millionth visitor through these doors. tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that chronic will the american experience and also telling a shared american story. we ll be live for the next 2.5 hours. in 40 minutes we ll be tabbing your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. we re joined inside with robert wilkins to talk about how this me psi seeium came about. he is the author of the book long road to hard truth . thanks very much for being with us. thank you. it s a pleasure to be here. so talk of this museum began back in 1960 teen. it took a century to be built. walk us through the process. back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the national memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the nation s capital to hont contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought never war from the ref liegs nary war up until that time. within a couple
you are looking at the national museum of african american history and culture on the mall in washington dc. it is the newest smithsonian museum. it welcomed its one millionth visitor this week. we will take you inside the museum gallery for a look at the stories at artifacts that chronicle the african-american experience and tell a shared american story. we will be live for the next 2.5 hours. we will be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts. we are joined with judge robert wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. he is the author of the book long road to hard truth, the 100 year mission to create the national museum of african american history and culture. talk of this museum began back in 1916. it took a century to be built. walk us through the process. judge wilkins: in early 1916, a gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee created a nonprofit called the national memorial association. its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the nation s capital
but tv is also visiting buffalo, new york this weekend to for its literary sites and talk to its local authors. for complete schedule go to booktv.org and you can fall was on social media,@booktv is r. twitter handle, you can call was on facebook as well, facebook.com/booktv. 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend on booktv, television for serious readers. we are kicking off the weekend with author wil haygood, he examines the life and career of thurgood marshall specifically five day senate hearing that resulted in his confirmation as the first african-american to serve on the supreme court. i want to acknowledge and thank c-span for being here tonight. [applause] let me just say one quick thing about thurgood, how important he was to our country, for african-americans, for those who wanted to go to law school, african americans who wanted to go to moscow. i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, who believed in him, who was inspired by him,
thing about thurgood and how important he was to the country for african-americans, for those who wanted to go to law school. i was a part of that generation who looked up to and believed in him and was inspired by him that ii to someday could go to law school and become a lawyer. and there is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of thurgood marshall. so tonight we are here together this evening. i view this as the intersection of history and the future. what do i mean by that? intersection of history and future? well, we are in lincoln theater. in this theater this was the only place where black folks could come and be entertained in a theaterthe theater because they could not go downtown. they come right here. in this theater, it was nearly demolished. we saved it, renovated it, and it is now one of the jewels of the city of columbus. history. [applause] in the intersection of arts and culture the rehab
resolution. tip o neill needs no introduction to this body. those respect and admire tip s record, and his long shadow he cast over the people s house. we all know his best known fame, all politics is local. it s certainly true today as we propose to name a building right here at the foot of capitol hill, a stone s throw from this great dome, in honor the our 55th speaker. this is one of those moments when you wonder how the honoree would feel. especially when it s someone like tip who never quite held back his opinions. perhaps he would have enjoyed seeing leaders from opposite sides of the aisle come together to give him a well deserved hurrah. surely he would have gotten a kick of being flanked by a building named after hubert humphrey and jerry ford, also leaders from opposite ends of the political spectrum. tip actually considered mr. humphrey one of his heroes. and he had one of humphrey s quotes put up on the wall in his office. now, as for jerry ford, they didn t fran