Felicia (1965) A Day in the Life a a Watts Teenager

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4 жыл бұрын

In 2014, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress added to its esteemed list the short documentary film, “Felicia,” about the life of a teenage girl, named Felicia Bragg, growing up in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
Alan Gorg, one of the filmmakers of “Felicia,” later wrote about how the film came to be made, stating:
“My involvement in the civil rights movement began while I was a student at UCLA. Residential areas and employment in California had been largely seg-regated historically and remained so until the 1960s. As a result, schools were mostly segregated, and there were only two African-American students in a student population over 2,000 at Hollywood High School when I attended. My education in the history of racial segregation in America came from black students I met at UCLA. They and the news reports made me conscious of what needed to be done.” - Library of Congress Blog
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SHOWS THE LIFE OF A NEGRO GIRL IN WATTS, Los Angeles, California. PRESENTS HER OBSERVATIONS ABOUT LIFE IN A SEGREGATED COMMUNITY, EXPRESSING SOME OF THE HOPES and FRUSTRATIONS OF THE NEGRO POPULATION AS A WHOLE. Shows the disadvantages, frustrations, and hopes of Negro life in an American ghetto as seen through the eyes of a young Negro girl living in Watts in suburban Los Angeles in the spring of 1965, a few months before rioting broke out.
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@africanamerican1818 4 жыл бұрын

Not much online about her now, but one article states... _...Bragg (Felicia) was among the first students of color from Watts to go to college, studying history at the University of California at Santa Barbara and going on to a long career in politics and activism. Gordon said Bragg worked on political campaigns for Tom Bradley (who was mayor of Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 Rodney King riots) and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. She has also done fundraising for nonprofits..._

@unchainyourbrain3312 4 жыл бұрын

Tfs!🖤

@chozensaga 4 жыл бұрын

I found a few articles on her...a view anniversary articles about her...here's one link from LA Times Magazine... www.lamag.com/culturefiles/50-years-after-the-watts-rebellion-felicia-still-finds-relevance/

@chozensaga 4 жыл бұрын

50 Years After the Watts Rebellion, Felicia Still Finds Relevance www.lamag.com/culturefiles/50-years-after-the-watts-rebellion-felicia-still-finds-relevance/

@oneiceb5974 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@EB-ok3io 4 жыл бұрын

African American I’m amazed at how articulate and self aware she was at her age.

@SuperDave30 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is deep especially being black teenager in the 1960’s!

@chozensaga 4 жыл бұрын

I was so impressed by how eloquently she described her feelings about her life and family. I pray she was able to succeed.

@SuperDave30 4 жыл бұрын

chozensaga same here especially living in LA at that point of time the hardships living in Watts

@roadmasterofisrael.3442 4 жыл бұрын

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@roxxylala26 4 жыл бұрын

Her full name is Felicia Bragg and she did end up going to UC Santa Barbara, one of the first students from Watts to go on to College & had a long career in politics & activism. Working in political campaigns for Tom Bradley & US Rep. Maxine Waters. Also fundraising for non profits.

@CoreyChampagneTV 4 жыл бұрын

Is she still alive?

@roxxylala26 4 жыл бұрын

@@CoreyChampagneTV Yeah.

@spongebob03 4 жыл бұрын

I work at LAX. To see Tom Bradley’s name used in that context had me reading it twice. I’m used to him being referenced as a terminal! It threw me off! 😂

@yellagirl419 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@deljean 4 жыл бұрын

@@roxxylala26 Oh ok because when i read " Her name was" I thought she passed.

@scorpionqueen7620 4 жыл бұрын

I really hope she ended up doing EVERYTHING she wanted to do in life ... God bless her

@michaelwiggan7437 4 жыл бұрын

And Her Little Sister

@lenevee4925 4 жыл бұрын

I wish all of them well. They had good intentions to do better.

@lenevee4925 4 жыл бұрын

@UnBothered Most definitely!

@sandradavenport5028 4 жыл бұрын

Short film... What's the end!!! Needing a lil more info...

@asoncrane 4 жыл бұрын

Sandra Davenport just embrace and absorb it for what It is, you don’t need more. You’re missing the rawness for what it is by wanting more. It’s meant to leave you to ponder.

@LadyDayK87 4 жыл бұрын

A beautiful black girl with a beautiful mind.

@roadmasterofisrael.3442 4 жыл бұрын

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@amycrumedy6586 4 жыл бұрын

An soul.

@sharjjahnaziz4122 4 жыл бұрын

She not fully Black. Look at her mother and her immediate family. She looks mixed to me.

@LadyDayK87 4 жыл бұрын

@@sharjjahnaziz4122 she is a beautiful lightskin young lady who's complexion and hair texture mimics many of my own older relatives. She identifies and is categorizes and treated as an African American. She is most certainly and fully living the Black experience in America in all it's oppressive glory as evident in this video. Not sure what other credentials are needed to make her "fully black" to you. Unfortunately because of the rape and brutality of enslaved women, African Americans are not "fully" Africans and therefore have Caucasian features with various skin tones and hair textures. It's probable that just both of her parents were lightskin.

@sharjjahnaziz4122 4 жыл бұрын

@@LadyDayK87 I understand that. But did you see her mother and her grandmother. They do not look 100 % Black to me nor to others around them at that time. I doubt it if she her skin complexion and and hair texture mimics your families appearance in present day America. But that was a nice try. You have a nice day.

@R-Will 4 жыл бұрын

She should be 70. If she hasn't went to go rest yet then she's been alive for 14 presidents. My oh my what our parents & grandparents have seen.

@honeybeeful1 4 жыл бұрын

Yes.. she is still alive shes 72

@eriktarver2087 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to a follow-up documentary with her.

@FullyAutomaticAddict410 4 жыл бұрын

@@honeybeeful1 Wait, you actually know her???

@honeybeeful1 4 жыл бұрын

@@FullyAutomaticAddict410 yes that's my family her sister Rosie is my Aunt!

@honeybeeful1 4 жыл бұрын

@Beauti Deedee yes she did

@sunrah4469 4 жыл бұрын

As an L.A. native i remember Watts As being a very rural part of the city for a long time...seeing this footage brings back those memories. Its was a place full of southern transplants where some people grew collard greens and cabbages in their front yards and there were multiple peach , plum and apricot trees everywhere. In my moms era (50s) they had a rough gang set from watts called the "Farmers" and they wore starched bib overalls and stacy adams shoes. Compton was another rural city with a high southern transplant population. Compton is still zoned for horses and there were lots of black cowboys in compton up until the late 70s.

@Theoppositesex 4 жыл бұрын

Being serious. You should write a book of these recollections.

@sunrah4469 4 жыл бұрын

@@Theoppositesex Funny you say that. My kids tell me the same thing. This city has changed so much i feel like i was raised in the lost city of atlantis...very few of us left who remember what it was half a century ago...

@AveIvy 4 жыл бұрын

That person is right, you should write a book because all these memories will be lost if you don't. I grew up in the Lynwood, Eastside of Los Angeles (slauson & Hooper) area and when I go back now, nothing looks the same. Maybe you should start doing youtube vidos visiting some of the places and giving everyone a story about what it was once like. I would watch.

@Theoppositesex 4 жыл бұрын

@@sunrah4469 Make it happen! Have a lovely day. :)

@greenbyrd3665 4 жыл бұрын

sun rah 44, are you serious? There really was a gang wearing bib overhauls called the Farmers? That is hilarious!!

@beanasebastiao9400 4 жыл бұрын

Imagine being black and having to say the pledge of allegiance during the 60's.. WHEEEEW CHILE.

@texasgradeandmade5929 4 жыл бұрын

Fr! I was born in 74’ in Texas and Singing Disney’s “Yankee Doodle Dandy” in music class always felt wrong but I didn’t pinpoint why. Now I’m definitely awakened.

@mariajones9102 4 жыл бұрын

We had to say that every day before class. After we were transferred to public schools (1977) , On the first day of class is when I discovered the Pledge of Allegiance was no longer required.

@MyraSponse 4 жыл бұрын

Exactly, and still until this day having to say it is not ok.

@Synthetrix 4 жыл бұрын

I was taught how to say the pledge of allegiance in 1968, by my first grade teacher, a black woman named Miss Pratt.

@texasgradeandmade5929 4 жыл бұрын

Synthetrix And she learned from a white person. That’s how all of us non-whites grew up in this world because the world was not under our control.

@laurenlocd3180 4 жыл бұрын

I notice women back in the day spoke really feminine and elegantly

@tylerjames482 4 жыл бұрын

Life before rap music and feminism.

@wokerthanwokez 4 жыл бұрын

Tyler James nah men

@tylerjames482 4 жыл бұрын

Wokerthanwoke What??? Please explain were you got that idea from. The feminist movement just started in around 1965, men have always encouraged a society for females to be feminine, but females after feminism brainwashed females to believe it was “controlling and abusive”. With all due respect, please do your research before you speak because your “blame men” mindset is the reason why elegance in a woman will never return.

@wokerthanwokez 4 жыл бұрын

Tyler James feminist movement started bc of the biased,over controlling, abusive, sexists males

@casuallym3 4 жыл бұрын

@@wokerthanwokez well now it made women stay away from their femmine side. They often see it as a sign of weakness. Feminism back the was great by nowadays , it does more harm then good.

@carlmcdowell2574 4 жыл бұрын

The filmmakers were flabbergasted that anyone remembered this 12-minute film they’d made as college students,” Gordon said. “So was Felicia. After I tracked down her address, we started a correspondence and eventually met. She’d never actually seen it before we showed it to her at a coffee shop in Echo Park. That was something.” Bragg was among the first students of color from Watts to go to college, studying history at the University of California at Santa Barbara and going on to a long career in politics and activism. Gordon said Bragg worked on political campaigns for Tom Bradley (who was mayor of Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 Rodney King riots) and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. She has also done fundraising for nonprofits.

@JACKIELVSGOD 4 жыл бұрын

Everyone would like to see an update of Felicia. If possible can you help in organizing an updated video of her life? Everyone would appreciate your hard work. Thank you for sharing your experience with Felicia.

@warriorwoman432hz 4 жыл бұрын

And anyone that currently uses the dismissive phrase "Bye Felicia!" should immediately stop doing so.

@warriorwoman432hz 4 жыл бұрын

@Maleek Maleek Even if Ice Cube didn't know about this documentary, he needs to do a documentary about this era.

@Synthetrix 4 жыл бұрын

@@warriorwoman432hz People should stop using anyone's name as a dismissive phrase.

@warriorwoman432hz 4 жыл бұрын

@@Synthetrix Agreed. Becky and Karen are having it rough right about now!

@kistole28 4 жыл бұрын

They talk soo humbly back then, sorta like old folks real sweet, and gentle.

@kayabanton6943 4 жыл бұрын

Technically they are old folks now

@pagethreemodel 4 жыл бұрын

@@kayabanton6943 lol the irony.

@crystalthompson885 4 жыл бұрын

@Louise Gross we were told growing up.... children were seen but Not heard. That's what the elders use to say, I'm 45. 😁

@IsisMami215 4 жыл бұрын

Yassss

@BluesInMySoul 4 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness things have changed.

@vel1hunnid348 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like she was vloggin back then

@nunyabusiness8379 4 жыл бұрын

She was

@Bebedollie 4 жыл бұрын

Yes she was!!! Amazing

@radiantrenee406 4 жыл бұрын

Right. Lol

@Adarah3000 4 жыл бұрын

And she was doing a voiceover

@X.O.143 4 жыл бұрын

I used to tell my grandma I was born in the wrong times ... Seemed like people respected themselves more back then...

@nefariousdisciple301 4 жыл бұрын

Drugs, gangs, and guns hadn't flooded the neighborhood yet so there was still hope for a better future

@AveIvy 4 жыл бұрын

@@nefariousdisciple301 Yes, and it was beautiful. My kids think it's crazy to believe that we actually left our front doors opened in the summer during the 70s, with only a light screen door to keep the flies out. They can't believe it.

@june7gemini 4 жыл бұрын

@@nefariousdisciple301 white people in result of intergration put drugs in our neighborhoods etc🙄🙄🙄🙄....there were gangs even before this ..so shut up.

@torinowens6103 4 жыл бұрын

Wow!!! Someone else who feel like i do. 1love

@therealkenj98 4 жыл бұрын

I get sad when my mom tells us about how growing up they’d leave their doors open, the neighbors watched them while they played, and everyone went to church or had parties together often. People helped you out if they had it. It really was a village for them growing up.

@africanamerican1818 4 жыл бұрын

At such a young age, her mind seems so sharply aware of the social conditions and it's causes. Many youngins were almost oblivious to that when I was coming up. We probably thought that a liquor store was supposed to be on every corner as the natural order of things

@7Miss4Bunny7 4 жыл бұрын

Yes. I thought the exact same thing. And not to take anything away from this young girl or the message... it’s all so beautiful...but it still is just a film. She did a great job

@traceylennon1204 4 жыл бұрын

You're right!!

@dw1970 4 жыл бұрын

Different time same narrative.

@FullyAutomaticAddict410 4 жыл бұрын

Rite! Smh

@oliverv291 4 жыл бұрын

Yup

@OneAndOnly2000 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty much 💯

@anekadrazek2383 4 жыл бұрын

U ain’t never lied

@livinglifetthefullest7722 4 жыл бұрын

Crazy right.

@greenbyrd3665 4 жыл бұрын

So, this young lady would be about 72 years old now! It's great that she and her siblings have this snapshot of their family captured so many years ago. I'm most impressed by how quiet and orderly the classroom was. I work in a high school and I know some teachers who would give anything to have students like these! They are actually attentive. No distractions from cell phones. lol

@ShawnBen 4 жыл бұрын

People weren't diagnosed with all kinds of bs based on emotion made up disorders. Young people behaved like they were supposed to.

@USMCLP 4 жыл бұрын

@Shawn Ben Orrrr maybe because they’re literally being filmed?

@greenbyrd3665 4 жыл бұрын

@@USMCLP Maybe, but believe me;being filmed wouldn't make one bit of difference to so many kids today. In fact they might intentionally act up more, hoping to me the next social media *star".

@greenbyrd3665 4 жыл бұрын

"be"

@ShawnBen 4 жыл бұрын

@@USMCLP Whatever

@pele11201 4 жыл бұрын

The music played at the end of the documentary is the same music Spike Lee used at the end of “He Got Game”. Documentaries like this are a national treasure.

@kennymega61 4 жыл бұрын

Aaron Copland.... mesmerizing piece of music

@chozensaga 4 жыл бұрын

So much so it made it to National Film Registry (Library of Congress)✊🏾

@baybay92h 4 жыл бұрын

The mother reminds me of my grandmother who raised me, life was good back then.

@vel1hunnid348 4 жыл бұрын

You're Beautiful😍

@baybay92h 4 жыл бұрын

Bay Area West Vallejo Thank you ☺️

@WinWithKeshia 4 жыл бұрын

The part where she mentions that her white classmates would not talk to her outside of the classroom reminds me of when I was in middle school and my white classmates will not talk to me outside of the classroom and that was just 21 years Ago 😳 Things have not changed much.

@alisonfields9628 2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Nothing changed at all

@kayess718 4 жыл бұрын

Little sis was vlogging way back then. 😂

@jesuslovesme8477 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂

@goldenbowl1046 4 жыл бұрын

She was waaaay ahead of her time...I wonder if she was the first one

@KirstinAlexis 4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂 she really was tho

@monaleon7184 4 жыл бұрын

Sho was

@kooldesinzblm 4 жыл бұрын

Now the mom washing dishes is so sweet n I think she’s washing Tubberware..us old schoolers know wat that is,and she’s $ewing...love this clip

@AveIvy 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember. All the women in my family would have Tupperware parties and invite other women on our street to visit and they would buy bowls and cake holders. There would be Tupperware and Princess House crystal. Damn, I miss those days.

@anajones6768 4 жыл бұрын

My oldest sister still have her Tupperware.

@todo8328 4 жыл бұрын

Alain Quartermaine what does “t/f” mean?

@ogbarss2230 4 жыл бұрын

@@todo8328 lmfao the fuck

@todo8328 4 жыл бұрын

OG BARSS ouch sorry. I just asked a question. No need to be cruel

@oakhuemo66 4 жыл бұрын

As someone from the Bronx, I feel a connection to this. That piled junkyard scene was emotional

@LiquorMaster Жыл бұрын

Not to mention extremely dangerous. Felica was correct in her observation. Exposing people, especially children, to the noise, air, soil, and water pollution from leaking fluids and other various chemicals is and was tragic.

@geerowr.6666 4 жыл бұрын

OMG‼️ thank you this was so informative. I grew up with older folks who didn’t have the chance to get an education. They all encouraged me to go to college. When I was accepted into college, some of them would pressed 5 or ten dollars into to my hand and tell me to put it on a book. I DID. I graduated college. It does take a village. They were sticklers for cleaning though. Folks couldn’t litter or leave abandoned cars on the street or in yards. They would call them out until it was removed. I hope Felicia got to go to college and had a good life.

@elainesmith7512 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! This brings back memories to me. Felicia and I are the same age because I was a sophomore in high school back in 1965, and I remember looking at the Watts riots on television. Although we were both young, black American girls living at the same time, we lived VERY different lives. I grew up in the racially segregated South, and I NEVER had white principals, teachers nor fellow white students. I lived in a large city in middle Tennessee with both my hardworking parents taking care of eight children. While we weren't poor and had everything we NEEDED, we had few luxuries like kids are used to today. My siblings and I ALWAYS knew that IF we wanted to go college we had our parents' support. We were blessed to have two HBCUs within commuting distance which made getting a college education relatively easy. Most of us took advantage of this opportunity, graduated, and lived (and STILL do) GOOD middle class lives. While my older siblings (I am the youngest.) had to leave my beloved South, I and my younger brother didn't have to leave the South to get good jobs. After living through the turmoil of the waning days of racial segregation, the 1960s/70s, and watching what is currently happening, I realize that race relations can and will be IMPROVED (I and my family are living proof of this.), but the hatred and ugliness in the hearts of MANY will never, ever be ELIMINATED while we are still living on this dark, SINFUL earth. Racism is a heart/spiritual problem that will only be solved by God and His Son, Jesus. Each generation has to deal with this EVIL during their time on this earth. Btw, I wonder what kind of life Felecia and her family managed to live? Also, the time goes by so FAST, so make the BEST of it because we only get one life on this earth. God bless you all.😁😁👍👍🧡🧡

@natashaswain9829 4 жыл бұрын

That was depressing. My mother had a friend who was a teacher in Watts in the late 80s early 90s and she got combat pay along with her salary for teaching. This in Watts only got worse after 1965 when this video was made. I don't know what it is like now. I am from Detroit where things are not all that much better.

@bear1more287 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah it did right after 65 riots in watts everything changed for the worse

4 жыл бұрын

Do you still live in Detroit? I'm from Detroit too, I grew up in the seventies and eighties. I live in the suburbs of Chicago right now

4 жыл бұрын

@princetachalla I JUST moved away from Texas about a month ago. We were living in West Texas, El Paso, in the Desert! The mountains were beautiful, but I DO NOT like the hot desert climate and all of the sand!👎🏽

@TrishDaniell 4 жыл бұрын

I just love this channel. Its treasure chest of awesome black history is second to none 👌🏾👌🏾

@darrylwalker237 4 жыл бұрын

It really is no lie I like it to

@TheSecretDwellingPlace 4 жыл бұрын

Same here! 💙💜

@ezpic2 4 жыл бұрын

She’s be about 71 yrs old today 2020... and as we all know, WATTS is a Mexican neighborhood now. Same depression, different people...

@lauraveney1412 4 жыл бұрын

Bragg was among the first students of color from Watts to go to college, studying history at the University of California at Santa Barbara and going on to a long career in politics and activism. Gordon said Bragg worked on political campaigns for Tom Bradley (who was mayor of Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 Rodney King riots) and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. She has also done fundraising for nonprofits.

@daniesavage 4 жыл бұрын

@@lauraveney1412 God bless her.

@honeybeeful1 4 жыл бұрын

@@lauraveney1412 yes she was very active.. that's my family!

@TheBrysenj 4 жыл бұрын

Watts is mexican?

@thespiritualartofwar 4 жыл бұрын

Watts started out as a Mexican neighborhood. It was known Colonia Watts. There has always been Mexicans there, ask the older residents from Watts. Watts is currently being gentrified as rapidly.

@charyn65 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing. I was born in 1965. My Mother used to sew as well with a Singer sewing machine. Her Mom was washing dishes. That good old Tupperware.

@ItsallaboutBee 4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this channel. It’s better than any history class I’ve attended. I will definitely show these video to my children and so forth. 🙏🏽💜

@JACKIELVSGOD 4 жыл бұрын

I agree with you 💯. I have the same attitude.

@daniesavage 4 жыл бұрын

I'm telling you! My daughter and I just watched this as I combed out her hair. This channel is priceless

@keny9981 4 жыл бұрын

I love it too

@elmahdi5 4 жыл бұрын

Hi. I just wanted to suggest that you consider downloading a video editing software like Adobe Audition and save it there. Then save it to an MP3 file, then save it on a flash drive, dvd, and maybe vcr tape. I plan too. This channel is awesome

@leetate1963 4 жыл бұрын

I was born August 1963 in Los Angeles and I'll be 57 in a couple of months so this kid must be like 70 now....... Crazy In 1969 the house we lived in was on 119th street and San Pedro, Watts area. They were asking us to move back then so they could start building the 105 Freeway which they didn't start building until around 1987

@fonzisalgado512 4 жыл бұрын

What a beautiful human story..where ever she is i pray that she became who is wanted to be a successfull person

@chozensaga 4 жыл бұрын

www.lamag.com/culturefiles/50-years-after-the-watts-rebellion-felicia-still-finds-relevance/

@goodgracious6364 4 жыл бұрын

Kids today need to watch this video and appreciate the opportunities that are afforded them compared to had they grown up just a few decades ago. I hope this bright young girl is now healthy and has lived, or is living, a wonderful transformative adult life!

@jmatthews5685 4 жыл бұрын

Umm there are LOTS of kids in America today who are still going through this and don't have the opportunities. Watching this video for them would be even more depressing

@goodgracious6364 4 жыл бұрын

@@jmatthews5685 -- I do understand that many kids are still struggling with social, economic and racial disparities in this modern day society, but I would hope that this video serves as a tool for hope, change and empowerment for those still living under similar circumstances--rather than a depressive reminder of any dire circumstances. However, more often than before, kids today "commonly" are recipients of many things that would unquestionably be considered pure luxuries to the young girl in this video.

@BigBen1994 4 жыл бұрын

This is the exact same time period when my grandma was a young girl. Crazy to see video of it. Such a shame that our people who literally did nothing get treated with so much disrespect for something nobody can control. Which is the color of one's skin 😔

@blafred 4 жыл бұрын

This was SO GOOD.

@iheartcocodior8877 4 жыл бұрын

Such a well-spoken and insightful young woman during that era.

@cosmicneuromelanatedgoddess 4 жыл бұрын

I'm 32 years old and I can say, that this young lady in that Era was way more advanced before her time. I hope she Made it, because she sure deserve it ❤️

@localgems 4 жыл бұрын

This young intelligent woman is so ahead of her time! She analyzed what was going on in 1965 and predicted what still goes on today. I hope she is doing well in 2020! Great film!

@heguardsmyheartandsoul2953 4 жыл бұрын

I remember when they left the rail cars with guns over weekends along Willowbrook Ave to start the gangs. I remember when they ushered the crack cocaine into the city. Felicia's rationale was way beyond her years. My jaw dropped when she said she thought people should stay to build the city rather than leaving. I love this channel.

@amycrumedy6586 4 жыл бұрын

Wise young lady.

@sarcasticallyrearranged Жыл бұрын

What kind of people would choose to take the guns and commit crimes or do crack cocaine?

@imshaunnurse Жыл бұрын

@@sarcasticallyrearranged when that plant for general motors was shut down it changed everything.

@loudmouthentertainment1277 4 жыл бұрын

I would love an update in this brilliantly smart young woman💜

@Ilyevey 4 жыл бұрын

I love how the little sister came out to give her sister her jacket that was sweet and innocent

@teshubah 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading so much knowledge!! The past is so important!! Keep em coming!! God bless!!

@ebonyfrazier2857 4 жыл бұрын

She's very beautiful, I hope everything turned out well for her and her family. This was a very interesting and raw video to watch

@daughterofzion2146 4 жыл бұрын

I love this type of history 🥰

@fsumpter 3 жыл бұрын

I would've never known about this documentary had I not researched my name. What a wonderful gem to find on Juneteenth.

@dsorrells999 3 жыл бұрын

This is my actual grandma. She went on to do gr8 things in life. I'm her grandson Darius

@africanamerican1818 2 жыл бұрын

It will be nice to see her on a livestream or regular youtube video...to tell her story

@JAMRadio1981 4 жыл бұрын

This young lady tells her story living in Watts in 1965. She gives a view on what life is like. I hope someone will watch this story and hear what she has to say.

@terenarosa4790 4 жыл бұрын

"You see your mother and what she has and you think, 'She doesn't have much, how could I?' and you give up before you even start." Damn, that hit me hard. That's so true for me. I need to change something, but I don't know what and I don't know how.

@honeybeeful1 4 жыл бұрын

That's my family Rosie is my Auntie

@Mjohnson3030 4 жыл бұрын

honeybeeful1 wow. Beautiful family! Is Rosie the mother? What happened to her after this film?

@honeybeeful1 4 жыл бұрын

@@Mjohnson3030 no rosie is felicia little sister in the film. Rosie is my auntie. Shes doing well she had 4 children. Felicia is doing well, her daughter is a professor at a college in texas.

@masaielectro1 4 жыл бұрын

Tell Felicia that she is a beautiful soul ahead of her time,I wish I could see more of this film.My family were civil rights activists and attorneys as well from Georgia.Googke Clennon King and all of his brothers.

@sunshinecreole1319 4 жыл бұрын

Honeybeeful1 I truly enjoyed watching the story about your family. Please inform Felicia that I'm happy to have watched the video and thank you for sharing her story.

@flower5396 4 жыл бұрын

@@honeybeeful1 Beautiful and admirable women.

@candyjamaican 4 жыл бұрын

This could have easily been filmed now. Im sitting here in amazement at how smart Felicia is.

@reneerenee2656 4 жыл бұрын

No nothing is the same this look like a different world it seems as if they could breathe better even In the existing conditions.

@Mini-rt8bm 4 жыл бұрын

It just looks so relaxing to live back then. This was so calming to watch!

@khaiahmann9192 4 жыл бұрын

This was really interesting to watch.

@OnlyLoveCan38 4 жыл бұрын

Nothing has changed. It so precarious living in the ghetto. She said it all "If everyone moves out then only the people who can't help will stay here and that won't be good." I hope she made it.

@Jossette888 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! She's probably nearly 70 now.

@jeremyhodge6216 4 жыл бұрын

It's good she had a optimistic mindset about the future especially for the times during the period. Could you do a now update on her if she's still alive today 🤗

@danak5538 4 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting!

@curtisanderson2901 4 жыл бұрын

So much wisdom in such a young girl. Still going on in 2020

@alenaoblenis4988 4 жыл бұрын

I just found her on Facebook. She looks the same and still beautiful just older now. 😍🙏😇

@JACKIELVSGOD 4 жыл бұрын

Great video. Thank you for uploading. Felicia is my mother's age.

@deedee_southerngirl 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I enjoy all of these old clips. Loved this one, the tenament doc, the neighborhood street doc and the doc about the rural farm family.

@mariekatherine5238 2 жыл бұрын

A lot of the guys didn’t go to college; they went to Vietnam.

@gloriahopkins359 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, absolutely loved this. Such thoughtful insight from such a young lady. Keep finding these gems!

@lastdays3148 4 жыл бұрын

Look how well Dressed they were at their High School. I was Teenager Lady,during the 1980s. I would love to have any updates on her if she is still living. This Channel is a Historically You Tube Channel and I love the Videos on reelblack🙋🏾‍♀️

@pengting9349 4 жыл бұрын

Vlogging in the 60’s sooo authentic!! ❤️❤️❤️

@leetate1963 3 жыл бұрын

I was somewhere in South Central LA at the time of this video, born in August 63 and my brother born January 65. My Mother used to sew as well when we were growing up. We actually did live in Watts during the late 60s right at 119th street and San Pedro

@ladymariej4156 4 жыл бұрын

She was very mature for a girl of her age. Im sure she grew up to be a beautiful woman 💕

@Jin04115 4 жыл бұрын

The year my mom graduated from high school. RIP

@bookshelf829 4 жыл бұрын

I’m really grateful that you’ve posted this to KZfaq. I probably never would have seen it otherwise. Thank you

@peace2256 4 жыл бұрын

Its amazing looking at this film. Its a window to the past. She was definitely a articulate and poised young lady. Thanks for sharing.

@UhOhSheila 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for what you find abd share.

@aeshaalberts7560 4 жыл бұрын

I just saw her Facebook picture, glad to see she is doing well.

@darlenehumes1457 4 жыл бұрын

This Is Such A Powerful!!! Short Film. As Soon As I Pressed Play I Begin To Cry. Being A Native Of Watts/South Central Myself Coming Up In The 70’s/80’s Era. Different Person, Same Narrative. I Loved My People & My City Despite All The Pain I Witness. So “ReelBlack” Thank You So Much For Taking Me Back. I Will Forever Treasure This Short But All So Powerful!!! Film. P.S “Felicia” Reminds Me Of “Angela Davis”. Thanks Again, & “GOD”🙏🏽Bless😊

@Wts105 4 жыл бұрын

I agree. I'm from the 80's & 90's era. Didn't realize until after I left the military that we grew up in a warzone.

@darlenehumes1457 4 жыл бұрын

Bruce L. 😊

@JamesBaldwinLover 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this interesting, educational, and invaluable content.

@jenniejones3812 4 жыл бұрын

Back then teenagers didn't really have to worry about acne and other issues and Felicia wAs simply gorgeous ❤️ a lot of my relatives of my dads side migrated to the west and east coast to escape the south only to find out things weren't that much different

@texasgirl73goodjob46 4 жыл бұрын

BRO I LOVE Y'ALL'S CHANNEL REELBLACK !!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. SHOUT OUT TO DA BLACK BROTHAS I L❤VE Y'ALL DIS COMIN FROM A BLACK GIRL❤❤❤❤❤.

@amycrumedy6586 4 жыл бұрын

Your way of speaking is worse is what is keeping us down clean up the way you speak it is ignorant.

@texasgirl73goodjob46 4 жыл бұрын

Amy Crumedy BRO SHUTUP

@texasgirl73goodjob46 4 жыл бұрын

Amy Crumedy IF U DONT LIKE IT LEAVE STOP BULLYING ME

@retroesso 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for uploading this gem!!!!!!

@shennelcourtney6487 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this!!👍

@TheBiblicalDreamInterpreter 4 жыл бұрын

She has aged beautifully! you can see what she currently looks like on FB!

@Tiberius291 4 жыл бұрын

I was 6 years in 1965, very interesting video, my experience however was in Miami Florida, hope you're still alive and well, bye Felicia.

@sheliabowman2826 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful ......Loved it❣ This interested me because it was filmed the year I was born. I love looking back at how we use to take pride in the little things. I loved how women dressed and behaved like ladies. Thank you for sharing.🤗

@guadalupemiercoles4277 2 жыл бұрын

What a thoughtfully rendered film and beautiful human.

@alexcumby2211 4 жыл бұрын

This hurts me to watch. I hope she was able to accomplish all she wanted.

@MM-ml2rl 4 жыл бұрын

This so cool to watch, wow 1965!

@HauteBellaExperience 4 жыл бұрын

One of the many thinks I liked about the 60s is our people carried themselves in a manner that did not align with what some may deem as a desperate or undesirable situation. The ladies were ALWAYS well put together. I enjoyed this video. It gave me some insight of what a day in the life of my Mother may have been like. Thanks for sharing! 😊

@heathertea2704 4 жыл бұрын

Gem of a short Documentary. Thanks for sharing ReelBlack.😊

@themessengacross1581 4 жыл бұрын

Those house still look the same in 2020...

@lv4739 4 жыл бұрын

REELBLACK is by far the best channel on KZfaq.....Can I get an amen?

@richana5843 4 жыл бұрын

amen

@bridgeto9808 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the constant intriguing content. Much love!

@rosegoldbb 4 жыл бұрын

This video ahead of its time 👏👏👏

@boostedboosted3088 4 жыл бұрын

That’s crazy that racism was at its highest when this was filmed

@Nikki_the_G 4 жыл бұрын

What? Go back 50 years before that and then another 50, you think racism was at it's worst in the 60's? Honey, get an education.

@hassanburton669 4 жыл бұрын

WATTS UP!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿Pretty Good Video. Sad How She Highlights The Junk Yards of Piled up Cars and Families Living Near Them. This Was Right Before The Jump Off With The Riots...

@bribay 4 жыл бұрын

Weird comment for this video..

@DJDLeanHDtv 4 жыл бұрын

Great upload

@GeneralTarik 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting this! This is a cool little piece.

@botezy8787 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Felicia!!

@hereforit2347 4 жыл бұрын

Man. Felicia’s around 69 or 70 now. And Watts was on the brink of becoming a really bad area at that time. I hope everything worked out for her and her family.