacks have made since the Civil Rights Movement and the enduring challenges and inequality that face africanamericans in the 21st century. The organizers have formulated two major questions for us to talk about. The first is, what historical and contemporary factors continue to make racial equality a contested and elusive concept in the 21st century and second, what kinds of knowledge can we mobilize to face the specific challenges of racial inequity. We have two or three dynamic speakers today and id like to introduce you to them before opening our conversation. Joining us is sara griffin, the william b at columbia and has also served as the director of the institute for research in africanamerican studies. Her most recent book is forth coming in september, harlem nocturne. Women. Politics during world war ii. Our second panelist is camille joseph, the founding direct oroff the center for race and and the author of
Protest of George Wallaces segregation now, segregation forever a doctoral address. And for the first time they had said its wrong and that was a really notable departure for someone to make a public statement. We listened to that now and it just seems so trivial for somebody to say that but at the time they were really going out on a limb. So when they get this back from king you know they go you are so misunderstood and when i interviewed him in the 80s he was still complaining about how king had made them out to be a bigot. That was what he had taken away from this experience. What the d. Say . I miss some of that. Rabbi was complaining in the 80s when i talk to him that king had made him out to be a bigot and he was really sore about that. If we could collect the written questions now and we will continue but we will go ahead and do that. You may want to research this later. I am Roman Catholic and i would remind you of this. Dr. King when the the United States itself. [inaudible]
Now youre asking far job . I know how to serve. They say this new white boy is smooth. Ill thrilled to be working with all of you. What did your daddy do. Hes a butter whether. The black domestics played an Important Role in our history. Something special is going on in there. Mr. President . I know your son is a freedom rider. I never understood what you all went through. Youve changed my heart. Theres this whole black Power Movement going on. I gave them the green light to gut those sons of bitches. You know what theyre going do to you . Theyre going to kill you you need to go. What . Get the hell out of my house im sorry, mr. Butler. Everything you are and everything you have is because of that butler. Joining me is lee daniels who directed the film, the and two stars, Forest Whitaker who plays the butler and oprah winfrey. Welcome one and all. Im pleased to have you here. You are at your creative best. Congratulations. Thank you. You, magnificent. Thank you, sir. But you, sir, are