Thank you for this concise doc. As a 54 yr old white Texan, it should come as no surprise that none of this was covered in my Texas or World History classes in the ‘80s. Sadly, 35 years later there is still a fight to keep this history out of our public school curriculum .

“History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.” - Sydney J Harris

Best explanation of Jim Crow laws and segregation I’ve ever seen. Should be a lesson in every middle school in America.

This is deeper than ANY black history I ever learned throughout Jr and high school.. Thanks for the TRUE education.

In 1943, when my Dad was in the Army Air Force, his life was saved by his army buddies by whisking him off a Biloxi Mississippi bus. He had offered his seat to a pregnant black woman. His buddies educated him on southern prejudice, surprising and saddening him deeply. The why I'll never understand. I'm thankful as an American veteran that we can look through history and learn of Frederick Douglass, Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, and Homer Plessy, The 7th regiment, Dr. King. So many, so great, so terribly overlooked and underappreciated. There were and still are so many to look up to. Inventors, Statesmen, doctors, and, basically, our every field of life have been enriched with powerful, meaningful brothers and sisters. I'm also proud of the abolutiomist of the past and to those who continue to stand shoulder to shoulder in concert to end the stuggle of each fighting Americans who suffer(ed) tragically at the hands of those who violently oppose(ed) equality. May prejudice finally die a tired and deserved death never to be reborn.

I remember the story of our grandfather being free here. When he found out he wasn't free while going to the bar he went to after work every evening, his hair turned white. He caused a ruckus and his hair turned white. In Washington State here on the west coast. Black ,Japanese and Philippino folks had land, were teachers, book keepers, towns leaders and all kinds of wonderful jobs and not so, but freedom was here ad suddenly it wasn't. So They did it back then and they're wanting racial division now. They cannot stand the equaity and intelligence of a person of color. They rob us of our ideas, and spit in our faces by not allowing people of color to be among "them". America wake-up. Great video. I'm Sharing

Watching these segments about the true history of America, makes me cry. The harsh injustice my ancestors, and even grandparents, great grandparents, etc. etc. have put other humans threw is inexcusable.

This is the type of stuff Ron DeSantis doesn’t want taught in our schools here in Florida. I wonder why

And the great thing about teaching accurate history is that it helps us ALL become better people. We learn so much from transgressions of the past. It should help us to move in a much more equitable manner in present & future.

Great condensed history of racial discrimination in the U.S. Unfortunately, many of the Confederate states would make it illegal for teachers to show their students this video.

One can't help but feel rage that these acts were allowed to happen. 😢

Beautifully spoken Sir, I am from Australia and this deep look into American history is truly educational. This video should be called “How America legalised Slavery”.

Such well researched information should receive far more likes. I think the issue is that not everyone is willing to deal with the truth.

This must be taught in schools everywhere. Some of their decendants are in power today.

Prof. Hasan Kwame Jeffries is deeply Knowledgeable and more passionate about the subject than anyone I've come across!

I found this to be interesting. I grew up in a suburb of Houston, TX in the 1940's and 50's. This was before the Civil Rights act of 1964. The school district that I was in was segregated as were all the neighborhoods in the area. As a result I was 10 years old before I ever even saw a black person. I was in high school from 1958 - 1961. This was a period when the seeds of racial unrest had begun to stir. The school district thought it was important to show us that they were providing equal or better education to the black community that was in the district so they bussed to a new high school that they had built for the black students. That was a very effective move as we were convinced that the black students were treated very well. After graduation I joined the navy and served on a nuclear ballistic missile submarine. We had a crew of between 90 to 125 and in that crew there was one black sailor, a chief petty officer with nuclear power training. After the Navy I got married and worked for a few years at an oil refinery as an operator in various units. There no black operators that I was aware of. The only jobs that back men had were labor jobs of cleaning and filling tank cars and trucks. I started college in 1969 at the University of Texas at Austin. I do not remember ever seeing a black student at that college, Darryl Royal was the football coach and they would not let him recruit any black players until some years later. Since this was still a time of change in race relations I was fortunate that the English department made us read a number of books about race topics in the literature classes. Some of the ones that I remember were several of James Baldwin's short stories and articles, These works and others opened my eyes to some aspects of what it was like to be black in the US. After college I got a job as an electrical engineer a large computer manufacturer. In addition to my engineering assignment I was tasked to mentor a new black engineer to help him learn how to deal with everyday interactions with the mostly white members of the engineering department. I was a new engineer but I was older and had experience in working in industry and the military and that is why I was given that assignment, I relate this because it ties in with the story about Homer Plessy. Even in the 1970's the education including higher education opportunities available to persons of color were not really equal to that available to blacks. I would have been really helpful if our school district had put some of the works I read in college in 1969. Instead of teaching us how and why the education system was failing black people they chose to teach us that there was not really a problem. That was a disservice to their students. It became clear to me that just building a new school building did not do anything to address the real issues of lack of job opportunities due to lingering discrimination and the lack of motivation caused by that for the students and teachers. Fifty years later some progress has been made but I fear that Trump and his MAGA movement will set that back 50 years or more.

Excellent documentary. There are so many parallels to our current time. We, as a nation, are still embroiled with these same problems. This documentary is a "must see" for everyone, as it is informative for those who don't know our past history and a reminder to those who do know.

Fantastic documentary with excellent research. It’s a side of American history that I never heard in school as a white kid who grew up in the country. This information and more like it need to see the light of day with all Americans.

When one reads Justice Harlan's eloquent dissent in Plessy,one can almost HEAR him thunder ,,"NO ONE is fooled by what we do here today.the Constitution does not permit the extension of the badge of slavery by other means."As the narrator notes,the man had owned slaves before the war.

I watched. Hard to, but I watched. History needs to be remembered and taught so we as humans can move forward together.

I, as an Englishman, am very grateful to have seen this video. I had no idea that so much of the terrible segregation started in the northern states.

As long as I live I’ll never understand why a person can hate another person because of the color of their skin

An excellent account of history.

You can't say "all men are created equal, BUT..." Separating people in this way is so absurd when you stop and think about it for just a second. Even cemeteries were segregated?! Absolutely ridiculous. Is your sense of self so fragile that being buried next to someone who is simply different offends your sensibilities?!! Absurd!

I'm surprised at how many people didn't learn this in school. I learned most of this stuff back in school in the 80's and 90's. But in my defense, I was made to study history and math in great depth.

Very informative. It is terrible what “we” did to our fellow citizens who were just trying to live as good a life as they could. This needs to be taught in the public schools. It is a part of our history as a country and we need to really open the eyes and hearts of people who think this kind of behavior to people of color or anyone they deem different than they are is “Christian.” The “white supremacy” movement in this country is made up of sick people, not of people who love God and country. Thank you for creating this wonderful video on racial discrimination in this country.

I'm from NZ and was curious about the Jim Crow era and what it was about...I had a little bit of knowledge but thank you to the documentary I have learnt a whole lot more about your history.

Brilliant video so well put together and informative, shame that now in America schools are not allowed to show this let alone discuss it because some people can't handle the history of their country.

I hope humanity can rise above this sickness.. 😰so much pain and suffering caused by power-hunger and dependency on slaves to do the hard work... it makes me sick that this happened only a generation or two ago and still is in play in many other ways in the World today...

I cannot afford Wondrium but these KZfaq published videos have always been phenomenal

Wondrium is awesome . I highly recommend their course “America’s Long Struggle against Slavery” 👍👍 by Prof. Richard Bell

The pace, direction, and execution of this topic is absolutely flawless-very well done!

This is an amazing video that explains what happened in America during Jim Crow. It's not overly political, he explains what happened and why it happened. This video allows for people to discuss what happened in a calm way.. great job.

Racism is NOT a left or right issue, it’s a humanity issue.

Thank for this painful yet wonderfully crafted condensed history lessons. It was tough to fight back tears and not allow rage to consume me. What the world doesn’t understand is that this period of radical injustice paved the way for the massive economic, civil government, educational, and wealth disparity we have between Blacks and Whites in this country. I have a 3rd grade daughter and they don’t even teach history in the classroom anymore. Rather than to truly discuss ALL US history and confront this country’s past sins, we rather teach none of it. Shameful and very sad 😢

“There are many noteworthy examples of ordinary evil in every culture and country around the globe, but in terms of preventable evil I am hard pressed to find any examples that approach those systematically perpetrated by humans against the members of other species.” Lawrence Pope

The main problem with this was not even the train or school separation. The main problem is that it sets precedent for other stuff like housing discrimination and access to cresdit

So we’ll researched and well executed. Love your style. I want to see you on the history channel! Let the masses learn.

The best of ANY presentations on social and political history videos I have ever watched. Thank you.

This part of US HISTORY wasn’t taught in school. Thank you for the video. Some of the things are still happening NOW.

Thanks for this well researched video though it is painful to listen to the horror that was perpetrated it is a history that should never be forgotten. Unfortunately there are still people in this day and age that would like to return to those days. Freedom one is also freedom that can be lost and there are many that would like to take it away.

A truly inspirational and factual insight to a subject/reference "Jim Crow" that we all are familiar with. I should add, but I didn't study the history on this - probably 99% of others as well. Thank you!

I'M SO GLAD TO HAVE FOUND AND WATCHED THIS VIDEO.. EVEN THOUGH I LIVED IN VIRGINIA DURING THE COLORED AND WHITES ONLY ERA I AM AMAZED AT WHAT I LEARNED FROM WATCHING.. EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH THIS AND LEARN!!!

That was a really enjoyable lecture, glad I stumbled upon it.

A concise documentary, informative and thought provoking. Keep up the good work.

We need people of all flavors telling their story out load; so we hear it.

Love the speaker. Excellent, clear, no filler words, and SHARP

The term "Jim Crow" is often used, it is great to finally have it explained in detail. Thank you, it is good to know, though even more depressing than I had thought.

The truth is that everyone has African ancestry since the first humans evolved in Africa and then dispersed throughout the world. Skin color evolved to protect those people living near the equator to be protected from UV rays from the Sun and help people who live away from the equator to receive adequate UV rays to form vitamin D.

How can I be in my 40s and never heard of this "leasing" ? Oh yeah, it's an "uncomfortable to recall" part of history so best to let it out of the history books!!

THESE PEOPLE WERE PURE DEVILS! ALL OF THEM AREN'T DEAD AND SOME OF THEIR OFFSPRING STILL MAINTAIN THE SAME MINDSET!

This is great material. Thanks for sharing. Just in time for my presentation this weekend.

Jim Crow was never mentioned in grade school or even high school in the sixties or seventies....it's important that this story stay alive....they were the foundation of the civil rights movement.....we should not forget....ever

The dark side of Am history? Uhhhh..........an understatement

This was a great documentary and also a great history lesson. Thank you.

Love how people are trying to stop this from being taught.

Well done , thank you Should be viewed with humility in one's heart ✌🏽❤

Economics, politics and codes and customs aside, where did the hatred come from, which is what nobody can seem to explain. I still don't understand that part.

It's not the dark side it is American history!

Thank you for the video. It was well informed and very appropriate. A lot of Americans really don’t know about the truth and should watch this.

I do own a book about this and gave it good ratings. Many people did not like it. HOW ELSE COULD I LEARN THE TRUTH...

This could not have been done better. Impeccable.

This Awesome information. Every Black man in America living at this present time needs to listen to this presentation. Thank you for sharing to video.

This is one of many reasons why I am so thankful to all the people who made it possible for me to get one step more towards freedom!!!

Unbelievable......feels like he's talking about now, not century ago.

@11:23 This "seperate but equal" argument sounds exactly like what was being said in South Africa during Apartheid - here it was famously called "a policy of good neighborliness'". Upon learning about Apartheid in school as well as the civil rights movement in the U.S, it is striking how similar they were. There were many laws, used against the native Americans & other minorities which mirrored the laws drawn up in S.A. Very interesting if history is your thing - good video!

Nothing’s really changed. Thank you so much for this.

Thank you Sir for the history lesson, very informative, it is Appreciated 👍👌👏

This should be seen by many more viewers - it is excellent. I do wonder who the lecturer is, though. I don't see a reference in the video or description. Surely, he can't be in witness protection?

Fine historical presentation.

Very informative history that isn’t thought in 🇺🇸 True American history gone, but never forgotten!

Wow. I didn't know most of these details. Important video!

Thanks for sharing this story Black History ancestor and the education ❤

I really enjoyed this history lesson learned a lot

Excellent! I look forward to more content!

This is such pertinent information thank you... Willl share and subscribe..

Good morning to everyone who has read this article. As I sit here today and recognize the issue of JIM CROW, still exists.

Very eloquent and detailed eplaination in such a brief moment, on the dark History of America's past. Cuz there was something about Slavery ; " DARKER THAN THE BLACKMAN himself " . Wonderful job sir.

Excellent research and work...

All the untold stories are now coming together, Although there are many hideous stories that may never come to light. ( Good Work )

Great historical video.

Why is the name of this excellent lecturer not mentioned in the credits? He deserves our respect, and his name should be prominently featured, not invisible.

Thank you, Sir. 🙏 I certainly learned a lot from your detailed explanation. 🙏🙏

masterful presentation... Thank you! 🙏🏾

Absolutely well said! Thanks

You do a good job making the past seem so terrible. However, even though things are different today, I don't think that they any better!!!!

Thank you for your Exquisitely detailed presentation. Thank you for correcting the record about JIM CROW era laws for those who need to know The Truth. 🇺🇸

Good documentary, liked the objectivity of the analysis

Good work!

WOW!!!!!!! Great History Lesson

🚨A MUST SEE 🚨Thank you for sharing this important information. 🇺🇸

There was a good reason why the railroads had their division points close to the Ks.Ok. border. They could implement their temporary partitions in passenger cars when the trains were all stopped anyway.

Excellent documentary. Slave class has, and will always exist. Courts pander to make it so. The scale of justice is bias. The end results always overstretch the intent. And swing the pendulum further then the needed result. Maintaining constant resolutions for future generations.

Thank you, our struggle for dignity and a place in the sun continues. We need an informed and educated populace. I welcome love.

Great video. Keep up the good work.

Thank you, this is a great presentation and seriously important to know.

My Mom is buried in what was the slaves burial site. It was her family's plot......inherited from slavery

this was great to listen to. I wish they had taught all of this when i was in high school(or even college) but apparently 1 paragraph was enough....according to someone.

Very interesting! Particularly as I've performed as a street performer in the New Orlean's/Alabama area for the past 11 years.

Excellent presentation! I am ashamed to admit that knew very little about the Jim Crow era and the re-establishment of discrimination and exploitation after the civil war.