This woman may have never known it, but her words are teaching generations. She had a brilliant mind and a good heart.

It’s quite evident that that sort of pain never goes away.

It really is infuriating to think that someone with such obvious depth and intellect could ever be denied the opportunity to contribute and participate in society. At some point, humanity has to wake up and re-evaluate our propensity to allow the worst of us to continually devour our best.

After watching several of these videos, I think the thing I like most, other than the interviewees, is that you ask a question and then shut up and just let them talk. Well done.

This lady is so gentle and wise. She seems like the kind of person you'd like to have nearby when you're feeling down or troubled. Just soothing.

People who think this stuff was long ago need to understand it really wasn’t that long ago. My dad and granny told me stories that broke my heart. My great grandfather had to leave his home town because he and his brother were almost lynched.

These videos are a national historic treasure. Thank you for these videos David.

This woman has a simple grace. She seems matter of fact and reflects a profound sadness. I am sure she would be a great friend. Love

A Beautiful woman, a beautiful soul!

Excellent work. I especially love how you don't insert yourself into the scene and keep the focus on your subject. The lack of narcissistic bullshit on a digital platform is refreshing.

The people who ask why can't you just forget about all "that" should watch this. They do not realize the toll it took on black people. Great interview. 🙏🏽❤

When she said "I like you where you are." That hit deep because I always tell people "I love you where you are." When I tell people that, I'm conveying that there is no need for them to be anyone else other than themselves around me. That I accept them for who and what they are in the juncture of their life's journey. Some people do not have the capacity to love or accept love and kindness so you just have to love them where they stand and leave them there😌

I born in Mississippi in 1965 , MY PARENTS WAS sharecropper I do understand her feel and pain.

What a wonderful woman. Thanks for this!

The words "classy lady" comes to mind in watching this beautiful woman take us on a walk with her through her life experiences in the 50s/60s. I experienced prejudice for a different reason. It was never with the other children, it was with an adult (teacher). Children get along, it's the adults that had the problems, perhaps a generational entrenchment. Thank you Mr. Hoffman, again, for keeping it real and reminding us of the injustices suffered by many at the hands of ignorance.

As a human being this sickens me. As a black man it infuriates me.

throughout my life, i’ve questioned racist people (I.E. my distant family) why they hated black people. the response was almost always “because they’re violent ‘hoodlums’” and etc. but they also hated black children, why always made me think, “how could you hate a child? they haven’t done anything. they aren’t old enough to have done anything. they’re too SMALL to have done anything. so what reason could you possibly have to hate them?” and it only dawned on me recently, talking to a relative i’ve since distance myself from, that it’s because racists don’t see POC as people. they don’t need a reason to hate this x, y, z group of people if they aren’t even people to them; if they aren’t even intelligent beings to them. i wish i could hear all of her stories, the bad AND the good; just any stories! the way she talks in this video is so incapsulating and entrancing... i can feel her pain when she talks, and i wait in limbo when she tries to find her words (as the older, more polite generation does lmao)

I can remember when I was younger and my mother and I Would ride the bus , and the ladies Would be at the back of the bus and I would wonder why the lady would have to stand when there were plenty of seats. One day I Got up and told the lady standing to please take my seat. She smiled at me and looked away. Never looked me in the eye. My mother glared at her and called me back. Then she said something to the driver and he stopped the bus and made the lady get off. She went to get off the bus. I was horrified. I just felt like it was my fault. My mother made me feel like everything was my fault.The lady smiled at me faintly. I didn't understand any of it. I was just 6 though. I didn't understand them. I do now though....

This is sad but this is true history. These are the kind of things that must be preserved not destroyed. If history is forgotten it is doomed to be repeated. What a beautiful lady, we have came far but there is work to be done. Honest conversations need to be had. We all need to be united. 🙂❤️👍🙏✌️

If only this video was shown on TV at dinner time today...

I guess it was 1963 when my brother began his studies at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis MD. At a point, there was an invitation sent out to the families of his class to come visit and see what all went on there. So we went, of course, our little group of 5 white people, to see what life was like for him there. I remember being in the city (Annapolis) shopping with my mom. We were going to enter a store, so I naturally opened the door and held it open for my mom. She went in and then I continued to hold it open because behind my mom was a woman of color who was also going to enter the store. She did not go in, but gestured to me that I should go ahead of her. She was an adult, I was a kid so to me ... she should go ahead of me and I should hold the door for her, but she would not go in. I didn’t get why, but she really wanted me to go first so finally I did. When I got inside the store ... then she came in. My mom said that this was how people of color were treated here in Maryland. They were not allowed to go first ... or be given the respect children give to adults if the child was white. I and she were shocked by this ... had never seen such a thing in the Minneapolis MN we lived in.

Great great woman !! What a lady to have as a fellow human being ! Honest, kind, angry but not bitter ! If you can still contact her, let her know there are many admirers out here.

Such a gentle yet raw telling of a painful era. Her NRG makes you listen intently. She’s not dramatic but you could feel really feel the depth and the honesty. This was sad and beautiful. Her strength is phenomenal. I’m so glad I watched as is usual Mr. Hoffman. Thank you to both of you.

Wow ..whilst watching this documentary its quite evident the pain never goes away ...in north ireland 🇮🇪 we love u for your heart and honesty #blacklivesmatter ....im a white Caucasian irish women against any rasism ..god bless martin luther king .

“Where would you be here without me or I without you?” I wish so much that there was something we could do to heal this wound.

If you are a millennial, this woman is your mother's and grandmother's age. Are you really that removed from it?

I'm so glad I stumbled on this clip. Now I can prove all I said as facts. Maybe someone will listen instead of denying the horrible truths we lived in our younger years. I'm 58 years old and still fighting back. The younger generation can't see it because they have been taught lies. I'm here to dispell the lies and expose the truth no matter what. Thank you for doing this.

I love the softness in this dear lady. Her heart seems so pure and forgiving. The ending is beautiful where she speaks of how what she went through made her who she is and how she grew stronger. She is a wise teacher and I hope this video will be continue to be a voice heard loud and clear.

You can understand why the hurt is there .Punished for doing nothing just being a different colour.

Unless you've been treated as less than, unless you were seen as 1/3 human, unless you were under educated, unless while walking down the street and was forced off a sidewalk even though there was plenty of room then please don't minimize this PRECIOUS LADY's pain. I grew up in segregation and the same thing she's talking about are the same things my family went through. Our schools were substandard we got used torn books, some of the schools were falling down and the only time we saw whites were when they came to our school to monitor the teacher which was another way of saying, you'd better be teaching from the material we told you to. We didnt dare go out side of our communities because of rampant attacks on those of us who did. I'm from Muhammad's Ali's hometown. Some people still make it a big deal that he didn't want to go to Vietnam..the back story to that is when he won at the 1960 Olympics he came home and was put out of a resturant. And he finally felt the deep hatred towards our people. As a small child your parents protected you as much as they could but it came a day when me as a child experienced the deep hatred of racism. When Louisville ky decided to have busing, the whole city especially those who lived in all white communities went off. They burned buses, attacked buses as they pulled up to the schools. Phone calls threating black parents that if you put your child on that bus they may not make it home. Snipers actually his in dense areas of the expressway and shot at buses coming from the black community. When you see and live under these conditions it's hard to forget. For people who have never experienced this type of hatred before please stop the it's in the pass, because at some point you try to move along but someone either by word or deed will remind you in the most subtle way.

People these days need to watch this video . I'm in tears

Thanks to this lady for sharing her experience! Would be nice if more people saw it

I'm 33 years old and I live in Charlottesville Virginia. And this saddens me deeply. All we want is to be treated equally.Nothing more,nothing less.

I remember a visit to my uncle, aunt and cousin's place in Hampton, Virginia back in 1964. I remember the racism that existed in Virginia that was virtually nonexistent in the rural part of our homestate of Arkansas. During that visit, our parents, with my uncle and aunt, took us kids to watch the trains coming and going in Newport News. The railroad was the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, trains with the blue and yellow markings...It was before the days of Amtrak. There was a westbound weekend excursion passenger train stopping to pick up passengers returning from a weekend at the beaches. It was a long train with the silver liner passenger coaches, and on the back end of the train were those old Pullman coaches that were built in the 1930s (the passenger coaches like you see in the Little Rascals movies and the Laurel and Hardy movies). As a kid, I noticed the white folks were allowed to board on the silver liner coaches, and the black folks were made to board the old Pullman coaches at the rear of the train. I asked my mom, "How come only the white people can ride the new cars, and everyone else has to ride in those pookie old fashion cars?". My mom replied, "Shut up. Do you want the white people to get mad at us?". Yup...In Virginia, that's the way it was.

all i want is to give her the biggest hug

You are a child of a living God that loves you..God bless you.

I can’t understand why some Americans think people of color are responsible for the conditions of this country.

This videos are amazing!! Nothing like first hand experience. History is an interesting thing.

I was born (white) in England in 1958, and I remember the people from the West Indies, and from India and Pakistan were starting to come over to live. Signs would appear in shop windows and guest houses which said “No Coloureds” (mind you, the guest houses also used to say “No Irish”!), and I was very puzzled about this and would ask my parents and grandparents what it meant. I was told that house values will drop if “they” move into the area, and that they were dirty. I never believed it as a child. Prejudice is learned.

The pain may never go away but this "BS" Wil not be tolerated in the 21st Century this generation said enough is enough.

I was born in 1955 in Baltimore Maryland. I can relate to what she is talking about. I remember going to a restaurant being able to order food in the back but was not allowed to set with the whites. I remember going to the liquor store with an aunt that was told she could order but could not stay in the bar because it was for whites only. I am so glad that my children were not born at that time. I have forgiving them for what they have done to us but I cannot forget. The pain did not make me weak it made me strong.

I grew up in a white catholic Ireland. The church told us we were worthless sinners.We had opportunity and education. Anyone that was not white was highly educated and respected. 1988 i spent one year in New York. Mostly I worked as a home help. I saw my boss slap a black servers hand. I challenged him and he just sneered. He threatened to fire me because I brought the delivery ma into our kitchen to give him a glass of water during a heatwave. That was it for me, the man had walked 5 flights of stairs not allowed to use the lift. I was done . I left New York. I saw the same kind of racism in England. Now in Dublin we have a truly multicultural society but I have no doubt people experience "uglyness". This ladies dignity makes me listen, really listen. I can do my bit by forgetting about the colour of skin, respect all and challenge when I see "uglyness". Love from Dublin Ireland

I am so sorry you and your family had to endure all of this. Thank you for sharing, my sister in Christ Jesus.

I wasn't born until 1975 but the 50's and 60's have always fascinated me. I have often wished to have been around during those times but realize as a black person the freedoms I have enjoyed my whole life would've been very restricted back then. I watch videos of people growing up and reminiscing of those good times, feeling the great nostalgia of that era compared to how society is now, but also a sadness because my relatives had to live being segregated by the wonder years of white, modern families enjoying life to it's fullest while blacks had to basically live on the outskirts of the country, confined to the lowest of quality living. But I'm encouraged with places and cities where segregation didn't exist and blacks/whites lived together in harmony.

A heart wrenching soliloquy. Our small mindedness ruins this Earth for all who learn and love.

Americans knew of these horrors all these years and never did anything about it

This lady is the type of person we need in government , a compassionate lady with great life experience , just imagine how great America could be if she was president.

it breaks my heart to hear this . I was born in 1960 in Poland. The land of Catholic and white people . I can say that my country learning about the slavery make me cry . I remember reading a book about it, in translation it would be called "The little house of Uncle Tom" He was an older black man , who talk about his ordeal in the time of slavery. I read that book twice . I was crying the whole time,. I was 12 years old then. We all know, that they didn't teach us they real truth . The real truth ! They lied about our history too. The second war. My country was invaded by Hitler.My Grandfather was telling me about our ordeals , it was tearing my heart out. All the Warr s , ...... There is no sense to all of that. Pain and suffering . We get people in our governments that are about Power and Greed . We need to change that. There is more of us then them. Learning the truth is one step. IT'S TRUTH , YOU ARE SO WRITE . WHAT COLOR HAVE TO DO WITH WHO THE PERIOD IS. WHAT CRIME THEY COMMITED, THERE IS CRIMINAL IN ALL RAISES. PLEASE BE Hopeful . May God bless you and all that suffer . I am with you and I will stand with you. As a White women , I too experience rasizm . I lived in America for 20 years , and I am white. Just because I am from other country In there view I don't belong . It's the same in Canada . This is where I leave now 17 years . History the truth must be learned . Young people specially , so they don't repeat the past mistakes .

She reminds me a little bit of actress Loretta Devine

Great footage. It takes me back to my childhood in the 1970's when Busing began and I was sent to a different school in an attempt to desegregate. I remember how different our schools were. My new school was mostly white I was one of very few Black kids. I remember how modern everything was compared to the school I came from. Now my old school had a separate Gym and Lunchroom but my new school had a Gym that transformed into a Lunchroom with tables and seats that folded out of the walls and basketball rims that folding up into the ceiling. What amazed me most was the floor. It was made of a rubber material that made it silent to walk on, silent to a fork or spoon falling on it and next to impossible so slip on! The entire school was so modern but my teachers were kinda mean....

My parents have similar experiences growing up in Tennessee. Being a child and having to stand in corners and not look a white person in the eye while their parents grocery shopped. They ended up treating my brother, my daughter and myself this way. They moved and raised my brother and I in California, but we didn't escape racism from white people we lived around. My parents didn't talk alot about it. It took a very long time to understand them. I had to piece it all together over time. It was rough assimilating into white society with the way things were handled.

Very interesting. Thank you for just letting her talk without interruption. I could listen to this lady all day!

She is so regal! I love her evenness and her inner strength. I would have been her friend. Color is such a sad excuse for power and power is such a sad way to avoid unity. She’s so right...we’re all here together. Separation is really an illusion.

Swimming was restricted? What were they afraid of? Wth? Oh lord if I were born black back then I’d be dead now. Thank goodness she is ok. I’d be a nutcase, I believe it.

This was one of the most powerful interviews I’ve ever seen!!! Great historical interview💯💯💯💯

She is simply amazing ❤️

My dad grew up in Georgia in the 40's, he didn't care for white people at all, I was bused and I had a dislike for white people in general. One day I was heading to a army base in Augusta, my water pump went out in anniston Alabama and two white guys pulled up in a pickup truck with Confederate flags on the front license plate with a gun rack, I was like holey shit. Those two white dudes drove me down to the parts store and put in the water pump on a very hot day and would not take money from me. That gesture made me change my mind about white people. I learned to treat everyone individually because of that.

My husband's grandmother used to work at the counter at Woolworth's in Louisville. She told us the story of a young black man coming in to eat and she told him to sit at the counter. This would have been early 60's; not a popular decision in Kentucky at that time. To her it was simple: hungry customer, have a seat. And from that day forward all black customers would freely sit where they wanted at her counter!!

What a lovely woman and I'm sorry and embarrassed by what she lived through. There is no excuse.

The truth hurts but the medicine is understanding.

A Queen tells her story

As a 64 yr old white woman growing up in Salem,Oregon it was pretty much all white. Since Salem was farming l saw Mexicans and Russians, Indians only..But schools were all white. Indians went to the Indian school. Russians wore bright colored skirts. Mexicans lived in Silverton,Oregon So when I moved to California in the late 70s what a shock. My parents never said a bad word about anyone. So as a adult lm good with everyone..

Miss..im a old white Texas retired cowboy. And it truely brakes my heart to hear what you and your sisters had to go through in your earlier years...as nice a person as you seam to be ,,I do wish you lady the best

This woman's testimony is so rich with wisdom and understanding. I listened to every word she spoke and am all the better for having done so. May God richly bless her in this life and in the life to come.....

I can relate so well to her story......I grew up in Virginia in the 50's too.

Thank you for sharing this. I live in Northern Virginia and unfortunately, these feelings that she describes are familiar, without the signs. We don't have to allow this to be another generations familiar feelings. It takes everyone to make this a thing of the past but the first step is acknowledging that it was and is real.

I grew up in the fifties. I wondered why, for instance, adults said blacks (not their word) were dumber than whites. I didn't believe it. Smart was in your brain, not your skin color. It didn't make sense. When I was little a young black woman kept me and cleaned. I have more memories of her than my mother including evenings and weekends. I loved her and remember smiling and feeling happy when she was around. One day I pushed a chair next to her, climbed up on it, kissed her on the cheek and said I love you. She snapped back, "Don't say that to me again." It surprised me but it didn't hurt me. I guessed correctly, it was my action could get her in trouble. She is my favorite memory from pre-school age. Her kindness and gentleness set the stage for my attitude of people of color forever.

I remembered going to the movies whereas we sat up in the balcony. I believe I was around three years old in the1960s.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I'm so happy that my parents and grandparents never had to go through any of this.

This interview drew me in and kept me listening. It is an exceptionally tender, thoughtful, and candid interview that shines from within with humanity and wisdom.

what a beautiful voice! this woman should read books on tape! I always wished to have such a gentle person for a mother, and I am so sorry her story is thus.

God bless her. These interviews are AMAZING. My heart is full because as painful as this is to hear it must be heard. So many of my ancestors endured mistreatment and death for me to enjoy the life that I and my daughter now enjoy. We don't have as much as many but we are blessed and highly favored! I thank God for her testimony and the testimonies of all those who paved the way for us today. She's so kind and compassionate. I find that to be the case with many of our warriors. They have every right to spew the same bile projected onto them and yet they are God's love manifested.

The schools were closed for five years, that’s amazing

Thanks for the kind comments. This is my auntie. She, along with my mom and dad, from another video are living histories. This pain is entrenched STILL in the county.

This is very sad and breaks my heart, I'm so glad I never had to see my friends treated this way. I can't imagine how she felt being a small child going through this and not understanding why they are treated less then others. To be a parent and watch your child's heart hurt and have to try and explain this evilness.

Observe her strength as a child to pick up and carry on after the horrific attacks. That's why we are stronger than the average person.

I was raise in Va in that time,and hearing my brothers asking them why do you let them treats you that way ,not noting if our parents spoke up some of them would not live to be there to be come parents and make grandparents of our parents.Some of the things that was done to us and our woman we would never be able to talk about,but we as a people will never for get.Jackie

I have been viewing a lot of videos on different views of the current protests that are going on in the United States and all over the world. I am better for watching this video and I thank you for putting it on KZfaq. This woman has given me the resolve that we will get through this and I believe as she does that we are more when we are together than when we are separate. I love this lady, I wish she was my neighbour because I would want to hug her tight - of course, when Covid is over and if she lets me because there are a lot of reasons understandably why people of colour are reticent to trust. Much love to you all and may it be a shield to all the insidious racial hatred out there and inside some people’s hearts.

David I’m writing a book at the moment which is about how growing up in an apartheid South Africa made me very different to 90% of the people I have met, seen or read about. I grew up with a white family but our Zulu “servant” was also my surrogate mother in a sense, and because of the decade age gap between I and my siblings, her children were my siblings. I spoke Zulu and Xhosa long before I could speak English. My family were horrendous racists and fully supported the apartheid system. I was arrested three times for sneaking my Zulu brother into the theater, taking him to a whites only beach and refusing to let them remove him from a whites only,park bench - all before I was 16. Based on your interests, I would love to correspond with you if you’re interested.

Heartbreaking! Who's watching on July 2020? Not much has changed! This evil man will pay the ultimate prize! Freedom is right around the corner!!♥️🙏♥️🙏

This woman is a quintessential interviewee.

Im Caucasian and i want to say this to this lady...i know it wasnt myself that treated you badly...but i apologize for the people that did treat you badly...and racist people make me feel ashamed and angry to be a human...i really hope you have a great life despite being treated wrongly and unfair

My God, how exhausting this must have all been. There are so many that think black people want “more”. No, we just want the same.

The African American experience in the United States. This is why “African” is a part of our ethnicity. We have always been and still are “othered”. Ignoring it is what racists want to do. Never. Thanks for the upload.

why cant everyone just be nice???????? /

This is real education. I am white and was born in England in 1955. I can’t believe the difference in this lady’s childhood and mine. I have taught English to multi national preschool children.....no prejudice and mostly a willingness to help each other...so sweet to watch and proof that racism is the fault of ignorant parents..We have to actively stand up to prejudice.......it’s a constant battle not won as yet. Thank you for this video.

I was born in 1947 so I fully understand what she's saying and where she's coming from. I too, am a Black American

"You're bad ,you're bad no matter what colour you are,you know? You're good you're good , What does colour have to do with it ? You see with your eyes ,and I see with mine, you smell with your nose I smell with mine, You know? But it was that, I think that a lot of people at that time would have gone along but there were those who were stronger in the community, ah, who had that top rankin' and they say No ! And the rest were afraid to rebel. Because I know there are good brothers and sisters who of a different colour, I'm wise enough to know that." This to me is so poignant of the segment here, and goes to how she articulates the feeling of what so many thought and knew, even the prejudiced people knew deep down, pass their mob mentality of hatred. This beautiful smart & wise woman is my kind of people

Wow. This interview touched me deeply, something that is close to impossible. How wonderful.

What a wonderful person. Thanks for these interviews. This is such a joy to watch.

Im very blessed to have found David's videos. My children and i watch these weekly. I love that he shares these with us. how professional he is, but mainly the broad topics he shows. Ty

💡Some people say “don’t live in the past” and/or “get over it”....I’d like to know if they’d say the same thing to any Jewish person. Be mindful that it only takes a couple of generations to pass before history is repeated if it goes forgotten. We have to make sure that historical atrocities are never repeated. 💞✌️

Thank you David for sharing this! This woman is profound! Her story has enlightened me in many way! I almost choke up thanking you! Thank you!

I very greatly appreciate this content 💐

They like to tell you that nobody is still alive from those days, but here's proof.

I think every immigrant that comes to thi country should see this video before becomes a citizen

👍I love and I appreciate this (and other first hand knowledge / experience) videos. 💞

She moved me to tears, her gentleness and intelligence..her pain and overall her hope.

So much hurtfulness to fellow humans!

It's women like her who is helping me understand why my mom valued education for her children. I got my GED after mom died and she was a Georgia born female.