This wasnt a history that you could find. Betty at first was surprised there was such a thing as a black marine. You dont believe it, ask a tuskegee airman. Hell tell you. Victor green was a mailman for 40 years, lived in harlem, lived right across the street from duke ellington. Victor green was a man with a seventh grade education yet he put together a publication that touched all aspects of life. My parents liked to travel. They figured that was helpful for our education. The thing was, finding the black section of town and you used the green book to find places to eat so i always knew that we couldnt stay places. Mr. Green was distinguished and even as a child, a very lovely man, and i would say it was unusual to have a black client working with a white printer. The green book, my dad found what was the first place that he could stay between new orleans and the end of the drive for that first day. And the next day we drove all the way to miami and we stayed at the Lord Calvert Hote
[video clip] where are you from . New york city, manhattan. My parents lived in our home when i was born. Lived in harlem when i was born. I lived and moved in queens. Your parents met here . They met in kansas, where my mother lived, and my mother grew the up. During world war ii, my father was stationed there. That is when they met. Then my father was sent to france, and when the war was over they got married and moved to new york. And that is where i was born. At the Womans Hospital . The Womans Hospital, which is no longer there, near columbia university. And your family would go back south for holidays and summer vacations, weddings and funerals, things like that . You go south to her three times a year. We would go for thanksgiving, holidays mainly. Christmas, and we would visit my mothers family in kansas. This was before interstate highways as well. To lane, blacktop highway spread exactly. Mountains of west virginia. What about food . Issue spend a lot of time cooking . Yes, w
Cspans washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Coming up wednesday morning, republican congressman Leonard Lance of new jersey talks about the 21st century cures act and progress being made to get the legislation passed by the senate. He will also discuss Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month which takes place this month and being named congressional champion of Health Innovation by the Health Care Leadership council. Then Democratic Delegate Eleanor Holmes norton of the District Of Columbia on infrastructure and issues voinvolving the d. C. Met. She will also discuss the flint, michigan water crisis and oversight. Watch cspans washington journal beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern wednesday morning. Join the discussion. I am a history buff. I do enjoy seeing the fabric of our country and how things, just how they work and how theyre made. I love American History tv. The presidency, american artifacts. Fantastic shows. I had no idea they did history. That
Good morning. Welcome back to mornings on 2. It is friday. Im brian flores. Morning. Im pam cook. Thank you for joining us. We do get a little giddy because we are tired and we want to sleep in. Sorry. Everyone who is watching us now, they also get up early. They understand. There are people in the flower industry, bakers. They look forward to a little extra sleep. We do have a lot of cloud cover. Temperatures will stay mainly in the 60s or low 70s. Some rain looks like theres san jose in south looks to have the best opportunity today. Tomorrow it will be more like everybody. The further south, the better chance for rain. For the north, or clouds. I doubt much of this is reaching the ground. Some darker greens around watsonville and a morgan hill or some higher elevations, they may be getting rainfall. Theres not a lot here. We will talk about the south. A lot of this cloud cover is streaming in. To lows. One is opening up giving rain to the Desert Southwest and southern california. Th
All humility, in order to set the stage, a question that i think was raised and discussed by members of the council and is of course broader concern to all of us including to all citizens around the world. How is it possible to achieve peace in the middle east . 20 years ago, at around the time of the first i asked this question to a friend of mine and who later was the chief justice of the israeli supreme court. Its common maybe just for americans to believe that wars have a beginning and end. Although of course the recent American Experience in afghanistan and iraq would be changing. Can i ask my friend, would there be peace between palestine and israel and my friend answered weve been fighting for 2,000 years, why should it end now . Theres probably a deep truth to that point, though it is not an assuring answer, but i would like to put it, danny put this question to with all respect to Prime Minister netanyahu. And danny im sure will have other questions as well. The, this institut