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Ifill good evening. Im gwen ifill. Woodruff and im judy woodruff. Tonight, gwen leads an extended roundtable discussion on the Civil Rights Act how far the country has come, and how far it has to go. Its really hard to talk to that today to young people because they cant imagine places in atlanta you couldnt go, or shop or try on clothes. Many children in our country still grow up today and maybe college or their first job is the first time that interact with people of another race. Ifill also ahead this thursday, two takes on education. Hari sreenivasan profiles one new York City High School ...

Be compelled to resign and should he now be included . Bloodthere is some bad between congressman issa of california and congressman cummings. That is unfortunate. I view it as an unfortunate sideshow. I dont want to get into whether congressman cummings committed ethical issues. If facts come out that warned that he is somehow engaged in improper conduct, i will change my mind at that point. But for now, the committee continue its investigations, try to get the truth, and the issue whether or not ms. Lerner should be prosecutors and should be settled in a court of law. Caller three trick thin...

City. There were soldiers in the hospital of temporary hospitals set up all over town. Those people started dying. They had to be buried. Earlier in the war and National Cemeteries or established at alexandria virginia and at the old soldiers home in northwest washington. They were planned to accommodate all of those who died in the Washington Area hospitals. What happened was the war went on much longer and was much bloodier than anybody expect it. Up thetty soon filled National Cemetery in alexandria. It needed new burial space. Look to cross the river and found this place, arlington and tho...

How the world works. Ton they return, they return the brand new mansion so once roosevelt left this site in 1872, at the age of 14, as far as we know, he never returned to the house again. The original house unfortunately went through some changes over the years. Im going to show you some historical photos to help you picture some of those changes. The first photograph dates back to around 1890s. And you can see there was a store front facade and a set of bay windows added to the building. But its still the original home, and the property nextdoor where you see the cafe would actually be uncle...

Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope ...