pennsylvanians cares at all, at least in terms of the slave, was defending fugitive slaves and taking no fee. if i m mott mistaken in the 1838 constitutional convention when pennsylvania decided to take the right of voting away from blacks who until then had that right, there was only one member who refused to sign that constitution and that was thaddeus stevens. the father of the public school system of pennsylvania, the great voice for equality and the great commoner. he is a man who deserves great credit and great honor and i don t have to tell you as well that thaddeus stevens when he died in 1868 would tell a reporter the great pity of my life is i have lived long and so uselessly. for he believed then that reconstruction would not be able to survive. the commitment was not there. when this man died we had him buried in the back church yards. he said i reside here in this quiet spot, not from a desire of seclusion, but finding that every other cemetery makes a bar on the
policies that fueled the riot in his city and republicans (202) 748-8001 and democrats call in on (202) on 8002 on [phone rings] let s begin with that piece written by the sheriff of milwaukee david clarke where he writes the failed progressive urban policy causes anger and resentment that simmers below the surface and the officer-involved shooting was simply a catalyst that ignited he already vol tile mixture of inescapable poverty, failing k-12 public schools, dysfunctional host: that is what he wrote in the hill newspaper here in washington. and this is what was put together. they said milwaukee is literally considered the worst place for african-americans to live in america writing clarke may place the blame on black people for the rioting but over the past half century it the milwaukee metro area under clarke s jurisdiction has given black people any other populations. it s the city with the most black students in the state that has the most black-white student achie
and the pork chops in which. justin terms to open that up what is this about? i will tell you where the title comes from. . . right after bush v. gore and in fact he was telling me and i looked in the documents inside there, the transcript where he went by the house and the soul black woman who is probably in 90 now in louisiana and told her that there was vote buying going on and she said be talking about? he said well do you but in she said yeah, this preacher comes by here and he picks us all up in his car and he takes us down to the polls and he gives us a piece of paper and tells us who to vote for. we go in and he tells us to talk to a particular clerk in there and tell them we need some help with voting and we go over and we vote his numbers and we come out and they put us back in the car they drive us over to the daiquiri shop in louisiana. they had daiquiri shops than to buy boos and he comes back with the pork chops and much in the drink and then he drives us home
in places like indianapolis, chicago. they were described in the same derogatory way as poor blacks who were living in the city. that is part of our history that we don t talk about. we don t ruin want to face of to how important class is. tonight at 8:00 on q&a. artifactsek american take you to museum and is stored places to learn what artifacts reveal about american history. next, national park service ranger matthew penrod leads a tour of arlington house, the robert e. lee memorial. today it is the most visited his stork home and the national park service system, which is marking its centennial this year. arlington house will close at the end of 2016 for a year-long restoration made possible by a $12.35 million gift from berlin the best david rubenstein full interest david rubenstein. mr. penrod: i m a park service ranger here it the robert e. lee memorial. i have been here many years. i sometimes joke is more time in this house then robert e. lee did. it was his hom
the end of 2016 for a year-long restoration made possible by a $12.35 million gift from philanthropist david rubenstein. i am a park service ranger here. . ve been here many years i sometimes joked that i have spent more time in this house than robert e lee did. although it was his home for 30 years. arlington house is perhaps the most unique place in the entire national park service. regards to, in historic houses, one of the most in the entire country because, what we have here is a place that truly represents the entire history of this country, from its earliest founding, the original colonists came to virginia and america in the early 1600s through the of theionary kpt american revolution, signers of the declaration of independence that represented here by the family who still own this house. and it was a plantation, a working plantation. ways oneenting in many of the uglier aspects of american history and that is slavery. it played a crucial war in the american civil war