MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show September 24, 2016
Build a building that would be a memorial and a tribute, quote, to the negros contributions to the achieve ams of america. 1929. Calvin coolidge signed that law, and that law authorized the creation of this National Memorial and tribute. It also provided exactly zero dollars to do that with. And so the idea of a National Memorial, a national tribute, a physical commemoration in washington, d. C. , of the contribution of africanamericans to the achievements of the United States of america, that idea, although law, that idea, although officially something we are working on, it just sort of held ...