This is gold! And now it will live on forever because of you 🙏🏾 your amazing for doing what your doing. Putting all of these historical stories together and putting them in one place is a blessing. Stay blessed, keep doing what your doing. It really means a lot!

These old docs should replace history books. Thank you for keeping every frame alive ❤

Woooowwww.....This is my hometown. I was born in 1982....Greenville is a unique place I must say. I left in 2005. I just sent this to all my brothers and sisters because they were teenagers in 1983 so I know they will enjoy this....

I'm from @NewOrleans and I have Family that lives in @Greensville @Mississippi and things still haven't changed much for our Ppl✊🏽❤️🇺🇲🌎💯

I’m reading these comments and I’m literally shaking my head! We HAD our own businesses and “they” burned it down to the ground! Integrating our dollars has been the GREATEST setback that MLK JR could’ve done and ofc he regretted it. He def led us into a “burning” house. We’re more divided than ever now so having a convo about pulling our resources together will fall on def ears. And let’s say that we do pull our resources together, our efforts will be sabotaged due to sellouts and the powers that be. History repeats itself 🤷🏽‍♀️

I moved here (Greenville) in 2003 when the population was around 60k or so…now it’s hovering around 25k…most of those factories have picked up and gone since I’ve been here…I temporarily worked security at Uncle Ben’s…awesome video and thanks for sharing…

Jerry and James from the Uncle Ben's rice plant seemed really nice. I wonder if they are still alive and how they did over the years.

This go out to that person who accused Mr.Hezakya his channel for race-baiting now Mr.Hezakya done turn up the notch teaching black people a lesson of how black people had to deal with in the past

This video is proof-positive why Blacks should start our own businesses !!!

I hate seeing black women financially exploited and having to help others with the little scraps they get back! That young girl deserves to relax and have things for herself! AMEN!

Despite of the hardship we were more happier then! The food was alot better and we had more respect twords one another. Crack, Entertainment and Rap music ruined us. I was 12yro in 1983; we had fun being outside!!

Goodness! This is my hometown. Warner is my classmate! I didn't expect to recognize anyone. This is bananas!

I really miss the 80’s

This is GOLD footage. I'm currently about roughly 20 minutes away from Greenville Ms right now.

30 years later and nothing has changed 😢 There’s a heavy feeling when in the state of Mississippi you can literally feel the poverty and hopelessness.

I truly love your channel. Thank you so much for bringing these phenomenal films to us. Many of them are heartbreaking. I’m 71 and grew up in Pennsylvania during the Civil Rights revolution. We had about 4 black kids in our high school. It was fake reality.

My Granny was from Greenville, Mississippi she left in the 1940's and moved to South Louisiana. She has told me many stories about her hometown, this was very interesting to watch!

The into music 🎶 🎵 👌🏿 I believe music has helped our people get through the hardest times. 🙏🏾

I wonder about that black girl who was looking for jobs I wonder how old she is now +57 I hope she’s okay and well

I like the music!

This is why we need to practice powernomics

It's from 1983 but the footage looks like its from the late 60's

I was seven years old and nothing ever changed😢

From issaquena county right outside Greenville the Delta is the poorest because of the Cotton industry. The Delta never wanted to become innovation and Industrial just farming.

The interviewer is asking her how’s it going getting a job? But he has a job, a good paying one.. this world is f up

Black maid/servant working in a plantation house in 1983? Jesus some things will never change.

Groovy music!

Mrs. Hamilton was my teacher ❤

This is a really sad documentary. Didn't know that some of our Black Americans people were still picking cotton in the deep south in the early 1980's that's very shocking!!! to me. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ!!!! that I was born in the 20 century, and I didn't have to pick cotton like the black Americans people had to in this documentary. This is really sad to me.

I'm from Greenville, Ms❤

This was my experience applying for jobs in San Diego, we were competing with adults and many of the workers hired their family, Mexican and Filipino in the community I lived in. The only guaranteed youth jobs were Sea World or the Zoo.I finally opened my candy business after not being able to get a fastfood or retail job at the malls or in my community.

Restaurants are still here and they still don’t hire

The white man living in a trailer park and the black man living in a nice brick home - this is why I still believe in what my grandparents taught me - (if you work hard, you can have anything that you want) - Work Hard and Stay Out Of Trouble - I am fortunate enough to be living in the house that grandparents built in the early 70s - they worked their butts off to pay for this house - people need to stop complaining so much and get up and work nowadays - I understand some people are born into bad situations, but you still can work your way out of that situation

This was so good to see. Thank you.

👩‍💻💭...How in the hell do we continue to sabotage each other... WE NEED EACH OTHER🙏❤

I ❤ this channel

Im alabama and the deep south is still the same TODAY! salaam my brotha

close to tunica ms…. Something about the delta🏆

Well hello you all, I'm from Clarksdale Mississippi, born in Isola Miss raised in Bobo Mississippi, my daddy was a combine man my best memories was eating fried rabbit and homemade biscuits before the bus came, when to school in Tallahatchie county later on,lived in Webb Mississippi,poor as a damn snake and watched all the other children with nice stuff and nice clothes,but to me I was happier than all them so called rich folks.. Love Love Love to everyone and yes I'm white and besides rabbit my favorite was and still is chitterlings...❤❤❤

First of all not much has changed for blacks in Amerikkka as a whole, the Civil Rights Movement just allowed you to get jobs and eat at their restaurants, we're still not treated like human beings, close to 53% of Mississippians that look like me own their homes, in Atlanta and other so-called black meccas, of which there is no such thing on the face of this Earth its 35% and dropping rapidly because of gentrification

Region makes a difference. I was 5 in 83. My parents worked full time and went to school..we stayed in school because there was like jr programs for the kids..and parents were 26 and 28 yrs old. Free resources are essential

What happened to the whole video? Unfortunately, some of it was cut out….

what is the song playin round 4:14

Damn shame. Welcome to the south.

My auntie Barbara Galbert original home town is Greenville Mississippi she moved to Chicago then to Texarkana Texas Texarkana Arkansas her family name in Greenville Mississippi is nelson

Thank you to my grandparents for leaving Mississippi & Louisiana so that my parents and myself NEVER had to live down there. What a shithole.

If anyone knows the girl in video can you tell us how she's doing.

THAT WAS DEPRESSING. GOD IS STILL GOOD IN JESUS NAME. YOU GOT TO ABIDE IN JESUS TO KEEP FROM GETTING CAUGHT UP IN THIS SINFUL DEPRESSED WORLD.

My father in law did that same picking job in Ga and they pick 100 lbs if cotton, pay them as if they picked 50 lbs, and you would get beaten up if you questioned it. One reason why we remain a permanent underclass 🤔

Hazakya.. 👍 Asante Sana.. Has A Son of Africa - Sure Glad We Came to UK Not USA.. Now in my 50's.. In USA, Honestly think I Would be Dead or Doing Hard Time..

the music is drunk

It was hard then and it’s hard now unfortunately rather you gotta record or not 😢 , Just wish it wasn’t so difficult for this employment and justice system

Im salty at Wendy's, they should have hired that girl. Wendys was my spot too, I thought they were better than that. Like damn come on Wendy's. PS that chopped and screw son😮g in the beginning was dope af.

I want yt people to go to them trailer parks and interview their OWN people.

I miss alots of things in the 80

I worked for Uncle Ben's 25 years ago

Anybody check out that McDonald's menu? $1.29 for a quarter pounder w cheese, $1.25 for a big mac, 95 cent for fillet o fish.

My pop's was born in 1983

Hezakya archives are unreal..Should be in our schools.

It was this way in Alabama in the 1980s and 1990s when I was growing up. A relative told me that they were told that the Chinese owned those cotton fields at their old home now.

They meant no good with these series. Notice how he doesn’t say slave owners…

If your last name is Johnson, and you're in Greenville Mississippi, hmu.!

I heard about Charles Bannerman through a guy I knew who worked for Labor Unions....I wonder if he knew Dr. Amos Wilson who was from the Delta but moved to NYC where Bannerman is originally from...

I never had a problem Getting hired some jobs Hire blacks base on skin Color there look Clothes and hair… That was the reason poor Girl didn’t hired the was Even in the nineties in The south shameful.. yes but it’s not that Much difference even Today blacks are still Not getting hired even If they have qualifications 😢

Watch the movie "Leave the World Behind."

Is cotton still a major industry there? I think digitalization will significantly increase the average level of education for all people which should hopefully benefit the lower socioeconomic class. As far as the race question there… I’m completely unaware however I’m sure there is still old thinking on both sides that hopefully also can be bridged by technology and social media connecting more and more people and allowing people to communicate to one another much more easily. Sure there will be conflict at first but in a generation or two, I think this ability will abolish much of the old race theories. I hope this is the case at least because white, black or green, it is more important that we’re all Americans. The world polarizing against our government has resulted in hostility that no matter what race one is, we’re all Americans and thus we need to remain competitive the developing countries and if not the economic effects will be felt by all here.

U r gorgeous ist sistaluv fwrd we must unite an work together for freedom justice n equality blkluv n blkpwr y'all free the land

Wbo invented uncle bens rice. It's a black man on the box. Was he black.

Why do these 1d10t$ not move if there life sux in the south?

That little chocolate sister had bad energy I hope she was able to get her life on track what I saw I did not like within her

I’m a minute in and she shows me NO reason to employ her as even the worst job you could hire for.

The machine has no prejudice.

The Delta👑