r.t. dot com coming up next award winning also calvin ramsey is the guest on sophie and co talking about america s history of racial segregation and joy that. sophie shevardnadze the oscar winning drama green book racism in america back in the spotlight this is a problem with being of the past or is it still an issue of very much alive i ask alexander ramsey an award winning author and playwright who traveled across the united states collecting memories of the jim crow. of a century after the crime is on the. controversial presidency we ll see. blue bloods groups find a way to mount fresh campaigns against racial a twit in america have dropped it in the bell connex is where it s been forgotten and can racism of the truly be rooted out from the united states. calvin alexander ramsey award winning writer and playwright welcome to the show it s really great to have you with us today mr ramsey now you have been digging into the green book for a long time the travel guide for afri
so if you re on that side of the street you look over and say, hey what is that? positioning the sculptures where visibilityws greater . as you enter from the west side you come inrth end, on axis with that brothers in arms sculpture. you can see it all the way down the street. from the elevation perspective having the raised park will allow people, especially in the winter, to see down pennsylvania avenue. they will make that connection with the rest of the street where they can t now. if we can get people into the , they will see it and see out, they will have a greater connection with the urban area. elevated space with greenery. the idea is we are doing figures to create a sense of elevated humanity. going on from that. now we have to get this done. what is coming next is we have to meet with the centennial agencies we need to meet with. address their concerns. so we can create something that answers not only how we would come to the table but also elevates to a higher
drugsment not to tolerate . won t you join us in this great new national crusade? president reagan: god bless you and good night. a 25-year-old architect in training was named a finalist in an international competition to design the world war i memorial in washington. , heully realize his vision invited bedroom he invited veteran classical sculpture to join him. the centennial commission announced in january. they talked with american history tv about the ideas behind the memorial which commemorates the war s centennial and the 5 million americans who served. it will be built entirely with private donations. it is a short walk from the white house. the way it is set up is to relate to the context. on the eastern side having the plaza. on the western side having the sherman memorial. how do you get people from this part into that part? how do they see the park from each of those places? as you walk along the sidewalk from freedom plaza over there, that becomes the line t
[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 woman s hospital? the woman s 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 mother s family in kansas. this was before interstate highways as well. to lane, blacktop highway spread exactly. mountains of west virginia. what about food? issue sp
books in the rack outside the pump. , found crosby s motel in pensacola, florida. my parents owned the first fully accredited african-american owned travel agency in the united states. they were able to convince people over time. it took many groups and eventually thousands of people. between the fighting, the dogs, the people that had died for the right for us to stay anywhere. [applause] is my pleasure to introduce calvin ramsey. an author, photographer, and playwright whose works has been shown around the country, showing the light on missing pages of african-american history. his plays bring the audience closer to truth. ,is first play the green book had its premiere. it then one recognition as a finalist in the last frontier contest in alaska where it was critiqued by playwrights and directors. the success was well above other critically acclaimed work, of theng his exploration career of an african-american actor and civil rights activist. he has been on the collection