also tonight, donald trump is wasting his time in the bronx, following a head spinning week as a criminal defendant. purveyor of nazi rhetoric, and bald faced liar that he was a target for assassination. plus, how ron desantis fresh from his humiliating presidential campaign, is co-opting the civil rights era term freedom summer, to push his hateful agenda. we begin tonight with a very stark reality in america. elections have consequences. and because this country elected donald trump in 2016, we have the most extremist supreme court in modern history. yesterday, the niemsz reported that justice samuel alito didn t just fly an upside down flag outside his virginia home, he also proudly displayed a flag that has become a symbol of christian nationalism outside his new jersey summer home. the flag seen here is called the appeal to heaven flag, which like the inverted u.s.flag was carried by the rioting insurrectionists at the capitol on january 6th. now, some will claim it
tv star turned president of the united states of america. i, donald john trump do solemnly swear. the oath of office administered in one part of the city as peaceful protestors and volatile rioters hit the streets in another. tonight, the protests continue. rights, they can have their signs, talk about any message, they can talk to each other, but stop destroying the city. law enforcement working through the night and into the morning when tens of thousands are expected to show up tofor t women s march on washington. announcer: you re watching coverage of the presidential inauguration on news 4 at 11:00. our nation s dark divide unfull display in washington today. amid violence and tensions here in the district and across the country, donald j. trump became america s 45th president. good evening, everyone. i m jim the day marked with roars of support and eruptions of chaos winding down now on k street. a calmer scene than we saw this afternoon. just a coup
us on facebook at the spent history c-span history. history tv is joining our cable partners to showcase the history of grand rapids, michigan. to learn more about the cities on the tour, visit c-span.org/cities to work. we continue to look at the history of grand rapids. we are at the gerald r ford residential museum in grand rapids, michigan. he is beginning his professional career. it is not clear even to him, because at the same time that he is establishing hislop rectus he is applying to become a field agent for the f ei. he wants to be a gman. he is writing letters and toward the end of 1941, trying to figure out what the status of his application is. himself, along with america, caught up with world affairs, when the japanese bond pearl harbor. there after he shifts his attention to the navy. he wants to become a naval officer area he sends in his application to be commissioned as an officer in the navy but april 1942 and he joins the navy. annapolis down to cap wher
the museum s storage facility near washington, d.c. he showed us several artifacts from the museum s collection. right now, we are in the history ofts of the african-american history and culture. this is the heart of the museum in essence because what is behind me and what we will see today are many of the objects that are going to be the sole soul of the museum. this will be an opportunity to part to preview some of the things people will see when the doors open. things that is crucially important as you will see is that so much of the museums time and resources are theiron caring for collections. we have amazing experts who know how to preserve and make sure this material will be with us for generations. we have opened this storage unit and coming to this wonderful piece of headgear. this is a boxing headgear that was worn by mohamed ali. as we know, in many ways, he started his career as a boxer but he then transformed himself death aulture of cultural and political
there are 200 cash prizes for students and teachers totaling $100,000. for a list of rules, go to studentcam.org. next on american history tv, maria varela, a former member of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, shares her experiences from the civil rights movement of the 1960 s. this was the keynote address hosted by the american folklife center at the library of congress. it is about an hour. i want to express our collective gratitude to the men and women who engaged in the struggle as members of sncc or naacp half a century ago and continue to keep the fires burning in the present day. we had the privilege of interviewing several of those remarkable individuals who joined the initiative known as the civil rights history project. we are indebted to them in ways that have not been fully acknowledged or articulated. i know some panelists are here. we have one or two other members also part of the freedom struggle. joan mulholland. the recordings are now availab