Dream Land: Little Rock's West 9th Street
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- Little Rock, Arkansas's, West 9th Street was once a vibrant, African-American business and entertainment district. Taborian Hall is the only remaining historic structure on West 9th Street and stands as a living witness of the street's former glory days. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Taborian Hall housed varied and important black businesses, including professional offices, a USO, the Gem Pharmacy and the Dreamland Ballroom. By the 1930s, Dreamland was firmly established as a stop on the "Chitlin Circuit," which showcased regional and national African-American bands and stage shows. It was also host to local musicians, dances, socials, concerts and sporting events.
This documentary seeks to recognize, memorialize and share this history. The spirit and hard work of the people and the implications of federal programs such as Urban Renewal, school desegregation, the Housing Act of 1949 and the Eisenhower Interstate Program are explored. West 9th Street and the Dreamland Ballroom have patiently waited for their story to unfold so new audiences can connect to their historical past and unknown future.
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Now I understand why West Little Rock exists today and why the southeastern part of Little Rock remains in decline.
Right makes since now
This is still going on as I'm speaking right to this day, economic impact on a community in a very bad way
Born and raised in little rock and this needs to be taught!
I agree
I was born in Little Rock raised in East Arkansas most my life. I didn’t know about this story until 2019
They're trying to hide this history..... they don't want this taught.
This was amazing!!!! I was born and raised in Little Rock and I'm 41 but I never knew about this! I will be sharing this with my wife and 4 children!!!!!
@Simple Tech Review: Isn't that Sad?! The fact that the Racist Gov't tried to hide this history from its Black and White Residents.....Diabolical!
thank you
No one is saying that this documentary is affording any kind of exoneration for what was done. By no means! It was just refreshing to see this history and information and I look forward to seeing more.
THE PSYCHOPATHS AND THEIR EVIL..
WHY AREN'T THE AFRICANS TELLING THE STORY.. THEY'RE ARE DOCUMENTS.. THE FBI HAS THAT INFORMATION!!
Wow! your parents were born in Little Rock? That's american history by any means!
The school system in Texas is attempting to remove Black History from its curriculum. However, not only am I learning more and more (like this) but will be having time etched out for my son and I to both partake in this learning. While legends such as MLK , Rosa Parks , Malcolm X are extremely necessary wheels in shaping America, there are many smaller cogs that made the vehicle move .
Thank you for such stories PBS.
Exactly
Our Black History is so important to know and understand.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🥰
Hello Blinda, How are you doing today??
Yes people are going to Kno what time is the only way to work on the way home from where they were there to get a chance to talk with the cost of the time and I have a better understanding of what the plan was for the next time we are going through all of it or anything like this in general I think it's a good idea to get it out and see what they say about the way to reach the time frame for a walk from the past in to the future.
I don't know. Why people divided in groups.for greeting problems either religional or economical and war.
African American history
There will always be certain people who will hate to see us thrive and have a good time.
Yes, and it's the Devil
We all know who those "certain people" are too. Can't even stand to see us hold civil conversation amongst each other at the grocery store, and God forbid we show some teeth because someone said something funny.🙄
PRAISE The TRUTH 💥, I, know, that's RIGHT 💣💥🔥🤔😯😅❤️🤗! But, these people, CAN'T, STOP us🗝️🎺🆘🎯🎺✅!
AMEN, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH ❤️! (🌹 CHOSEN 🔥 LIFE!)
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Watched this last night on PBS. I never knew about the history of 9th street and I've lived here for 33 years. I want to thank everyone that helped create this documentary. I was blown away.
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@@onenation1130 it a lie, d entire story is a lie.
Man! I live and raised in the Bronx, NYC. I was told and read about harlem renaissance through people, museums, library and pictures. Public schools never thought is about the our ancestors struggles! Only the one's the government felt it was safe to do so. (the FBI always focused on our activities). the CIA flooded our communties with drugs...
Years ago I interviewed Ernest Withers (please look him up) and he said, "...there was nothing exceptional about Beale Street. Every city had a street." He went on to explain about the various "streets" in communities like Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Richmond. In Alabama City, AL, my grandfather even hung out on a place they simply called, The Street.
Truly eye-opening to learn of Black culture and economics. Thanks to videos such as this, it's devastating to learn of the government 's systematic role in creating separate and unequal housing and education that persists until this day.
But, we cannot at this late stage not see and remember that this country by design reinforced and are reinforcing their land takeover and dissemination of people of color daily. Keep your inheritances and pass on.
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Facts deep ellum in dallas, 6th street in Austin... Every city got atleast one
This has happened in alot of Cities like Indianapolis they did it the same way it was called red lining and today they're doing it again re gentrification where they moved all the blacks too they took it back
CORRECT.........AND the "Jews" cry about the "holocaust." This is MUCH WORSE.
I'm from Little Rock Arkansas born and raised. I remember as a kid my dad managing Reds pool hall he was the best pool player in the state of Arkansas nickname AKA Lefty. Rest in peace Bennie L Gibson
@Rashaad Gibson My stepdad Joseph Harris a.k.a. Bozo spent many of nights there at Red’s Pool Hall. Sometimes he would take me with him and he was a pretty good pool shooter himself.
I'm not that old but I remember ...Bobby, Dank and Pete❤️❤️❤️
@@appollosharris4350 oooooooookpooioio
@@appollosharris4350 oooooooookpooioiok
@@appollosharris4350 kpppkkkpo
Another Black Wall Street destroyed
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We need to know!
Absolutely
By whom?
I grew up in Little Rock and ninth street was always a place to stay away from. Still true today. Enter at your own risk.
I’ll never understand the magnitude of evil these people are filled with. Never!
@moneybags2783 facts
Seeds of Satan and the curses are upon the children of Israel but not for much longer. Remain faithful
You mean like the white lady who bought the building and wants to preserve history ?
@@dicksanormus3642 What will that help an average black human in that area? She gentrified a place just like her ancestors.
@@Poshgardenherbs they were hell bent on keeping burrheaded liver-lipped coons from sleeping with their daughters. It was common throughout the entire South.
The history of the Dreamland Ballroom is absolutely incredible! Wow! I thought only Harlem had this level of musical history.
Was born here....this took me back down memory lane. We left Arkansas when we walked to the corner and saw national guards lined up far as we could see in Arkansas effort to integrate Central hs, which was walking distance from where we lived. Thank you for this one, for me, it’s priceless.
How sad and the us always claim to be the greaste.what a joke.
My HS
@@shirleygrimes2522 the fact that is a flag shop run by a white women now. SMH. It’s sick.
THEY DID IT EVERYWHERE.
what a gem Leon is, loved watching and listening to him as he shuffled down and pointed out what used to be :)
I knew Mr Lyon major he stayed around the corner from me retired from the state capital a very good man may he rest in peace
Heyyyy fey fey ,you look as warm as a basket of muffins.,,,
Big facts!
I don't think Brother Leon shuffled he walked with PRIDE.
@@rashaadgibson3394 now you know why Bill Slick Willie Clinton loves jazz.
Wow! I was born in Little Rock. My Mother is straight from the East End and my Dad from Southwest. I grew up in Tulsa Oklahoma but spent so many summers and holidays in Little Rock. I walked all over the Dunbar area as a kid. Watching this makes so much sense now. 9th St is that first exit I take crossing the river from North Little Rock. I’m so blown away and have so much understanding now.
I live in east end that’s wild
I grew up on West 10th, but my best friend's dad would take us down to the East End to visit his sister ever so often.. That's where almost all of my "play cousins" lived and grew up. 😊
Y'all did a good job putting this together, thanks PBS..
I love p.b.s. they have the best documentaries on anything especially on African American history
We love you p. B. S for this and letting all Americans learn about our history. With you guys behind this you know that it's going to be great.
I love p.b.s. they have the best documentaries on anything especially on African American history
We love you p. B. S for this and letting all Americans learn about our history. With you guys behind this you know that it's going to be great.
Thanks ancestors fore fathers
This was simply beautiful and a reminder that we can build together, live together and love together!!!
Absolutely dear sister.
Yes, it was beautifully put together. But are you forgetting, or you wasn't aware that Dr MLK-J realised when its was too late that he had made a mistake. Integration isn't the solution people, and because of that, many so-called "BLACK" people's business suffer & went into liquidation, the consequences of, you've seen.
@@kunkupa4654 I agree with you.
Dr. King did realise that integration was a mistake. This particular community underwent "urban renewal" which is a different circumstance. Racism was used differently in this circumstance. That's what I got out of the documentary.
@@kunkupa4654 “I’ve come upon something that disturbs me deeply. We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know we will win, but I have come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house. I’m afraid that America has lost the moral vision she may have had, and I’m afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised. Until we commit ourselves to ensuring that the underclass is given justice and opportunity, we will continue to perpetuate the anger and violence that tears the soul of this nation. I fear I am integrating my people into a burning house.”
I'm not sure I'm understanding your point @Kun Kupa. Could you please elaborate on what exactly was the mistake?
@S Felling ..In brief, from his own word, I'll paraphrase, He spent most of his time seeking integration for his people to sit at the same table, travel in the same public transportation, etc. And having artly achieved that, OUR own business, such as our Taxi, Bus srrvices Restaurants and even our Schools suffered, and in most cases went bust and our people lost their livelihood. MLK-jr recognised he went down the wrong path. He was to have be meeting with Malcolm to address this issue. Furthet to this, MLK,Jr decided to bring together the poor Paleons = so-call white and his people to march on Washington. J Edgar Hoover got under the skin of L.B.J, who turned a blind eye to what was going down. MLK-jr march on Washington didn't take place. He was shot, taken to the hospital, and according to the duty nurse, he was murdered there. MLK-jr knew what awaits him, prior the Malcolm's assassination 3yrs 2mths earlier but decided to press on, hence his final sermon at his church and later is speech...to the NATION. Thanks for taking some time out to enquire further. Much appreciated. Plz, don't believe me, do your own research...ASÈ, & HOTEP
Thanks to whoever was involved in this story. I always wanted to know more about my culture. Our people have been robbed for so many years. Our history has not been easily obtained. We must come together and make the changes necessary to heal and grow.
I'm 35 and live in Illinois, so many feelings came to me watching this you would think I was part of history
It's all starting to add up.... My grandparents home was located on ninth and when they built the interstate, they moved to Summit St. My granny told me about 9th but she nor my grandad never went deep into with me. Man they didn't want us to have anything
For many of us, it was way to painful and also fear.
@@dmrwaallen9588 I’m starting to realize that.. So much hidden information
And they always built highways through our towns to ensure we never rebuild. I’m in Florida and they did the same here in Overtown, Miami. Read up on that story when you get a chance.
@@Poshgardenherbs will do. Thank you and may many blessings come your way
@@robenalexander2387 same to you love
When I first moved to Atlanta, a crew of positive & united brothers from Little Rock would tell me about this area. Very interesting!
I'm from Little Rock Arkansas true, it was like Harlem New York back in the day the Big Apple in The Rock was same can you imagine Little Rock if they never would have destroyed Black Wall Street, Little Rock did not land on us we landed on the rock
You just have start rebuilding buisnesses one by one not just remembering and telling stories get to work! Inspire the youth to do so asap
I am 55yrs old. I live in Dallas now. I was born and raised in Little Rock. I can truly remember riding down 9th street. As a kid with my mom and dad. Also I can remember being a teenager in the early 80s. Me and my friends weren't old enough to go to the clubs on 9th st. So we would just ride down 9th st on Friday and Saturday nights. Times were so good back then.
I'm extremely grateful for learning about this. Thank you so much for making it available for people to learn about what happened. Thank you to all of the people who took part in telling how all of this took place. It made me cry, but taught me a lot.
Well said
Truly a beautiful documentary. Beautiful photos. Sad story.
Hello world 4 generation of my mom from there and family still there wow 2021
What's up
This is my favorite video to this date, I'm still learning so much from this period. Thank you for keeping this video up thank you peace & shalom.
This lady did not save it. She gentrified it
Daughter of colonial slave master ancestors she got former black holding staple to sowe flags
🎯u see the coded confederate flags😒
Black folks start it but white folks take it over and profit from it.(it being whatever we as a people have. Music,food,hairstyles just name a few).Ijs.
Momma p. even our stories, I own nothing but books on black life in America and shocking how many white women are doing research and making good money on our stories and I have huge personal library
Are you saying a black person couldn’t have bought it?
What a WONDERFUL documentary. Please keep up the good work.
I love and praise our ELOHIM YAHWEH so much, he is awesome. he actually gave us a sense of widsom and knowledge the whole time. Only if we just bethink ourselves. we as Blacks are the Most awesome people on the planet. Todah YAH for this video and all the precious moments shared. I am so fighting back tears.
This was hard to watch mainly because the pattern of these wicked motives never stopped.
I just spent an hour being educated on an area of town that I frequent more than my hometown in South Arkansas. This was so enlightening...on every level. Kudos to bringing this forth.
I was born in Little Rock and moved to another state as a young child. The spirit of Little Rock has always been with me. Praying to visit "home" in the future. Thank you for this story.
Same as me 👍🏾💯
Wow, I felt like I could feel the fun, laughter and joy they had… this was beautiful, sad and painful to watch
This was done to every black area in every town when integration took place in the United States 🇺🇸 🙏🏽😢
It was fone integration or not integrated.
Divide and thrive
Sure did. I just mentioned that in my comment.
@@willmartinez5496 THANK YOU FOR POSTING "THE CORRECT INFORMATION." ANYTHING THAT BLACK PEOPLE MADE, DEVELOPED AND HAD TO AND FOR THEMSELVES DUE TO WHITE RACISM AND LAWS OF "JIM CROW AMERICA - IT AS ENVIED, HATED, AND SUBSEQUENTLY DESTROYED!
@@MickyTubbs1985 This is a fact.
NOTHING can replace community. It's so precious, & so necessary if people really want to thrive. Extraordinary documentary, so much that was destroyed still thankfully lives on in the memories of all the people who created & sustained that community.
I wish could have seen W 9th Street back then. The city of LR should rebuild the street back up.
I was born and reared In Little Rock but I didn’t know the history of 9th Street . I remember my daddy dropping my sister & I off at Gem Theater to watch a western movie ; and later when I got to be a teenager , I went to socials at the YWCA before going to the Eldorado and Flamingo Clubs .. I was sent this information today from a young lady that also use to live in Little Rock. Thanks
Agree
Everything is changing
Never expect white governments to rebuild black areas.
I was born and raised in Little Rock AR going to and I know the history of West 9th Street. I had family members that experienced West 9th Street and hung out and socialize and had wonderful times there. I experienced West 9th Street myself as a child as a six-year-old being taken to the movies at Gem Theater and it cost $0.20 to get in. We even rode in the west 9th cab a few times because we lived on hanger Hill. And finally I knew Mr. Leon Majors as an adult he was a very nice man. He was a gentleman in the pink shirt he knew everything there was to know about West 9th Street he work there because one of my older sisters told me about him all the time and I finally got to meet him as a teenager
I am so glad to know that kind of true stories. As Haitian living in America 🇺🇸 and I have seen that the true stories were hidden from us. Uhmm now I know!
It is so important to the youth even tho many don't care.... if we have no idea of the struggles and oppression our ancestors faced to make life what it is for us now we won't appreciate how hard it was for them to make things easier for us....
Thus we look at Rappers and ball players as our leaders - shameful
@@legion1630 rappers and ball players are entertainers, they're not our/your typical leaders, they're considered clowns, play horns, jump, catch and dribble. Our leaders need to be socio-politically adept. Malcolm X said we're the only race tgat does tgat, have singers, rappers and ball players as our leaders. The struggle is for real and it continues, it will always continue. We have to stay consistent, vigilant and steadfast.
My family is from that area & Era. Our history lives on. We are not going to be forgotten.
Thank you for sharing this valuable information that have been purposefully suppressed for many years. It’s terrible how systematic racism has decimated vast numbers of African American communities 💔😢
Thank you for saving a peace of history im in tears i can feel it through the humbleness and happiness and the good times they had in this story.
Hello 👋 Good Morning
It just come back to me. In 1940, on my granddads military draft card, he was employed at the Arkansas Confederate Home. I emailed the Arkansas State info office to see if there were any records of those formerly employed there. There was some correspondence, and then there was nothing else. Replying emails ceased. And I haven't tried to communicate with them anymore. I grew very frustrated with the inaction
File a freedom of information act against them. That will get your needs met.
Don't give up sweetheart...keep your focus and you'll get the info you seek! So, don't give up!
An Excellent Documentary!!!
That piece of history is soo powerful. There are soo many lessons to learn as black people and generally human beings.
I am from Little Rock. My Granny told me about 9th street and how they City and State did 9th street when I-630 was built. She told me about the Little Rock 9. I use to work with Elizabeth Eckford at the Pulaski County Courthouse Building in 2005-2006. I left Little Rock for Phoenix in 2006 and moved to Las Vegas in 2015 to have a better life.
Thank you for this! This story has happened across this Country. I live in Tallahassee Florida and are Black neighborhood, French Town, full of businesses that was Black owned was finally destroyed for good about 8 to 10 years ago, through eminent domain and it’s sad. A community was created that houses mostly students and employees of FSU.
Wow
A process of white flight and regentrification, urban renewal.
Florida, where "Wokeness" comes to die.
It makes me wonder if Ron DeSantis knows there was a time when Italians were not considered White.
This was an amazing documentary and history lesson for me. I love being apart of the black community. It shows no matter what’s thrown at us to tear us down we will get back up and build it up again.
Great documentary
Wow this documentary took me on a nostalgic emotional journey in time beautifully done 💯👊🏿👊🏿
Praying 9th Steet gets restored. Strong communities build and deserve respect. People can be themselves. Thank you for posting this.
Barbaric...directed traffic with a deceased person's arm. 100's if not thousands of these incidents
Lol
But I bet the " spirit of that deceased arm" whooped the sh*t out of that person and their family through HORRENDOUS KARMA!!👍
They just do my people soooo damyum dirty. This was an intentional, deliberate, push out of an entire thriving Black community. They saw the value of the land and its location and wanted it I also believe it was a response to integration a get back of some sorts. We build successful communities and businesses and they get jealous and sabotage it time and time and time again. Just breaks my heart because it continues today, this Urban Development is nothing but gentrification pushing African Americans from neighborhoods that have been traditionally there's. To have developers come and revitalize the neighborhood (after we been pushing for decades to get investment into our community) pushing us out of the areas we grew up in. Now we can no longer afford to live in the same neighborhoods we lived Whites move in and take over pushing us further out of the city. JUST F'n HORRIBLE MAN!!!
You live in a sh*ty place. If you can't fix it, maybe you should move to a place that's easier for you.
You understand. TY
Well little rock isn't a tourist destination now so maybe the lesson is stop being pushovers because white men don't know shxt but pushing yall around 🙄
And yall the only people that allow it.
Even rock throwing third worlders do better than yall in pushing the white man out🙄🙄🙄
@@taffykins2745 Based on your comment, I ran an algorithm on my computer. The results of the computed data are: You are an ignorant, racist @sshole.
Integration ruined everything, we should have stayed ethno aggregated but no we had too many dark skinned males and biracial males obsessing over "non Black females". I'm Black American from Phoenix seeing the damages of Integration, gentrification and urban renewal and we lost Eastlake Park, Goodyear and some other areas that were once thriving when we were segregated, same with Chandler Heights. We also had an Okemah community out here same as in Oklahoma, except the state stole from us what is now the Camelback Corridor and Scottsdale, and to add to the insult Sinclair Oil Company is in the Camelback area. Only a foolish Black American or even foreign Black person would want to still heavily associate with, smile up with and breed with members of these other ethnic groupings who didn't tell us they are all legally classified as white and therefore owe us backpayment for the decades of stolen redevelopment funding and minority benefits that were only meant to be ours. I want to separate and be a cohesive community again, you can keep whining about people who aren't Black who already segregated their management in your faces and the same goes for the ownership and equity of the institutions around you, they have their commercial districts, they own the property management companies, hospitals, etc. Segregation never ended and I want my own institutions, I don't care about these people nor do I care about Negroes still whining over integration and race mixing instead of treaty enforcement and protecting what remains of our bloodlines and the communities that are still standing.
Powerful historic film!
There was a barbershop on 9th. I used to get my hair cut there in the 70's.a guy named Brooks was the head barber. (Still living) the barber shop was named "Elite barbershop " formally known as "Norwoods barbershop" I am Norwoods grandson. I have lots of memories from the 70's & early 80's of 9th Street. Thank you for the post I learned a lot about Little Rock that I didn't know.
Pure evil! So sad! Great job putting this documentary together! Keep them coming!
I am from Arkansas. Thank you for this history. It brings back memories.
perfect example & explanation on how PURPOSELY the cities created separation & segregation with the HELP of the US Government - this is only one example
@ 3:14 SAYS IT ALL!!!!!! 😠
Yep...and Tulsa
And Ocoee
The city and government are operated by one group and one group only.
Marion IN. Washington IN. St. Louis, Henderson KY. Seymour IN. ect. ect.
And Fox News claims there is no racism in America! Educated fools, from uneducated schools.
This was a great learning video. It’s been so many similar thriving African Americans communities all through the country that I’m learning about also!
I'm 26 about to be 27. And I'm just now knowing about this, our Arkansas history needs to be talked about more.
Powerful! So sad to see the city today.
This has never and will never be taught in Arkansas schools. Just think what this would have done for the black children and adults of Ark. Wow! Some people have so much to answer for. Black people should be some very angry people. We could do some damage if we wanted.
Great documentary and very well put together!
We have had some great history here in America that was taken from us. We didn't sale it It was taken from us. We have had so much pain in this beautiful country and it's so damn shame. I am so surprised that we have survived all this mess that we have been through. I know one thing about being a strong black American that we can go through anything and come out even stronger than when you went in. And our strong belief in God help us all get through this mess. This is what's holding us together to this very day our belief in God and our strength.
Segregation created the safe spaces. It wasn't just in Tulsa.
Im in Australia and this broke my heart. To be therein that time to listen to those great bands. No matter what society we live in we have lost a lot of history.
Wow this was great. We are an amazing people!😊😊😊
How do those people sleep at night Knowing what they did? So 😥 sad.... great documentary about OUR FAMILY.
They hung us before church they have no feelings
It happened on 63rd st and Cottage Grove plus 46th and South Park. All along the BUD BILLIKEN parade path in Chicago. These kids today need to know that there were Black businesses where the projects are now built. There need to be more films like this.
I was blessed fortunate enough to grow up eating at the different African American owned restaurants in Little Rock in the 70s and on. There is nothing like it anywhere else in the world period.History is ugly and hurtful to an excellent culture of a beautiful city.
There were over 1200 documented predominantly black owned cities in America destroyed by the white establishment in this country.
Play
African or Black owned?
Little Rock don't got nothing on savannah Georgia thp
Chicago had many black businesses that are all gone in the 60's and 80's
WOW!! A lot of history here. Thanks for sharing. It’s a shame that history continues to repeat itself.
The narrative of the U. S. is “you can be a veteran, doctor , attorney, business owner, etc but we want you Blacks to stay in your place.”
they are very jealous and evil ......
I'm so glad I watched and shared on all my social media
Me too
I just love it that the Blues was created in the fields of Arkansas. That building brought more joy to the people of Arkansas that anyone can even fathom.The years of the restoration were for some part the birth of black American.
I'm 46 yrs old and I always said I missed my era! I would've loved to see the UNITY African Americans had back then, not to mention the dances, clothes and hair styles!! I could have done without the Jim Crow laws! 🤬 This was a great story I thoroughly enjoyed it.......👍🏿
EXACTLY
Mr. Flamboyant that time is over, we getting treated way, way worst now than back then
black ppl are too individualized now
and white folks is all they want too scared too untrustful of each other
We can and are getting Unified! We here!! #ADOSAF✊🏾
@@holylambmedia Why do you characterize all the whites as being the same? We are legion compared to your 13% of general population in the United States.
@@hithere7382 proof
This story and many more like should never be forgotten.,....
AND YET STILL WE STAND!!!
The presences of ninth street still live on! You can feel when you are down their…my mother shared many stories about this wonderful place…
Peace be still!
What an honor to have been blessed to have met and spoken with Mr. Leon Majors Sr.
I see why WP don’t want their history of WS taught in school anymore. How evil, shameful, barbaric and downright wrong. I’d be embarrassed as well
Its ok we have fb, youtube titaloko lets teach it there
The enemy is not capable of embarrassment or shame. WS was never taught in school. If you learned please share it.
At last some of the TRUTH. I learned about America word of mouth. Thanks CZcams.
Now that they took away Rosa Parks children’s book, I guess there goes Harriet Tubman, because she was doing what folks like Robert e Lee fought to preserve, and he definitely is a top level hero to them and, they were taught that God ordained American slavery. Just listen to Tom Cotton. He’s a testament to how one-sided biased teaching of history works. And they are definitely teaching about Lee in the most admirable way.
You are so right. This new movement is really growing and getting people removed from their jobs. James Whitfield from Texas sure didnt see that coming.
Family no matter what they can't stop US and that's a fact. GOD made to be loved and strong,how else could WE have overcome all that WE have,and still WE RISE😇👑🌍♠👊👊👊👊👊👀
@9:30 that shytt and our talent at dancing and entertaining was beyond phenomenal. I love watching the minstrel entertainers and performers.
My love came from Little Rock Arkansas...Cloute Taylor; she stood with me against oppression!
Incredible video! I’m 64 & grew up in NLR! Never knew any of this history! Was slightly aware of the 1957 school event! Such a cultural shame 2 loose the old 9th St. of the early 20’s!
We can't even tell our story by ourselves. Damn they gotta be included and wasn't even apart of!😩🤦🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️
THATS. WHY. SIS. YOU. DONT BELIVE WHITE. PEOPLES TELLING OUR STORIES 👍🏾
What you said... SMDH
What story are you talking about? Who bought and preserved the building? Who decided to keep it in the form it was found in, instead of demolishing that great history and modernizing it? I wondered what the guy meant when he said "we can't even come together..." I still don't understand it but I see evidence of it here in this ignorant statement. How the hell are you going to hate on and throw shade at the very people who actually respect and pay homage to the stories of the past, especially against the odds that the building persisted through the years of the very people who wanted to see and played major roles in seeing the success of the once-thriving black community destroyed?
@@wit2pz who burned it down for nothing, who hid the truth (even from the future residents from that town), who's trying to get brownie points for "preserving" something they destroyed? Get outta here. We're reactors. So when the Aggressors stop with all the shenanigans then it'll be peace.
@@ajstacks41510 I prefer to listen to the people who grew up in that era and area to tell their experiences about the story. They don't hate and call the preservation efforts "brownie points." You react, since that works so well for you. I do my part for myself and my family. Thankful for the ones who overcame the racist laws and bigotry of the times so that my proud black ass has the ability and encouragement to do what I want/ need. Don't forget to pay respects to the "others" for this internet and devices you use to spout this ignorance on. Unless you're on some black-owned/ operated/ isolated internet service that's interfaced with the rest of the world's technology. If you are, share that knowledge. Each one teach one. Sis.
Thank you for the memory of our people of yesterdays.
I could listen to Mr. Leon Majors all day.
Love this video my Grandmother and her sisters and brother were all born in Lil Rock Bigelow to be exact 😊💜
Tavia, you need to record their stories. Because it IS AMERICAN HISTORY
I wish this history of our state was taught in our schools.
The church needs to step it up.
@@elliottparker6389 All churches that stepped it up were burned, bombed and destroyed. In my home state of SC recently there was and racist motivated mass killing in historical Charleston SC.
I know Aaron and it is tough as steel sometimes
This why Malcolm X started never let the White man teach your kids, they will erase your history.
You have people in government like Sarah Huckabee & Tom Cotton who are trying to erase our history here in Arkansas. They should all be voted out!
Joe Williams, best Blues Singer ever, and I knew him. What a real and a good man.
Beautiful Documentary.
I'm just discovering this video. Very, very interesting. My dad was born in Little Rock in 1938. He's been deceased since 1993, unfortunately, there wasn't much discussed about his time there. I'm still not sure when him and my grandfolks arrived in Chicago. I have discovered my granddads military draft card from 1940, if I recall correctly
My great grandmother drove a mule and wagon from AR to Chicago. It was early because my dad was born in Chicago in 1925, I must try and get some info from our remaining elder shes 95 and sharp mentally.
@@Nanbebe7 oh WOW😳. Man, could you imagine riding a mule all that way. Most certainly, you should record her while her and her library is still sharp as she is. That's more than a blessing to have her around and be sharp as a tack. Have you ever been back to Little Rock? I've only drove thru over 10 years ago. I was coming back from Dallas
My grandfather was born in Earle, Arkansas and moved to Chicago. I wish I knew more about that history
@@PrezoGotGame7ways wow that's interesting. You made me think about an older lady I used to work with named Betty. I don't recall her last name, but she was from there. I'd never heard of Earle until her. We worked together in the late 2000s. I recall her having a sister named Queenie
Alot of our elders who lived in these times find it difficult to talk about it. The lynching the brutally the sheer pain of seeing your loved one being beaten. Having your home church or other places of businesses burned down. My father served in WW2. He never talked about it. If mentioned he would get really upset. I couldn't imagine what he went through. Now we have genefication of our communities. We had better recognize what is happening. We've no excuse not to not do anything. We know better.
even in the late 60's 9th street was the lick ! pete's place ! dubisson funeral home! mt. vernon baptist church ! the pool hall ! the Gem theater. john cain looks great.
I'm 79 years old. Never heard of 9th Street in Little rock Arkansas. Similar to what happened to Owens Street in Columbia MS and Hattiesburg, Ms, Farish Street in Jackson, Ms. Scores of Streets in the South.
2022, My Dear Mom was born in Arkansas 1938, she moved North and never looked back, gave us the History and I still have wonderful loving family there!
I definitely will be sharing this with family. I'm from Detroit and we had this happen to the legendary Hastings Street. It's a crying shame how other races didn't want to us thrive along with them. It's just hurtful. And my question to them is why can't we have the same dreams and aspirations as you? Why?
Governments always divide their slaves against each other to conquer them.
W/S Feared Race mixing (gentics)
Because they saw what African Americans are capable of building/achieving when left ro themselves.
That reality was both threatening and terrifying to white economy...we Circulated our money within our communities 10 fold....creating wealth, affluence AND most importantly....POWER.
Read Deuteronomy.😑.
Enjoyed this documentary… very inspiring… we jus haven’t figured the clear path to what it takes in order to be the greater part of our ancestors…
history books, repair the past, period.
Systemic, governmental racism. If ‘we hadn’t figured out the clear path’ we would not have made it this far. Stop with the placing blame on OUR backs.
@@rachelwilliams2400 White washed history teaches u NOTHING. U have to research from BLACK scholars.
@@hoodooandheadwraps6202 last response, but I offer it anyway. Black folks did the same type of blaming at the end of the presentation. The run down of the history, assuming it’s accuracy, was great, but this was little more than propaganda. Unless I blinked and missed it, I heard no talk of financially compensating the black people from 9th street and their descendants for what they lost. I’m hearing, “we’re going to rehab the area so that we can make more money, come on down and spend some”.
Wow this is crazy! It’s now time to renew Little Rock. It looks the same since i was a child growing up in east end Little Rock back in 2002
The city state and the now owner of the Dreamland should have registered it as a historical landmark....no excuses!..
and making flags is an insult!
It is a historical landmark. Just like Mosaic Temple.
That's all you have to say...
Thank you for this piece of history.
I was on LitRock for a few days mid Nov 2021 and from the moment my plane touched down to just 2 hours b4 my my plane took off I was constantly seeing signs of sweet caring helping people who were white and black. I am so grateful to the last lady I'll never forget and I thanked her profusely, was a black lady.
The story of the black lady who helped me...
It was litterly in the middle of the night and I had tried flagging many other cars while in my car to seek directions to a gas station as it's difficult to find a open gas station during the night before covid but especially after covid.
Was a wonderful older black lady that stopped and we used our voices communicating from our cars. She repeated the directions two/three times and her instructions were on point.
I discovered a method that's not one I've used befor... pumping gas and paying on debit card While Gas Station Was Closed...
But it worked.
I'll never forget her🤗💕
What a great program. Thank you. I learned a lot 🙏
This clearly show Us how much we can accomplish together outta love this is mind blowing
I truly enjoyed this ...its important for African Americans to understand and know that theres a history in America other then picking cotton and the Atlantic slave trade and lynchings...I truly want to educate myself on other history such as this which makes me smile ....: )
Urban Renewal really means, to this day, Urban Removal!