Mother Had Faith South Carolina Would Treat Her Kids Fairly In 1963

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Ай бұрын

This 1963 interview was made with a "typical housewife and mother" in York, South Carolina and was presented on primetime television during the era of the civil rights movement and the integrating of schools. I found her speech and presentation style sweet and kind and filled with faith and optimism.
In York the racial demographics were composed of approximately 54.58% White and 35.72% Black or African American residents. This distribution reflects the city's diverse community within a relatively small population
In 1963 the situation regarding racism in York, like in many parts of the American South, was tense and deeply ingrained in the social fabric. This period was marked by significant racial strife and resistance to desegregation, despite the ongoing Civil Rights Movement that sought to challenge and dismantle institutionalized racism across the United States.
Segregation was a standard practice in public spaces, including schools, restaurants, theaters, and on public transportation. Despite the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, many places, including parts of South Carolina, were slow to integrate.
African Americans faced significant barriers to voting, including literacy tests, poll taxes, and other discriminatory practices intended to disenfranchise black voters.
The Civil Rights Movement was actively challenging segregation and discrimination. Activists in South Carolina and across the South participated in sit-ins, marches, and other forms of protest to demand equal rights.
The push for civil rights often met with violent responses from some white communities and law enforcement. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which was signed into law on July 2, 1964, was a landmark piece of legislation that prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and was aimed at ending segregation in public places and banning employment discrimination.
Racist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan were active and perpetrated violence and intimidation against African Americans and their allies. This included bombings, beatings, and murders.
Economic opportunities for African Americans in the South were severely limited compared to those available to whites. Racial discrimination in employment was common, and economic disparities were stark.
So York, South Carolina, in 1963 was a community marked by racial divisions and challenges similar to those in other parts of the South. The Civil Rights Movement was bringing these issues to the forefront of national consciousness, and significant legal and social changes were beginning to take shape, although the process was often slow and met with resistance.

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@angelaegan7511 Ай бұрын

A shining example of motherhood ❤

Ай бұрын

Her words were very careful and measured. I hope others have also noticed.

@drewpall2598 Ай бұрын

I like that fact that the two white gentlemen who were conducting this interview gave this this black housewife and mother the respect that she deserved. I hope that she and her family where able to live in York, South Carolina without fears and her children had a fair opportunity to grow up to become upstanding citizen in their community. 😊✌🧡

@zolavib1187 Ай бұрын

Considering Jim crow era was just ended and it took 10-20 years for any real change they probably had a difficult time

@365handle Ай бұрын

If you had to like that fact that these men gave this woman the respect she deserves proves you know something is wrong with this whole video. Proves a lot in yours and mine eyes.

@Mer1912 Ай бұрын

@@365handlewhite Americans might have pushed for segregation, but they also fought to end it.

@jq8974 Ай бұрын

Lovely. Full of grace and hope. Beautiful 🌿

@batbee7427 Ай бұрын

My Texas town finally desegregated schools in 1982. Caused a huge stink. Still a bunch of resentment around there.

@VanchaMarch2 Ай бұрын

What town? (I live in Irving)

@ThisGuy76 Ай бұрын

Sounds like Midland?

@365handle Ай бұрын

Sounds like the stink was already there. Anybody that have a problem with treating people fair and not allowing them to have access to resources that they were given, sounds hypocritical, and the source of resentment still there.

@StephanieJeanne Ай бұрын

She did seem like a very sweet woman. I'm wondering who the men interviewing her were. Were they reporters? I can't help but wonder if she felt intimidated at all. Thank you, David. 😊

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Ай бұрын

They were reporters from the north. David Hoffman filmmaker

@raph3156 Ай бұрын

Shes saying wonderful things. We all want our children to do well and grow up to be upstanding citizens, and its hard when others don't want you or your children to do well or become that. I remember how awful certain people were when my husband and I attended university, it was an uphill battle and we were frightened....for him and for our children. They tried blackmailing him, they abused him...and I had to protect him from what seemed like so many people who wanted something terrible to happen to him.

@derekstaroba 22 күн бұрын

Someone else mentioned you on another channel and said i should tell you this: faith makes more sense than doubt since this is all a miracle

@Glidingjackdaw 28 күн бұрын

Beautiful lady,she exudes dignity and equanimity.

@waltonsmith7210 Ай бұрын

She was wrong to have faith in the fascist state of South Carolina.

@annalisavajda252 Ай бұрын

Well where is the interview with her children later to hear if their Mothers idealistic expectations were met?

@batbee7427 Ай бұрын

Good question. Hey, maybe Dave can find them.

@LindaCasey Ай бұрын

💞💞🙏🙏🕊🕊

@lingeringquestions519 Ай бұрын

I love her!

@JaceHarnage Ай бұрын

How sad. She believed her children would be treated equally and fairly because they are educated. How sad that Black people are still fighting to be treated fairly -- acknowledged as American citizens -- in South Carolina and in these United States! She has to be rolling over in her grave! 😢

@ThatGuyNebula Ай бұрын

I think she'd be relieved to know that at large, there is less racism now then there was during her time. We can be grateful for the diversity we see in colleges, HBCU's especially. I don't think that was around back then

@zolavib1187 Ай бұрын

@@ThatGuyNebula As long as there is a racial economic gap that keeps us separated geographically they're ok with things. That's hardly better it's just different way of segregation. This is what MLK was addressing and not excluding poor whites from because he understood what direction racism was taking and how it would hide in class war rather than outright racism

@ThatGuyNebula Ай бұрын

@@zolavib1187 Sorry to break it to you, but Nigerian Americans are blacl and generally earning more than the average white family. There are also tons of financially successful black folks, so the economic gap isn't due to any racism. That's definitely a lot better than her time and more diverse economically. I think with just about any comparison, we are doing much better now racism wise than in her time. We still have some work to do though, that's for sure

@zolavib1187 Ай бұрын

@@ThatGuyNebula I'm in a relationship with second generation African I know exactly why they're doing much better. And there are plenty of Africans including Nigerians not doing so well due to colonialism. Infact all of Africa would be in a much better place had colonialism not happened. Nearly all the leaders appointed after colonialism have been corrupt and continued to allow the rest of the world to leach of them in exchange for a handful of people becoming "rich". The black family in America is dysfunctional due to the abuse that has occurred throughout American history right up until now. America left the white impoverished people of this country behind in order to ensure blacks in this country are behind. Middle class Americans have the welfare system to thank that was a very effective system up until blacks became eligible to use it. It was completely gutted. Education was also very good until blacks were allowed in the schools. I grew up in an all white middle to upper middle class small town. Even if I didn't want to think about the issues of blacks in this country I was reminded every day that I'm black and what ever issues were going on at the time by my peers. If you think you understand the dynamic of black issues in this country you are surely mistaken. Even if the false status quo of blacks having inherently lower IQ's just on the fact that I could not escape my blackness and had to think about these things daily. Just on the sheer fact that I have put more thought into these topics than you would make me the authority. Our culture is in despair because it's being appropriated and regurgitated in the worst possible way. White kids use it to do their black phase black kids live their life by it. It's not even our culture at this point it's just a bunch of white production companies view of us pushed back onto us for white societies entertainment. I say you don't care enough to understand the detrimental effect it has. Not to mention we are blamed for it when it's literally white people orchestrating it. And I've understood this well before Kanye was on the radar. All my thoughts and views come straight from my own mind. I don't parrot statements based on face value assessments... Nigerians... If all the well to do black folk went to Nigeria they would look the same as the immigrant Nigerians that come here. Because they're the well to do people from that country. It's called poverty they're escaping it. End of the day it's much harder for the black community to escape it because very dynamic reasons one being that America decided slavery is not going to work for them long term so they decided blacks would be the poor class. And in capitalism for there to be a handful of supper rich the masses must be poor. That's why MLK was assassinated. Because he wanted the poor regardless of color to come together to fight the oligarchy.

@spongebobmiscellaneous Ай бұрын

Still?

@briansmith2163 Ай бұрын

Mr. Hoffman, have you seen the film, REAL LIFE, lately by Albert Brooks ? I would love to hear your comments (Maysles) on this absolutely unscripted documentary. TCM showed this film a few days ago. I thought it was hilarious.

@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker Ай бұрын

I have not yet seen it Brian. David Hoffman filmmaker

@briansmith2163 Ай бұрын

@@DavidHoffmanFilmmaker OMG, David you will LOVE IT !

@briansmith2163 Ай бұрын

It is the Blazing Saddles of your craft.

@thedjc100 Ай бұрын

I think Race Relations are, and were, for the most part, better in the South than the North. I’m a Northerner.

@delia_watercolors8186 Ай бұрын

You lived in both?

@coldwar45 Ай бұрын

Depends on the issue. The difference is it was de jure in the South and de facto in the North

@CarterKey6 Ай бұрын

I grew up in this county in a city near by and my dad was married to a Jewish lady and my great grandmother was half black. She owned several businesses in Rock Hill, SC same county. No one cared and no one even seemed to notice. My dad was quite old when I was born to his second wife and most of my friends and my mother’s best friend was black in the 1980’s and 90’s. Race was really not an issue. I would say class may have been because poor people were looked down on no matter their race.

@365handle Ай бұрын

If so, there wouldn’t have been an exodus from south to north. Do more research and you wouldn’t have to think what you say.

@Supersquishyawesomeness Ай бұрын

@@delia_watercolors8186I have and I’d absolutely agree.