Rare Footage Shows All-Black Towns in 1920s America

Rare Footage Shows All-Black Towns in 1920s America | NowThis

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This rare footage shows what life was like in all-Black towns during the 1920s.
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In US news and current events today, this rare footage shows life in all-Black communities in the 1920s during an era of fierce racial tension.
Reverend Solomon Sir Jones was the son of former slaves. He moved to Oklahoma in 1889 and became an influential Baptist minister. Jones was also an amateur filmmaker in the early days of moviemaking
Over the course of 4 years, he filmed 355 minutes of footage in more than 50 all-Black communities across Oklahoma. He also documenting his trips to other states and abroad. Jones films capture vibrant Black communities thriving at a time when racist violence & segregation were prevalent in many areas nationwide.
Oklahoma came to have the greatest number of all-Black communities in the 60+ years following the Civil War. In these towns, Black Americans started their own businesses, many Black doctors, lawyers, & families thrived.
Some white Oklahomans tried to block or slow the growth all-Black towns by imposing ‘oaths’ that limited hiring Black laborers or refusing to rent or sell land to a Black person. In 1921, the ‘Black Wall Street’ neighborhood of Tulsa was decimated during an incident of white mob violence. Dozens of Black residents were killed & hundreds more injured in what became known as the Tulsa Massacre.
For decades, the incident was barely taught, if at all, in schools. All-Black communities in the state entered a period of decline during the Great Depression.
Today, Jones’ footage is considered some of the best documentation of what life was like in Black communities at the time. The films showcase unique, culturally rich towns full of communities that supported one another despite an often racist society around them.
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@LUZBLACK1776 2 жыл бұрын

I aint ever seen this many black people smile all at once...im 34 free and American...im also Black and amazed to see my people look so good...I never saw this in history books growing up. Beautiful to see.

@sierrarowe5135 4 жыл бұрын

You know this footage deeply impacted me. It makes you realize how precious this content is because I’ve never seen it. You never get to see Black people at this time respectfully represented. They’re not the token entertainer in a feature film. In this footage you get to see them “just be.”

@supermananimationsstudios8519 3 жыл бұрын

So you’re saying black people today are gangsters?

@HunterDriguez 3 жыл бұрын

Superman animations studios no, she didn’t say that. Don’t be disingenuous.

@antwonnyy 3 жыл бұрын

@@supermananimationsstudios8519 I’m wondering how you graduated high school with a reading comprehension level THAT low.

@plymakkayestudio1827 2 жыл бұрын

it shows you that "NARRATIVE" is everything. if you dont program your mind, someone else will

@NoahBodze 2 жыл бұрын

Those towns failed because they didn’t know how to build towns. Whites gave them money and materials, but blacks just couldn’t build them, then came to the towns the whites built and destroyed them.

@steamdecknation7908 4 жыл бұрын

This saddens me. I am in tears. Beautiful music. The artist need to be recognized.

@abdulkhafidsulaymaan 3 жыл бұрын

don't cry lil baby

@fromouttaleftfield6932 Жыл бұрын

Yes it's just too sad for words

@thebadstation8416 Жыл бұрын

@@abdulkhafidsulaymaan what

@sarahd3721 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful Black People!!!!!

@thecommentsuperhero8578 4 жыл бұрын

@@tznwyvuk471 Psycho Mantis?

@Chxn10 3 жыл бұрын

Look at the pressed white people in the replies

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

@@Chxn10 i can't. It seems like some people just dont think others have the right to speak. They will interrupt and talk over them if they can, or just cry to the authorities, that they claim oppresses them, in order to silence anything they dont like the sound of. I clicked this because it was such a simple comment i didn't see how it could spur racist vitriol, but there you go proving an entitled people are always going to try to act superior.

@Chxn10 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrpoopo2320 How does me acknowledging that the white people are mad in the comments proves that I think black people are superior? You guys are literally mad because someone said that black people are beautiful. They didn't say that black people were the only beautiful race or more beautiful than others. It's not racist. You literally just proved that you are pressed too. Also, isn't is racist for Rouge to equate black people to looters even though theres been proof of other races as well as white supremacist groups and antifa present at riots? Notice how you didnt attack them but chose to attack the black person for making an observation yet I'm the one being called racist. You're a hypocrite. Do better.

@Chxn10 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrpoopo2320 And you also say I'm racist but literally just called all black people entitled. If that's not generalization, I don't know what is.

@InkwellFoto 4 жыл бұрын

The black people in this video are living a better life than we are now. Don't @ me, I said what I said

@terejosh13 4 жыл бұрын

Maybe you

@InkwellFoto 4 жыл бұрын

@@terejosh13 never in my statement did I make a specific comparison, but a generalization. Now reread the last 2 sentences

@NicoleStLouis-is2hc 4 жыл бұрын

As a white Canadian, I agree!! This footage proves that healthy communities could have florished if it weren't for racism. There was more hope in the footage. Systematic racism killed that hope. We are racist in Canada too! But pales in comparison. You still use laws created by and for slave owners!! Privatized jails that produce and sell goods just replaced plantations. I hate America.😒

@InkwellFoto 4 жыл бұрын

@@NicoleStLouis-is2hc exactly my point

@NicoleStLouis-is2hc 4 жыл бұрын

@@InkwellFoto actually, I remembered something this morning. In Vancouver, Canada there was a large Black community that completely disappeared, gentrification maybe. Rare to see Black folks in BC actually. So, Canada has it own dirty secrets. Especially towards our Native communities. So I apologise for slaming your country. We are just better at hiding it. Racism with a smile.😉👍

@jermainejones9796 3 жыл бұрын

Born and raised in Tulsa, OK we never was taught any of this in school. I didn't know of Black Wall Street until I was a grown man.

@andricrypto2852 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rev.Jones! For this amazing piece of footage, it's a part of American history which should not be forgotten.

@donnyallard9635 3 жыл бұрын

This brings tears to my eyes. This country knew that African Americans would have done better than our captors!

@loriannrichardson7644 3 жыл бұрын

They destroyed 100+ thriving Black communities. Once you start researching, you'll never be the same.

@donnyallard9635 3 жыл бұрын

@@loriannrichardson7644 Thanks for the info I'll have to check that out

@kawtoons 2 жыл бұрын

@@loriannrichardson7644 More like 1000s+.

@danajataylor8864 2 жыл бұрын

That’s why we were captured or executed.

@StreetnastyEntertainment Жыл бұрын

Facts 💯💪🙏✊B1 FBA Salute

@SuperSpace2009 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! It makes you want to cry! Knowing we were doing good in towns everywhere! I see why we were not in the history books! Just think how powerful our country would have been. If they just let us live as people in peace! It is now 2020 and look where America is at! Thank you, Thank you Rev. Jones for the footage! He much footage is our there! That shows how we were as people.

@Aphrodite_ErosLuvChild214-80 Жыл бұрын

Were? You do realize you can do whatever you want in America, go build your community

@fromouttaleftfield6932 Жыл бұрын

@@Aphrodite_ErosLuvChild214-80 Not building our own communities is certainly linked to the fact that the US government hasn't paid a single cent of reparations for wealthy Black communities burned looted and massacred throughout the 1920s, despite giving Asians reparations for their mistreatment in your concentration camps. Asians have always been no. 2 on America's racial hierarchy scale. And as successful as they are today, it shows.

@adeenbenyasharal5412 6 ай бұрын

Deuteronomy 28:65 KJV. We are THE TRUE PEOPLE of the Bible.

@ericade7896 Ай бұрын

@@fromouttaleftfield6932 Go get it from the african kinds that sold your ancestors

@C-Lyfe85 47 секунд бұрын

@@Aphrodite_ErosLuvChild214-80 You meant to say "built", not "build". I shouldn't have to rebuild what was destroyed. Trolls 🤦‍♂️

@laurawinters1504 4 жыл бұрын

It's very sad what happened to those beautiful black people. But the footage was nice.

@djst9792 Жыл бұрын

People talk “Wakanda” but I look to videos like these as motivation of how we where when left alone

@thebadstation8416 Жыл бұрын

This was a time when we didn't have hood culture. Now a days an all black city would like Chicago.

@djst9792 Жыл бұрын

@@thebadstation8416 facts

@ericade7896 Ай бұрын

There's plenty of "left alone" history in sub saharan africa. Why do people claim this stuff? It's not even a good lie

@MercuryWolff 4 жыл бұрын

You reeled 🎣 me back in with this one, good job, guys 👌🏽💯

@idamaebennett9965 3 жыл бұрын

I am excited to learn all I can about these amazing black people wow

@seqenenretaoii5722 2 жыл бұрын

Whenever I hear white people say "Why can't you just forget about slavery?" I respond with, "We tried to forget about it. Y'all wouldn't let us."

@helloworld4323 Жыл бұрын

But how can you when they teach it in public schools

@seqenenretaoii5722 Жыл бұрын

@@helloworld4323 I'm not advocating that it should be forgotten about. It's an important part of American history and should be taught in schools.

@curtisknight2284 Жыл бұрын

@@helloworld4323 They don't teach it in public schools they only gloss over it and water it down they don't teach the real History of 310 years of chattel slavery in America and what they did to us and the 100 years of Jim Crow segregation etc!

@fromouttaleftfield6932 Жыл бұрын

@@helloworld4323 They teach the Holocaust in all German public schools..

@Stevejoohee Жыл бұрын

It’s the other way around.

@ychanan36 4 жыл бұрын

Shalom/Peace Israelite family . Deuteronomy 28:43 “The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.”

@aliooh4756 Жыл бұрын

Nope.

@queenopurrrr 4 жыл бұрын

I never saw us so happy before this really is sad man I hope oneday we can start this again those smiles were beautiful and genuine and for white pol to burn their land to ashes make my stomach turn y’all the us while we are in your world but when we try to go away and start our own you destroy if these ppl aren’t seeds of Satan idk who are!!

@justmeagain9051 2 жыл бұрын

Don't judge an entire race based on the actions of a few.

@fromouttaleftfield6932 2 жыл бұрын

The seed of Satan. You said it

@fromouttaleftfield6932 2 жыл бұрын

Not a single white soul ever held accountable and not a penny paid in reparations. I despise the lot of them

@Aphrodite_ErosLuvChild214-80 Жыл бұрын

If we are all seeds of Satan, then I shall generalise all of you too , but I'm not that ignorant and I place blame on only the people that individually do wrong not the whole race get real would you !! I THINK you are lacking in social and emotional learning skills maybe do some exercises .

@PrimordialChaos07 Жыл бұрын

@@justmeagain9051 it’s based on the actions of all of you.

@adamrodgers9175 4 жыл бұрын

Check out the towns in Alberta started by free slaves. They got told not to go it's cold and blah blah blah. We have I think seven towns that got started by them. A lot of albertans don't know that part of history. The more you know ⭐️⭐️

@kenster8270 4 жыл бұрын

Maidstone, Saskatchewan , and Amber Valley, Alberta

@poeboypoe Жыл бұрын

I always wondered if alot of AA' s went to Canada during the early 1900s. I figured that alot went to Detroit because it was so close to Canada and that they possibly where trying to cross the border.

@eileenmacdougall8945 4 жыл бұрын

Incredabl video. Thank you.

@Jocelyn197878 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to integration, interracial marriage white jealousy, supremacy and racism and other issues I won't mention is why we don't have this anymore. This was when black people were black. Carrying themselves well, and having high self esteem. Look at the black community today. Mr. Garvey and Mr. X are rolling over in their graves right now.

@euroyen420 2 жыл бұрын

😆 yep, its all "white" people. You racist bigot! ✊🏾

@RedFriction Жыл бұрын

What's wrong with interracial marriage?

@brandonray4379 Жыл бұрын

We ain't been the same since

@alishabazz7431 16 күн бұрын

@@RedFrictionIt destroyed our self identity.

@moods.maya1 4 жыл бұрын

This is the stuff they don’t teach us in school. 😭

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

Lol. Did they teach ya about rosa parks? And how many black people wanted segregation to end? Do you really think these people wanted to raise their kids with no possible way to compete for success? Stuck inside a community with no way to catch up with the rest of the world? I have a feeling if they did teach it in school you would still be ignorant

@supermananimationsstudios8519 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrpoopo2320 I agree, it’s not like anybody cares at the end. We just wanna go home.

@fakhitaelhachimi2936 3 жыл бұрын

So amazing mr jones thank you so much

@ericmccray7190 2 жыл бұрын

A Beautiful documentary! I can only imagine what other film footages about Us during first hundred yrs. post-slavery. I felt a calm within myself watching this film....We did pull Ourselves up without any bootstraps! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

@curtisknight2284 Жыл бұрын

Within 9 years after slavery, we had established over 60 different Black towns that could have been cities today in 2022 but they were destroyed, we owned around 16 million acres of land by 1900 and we only own around less than 2 million acres of land today in 2022 because of white supremacy, hatred, and bias from the USDA. If Black people were left alone and allowed to have true freedom and self-determination in America we would have eventually outgrown and overrun the white people of this country even though they had a 400-year headstart on us and they didn't have all of the baggage of slavery and trauma we suffer from, they couldn't have that so they devised every dirty trick in the book to make us 5th class citizens, slow us down and even taking in non-Black immigrants making them citizens and giving them land, implements to work the land and help from the US Government while giving us 100 years of Jim Crow, lynchings, redlining, peonage, etc. They have failed because our population is growing, we have more educated Black women in America than any other people, we have become more international and connecting with our brothers and sisters in Africa and the Caribbean, we are establishing more businesses, etc. The only thing that Foundational Black Americans need is land and territory.

@MamaJas88 3 жыл бұрын

This makes me proud and happy but somehow sad 😔 that’s such a weird place to come from I’m only sad because I know how they were treated an disrespected so it just breaks my heart.

@jdfsl8079 2 жыл бұрын

I am Grateful. Thank you, Reverend Solomon Sir Jones!

@McQueenPress 4 жыл бұрын

Reparations for slavery and post-slavery destruction of oil wells, feed stores, schools, farms, homes, other industries, and the massacre of thousands are owed, because the government cooperated with and assisted the destruction.

@captainstatus1338 4 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY!

@ousmanekonate5253 3 жыл бұрын

When they gonna make the blacks wall street movies ?

@icemike1 3 жыл бұрын

They're complicit and culpable

@pebblepod30 3 жыл бұрын

That is solving the hang iver of problens from the past with new racist polcies, which will create more racism. Instead of new discrimination based on skin tone, a better solution would be that help is based on need & action, not skin tone. Because skin tone does not determine whether or not you get inheritance or not, so it is unfair. But very socially cool in some cliques.

@fromouttaleftfield6932 2 жыл бұрын

@@ousmanekonate5253 I was thinking the same thing. There'll be one soon I'm sure. I just hope it does black people justice.

@natalieanderson3951 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder how our country would look today off we hadn’t destroyed the black family with welfare and the New Deal. These are vibrant communities that were targeted and some destroyed. We need to all know our history and never repeat the mistakes of the past

@cheesebeef4902 2 жыл бұрын

Go away there were no whites in those communities talking American politics get on back we don’t need you.

@thebadstation8416 Жыл бұрын

It would look a lot better. I don't want to say it but liberalism has damaged the black community. Look at black conservatives and look at how well they are doing.

@aganib4506 Жыл бұрын

Black American communities would have been better off without integration, voluntary racial separation is the solution to the racial tensions among towns and cities across this country. Black folks should pool their resources and create businesses and institutions that caters to them and their families. That would be better than begging the white man's government for resources that will never be given to them due the politicians being controlled by racist elites.

@kala-adaidakariopusunju6809 Жыл бұрын

Please can you explain to me what the New Deal was about?

@anthonydavis8776 3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes i think we've been programmed to not do better and not want more.

@Aphrodite_ErosLuvChild214-80 Жыл бұрын

The difference is how they used their money, black people spend more money on goods and services than any other race kn America maybe learn how to save money and use it wisely rather than throw it away on useless things that hold no value

@leonfrancis3418 19 күн бұрын

What are both of you babbling about?

@Shantased 4 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU SO MUCH STRONGER THEN THE AVERAGE

@jowhit226 6 ай бұрын

I don't know about you but I will do whatever it takes to have this again.

@eatmyshorts2024 2 жыл бұрын

Love this, hate that it unfolded the way it did just imagine how impactful it would be today 😒🗣

@leonfrancis3418 19 күн бұрын

Would you fight for BIack Americans to have this again?

@doreal Жыл бұрын

Beautiful

@miseenplace7296 Жыл бұрын

So happy and peaceful god bless all their souls

@sleepygary1176 3 жыл бұрын

This is priceless

@yodae6672 4 жыл бұрын

INTEGRATION HURT US ❗️ WE HAD MORE WHEN WE WHERE SEPARATE FROM other......ESPECIALLY LOVE 🖤

@masoncampbell971 3 жыл бұрын

Da’Ladybug E that's not entirely true, some black communities didn't have access to higher education or even high school so children were often denied further education unless their families could move. Some didn't have adequate access to healthcare facilities like hospitals and white hospitals would turn them away. Segregation is wrong as it not only denies people access to things they need or deserve but it perpetuates the idea that one race is better than other. Integration is not what hurt black communities, it was racist laws, people and policies, two world wars, a Great Depression as well as white flight taking jobs and investment from cities. I would also like to emphasise that not all white people are racist, but the ones that are, are very vocal. The solution to racism is never more racism in the opposite direction, in fact the solution is more integration and education. That cliche of "i'm not racist i have a black friend" if more white people actually did have black friends and neighbours then there would be far less racism.

@madchemist5926 3 жыл бұрын

@@masoncampbell971 The black community in the 1920s saw more racism than any Black American community likely ever will. They still had hope though. What really turned black communities in America into what they are today is the breakdown of the black family that started in the 60s, as well as integration. Integration itself isn't bad, it is the manner in which it was implemented in the 60s. Instead of simply doing away with government sanctioned de-jure segregation, that would have allowed the black communities to gain the resources it needed to be truly "separate but equal" (while also not having to look to whites for employment), the 1960s saw moves like closing down perfectly good all black schools, and busing black children in to white schools that they both did not want to go to, and were not wanted in. If the government had simply focused on providing public facilities and institutions in black communities with the same funding that white facilities and institutions were getting, they would have thrived in spite of any de-facto segregation.

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

@@madchemist5926 woah dude. Telling the truth is racist af.

@abdulkhafidsulaymaan 3 жыл бұрын

I agree with you sister. One of the worse things you could ever do as a people is forget who your enemy is. Thats what integration did to us.

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

@@abdulkhafidsulaymaan you mean you forgot who sold you to the whites in the first place?

@shanika8 3 жыл бұрын

I didn't know about this well we learn something new everyday

@memphisakan4691 Жыл бұрын

This is where you see black American culture

@christophermorgan3261 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful music for this video, who wrote this?

@evangmichaelnorris1772 2 жыл бұрын

Why is t Belleville. Virginia ever included? They were not only successful then but are still striving today.

@derrickcobb8547 4 жыл бұрын

How can we find all of the footage

@Kate-hh8yi 4 жыл бұрын

💜

@jocelyngardner5711 2 жыл бұрын

They try to make everything about slavery. This was beautiful🇺🇸

@Lescouflair 4 жыл бұрын

Despite an “often” racist society should be changed to “always” or “perpetually” racist society.

@NabalashalAhwar-vj9cg 2 жыл бұрын

Where could I view this footage in its entirety?

@Rescue162 3 жыл бұрын

This is excellent footage considering it was 100 years ago. So which actor would you get to play Rev. Solomon Jones in a movie today?

@curtisknight2284 Жыл бұрын

Forest Whitaker or Courtney B. Vance.

@fromouttaleftfield6932 Жыл бұрын

@@curtisknight2284 and every member of the Republikkklan party and the majority of their accomplices (I meant supporters) can work as extras in crowd scenes as the rabid and virulently fearful townsfolk who come into the town by night with torches and BURN LOOT AND MASSACRE everything and everyone in sight

@caroleappling2007 2 жыл бұрын

Rgis fills me with so much joy and sadness.

@raqibjohnson3610 2 жыл бұрын

Iam from Oklahoma love this video

@tangelaturner 4 жыл бұрын

beautiful

@chrissansone3012 3 жыл бұрын

His story!

@wrightterence680 4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏

@MegaAli213 2 жыл бұрын

Knowing this, we need to wake up, save our communities and especially our children and regain our past directives. Stop relying upon the same system that destroyed everything we've ever worked independently to build for ourselves. Kumbaya is dead.

@Remember_the_Time Жыл бұрын

I live in Alabama, I think we should build new black towns here. They drowned a black town that's now named "Lake Martin" and I just learned about it recently. Do you know ways we can start coming together to build new towns for black folks? I had a dream about making a black town, we even ended up having our own traditional clothes! I always wanted traditional clothes for black americans

@indridcole7596 Жыл бұрын

@@Remember_the_Time you think they gone let you do that

@leonfrancis3418 19 күн бұрын

@@indridcole7596Let?

@hydroblast2209 4 жыл бұрын

We were told that black men like this never existed in America and all we ever did was abandon our families

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

By who? Your moms?

@icemike1 3 жыл бұрын

The bought the black woman

@fromouttaleftfield6932 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrpoopo2320 the white fragility is satanic.

@blackfootindian7371 2 жыл бұрын

Look at all those copper-colored and brown skin Niiji on their reservation living well until a particular group of people got jealous of their prosperity.

@squire_squad 2 жыл бұрын

This makes me sad frfr. The more you know though.

@vivianraw Жыл бұрын

If you did not learn about this in school...just think about who created the school you went to.

@rogercook8277 3 жыл бұрын

If I really feel that I am faster than you when it comes to racing, there would be no reason to put any hurdles in front of you. If I really believe that you are not capable of learning how to read or write, there would not be any reason for me to threaten you if I ever see you with a book in your hand. If I really feel that I am the best in what ever I do, I wouldn't have any problem taken on all comers. First name Roger, last name Cook. 5/19/2021

@icemike1 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@rwconz_live2267 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely beautiful. Makes me want to travel back in time.

@BjtheLawyer_ Жыл бұрын

I long to live and be apart of a black community like this!

@jowhit226 6 ай бұрын

Me too. Let's not give up hope.

@DLewis-kt9ok 5 ай бұрын

You can: it starts with you!✊🏿

@leonfrancis3418 19 күн бұрын

As a lawyer who has access to more resources than the average BIăck male, what part are you playing to build this community you long for?

@BjtheLawyer_ 19 күн бұрын

@@leonfrancis3418 One man can’t build a community, but I can start with creating my own family & mentoring others. To build a community takes groups of people, finances, & a code of ethics!

@henrypayne7742 4 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed this short video but after reading some of the comments. I've noticed some family members of the people that destroyed our communities are posting talking about the state of predominantly black cities in present day. don,t let their post upset you, it's just a way for them to brag . (job well done children of the devil ) I'd like to ask a favor from every one that read this post tomorrow morning speak to at least one person that look like us with care, concern and words of encourage and try it once a day going forward it's hard I've tried many times some days I don"t like the looks I've gotten other days I'm glad I spoke, but it makes a difference. we as black have to reverse the teaching of hate for each other. BTW black men it start with us let"s take of our women and children

@captainstatus1338 4 жыл бұрын

Do you really think they came to ''brag'' about what their ancestors did? More likely to keep abreast the dialogue of black engagement so to, in what ever way possible, try controlling the narrative and or muddying the water and thus making what is without a doubt a fact, something that is '''debatable?'' Why would someone with ten times your net worth waste their time making such comments here when they could be doing a dozen other things. They, with every stroke of the key is trying to keep their entitlement and privilege safe, secure and intact. Oh, and some may be trying to curtail the facts to console their conscience.

@Femamaph Жыл бұрын

So dignified and class acts! Truly a generation to be respected and revered! They be rolling in their graves lookin at young people now.

@leonfrancis3418 19 күн бұрын

Why would they be doing that? Are you okay?

@toyaadams8167 Жыл бұрын

beautiful footage...this is masterpiece material...i just wish blk ppl could be this united now...could you imagine how fierce we'd be with this type of advancement at our reach now...we'd rule the world...we gotta all get back on the same pg...

@jimscott1338 Жыл бұрын

What a beautiful, thing thank you Lord Jesus I'm grateful to be a black ,man in this country, today and then I can love my sisters and brothers, in spite of it all I can be a blessing to my people with all this hurt and pain and disparity, that we go through and accept and two continue to move on thank you Lord, Jesus, your chosen, people will rise because you say so🤔💯🙏

@MC32595 Жыл бұрын

agreed, much love

@JohnDoe-sy6tt Жыл бұрын

Thank God Amen!

@lovemetender497 2 жыл бұрын

Envious will definitely destroy

@soulglowsheen 4 жыл бұрын

Here june 2020

@ousmanekonate5253 3 жыл бұрын

When they gonna make the blacks wall street movies ?

@jhanturandall2519 2 жыл бұрын

Anthony mackie and Sam Jackson made the closest I’ve see. To it. Theirs was about two guys who bought up white owned banks in LA and Texas in the 50’s

@cheardsful 2 ай бұрын

I want this footage to show to my nephews neices brothers sisters

@robertelmore2911 2 жыл бұрын

Know your history!

@danielfrancis3660 5 ай бұрын

What I'll never understand is why people wanted to and did destroy these communities. This was so devastating that the communities never fully recovered from this ordeal.

@psychosentret7315 Жыл бұрын

Segregation (separate but equal) would really be a great way to keep all the troublesome races out of our lives and have a place African Americans could call home. Next time we ever have an opportunity like this, we gotta protect our properties at all cost.

@abdulkhafidsulaymaan 3 жыл бұрын

I was watching a documentary by Martin Scorsese about Italians, I saw old footage of New York from the 1920s which caused me to think how nice it must be for them to know how far back their history in this country goes- they know exactly when they got here- then it hit me- WE WERE ALREADY HERE! But of course you won't see any black folks in any of the footage that they had because even though we were already here long before Italians, Irish and other Europeans we were under the yolk of segregation. Its deep when you think about it, especially if you look at how a lot of black folks are living today- to think that we have been here longer than a huge segment of the people who are here today. I think we deserve a holiday to celebrate this which could stand as a reminder for everyone... Why does it seem like it is so much harder for us to succeed in comparison to others?

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe it's because others worked to better themselves and black culture is more about placing blame on others and having those others better themselves. I'm not a sociologist but at face value, that seems like a huge difference. I have never encountered a single instance of Italians saying that their culture is misrepresented and needs to be recognized. I've never heard of them screaming cultural appropriation at a pizza hut or Olive garden. I've never heard a peep about them being underrepresented aside from Mario and Luigi. They don't claim everything is an example of racism against them. They don't demonize the people who employ them. Again, I'm not a doctor of sociology, but it seems like they didn't waste time and resources trying to get everyone to treat every member of their race like they were owed more respect and consideration than close family. I think they let the merits of the individual be taken into account and let the rest of society judge them.

@fromouttaleftfield6932 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrpoopo2320 I've never heard of a single Italian that had the entire American country working AGAINST them for centuries either, even after slavery. Have you?

@fromouttaleftfield6932 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrpoopo2320 and I guarantee you another thing, I bet you that every Italian who immigrated here received far better receptions and were far better treated and respected than the blacks who are already here. Zero comparison with whatever you're going on about

@Aphrodite_ErosLuvChild214-80 Жыл бұрын

Probably because your race are the largest consumers in America you waste your money on nonsense , and spend it as soon as you get it look up the informed you will see that black ppl buy things that truly have no value .

@MC32595 Жыл бұрын

@@fromouttaleftfield6932 THANK YOU 👏

@punkanelliefonkbush8811 Жыл бұрын

Sad 😢

@cheardsful 2 ай бұрын

Knowing what is going to happen I still would rather be there with them then to be here in 2024 they make you sooooo!!!!! Proud

@michaelparker6871 2 жыл бұрын

This is what we lost..😤😤😥😤😤

@mercedesgomez8258 4 жыл бұрын

Oh Lord, there are tapes!! Live footage to prove people wrong about some of the injustices that have been committed to AA communities

@rexeleers 4 жыл бұрын

0:48

@archerlangfield8189 4 жыл бұрын

There is video now and people still pretend it doesnt exist

@anuradhahazarika5090 4 жыл бұрын

Do you perhaps mean to say that injustices due to racism were absent in those times?

@VariedVids 4 жыл бұрын

At what age did you suffer brain injury?

@michaelowino228 3 жыл бұрын

Hello

@khalidcarl8456 6 ай бұрын

There are also many black inventors in the 19th century, but they were never mentioned. They are credited with several inventions, whether electrical or household appliances.

@MarlenaDarden-fr5kp Жыл бұрын

What town?

@ЛАмПочка1337 4 жыл бұрын

если бы они все так и остались баптистами... но то, что сейчас там с ними - никому не пожелаю

@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 3 жыл бұрын

this is how america should be. seperate but equal. works better

@5339kimhall 3 жыл бұрын

They forgot to add these amazing people immediately tried to rebuild. Reparations!

@justmeagain9051 2 жыл бұрын

Gimme free money for something I didn't do. Are black people going to repay the free room and board too ?

@akingspalace4050 3 жыл бұрын

They had it lucky compared to what I had to go through

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

In the 1920s? Or 2020s?

@akingspalace4050 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrpoopo2320 yup segregation ruined america. And black dating was better. Our women didn't date thugs or disrespect us. blacks weren't on drugs . There was brotherhood. I can continue...

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

@@akingspalace4050 nah. I don't own any women. You seem to come from a different reality. I was surprised to hear someone say it's worse now, but I get it. You are not someone I could begin to relate to

@VMohdude- 2 жыл бұрын

@@akingspalace4050 please continue on how life under Jim Crow was better for black people please?

@mrlij6534 8 ай бұрын

these people are simply amazing. how they managed to carry on in the midst of mass hate and oppression is crazy. Black people today have no excuse when u see what these ancestors in this same america where able to do while enduring nonsense should serve as motivation to do much much better, we must make these people proud and not let them down a century later

@nbafanboy8146 Ай бұрын

You do realise that those towns were decimated and destroyed right?

@bogdan1213 Жыл бұрын

Why were they so civilized back then?

@renitacody8841 Жыл бұрын

More of Black Americans were more standing together during those times.

@heru-deshet359 3 жыл бұрын

Funny how videos about life in the 40s and 50s where mostly white communities are depicted have the comments disabled, but not these.

@tonetalley2678 Жыл бұрын

This when America was great outside the racism of course.

@LizardOfmonaco-uc7rd 6 ай бұрын

Go and watch videos of America in the 50s . I swear in God I almost cried to how beautiful it looked

@icemike1 3 жыл бұрын

Ask me do I like white people

@justmeagain9051 2 жыл бұрын

Feeling is mutual .

@brandonray4379 Жыл бұрын

Do you like white people?

@icemike1 Жыл бұрын

@@brandonray4379 no

@brandonray4379 Жыл бұрын

@@icemike1 Why?

@icemike1 Жыл бұрын

@@brandonray4379 look around learn history Yada Yada Yada you didn't do it you profited and did nothing about it

@Leejahstar Жыл бұрын

The real one’s

@crissysweet1959 4 жыл бұрын

👍

@frillylily8005 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know what era this was but I Heard there was also a all light skin black town too

@frillylily8005 3 жыл бұрын

@Light skin black woman I Heard this from someone on the web but don’t know if it’s true

@naga7461 2 жыл бұрын

You do realize that blk people can be light skinned too right ?? And what does your comment have to do with anything. Your blk and light skinned your still blk

@frillylily8005 2 жыл бұрын

@@naga7461 I know that that’s why I mentioned a whole light skin town of black and Mixed people. Just mentioning all one group towns.

@justju0rd 5 ай бұрын

Foundational Black American societies

@naamAmaan 3 жыл бұрын

Have pride in you ethnicity brosss!!!

@sullivandre2893 2 жыл бұрын

Flooded out and burned up

@melaniebush80 5 ай бұрын

Better off then, then today by far!!

@Leejahstar Жыл бұрын

Gods children’s

@DLewis-kt9ok 5 ай бұрын

This is what happens when Foundational Black Americans come together. B1

@alishabazz7431 16 күн бұрын

My family comes from boley Oklahoma in the early 1900's. Raised in OKC my first 28 years of living. My Grandparents Still own acres of land out there in Boley. White folks attempted and still try to buy the land from the blacks that lived there, and if they can't, they literally burned down the property as they did to majority of the houses there. This happened all throughout Boley and the surrounding old historical black towns. Sorry to say but everything went downhill for us Post integration.

@danieleckart3103 3 жыл бұрын

Ive never seen so many people advocate for segregation than in these comments.

@mrpoopo2320 3 жыл бұрын

There is a show on netflix i think or hulu out right now by bone crusher. He tries to advocate it every episode. Rosa parks stopped only spinning in her grave and has become the first corpse to become a professional ballerina.

@googlesucks6029 3 жыл бұрын

To be honest I can understand why even though I don't agree, black people are still second class citizens in integrated societies. Might as well form a community were every black person is seen as an equal (FYI I'm black)

@snthonyrice2277 Жыл бұрын

@@googlesucks6029 why you don’t agree

@brandonray4379 Жыл бұрын

Segregation wasn't a bad thing in general. Jim Crow was.

@leonfrancis3418 19 күн бұрын

Its stuff like this that reparations is about. Not sIavery. Thats the start of it. Why BIack Americans deserve reparations is proven in the far past, near past, and present.