1970 SPECIAL REPORT: "MOBILE, ALABAMA SCHOOL INTEGRATION"
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- Davis v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on April 20, 1971, ruled (9-0) that the desegregation plan for Mobile county, Alabama, did not make use of all possible remedies and that lower courts needed to develop a more realistic plan. Davis was one of numerous cases in which the Supreme Court showed its impatience with inadequate desegregation efforts.
Nearly 10 years after Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) struck down desegregation, the Mobile county school system had failed to implement an effective desegregation plan. In 1963 a lawsuit was filed on behalf of a number of African American students, including Birdie Mae Davis. The case subsequently was involved in protracted legal proceedings as various plans were considered and rejected.
In the late 1960s the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declared that a plan based on unified geographic zones inadequately eliminated desegregation to achieve a unitary school system. It remanded, and a federal district court then fashioned another plan, which left 18,623, or 60 percent, of the district’s African American students in 19 schools that were all Black or almost all Black.
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My my mom's sister came across this video and discovered that my grandmother was one of the lady's being interviewed! This was a shock but a blessing at the same time. My grandmother is deceased now for over 15 years and believe me , seeing this is a breath of freash air!!! It's amazing! Thank you for posting this🙏🏽
Which one was she?
The dignity of the black families is breathtaking. Children all nicely dressed and behaved. Beautiful. Just beautiful
The white children are dressed nicely as well. Racist
@@bobbyg433 not as nice tbh
@@georged4578 lol.
IK what happened right?
@@bobbyg433 I see we have a white supremacist in the house. Please take your racism elsewhere, you are not welcome here.
This is when the cars looked beautiful, made out of metal, and we're truly American made.
classic
the colored negress with the whites Gary Coleman
I hear ya. I still have a 58 Ford ..restored. It runs circles around my Nissan.
Yep! My dad had a nice ‘71 Olds Cutlass! 😎👍 Man, that thing could get up & MOVE with that 350 V-8 engine!
😜😉👍
Good times.... i was negative 25 at the time
People seemed too be more classy and dignified even in turbulent times back then.
They were viciously attacking black children because they believe that homo sapiens with melanated skin were subhuman btw
For sure
Humans had already walked on the moon in 1969, but an issue like segregation was still going on in the early 1970s. Amazing. This really wasn't all that long ago.
My mother said that they didn’t integrate until the early 70s in her area despite the state integrating since the 1950s.
I love how black children were raised to behave with class and dignity back then. The little girl with her little plaits was the picture of innocence and class.
You assume as if black children aren't raised to have dignity and class now. Just because you see videos of young black people now sometimes acting like assholes doesn't mean that there aren't those who were raised with "class" and "dignity"
This is how Black Community was
Before Drugs was Intentionally Pumped
into Black Neighborhoods...
@@RaiderClarke312 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@justinhearst most are not thousands of videos don't lie
That's a racist comment. I mean, all of the kids, white and black are much more proper, dressed nicely, etc, because that's the way it was back then, that's how ALL children of ALL races were brought up. Even the black and white mothers are in dresses which is very different than today. To imply that it was only black children that needed to be brought up with class and dignity back then, as if it's just in the white kids nature to be prim and proper without having to be taught, is ridiculous! Your comment also implies that this was a yesteryear thing and that nowadays black children are not raised with class and dignity. However, if you weren't so ignorant and racist you would know that kids, regardless of race, are nowhere near the way they were back then, nor are they brought up the same, and the same goes for the parents. All children of all races are brought up differently today. You have parents of all races dropping their kids off while wearing pajamas and you'll not likely see a boy with a tucked in shirt or a girl in a dress, nor will you see many kids walking to school holding hands with their mothers, and its not because all the parents are bad and not raising them correctly, whether white or black, it's because it's a different time, and everyone is evolving and changing. You're going to have good and bad black parents, good and bad black children, good and bad white parents and good and bad white kids, it isn't just the white race that is trying to raise good humans, it's ALL races!
I love how all of the mothers bringing their kids to school, were all dressed nice. Not a sponge bob pajama set to be seen. And no hoochie momma shorts on any of the little girls.
White people 😆
Congrats Steven. Everyone now knows how much of a racist you are.
We should bring this back fr
@@elenasantoro2404 Starting with..?? But yes there is a whole world of civility and grace gone out the window
You’re a white man talking about hoochie momma, worry about what you’re children are up to.
All the kids are beautiful, black and white. Beautiful… The general society is just nasty .
Yep you got it.
not general society just one race of people are evil ones
@@wildhogs1ful you not gonna live long thinking like that.
The society seems pretty nice to me
I'm shocked that this didn't happen until the 70s. It just shows the amount of resistance
Not really surprising when you consider in 1963 the church bombing that killed 4 black girls happen in Birmingham, AL and in 1964 in nearby Mississippi the murders of those 3 civil rights workers. 1970 was just 6-7 years later.
They tried to save us
@@Rxz5526Tried to save us from what exactly? Im laughing in your neo nazi face 😂
@@DocNinini try looking at interracial crime statistics sometime
@@Rxz5526 are we talking about chain slavery or lynching
I remember being a child in those days. It is so neat to see how well dressed everyone is. Some of those ladies remind me of my own mother.
I was born in Mobile and literally my whole family is from there and has been there for many generations. This is quite interesting. I moved away as a child and haven't been back in many years.
I grew up in majority black schools in mobile & never had issues....the north is more segregated than here
To add to what you are saying, Boston, MA had issues with integration as late as 1975.@@Jason-si8iu
Mobilian here. Born and raised here. This is interesting. Never heard of this.
Me either, I’m from Mobile too.
This is also when parents raise their own kids and not leaving them on other family members to take care of like now......
Nobody is leaving them. The carriers chose to sleep around
Parents have to work. You can’t live off of one income these days.
I love the 1970’s dresses 👗 the ladies are wearing! My Mom wore some like that back then. I was in the 2nd Grade in 1970.
Wow... interesting video. I was born and raised in Daphne, AL a suburb of Mobile.
What's up Family I'm born and raised in Mobile I never seen old footage of Mobile I appreciate this much respect Brother Peace.....
Right
He asked if she was scared
She stopped looking away and looking him DEAD in the eyes and said
No Sir !
3:38 That black lady turned around like whatcha looking at woman 😂
This time period is haunting and amazing at the same time
The thing I noticed with integration of school, don't matter where in the country, some white feel that they should have to move their kids outside their neighborhood are to go to school...And Black parents or black students feel going to a white school will help improve their education.
Because white schools had better everything to facilitate the best education: buildings, desks, plumbling, books, teachers (educ), etc. Black schools got the cast-offs: out of date & used falling apart textbooks, no/used/damaged tech (overhead projectors, science lab materials, etc). Even heating in the winter.
Because schools in white neighborhoods were supported in every way by state & federal monies.
Think about today; where are the "best" schools? Inner city? or the white flight suburbs? BTW why there was "white flight" the suburbs in the first place in teh 1960s. Check out the cornerstones of most private US schools...the date . . . tells you a lot
@@60asteroid the blacks that choose to send their kids to a "white school" hardly made the effort in trying to improve the environment in their neighborhood?! Despite what was presented or giving circumstances, they could have mad a effort in improving black neighborhoods. There really wasn't, it seems as soon as integration came about some black folks was quick to jump across town to a "better environment"
My mother took me to a desegregated school near Charleston SC the following year. I remember those days well.
This is my hometown 😭lil ole Mobile
Yesss
It was still like this in 2010 when i went to college black kids hung with black kids and white kids hung with white kids i remember one of my professors cussed a class of 100 out over this he said that he noticed it on campus and that we all should be ashamed and he was a older white dude lmao
But I'll bet you that white professor lived in an all white neighborhood lol.We can't force people to interact based on skin color.That's ludicrous!Let people choose who the hell they want to associate with and leave them alone.Most professors these days are of ideology instead of their professed curriculum.
@@jenkemjones68 Don't know where he lived he just told us he moved to memphis from up north and he said he noticed it he was making a point but i cant remember why he brought it up he had a good reason tho
@@theuntouchabletee4470 I see.I just thought he went a little over the top by cussing them all like that.I think many student hang with friends who share similar interests and views.They feel more comfortable with one another I guess.Some of us can be nerdy or some of us are athletes some are country boys etc..But if we shut people out because of their race then that's a problem.Im sure that little girl at the corner in this video had a few slurs thrown at her.To me that's horrible.
Peoples like bein wit thay own.
Wasn't like that at my school. We all hung out together.
As a black man I can only say Black people was for more united and self reliant back then. We took care of ourselves and looked out for one another. That is virtually gone in 2024. We may not have had the resources back then as we do now, but we were far more spiritual and united.
I'm just looking at how beautifully dressed they all were back then .
Jackie O
The difference in then and now.....
50 years of Integration, welfare, subsidized housing projects, affirmative action, etc. Better or worse?
Worse statically. But better If you let them tell it [look how far you've come 🙄] all because you can eat at there bs restaurant or send your kids to their schools to be called racial slurs, bullied and treated indifferently 🤷🏾♂️.
I can’t believe little black girls were shamed for their hairstyle, I’m so in love with the bows and ribbons, my hair didn’t look near as cute when I was a kid
So cute!
What happened afterwards, did the school then reject the locals who refused to go across town ?
Here’s a clue for the clueless. Gerrymandering, deindustrialization, redlining, white flight. Consider those before doing any comparisions between past and present. You’ll seem a lot smarter than you probably are.
Exactly. A lot of illogical annd even outright racist comparisons are being made as if the Nixon and Reagan administrations alone didn’t intentionally destroy black neighborhoods and economic security after this time period.
Hezakya you rock my friend!
Hi, I am doing a research project on the Mobile civil rights movement. Where did you access this video from? I need to authenticate it in order to use it.
My mother was 8 around this time and I could only imagine how this affected her as a little black girl in NC
Like watching your favourite person walk straight off a steep cliff, oblivious to the perilous drop that awaits them
Go to mark 11:25 and you will hear the lady say, if our efforts (resistance) here fail, she is going to send her kids to school (Shiloh Christian Academy) in Saraland. Pay attention because history repeats itself. When I was in high school at Vigor High in Mobile, the high school had a significant amount of White and Black students. The school won a national academic award from the Department of Education. It had a nationally recognized and 2x state championship football team, and 300 members marching band. Now, check this out, I remember the first time a black girl became homecoming queen, and a suggestion was made to alternate the race of the homecoming queen each year. From 1987 to the late ’90s, my alma mater became more and more, you know the code word, “urban.” Now, fast forward to 2008, and guess who breaks away from the Mobile County School System to create their own system? Ding-Ding Ding, you guessed it, Saraland. Now, that school system is 80% white. Remember, you got to have somebody play football and basketball if you want to compete at the highest level in Alabama. Finally, today, Shiloh Christian Academy is over 90% white.
Whites can play the games that they created just fine
AND saRalAND IS #1 IN THE state IN 6A FOOTBALL...DING DING DING...
When they did that my parents took me out of public schools. And I had to go to a private school.
Saw a half a dozen cars in this video I'd like to buy.
collectible
The amount of black crime in mobile now is horrible and I only blame the parents
8:14. Dang at first i thought that was shirley from whats happening.
You’re a 🍕💩
That’s actually my beautiful grandmother… Dora Mae James. Born in McIntosh Alabama. She was a wonderful wonderful woman who we miss dearly …
😂😂she actually would’ve laughed at loud at your comment
All the children and parents seemed fine, i dont see the big deal here a close up of someone wanting for there parents, what the news story? and hard working lady just wants to bring her kids to school. The end
He said the name of the school was Hamilton. I looked it up but couldn't find much. I don't know if the school is still open today. Robbins either.
That school was called Peter Joe Hamilton and was located in Chickasaw, Alabama. I went there as an elementary school student before this time. Up until 1970, the principal was C. J. Wallace who was a good principal overall. However when desegregation came, he retired and took over as principal at one of the many church affiliated all white schools that popped up at the time. Chickasaw was 99% white at the time with just a few blacks living in the low income housing that had been built with Federal money. Any blacks who tried to move into town were usually “discouraged” by the police and local bigots.
In 1970, I was supposed to enter the 9th grade at K. J. Clark Jr. High School also in Chickasaw but they turned it into a middle school and moved the 9th graders to C. F. Vigor High School in Prichard. However we were not placed in the main campus but were relegated to an elementary school on the opposite end of the campus. Since this was rushed desegregation, this facility had no facilities to accommodate 9th graders and for the most part we were just warehoused there. However, fights occurred between white and black students several times a week until finally, my mother took me out and enrolled me in one of the all white church schools in November 1970. I stayed there until I graduated in 1974.
These sweet little AA kids make me smile. They’re dressed up so nicely and their smiles are just beautiful. I don’t know how people could be so mean to them, they’re innocent children. I guess this is a period of time where many didn’t want them interacting with their own kids even though I’m willing to bet had they had ancestry DNA tests they’d find their kids weren’t pure blood whites.
Them A-saxons are something else my family sprung off from selma al and split into three cities Birmingham, Montgomery,and mobile .
What needs to be addressed is what benefits came from busing. The intent was to bring the average black to the same standard of whites. Regardless of the intent you have to look at the evidence. Both sides did studies on the issue and came to the same conclusions. It hurt both races.
It's so crazy that our society was so ignorant and so racist and still is in some areas,we are all equal!!!! Equality!!!!
Legislated outcomes equal Communism!!!!!YAY!!!! Now they hate Equality!!!! The latest communist newspeak buzzword is EQUITY!!!! which equals RACISM!!!!YAY!!!!
Nobody is equal. Some people are better at some things than others.
@@charleswilliams5860those are specifics. As homo sapiens, we're all equal.
So this is a private school??? That makes a difference
intergration is something that has to come natural an not forced. It is even more abnormal when the federal government tries to force it. It takes time
I swear at 16.08 there is a kid that looks like Danny Bonaduci from the Partridge Family.
those were some LOUD ass cars!!!!
Corvair
The black community has taken a step back
The beginning of the end
To the fake patriots who are actually communists yes this was the end
Love my cities history.
#251
Back in the south in those days the Klan was quite active, I was the first non white in my elementary school in Oakland Park Fla my Savior was I was really good at sports especially baseball pitched a few non hitters. I never encountered racism in my school only in my all white neighbourhood especially by the old men and women.
I used to think that way until I heard what was said once I left the room, but was in earshot
Alabama can’t be fixed. I have accepted this fact.
The US can’t be fixed neither. They’ll have to overhaul the whole damn system, and start from scratch.
@@capoislamort100 Agreed!
People were so beautiful back in the day.
That’s my grandmother at 8:14 Dora Mae James. She was a wonderful caring God fearing woman. That little boy is my uncle Stanley James and that’s my aunt Faye.. this is an amazing moment to see .. this is our first time seeing this today 3/27/2024
Why is it always "skeywl"?
Watching this just broke my heart! Let's be real honest, horrible white attitudes! Shameful. LIVE AND LET LIVE!!
They were right. The whites fled Mobile and it turned majority black. Now it's a shithole
Blacks were worse
So live and let live, unless you don’t want your kids going to school with the guys who commit half the crimes.
Back when they knew who their daddy was and the man wasn't banished from the home in order to get welfare.
he wouldn't be banished for welfare if he chose to actually provide, then the household wouldn't even need welfare
@ratdog6317 that’s not true. Black people were (and often still are) paid a fraction of the amount of money white ppl were for the same jobs. Then factor in that many were relegated to lower paying jobs. It was difficult to make ends meet in a two parent household where both parents worked, but instead of mandating equal pay or investigating racist hiring practices, the government made it so that two parent households couldn’t get welfare, thus destroying many families.
No one banishes a provider...😂
It seems like this was one big logistical nightmare. 😬
To neo nazis like yourself im sure it was
@@DocNinini there is a big difference with walking one block to school rather than driving 10 miles due to forced integration. This has nothing to do with neo nazism
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@@bobbyg433 cool
@@deshaefromarounthawayricha7324 that's f***** up bro 💀
That's my town
What school is this
The news always been messy
I remember in highschool back in the mid 80's there were these large iron gates on every hallway. I asked one time what they were there for? I was told they were installed during desegregation to control rioting. Also, Gerry and the Pacemakers! Totally boss!
Blacks had better education with segregated schools facts
People will follow the ways of the past. Cavemen to superstition to prejudice.
My cousin attended a white American school in the 70's as a Latino, he was never discriminated against nor was he interviewed on TV
Latino isn’t a race most are white
@@rollitupmars Latinos arent white, they are their own people
@@rollitupmarsno, most are not white, they’re brown.
Unfortunately lots of people certainly were!
@@rollitupmarsmost are not white, broad range of shades. Example, Dominicans are usually dark to medium skinned. Argentinian's are quite fair.
I was born in Mobile and lived there all my life. I was 11 years old in 1971, my Elementary School was integrated in 1968. Now most of the Black schools are 95% Black and the White public schools are mostly Black too. The private schools are 95% White, therefore the intergration didn't work out as they thought it would. In Mobile like the rest of American cities we have an epidemic with young Black male teens shooting and killing each other. LBJs Great Society did what the Democrats wanted it to do, keep the Blacks enslaved, destroy the family nucleus, promote unwed Mothers, and destroy the Black communities with drugs and violence.
If this were now? Black kids would be saggin, and say on my momma!
This my city
I'll be labeled racist, but what's the state of this school an surrounding neighborhoods now..??
Why would you be labeled a racist for asking a legit and innocent question??
How is this racist
Mobile....Like a lot of southern cities are still very segregated. Majority blacks live on one side and whites live on another. Around 2010 the Mardi gras parades that were mainly segregated, have been mixed. Pritchard Alabama, which is on the other side of Mobile, is mainly black and they have their own parades and mardi gras party's and balls.
White resistance, bad government policy, and drug culture is quite the powder keg
Good question, but keep in mind that there are also many neighborhoods that “turn” that end up the same, if not better than when they were all white. So, we have to be careful to assume high black population, low quality. In fact, the blackest census recognized community in NY State, Lakeview on Long Island at 73% has a median household income of about $140,000 and is in a high performing school district that is predominantly/pluralistically more black(Malverne, which is mentioned in a 1963 documentary on this channel).
What part of Mobile is this?
I've never heard of this.
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That newsman racist
Dan Rather Norah O’ Donnell
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Yuhhh
Go to mark 13:59 and you will get a glimpse of why private schools are important in Mobile, Alabama. The lie is that they provide better education, but this video sheds light on the main reason they exist. The private school principal stated that if you have one child you will have to pay $406.00 for the year. In accordance with www.saving.org/inflation/inflation.php?amount=406, $406 in 1970 is a little over $3,000 in 2022 money.
Now to be fair, Saraland High School has a non-resident policy as follows:
"The Saraland Board of Education has an approved policy for admitting students who are not Saraland residents. The policy requires tuition payment of $1500.00 as well as academic, behavior, and attendance eligibility requirements. Additionally, admission is based on space availability. Full-time employees of the Saraland City School System and the City of Saraland with non-resident students are subject to the Non-Resident Policy but are eligible for a tuition waiver. Saraland business owners who own the property on which the business is located may also be eligible for a tuition waiver.
The non-resident student application submission deadline is May 14, 2021. Submission of an application does not guarantee acceptance. Notice regarding admission status will be mailed to the student's home address in June. Tuition payment must be made in full prior to student registration." I am posting these comments to encourage dialogue and show that old habits never die.