Mississippi U.S.A. 1961.
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Description: Freedom riders had started to travel across the south with the purpose of contributing to the cause of of eliminating discrimination based on race or ethnicity by testing segregation policies in bus terminals. In May of 1961, a bus carrying fourteen black and white freedom riders arrived at a bus station in Jackson, Mississippi, where they were escorted and guarded by armed troops, sixteen patrol cars, and an airplane. At a previous stop in Alabama, the bus had been attacked and passengers had been injured. After exiting the bus, the riders went inside of the bus station and attempted to use the "white only" restaurant and restrooms. When they refused to "move on," they were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace and/or inciting a riot rather than breaking Mississippi's segregation laws. In this documentary, there is footage of the bus carrying the freedom riders into Jackson, Mississippi, the riders unboarding the bus at the bus station, entering the bus station, and being escorted, under arrest, out of the bus station by Jackson police. A WKY reporter explains why integration had not been adopted in Mississippi. The documentary also includes interviews that reflect the attitudes held by different groups in regards to the issue of integrating Mississippi. William Simmons, the secretary of the White Citizens' Council, explains why he believes segregation should continue in Mississippi and responds to the reporter's questions concerning his views on equality. Medgar Evers, an African-American civil rights activist and field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), explains why he thinks Mississippi citizens were less aggressive than those in Alabama, as well as the lack of leadership in Jackson's black community. Charles Oldham, the national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), explains the purpose and goals of the freedom rides and how he believes the freedom rides will lead to changes in policies and attitudes that support integration. The reporter discusses Mississippi's resistance to change traditional institutions such as segregation and white supremacy. Mississippi's governor, Ross Barnett, speaks before an audience about how the behavior of Mississippi's white citizens during the bus's stop in Jackson. Men and women are stopped on the street by the reporter and share their opinions about integration and/or the Freedom Rides. The night of the freedom riders' trials, Jackson's black leaders hold a meeting. Footage of three men speaking to the 126 people who attended the meeting. Governor Barnett responds to questions about how long the state planned to finance the fight against integration. The documentary concludes with Oldham, Evers, and Simmons briefly explaining why they believe integration will or will not occur.
Creator: WKY News
Coverage: Jackson (City), in Mississippi (USA)
MARC Geographic Areas: Mississippi (msu); United States (xxu)
Extent (quantity/size): 28min 51sec
Media: 16 mm film; Moving Images
AVI 1920 x 1080 29.97 FRAMES PER SECOND
Subjects: Barnett, Ross R. 1898-1987 / Civil Rights / Congress of Racial Equality / Discrimination--Law and legislation / Documentary television programs / Equality before the law / Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 / Freedom Rides, 1961 / Jackson (Mississippi) / Race relations / Racism / Segregation / State Action (Civil Rights) / White citizens councils
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my dad was born in 1915 and was born and raised in Mississippi. I didn’t learn about the history of the south until the 70’s & 80’s and it was not something that was discussed at all in our household. learning about the type of environment my Dad grew up in it always amazed me that he never had a bad word to say about white people and was always quiet and dignified. he has passed on but I admire and love him and try to pattern my behavior to his.
Bless Up.. Your Father seems like he was a great man
What would Randolph Elder do ?
❤❤❤
Your Father was a good Man, God Bless him and may he RIP.
Did you call him Sir
@@johnwalsh7806I call all my elders sir or ma’am.
I remember my Dad who was begining his 25 years as an air force officer ( 1st and 2nd Lt. at the time) Told me years ago when he travel between various bases in the South for an assignment during late 50's early 60's with our family he told me he, drove for hours
before he could get a motel to stay the night because of segregation.
There was a Negro Green Book and Travel Guide to let black travelers know where they could get accommodations throughout the south and the rest of the country.
Victor Hugo Green was a Black postal worker who published The Negro Motorist Travel Guide "Green Book" en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Hugo_Green
Sad for me to think that you could fight for your country but your country would fight so hard against you to the point of wanting to murder you is wild. Like it almost makes it seem like the enemies of this country would've treated African Americans better than America did back then.
Sad
Black neighborhoods are thriving, vibrant places. Models for the rest of humanity
This is why history is so important.
Now they call it being "woke"....the Rethuglicans want us back to "I owe my soul to the company store", and you black lizzards best off get back.on your knees where you belong!
The DEMOCRAT Party was founded by slave owners. In his book "Negro President - Jefferson and the Slave Power," Pulitzer Prize winning historian Garry Wills writes that party founder Thomas Jefferson and his fellow DEMOCRAT Party politicians had a political "indebtedness to the slavemasters." Wills notes that while "everyone recognizes that Jefferson depended on slaves for his economic existence, fewer reflect that he depended on them for his political existence. Yet the latter was the all-important guardian of the former."
The party’s first six political platforms from 1840-1860 supported slavery.
Seven DEMOCRAT presidents owned slaves.
Democrats in Congress opposed the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery, the 14th amendment that gave Blacks due process and the 15th Amendment that gave them the right to vote.
@@jb-vb8un like I said, the Rethuglicans want us back to "I owe my soul to the company store"...wake up! Things are todays now......and you're the problem.
@@jb-vb8unya the Democrat party started out with racism as well. But if you fastforward to the 70's and 80's these same racist politicians switched there party to republican! That's facts! The kkk has reinvented itself many times.
@@jb-vb8un A lot of the Dixiecrats in the south are still alive. Because of southern strategy I dare you to call them Democrats in the present day.
As a trucker ,i absolutely love driving through Mississippi i-55..I waa upset when they took down one of the last good ol' mom and pop truck stop called space way on 1-20 meridian, MS..The best chicken sandwiches you can buy on the road(so fresh and delicious)..The nicest folks you could ever encounter...Also the silver slipper casino in Gulf port allowed me to not only park but gave me V.I.P treatment allowing me to park right next to the water out front...Always a beautiful encounter with folks of all kinds in the great OL' MS......I LOVE THESE OLD HISTORICAL FILMS..THANK YOU
I loved space way too. Didn’t live too far away from it, it’s fuel man. Culture has been deleted there
Every time you see someone claiming that he or 'his race' is superior to others, you're immediately struck by how painfully and patently mediocre he is. Every. Single. Time.
It's happening again now
Brings to mind BLM movement and the DemonRat party.
Also painfully ignorant.
Wait till you hear why abortion exist and why RBG said roe vs wade was made legal. It's disturbing
@@danimotherofchickens479 Please explain to me again why abortion was made legal in America in 1973.
14 young people
attractive and dressed in professional clothing, scared the crap out of the entire state of mississippi
now that is power
WRONG.
They did NOT scare anybody, it was the possibility of a riot being started.
Your twist accomplished nothing.
Angered is a better word. Fear is an overused adjective.
@@gearshifterg9756 fear creates anger
you hate what you fear
no twist...now go back to practicing your cross burning
@@thewkovacs316
Normally,being ignorant is not a quality most people tend to boast about, but here you are displaying it as if you have won first place.
But I guess when you are nothing more than a simple minded little snowflake, it's all you have. Now PLEASE quit destroying people's private property and burning down structures.
@@thewkovacs316 ain’t nobody fearing them blacks
It's wild seeing Medgar Evers talking and looking so young. Rest In Peace legend.
Lick. Lick. Yo. Juicy juicy.
I hear ya Arie
Rest in peace is a ridiculous term. He and many others are in paradise and have no negative memories from this world. Their all living but not where we can see them
@@ladellmorris2745 No they're not. They're dead.
My God bless his soul 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Great video. I wish more people would appreciate how far MS has come since Jim Crow! My grandmother said many people of Jackson don’t utilize resources that she never had…. She couldn’t go to the library or college but today many in Jackson don’t want to even go to college. They love the big government. The culture of certain people have changed which made crime and poverty sky rocket in Jackson😢
Praying for MISSISSIPPI to continue to grow❤️
Well what they are pushing in colleges is just straight-up Marxism... And US folks in the South don't want that. Plus why do you need a piece of paper saying you got to this level of schooling just to do a job. Plus if you haven't seen on the news in recent years or just videos up on CZcams in general we are virtually not welcomed because I guess having a different set of opinion all of a sudden became violent according to the left and the Democrat party. And US southern people have been beat down so much I'd rather not you lie s*** the government has gave the people... But Uncle Sam just needs to know when he needs me for when War breaks out he can go to someone in the alphabet community im not fighting to just get attacked at home because I am a traditionalist an a Christian.
My first time being in Mississippi was a couple years ago in July and even though I had an air conditioned rental car, I couldn't help but think of how anyone in their right minds lived with all of that heat and humidity. It was so unbearable. I couldn't imagine living down there 50+ years ago when there was no air conditioning in homes or in the cars they drove. I'll take my northern blizzards and sub-freezing temperatures any day over that summer heat.
Because you have a comparison between having air-conditioning and not having it. When there is NO comparison, as people in the South years ago didn't have air-condition, one doesn't think about what comfortable element is missing. They just endure and see it as another hot and humid day.
That’s true piano man. We didn’t miss what we didn’t know. He can have his sub zero blizzards. The South is wonderful. Always was.✌️
@@blossom1643 blossom, you actually stated my thought more succinctly than I did. Thanks!!
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What does the temperature have to do with segregation?
@@pianoman551000 true
you cannot choose which race you want to be when you are born so the bottom line is people are people and we all are human we all bleed red so be kind to each other
Amen, Terry. There is no greater truth than what you said here....
@Stephen RunsHisMouth - The differences you listed can be found within the races. You're trying to justify that which can't be justified.
Be careful, you have a God to face one day. He made us all. If you feel that some group/groups was/were not created equally, then you are saying that God made a mistake and we know better than that.
You stolen my lines
@@tbwms3243 Amen. They created, prejudices, and we ,know who they are. Everyone, of that race, wants, to be superior, to BLACKS,. Their not , they bleed, eat, s--t, and die , like we do. So what at all makes, them better, nothing but, their own sick ,prejudice, thoughts.. Some can't help, it that's how their parents, raised them. No one is better than me, no , matter what they, say. Their entitled., doesn't make it so. They wanna be Gods, and rulers, and their NOTHING , if they think, we're nothing. Why they hated Obama. That' s unheard, of for them to follow a Black Leader, running the Presidency. One's hated him, kissed his behind, when he was in their. I love everyone, and it's sick and retarded to treat, ANYONE, like garbage, because of the Color of Skin, That's some weak, messed up, stuff. God will take care of it all. We've created many, things, in this world that, THEY, take credit for. Ask them, we've done, nothing, It doesn't make me feel bad, cause I know who I am, and WHOSE , I am. It would be so nice, if we all respected, and loved , each other. That'll , NEVER, happen not, until, he RETURNS, the LORD. and he will make everything, equal, and send those, to HELL, for playing or pretending, they were God over, other RACES.
@@crystalsmith4187 Not all us whites wants to be superior. Personally I treat people the way they treat me regardless of color or anything else. I hate racism. Everyone should be treated equally regardless of any differences
I've traveled to Gulfport/Biloxi MS over the years (and vacationed there last year) and I've never had any negative interactions with anyone and felt welcome everywhere I went. Mississippi has definitely come a long way, for which I'm thankful. I will share the only negative experience I had in the south was in Montgomery, Alabama (another area known for it's brutal treatment of blacks and anyone associated with them during the civil rights era). I was at a family reunion there in 2009 and stayed at a hotel that most of the areas were rented out for our reunion (which included the pool and certain dining areas). A middle aged white woman actually approached one of my family members and wanted us to leave the pool area so her kids could use it. Needless to say, that didn't happen. She stomped off, pissed off, but yes, there are still some ignorant people out there who feel they are better than others.
The Gulf Coast Region Culture is VERY DIFFERENT FROM NEW ORLEANS REGION TO MOBILE, ALABAMA REGION. THIS CULTURE IS OF CREOLE AND CAJUN CULTURE OF FRENCH,. SPANISH, NATIVE AMERICAN AND AFRICAN. ITS IN THEIR FIRST NAMES OR SURNAMES AND THE RACES MIXED AND HISTORICALLY FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR. MOST OF THE DESCENDANTS MIGRATED TO CHICAGO AND CALIFORNIA
I don’t believe that
@@blossom1643 Who cares what you believe...It happened and I've got no reason to lie about it. There are still some people in this world who believe you should bow down to them and do what you're told.
@@blossom1643I used to live in a white neighborhood. Born from Mexican (we are "the" Americans) parents, we were looked after by a white lady (3 of us) while my parents worked. It was only for an hour or 2 after school.
SHE WAS AWESOME!
Treated us good...and I can't say enough about how kind she was to each of us.
… but you do NOT understand how awful people (white people) can be, if you think the story that the op told isn't true?
That is kind… actually.
SHE ASKED them to leave.
When they refused SHE WALKED (stomped) AWAY!
Since you don't believe that… it’s probably a much wilder thought to know that white people usually DO NOT STOP THERE!
Law (which usually helped them) or NOT!
@@blossom1643- black people used to get hung for looking at a white girl.
… and you can't believe this guys comment?
Not that long ago. We have made huge steps. Respect to my parents and grandparents that had to endure such nonsense.
Kimber Ann I'm 55, born in 62. It was not that long ago. You must be a very young grandmother.
Kimber Ann does that lie make you feel better?
Tracey Johnson lol with 11 grandkids wth???
@Kimber Ann - Comparing 911 to what a race of people endured during slavery and Jim Crow is asinine. Not wanting to look at our history won't change anything. It's sad , but the mindset of many whites hasn't changed that much. The younger generation should be taught. Believe it or not, history can be repeated if we don't learn the lessons of the past.
MiaNichole paid for by the government I’m sure.
These sort of records are invaluable today. Thanks for sharing them with us.
I live in MS and this makes me so sad. My first reaction was anger, but then I just felt bad for the ignorance and that some people still act this way.
Y feel bad just b glad its not u thats sooooo ignorant
What's sad is the change that was forced on our people miscegenation is sin it's disgusting and disgraceful and this atrocity is to blame I'm a Mississippian and my family has been here since the Civil War and I say Segregate! There's nothing unequal about living separate we can learn from the mistakes of the past and make separate but truly equal facilities this time but we will never get along living side by side it's unnatural the blue bird doesn't lay with the red bird open your eyes you have been indoctrinated
Listening to the yt guy explain how no one is equal and whites don’t complain about being segregated, priceless. Hope his descendants see this.
Near Yetfar Forced change is a must when people don’t do what is morally and ethically right. They had a Lynch Street in Jackson?
How did they think they could take tax money from Black citizens but prevent them from benefits? Ross Barnett speaking about Blacks obeying the law, while supporting lawless whites.
It’s interesting to see Jackson in the 60s. Vital downtown with busy streets crowded with people and cars. Today it’s like a ghost town.
And that is all thanks to integration.
@@primeministerofredneckistan Wrong, clown.
I haven't been there in many years . Gee , I wonder why ?
@@primeministerofredneckistan Very uneducated and ignorant comment.
@@japnikki
It may actually be a consequence of “White Flight” after integration. I’m not saying that that is a good idea, or a reason not to have integration. But if you go there today, the contrast in the vitality of the city is very stark and evident.
I remember traveling by car through Mississippi and Louisiana as an eight year old child, spring of 1961. Being from Queens, New York, and white, I went to school with black kids, played with a handful of black kids in my neighborhood, and never really gave it much thought. I saw for the first time restricted signs, “Colored,” “White Only,” on public restroom doors, at hotels where we stayed, and on restaurants. We didn’t normally stay in hotels or eat out, so these were a treat. At one point, I asked my mother if we had brought Donna with us, (a black girl I played with) couldn’t eat there since she’d be our guest. Mom hushed me up in a hurry and said she tell me later. When I persisted, I got the “look” that meant “shut up and mind your elders.” It wasn’t until we met Dad on base (Navy) in Florida that the matter was spoken of. The consensus was that it wasn’t right, however, we would keep our mouths shut in public because some people there had resorted to killing over it. We were individually expected to speak and act respectfully to all people, whether black, white, oriental, or whatever, just as at home. I was left feeling very disturbed that there were murders about such a thing making it dangerous to mention, but like always, strong feelings were not discussed or outwardly expressed in our family. I did as I’d learned to do, think about it, then put it in an imaginary box and put the box on the back shelf in the closet. “To Be Dealt With at a Later Time”
Too bad the entire county can't be as wonderful as Queens. A true paradise on earth.
Spoken like a true northerner.
Words can explain but that’s mind blowing
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Today as we speak about racism human beings are being bombed and killed in Ukraine and most of us put the issues on a imaginary box "to be dealt with at a later time". This ukranian "journalist" is asking to "eliminate" 1.5 million russo- ukranians because they are "unnecesary" and "superfluos". Did we forget about the Holocaust? Yesterday it was jews and blacks, today it is ukranians, what it will be tomorrow? Mexicans?
thanks for sharing!
Now am i wrong.............these people committed terrorist acts on us.......but we still had to pay taxes to support them
Albert Hicks faczt we was scared we knew they would kill us them and mighty 🔫
Hell no your not wrong
So much is still to be done.
This is why owning guns and protecting yourself is so important now. Thankfully for them segregation and open racism is gone but we can never forget the people who fought for these rights.
My grandparents where in there early 20s during this time here. Crazy to see my grandmas stories she would tell me.
My grandma lived in southern Missouri crazy stories in the 1930’s as a kid
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As a young child growing up in northern Canada these type of newsreels were the first black people I'd ever seen. I remember thinking they were some of the bravest humans we had ever seen. Still do. God Bless America. JT
Who knew that the tables would be reversed in the year 2021? The American progressive left has successfully brainwashed entire generations of people into thinking there's mass wide racism today when it's simply not true. If anything, it's become more difficult...at times dangerous...to be of light skin. Shameful.
@@jackj5368 I strongly disagree. As a Canadian I used to travel extensively in the US. The racism was always there and sometimes quite blatant. With trump it came right out in the open. You are very,very,wrong. I've travelled the world for decades and the US is the most racist country on the planet.
Racism exists everywhere,@@davidgiles5030, including in your hometown. Trump has done more for my people, in fact not just for blacks, for all Americans, than any previous president since Lincoln and Johnson. Your attempt to blame one of America's best presidents ever, Donald J. Trump, failed, because you're unwilling to admit the truth about him. You're a leftist, that now is obfious, Giles, and to those who think as you do, America is essentially a racist, sexist, violent, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic country. The left around the world loathe America, and it is hard to imagine why the American left would differ in this one way from fellow leftists around the world. Leftists often take offense at having their love of America doubted. But those left-wing descriptions of America are not the only reason to assume that the left has more contempt than love for America. The left's view of America was encapsulated in Obama's statement in 2008 when he shockingly uttered these words: "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America".
@@jackj5368 I think you're confusing the dislike of the present condition and push for a better country as hate, but I'm gonna let you keep cooking that gumbo cause I see what you're cooking with.
No confusion, other than, it seems, with your own distorted thinking,@@speedlaws. But go ahead...provide specifics and I'll be happy to provide comment. Thanks, 'Speedlaws'.
Is this when America was great?
@@Withlovefrominterent Maybe you should ask your Republican politicians who run Mississippi as to why the state is crap.
@Dn j l was born there and actually lived it. I saw it and experienced it. I was there during the killing and terror. You must not be black. Try walking a mile in our shoes and you will get a real education. America was never great for me. Thank you.
amazing musical soundtrack.. breathtaking, that no computer could ever come close to replacing
you can hear the pitch wobble on the long, sustained notes, especially the woodwinds. That is the audio track stretched out on the film. You hear it all the time on old films.
i'm 63 yrs old white male...i grew up in segregated jim crow mississippi...it was horrible...i didn't go to school with blacks until i was 6th grade...racism is still rampant, but it has been somewhat tempered relative to the way it used to b...but yes, there is still plenty of racism...it's a blight on society.
Shut up white boy ur racist
“Somewhat tempered”
Only somewhat? There isn’t 10% of the racism that used to exist in the 60s.
Yawn. No it’s not. It barely exists. And even where it does it doesn’t mean jack shit. Go to the hood and try to hang out. You’ll get your ass whooped.
I'm black. From Texarkana, AR. School for me started Sept 1969. I was 6 years old. We all black and white played together with no problems
that wasn't the case when I started school...once we did integrate, it was a bit tumultuous at first, but it did seem eventually to "stabilize" - but that's not saying racism and the subsequent tension was eradicated...the strategy to incrementally implement desegregation in the schools first was a wise one, with the belief that children are more malleable than, say, adults whose entrenched beliefs seemed to "ossify" and were next to impossible to overcome...by the time I graduated high school, some of my best friends were black...we had a great time together...of course, we all went our separate ways to get on with our lives...but we still cross paths on occasion...I had a class with a beautiful black girl when I was at the University of Southern Mississippi...I wanted to date her, but she refused my intent, and I always got the impression that I was just "too white" for her (lol), i.e., just another bigoted redneck...but I wasn't then, and I'm not now...I wasn't b/c I'm ugly; it's b/c stereotypes can be ugly...society is still reeling from racism.
RIP… Merger Evers🙏🏿
This is pure disgusting ! My mother was the first women head of the UAW in 1961 . She pressed the UAW to hire African Americans & they did . My mothers first job was waiting tables at her boy friends parents restaurant in Wilmington Delaware , She told her mother she could not deal with the way they treated colored people & quit 9 days later . She followed her own path & made it to the top & was to win right up to her death ! She could not marry into a family that thought this was natural ! Wrong ! He pleaded for my mom to not leave him but he gave her know choose . She married my father 3 years later & he also was the head of skilled trades in the UAW & they worked very hard & owned 3 gas stations where the staff was at least 50 percent colored . They are both gone now but they are well know for what they believed in . Freedom for all !!! I must say my typing is a mess because I just got out of the hospital with my 3rd spine surgery 7 THESE DRUGS ARE MAKING ME LOOPY AS HELL . Peace to all my friends !!!
Michael Neel i do wanna tell you some white women would fight tooth and nails for us your mom sounds like 1
@@ricardohendricks3939 O my mother thought it was her mission to change this world & she damn well did ! PS Thank you !!!
It was great
Michael Neel
With a heart like that I’m sure your parents are enjoying one of the Lords Many Mansions! Also I pray for a speedy recovery. I suffer from back pain and have no idea why. I was diagnosed with scoliosis as a child but I never received treatment for it and maybe that’s the cause of my pain. I do know back pain is no joke! I hope that was your final surgery!
@@CaylaMarieeeeee Thank you ! But mom would rather have a little cottage & she would give the mansion back lol . Have a blessed day !!!
That's why my parents who was born in the 1920's in Mississippi move to Michigan to raise a family.
It’s sad that there is still such hatred in people hearts how many years later. Heart wrenching
Hatred is a mental illness affecting the heart. Plus if u hate someone just because of ur foolish pride u become a murderer.
barely
@@normaheflin5670 no its not a mental illness, just an ignorant mindset. It's not like there's a chemical imbalance affecting the mind compared to majority of other healthy humans (like with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder).. It's like people who buy into a cult, just these types bought into racism and hatred. They don't need medication to help them, just a good ol reality check.
anti-American DEMOCRATS have their entire history rooted in hate & anarchy
It’s not hatred. It’s a fear of unfamiliarity and inability to have empathy
love and defense of segregation was spoken so freely. This stuff runs deep and is still around.
Definitely agree 👌. Look at Jackson Mississippi today in 2023. Looks like Zimbabwe 💩
Democrat Woodrow Wilson, born under the Dixie flag, became US President in 1913, for 2 terms, and made segregation official.
@@AmigoKanduand back then, the parties were the opposite that they are now.
Segregation forever!
Amazing what inbreeding does back then...these people take shotguns to alien sightings...."why do u need shotguns"? "So we dont wana be abducted"........"and leave all this....learn to read a road map and leave......im lown away how people can be conditioned etc.were all the same consciosness having a physical experience.....
R.I.P Medgar Evers.
Thanks Mr. Medgar Evers....WORDS are inadequate what you mean to me and how you gave your life for Blacks to be free from these DEVILS
smells like something died
@@arkybaldknobber8062 Love your name. Lol
I'm not American. I know the name but wonder what he meant to people - not the media or google.
Love Byran Dela Beckwith. Great hero.
@@arkybaldknobber8062 could b ya mouth its close to ur 👃🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
Thank God for this footage so that we do not repeat history
We are WELL on the way to repeating this history & more.
Thanks to Trump, it seems to be repeating itself.
God bless our president.....
LOL! Are you serious? This has been repeated and repeated and repeated in America with practically each and every generation.
Richard Pryor told jokes in the seventies about being pulled over by a white cop.
Look up the names Bernard Goetz (who strangely no one mentions anymore), Rodney King, Yusuf Hawkins, Michael Griffin, Charles and Caroline Stuart, Tawana Brawley, and I was too young to understand it, but it seems safe to say there was something about the Atlanta child murders.
This isn't history, this old grainy video IS America, not the south. ALL of America. Full of denial.
@@2up3rm4n1 People believe whatever suits them-some of them think that trump is jesus reborn-what can you do with people like that?
These video capture the true sentiment of the south yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Sad.
It’s not just the south.
I can’t believe this was only 61 years ago
Hope I'm spelling his name right, but I just heard on the ABC Radio News (posting 12:05 am ET on 8-26-21) that Ernest "Rip" Patton, one of the Freedom Riders, recently died at age 81. I'm guessing it was three or so days ago. He was in sit-ins at Nashville lunch counters.
We have been an increasingly incompatible society ever since.
I can’t believe I was born into such ignorance but Thank God it didn’t reflect upon me as this mass of minions or their ancestors Amen 🙏🏾🙌🏾
You're sitting here using colored emojis. That tells me you are obviously just as ignorant. 🙄
Never knew the capitol was in Mississippi I'm so thankful for these archives💯💯💯💯🤞🏾
It's always been Jackson in my lifetime. Why is that so hard to believe
goodness. feels like a hell hole. So very thankful this changed so quick. miracle doesn't begin to describe it.
Rip Jackson Mississippi those black mayors destroyed the city
Sounds like it was ruined long before black mayors! Ok over half the population was segregated
The state politicians of Mississippi particularly Republicans had a lot to do with it
That you Tom?
Thank you for uploading this though the music track with "Dixie" & that audio warp is absolutely interminable. lol.
Not a damned thing wrong with the song Dixie .
It suits the occasion. The warp in the sound that is.
An excellent documentation of this particular history.
This tears my heart out!!!!! Even as a child, hearing about stuff like this; I just didn’t understand the hate & cruelty.
The heart of racism is still alive and breathing in those same areas of Mississippi 🤦♀️
Vincent Vegas I have lived in the north east my whole life. I have been down there to the Deep South they drive the same cars in the video have the confederate flags racism is everywhere u can hear it in conversation, schools are still segregated
¡ Yeb Bush !, along with liberals. They no longer have to be subjected to racism but now stay awake at night pondering the thought that somewhere across America, a racist exists and they must identify them, beat, humiliate, and finally re-educate into thinking like the masses. So much for being ok to look or think different. No more live and let live nonsense I suppose.
You shouldn't be surprised. When one group forces their ways on another group, it breeds resentment. When ppl hate you, they will refuse to emulate you. The Civil Rights organizers were right morally, but their tactics were wrong.
@@gottgaame Bull. There are no segregated schools anywhere in America. What you saw was the same you would see anywhere: a school in a white area has mostly white students and a school in a black area has mostly black students.
You don't have to come to MS to find it, either, now do you, honey child?
The sound is lousy on this video and there's no closed-caption to compensate. It's too bad, too, because this is an AWESOME broadcast!!!
@Brian Salomon LOL
These citizens had so much fortitude and courage. To keep coming back after being knocked down shows their true mettle.
It’s very sad to see what’s happened to jackson today. Most of west Jackson where I grew up is a gutted waste land. I used to cut grass up and down west capitol. We were not well off but our neighborhoods were kept nice. I walked to the zoo and the library. And now it’s so dangerous. Jackson is a regular top 10 murder capitol of America. Drug and gang violence is rampant. All development moved away to Rankin and Madison county. No one wants to build in Jackson. It’s around 85% black now. What happened to Jackson? I really wish some black people would comment on what they think caused Jackson to fail. Was it democratic policy? Is there a lack of visionary leadership?
This is simply America not one place is prosperous in this country for ever. In no time those suburbs will be run down as well. Prosperity in America tends to always favour the new communities vs the old.
@@seanthe100Also guessing there was massive white flight out of Jackson when desegregation happened a few years after this film was made.
Blacks moved in whites moved out and took all the resources with them, therefore creating an environment of hopelessness, a cycle of terrible education structure, then top it off with drugs and alcohol..I present to you the ghetto..do blacks need to be held accountable? Of course but, the odds were stacked against them from the beginning..
I''m sorry,it's 85% black, that is what happened.
It is amazing how blind people are.
That’s what happens when you don’t allow 42% of your population to the same level of education as the whites. What did you expect was gonna happen? Blacks were treated as less than second class citizens. They had no voice, the education and facilities given to them by the state was no where near to the level given to the whites. Segregation ended and suddenly blacks are supposed to be on the same level as whites? This isn’t a race issue. This is the result of segregation
a man takes this freedom, not ask for it...
Well, as somebody (I forget who) once said, "You have whatever rights you're willing to fight for". I was born in 1963, just when the civil rights movement was starting, so segregation was legal during my lifetime. In fact, President Kennedy gave a speech on TV a few hours after I was born and on June 11, 1963, when I'd been on earth a little over a day, George Wallace stood in the schoolhouse door, and later that night, Medgar Evers was shot dead.
Jimmy Sakura Gakuin Fan
What are you saying? They weren’t many blacks to stand up?
Another thing. I once had a cassette tape (goes back quite a ways, huh?) by a hip-hop group named Da Lench Mob. One of the songs was "Freedom got an AK", and a couple lines went "I wish I was in Dixie, AK, AK/Things wouldn't have been bad in the 60s" (to the tune of "Dixie"). AK refers to an AK-47 rifle. No, I don't guess things would've been that bad.
Jimmy Sakura Gakuin Fan
Don’t believe all blacks were enslaved. Some didn’t make it. Some killed their masters or just kicked their asses, and of course was dealt with. It may have been many that were treated poorly and degraded but don’t believe that all stood for it....
@@TheBrooklynbodine I had the cassette too,guerillas in the mist was the first single,ice cube, the bone,and jd
Mississippi was very hardcore. Kind of surprised it ever changed at all there.
It changed. Thats good.
It hasn’t actually. It’s still stuck in the 50s when you go there.
@@joecool1409 no, it isn't. You just find what you look for. But if it just riles your delicate little perfect self so much, stay out of Mississippi. We can do without your judgmental behavior.
O Alabama era pior.
Yea, the south never changes, but the north and NY and California can have the names Michael Griffith, Yusuf Hawkins, Charles and Caroline Stuart, Tawana Brawley, Bernard Goetz, the Central Park jogger suspects, Rodney King, George Floyd, Michael Brown, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot", Eric Garner, "I Can't Breathe", Tamir Rice, Orlando Castille, Trayvon Martin, all within the past FORTY YEARS, but you're going to go back SIXTY YEARS in Mississippi to find 'racism'.
That's why America isn't changing it's racial perspective.
Man black people had to go through so much for equality. Sad!
-they still don't have it-don't be fooled-just watch the news. Can you imagine a white man being slowly, cruelly and so sadistically murdered like George Floyd was?
"We Delawareans were on the South’s side in the Civil War." - Joe Biden
???
I wish there was never slavery. Can you imagine how different our country would be?
There wouldnt be a country
Poorer, yes for sure.
But a darned sight more honest.
It's down to money, and not sharing those nice big profits in a fairer way with the people who made those profits for the bosses .
Damned if anyone can do anything about that abandoned system in 2023 - heck, there was the Civil War and it wasn't sorted-out then....."Carpetbaggers" were evil, too😢
Martin King said that people should not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. He would be shocked to see that in this country if you have black skin it doesn’t matter what the content of your character is.
You're a clown 🤡
We have to give props for the freedom riders.They had aspire people to fight for right ,to go where you to go.eat at restaurant,washrooms,slept in hotels,we were fighting for people call us yes sir and mams for black folk.much love core,NAACP,southern christian leadership,urban lead,other unsung heroes!🌉⛺🏩😝😒🏰🐐😂😂🏤🏩🐽🐴🐨🌊🌁🌏☀🌕🌗🌜🌛🏬🚞🚀🎢🚂🚈🚂
I would have been scared shirtless....
lol look at the destroyed American cities today.
I'm white so I don't understand all the things being black you have to go through. I just can't wrap my head around how our nation leaders let this go on against their citizens who some actually fought and shed blood for that same nation. It's the sad part of our history.
The white leaders was and still a big part of the racial problem. TRUMPTY DUMPTY
@@nanjemoyal-kursi3078 No, the Democratic Party held african americans back for nearly a century after the Civil War. Lincoln, a Republican, freed the slaves. Democrats response was to found the KKK. Republicans had presented civil rights bills as early as the 1880's. Democrats voted against them. LBJ got civil rights passed, but he had to do a TON of talking to convince his fellow Democrats to vote yes. The Democrats have a long history of hate and division, never forget that.
@Constitutional Conservative A bit of history. The Republican party, the party of Lincoln was supported by black people until the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In the aftermath, authorities were severely criticized for favouring the white population during relief operations. Thousands of African American plantation workers had been forced to work shoring up the levees near Greenville, Miss. Then, as the waters rose, they were left stranded for days without food or drinking water, while white women and children were hauled to safety. Young white Boy Scouts guarded African Americans at gunpoint. Black people were forced to participate in relief efforts, and to clean up flooded areas while receiving inferior provisions for themselves. At least one black man was shot, reportedly for refusing to work. After the flood, black loyalty to the Republican party ended.
@@cz4259 A bit of history. The Republican party, the party of Lincoln was supported by black people until the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In the aftermath, authorities were severely criticized for favouring the white population during relief operations. Thousands of African American plantation workers had been forced to work shoring up the levees near Greenville, Miss. Then, as the waters rose, they were left stranded for days without food or drinking water, while white women and children were hauled to safety. Young white Boy Scouts guarded African Americans at gunpoint. Black people were forced to participate in relief efforts, and to clean up flooded areas while receiving inferior provisions for themselves. At least one black man was shot, reportedly for refusing to work. After the flood, black loyalty to the Republican party ended.
@Freethinkers You know dsmn well ur silly old ass ancestors got a government welfare in the form of either the homestead act,the new deal or the Gi bill
I dont think black people would of had a problem with segregation if they water fountains was gone get clean water like whites, they schools was gone be built properly etc.
Eugene Conners separation not segregation
You’re a dumbass now ain’t ya.
@@EA-xe4sr ,no. Actually, I don't think blacks would mind separate but equal if it had truly existed. I can tell you this, I remember more black owned businesses then than now.
Fascinating glimpse into recent history.
Emphasis on recent!
I was born October 1960. This and all like it has happened in my lifetime...WOW
This is why we fight for reparations stand with us as in abolitionist like in the days of slavery when some whites fought to help free slaves join the fight
@Cynthia Dickerson do you own your on business
John Gwin Texas I am 4 years behind u. I’ve been through some of this personally myself. Not as harsh though
@Klaa2 so what are your plans
@Klaa2 English please
My Dad and Mon was both born and raised in the state of Louisiana they moved to California in the late forty’s I was born in San Diego California in the year 1951 I was raised not to hate anyone when I first saw racism because of my color I was amazed at how my parents raised and taught us not to never hate anyone and them coming from the south .
How ever bad as it is or bad as it gets love can overcome hate !
I was born in 1961. It amazes me the way the world was in my lifetime. 15 years ago we seemed to be going great. Race relations were improving greatly. We had a black president. Then the main stream media decided things were going too well and they needed to started dividing the races again. So sad.
I agree. All of the pills I have seen point to 2013 being the year in which race relations started declining by quite a bit. Obamas handling of the Ferguson and Trayvon martin events really did not help .. and yes, the mainstream media just dumps gasoline on the fire every chance they get
Yeah, the enemy is not another race but the media representing the rich that seeks to devide and conquer us all
"White Trash: the 400-year history of class in America" :
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Race relations were not improving it was a status quo. Obama becoming president broke the status quo. Race relations are better now than 15 years ago..
People need to turn off the TV just like the idiots back then needed to put down the news papers and pamphlets and turn away from the babbling morons spewing ignorance.
18:48...She needed to get a DNA test before talking... ;)) Foolish people
She definitely passing 🤣 lips and nose give her away
Being from Mississippi it is very strange and upsetting to hear people talk and act this way. People from large population centers such as N.Y. CA. and so on believe the majority of Mississippians still believe and act the way they did back in 1961. We have made great advances in equal rights. True there is still room for improvement. I love my home and the people here no matter what color they are. Please don't stereotype people of Mississippi just because you heard a happening back during those days. I'm sure someone will trash and call me names about my comments but I believe overall all people no matter what color they happen to be are of the same mind. Keep fighting for Freedom. Everyone's Freedom. God Bless you all.
B.S.
And I’m a Mississippian. Too little has changed. This is the same ole non sequitur filled straw man crap I’ve heard my whole life to justify keeping as close to the status quo as possible. Shameful.
This is the struggle the black man had to endure. There accomplishments are nothing less than amazing. It is sad to see the young black man of today to throw away the opportunity that was so hard to gain.
These Gringos have not changed much.
My father's Mother had her house burnt to ashes, because some one accused my grandmother of spitting in a white water fountain. But they really wanted to destroy her Moon-Shine business.
We didn't need integration we needed the same opportunities that these gringos were given.
You know what it Is, but when you actually here it and it's so well entrenched . Emmitt Till
Emmitt shouldn't have whistled
@@wadescott2036 You are justifying the murder of a black boy for whistling at a white woman? Seriously??
@@tomfields3682 yup
A black guy from jackson Mississippi told me he had jump in the ditch at night if a car approached. He served in the Korea war.
I, too, know a gentleman from Georgia, now 80, who went to a segregated school, lived in a segregated small town, and had virtually no exposure to white folks until he entered the military. His father was a sharecropper, so they lived about two miles outside of town, and spoke of having to hide if he was on the road by himself or after dark. The Army ended up sending him to Germany instead of Korea. To his amazement, he found himself a sought after dance partner by the (white) German frauleins. They used to argue over whose turn it was to go with the “Schwartzamann!” Black GIs were considered a novelty, and were regarded as more respectful and polite than white GIs. Then he had to come back to the US. 😤
In 1961, a black man named David Jackson was found hanging from a tree in McDuffie County Georgia. It didn't make national headlines as his death was quickly deemed a suicide by officials because his hands weren't tied.
In 1961 not long ago I was born in 58 I never know this
@cowboy up Dude...a black man from the south was found hanging from a tree in GEORGIA in 1961. It was not suicide my guy cmon now.
cowboy up You are very naive sonny or very purposely obtuse.
Oh, wow, I've never heard about that and McDuffie County is in Thomson, Ga....we're practically next door because I'm from Wilkes County in Washington, Ga...I'm so baffled right now. Of course, this occurred before my time, but it's still heartwrenching!
Systematic racism never stopped.
And it Never Will
It’s obvious, look at the prison system and racial profiling.
Well if niggas would stop being niggas
It never should
And it ain't stop
Thank god they fought for freedom,these are the people who made Amarica great
My parents used to stop along side the road to go to the bathroom because in their minds they were still under the Jim Crow rules was still in effect! My mom and dad would make sure we had toilet paper for the trip down to North Carolina from Jersey..
DEMOCRATS have been solely responsible for defending slavery, starting the Civil War, opposing reconstruction, lynching blacks, founding the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow laws and segregation, poll taxes and literacy tests. The Party voted against the 13th amendment (end slavery), 14th amendment (black citizenship), and 15th amendment (black right to vote), filibustered the 1960 Civil Rights Act (elimination of poll taxes), and tried to filibuster the 1964 Civil Rights Act for 60 days, the longest filibuster in Senate history.
It's all turned around.
Robert Kennedy & JFK were Democrats.
lol that wasn’t stone wall Jackson, that was Jefferson Davis
ziggy morris I caught that too.
@@TexasMan77
So did I! I thought the man in that painting didn't look like Stonewall Jackson.
Ross Barnett is one of the SLIMIEST, MOST VILE CREATURES to ever be granted life! That reservoir needs to be renamed!
I like him.
I agree
Ross Barnett was a racist judge and as far as I'm concerned, an incompetent human being. Anytime a damn judge freely walks into a courtroom while the murder trial of Mr. Medgar Evers was in session to shake the murderer's hand is the epitome of a bold, brazen inept judge.
So true. What a true dumbass POS.
Yep, man is vile, He was a typical democrats
So much to say about this! It was 1961 (May 13, the exact date, I believe). In Anniston, Alabama, several freedom riders were brutally beaten and the bus was torched. Also, though I know this refers to Mississippi, Rosa Parks made her stand (no pun intended) in Montgomery, Alabama. The city eventually let people ride wherever they wanted, and that was more than eight years before federal civil rights legislation was passed.
It happened before Rosa, in Louisiana, maybe...? People have always protested and stood up for their human and civil rights. Unfortunately, it wasn't always televised or otherwise recorded. May those brave souls rest in freedom and peace. The challenge remains as does the protest/fight to QUASH it!
Do you know that the black citizens boycotted the bus system for over a year, Montgomery felt the pinch in the pocketbooks, them blacks boycotted for over a year, the city of Montgomery was resistant as it could be.
God bless the confederacy and mississippi!
'Here's to the state of Mississippi' - Phil Ochs - 1967
That bus clip.....what a glaring piece of propaganda. No support because support meant loss of job, loss of home, canceled insurance policy's, physical harm, incarceration.
Crazy that news reporter guy was 100% real and 100% believed what he was saying…wild
He's not holding back
Taxation without representation. I was drafted and sent to Vietnam in the 60s while my people during the turbulent 60s didn't have our civil rights. Many of us were asked by the Vietnamese "why you here GI?" "this not your war". I have never been to Mississippi and no one has ever been able to convince me what Mississippi has to offer. You mention Mississippi to me and I think KKK, lynching, and MOB violence
I spent 6 months in Mississippi in 1995. My job sent me there from California where I now reside. In 1995 that state is so living 40 years behind its pathetic. I'm not lying as soon as I got to my hotel from the airport I left my hotel to get something to eat I was call a bigger from a passing car. I was called a bigger several times there and whites will say it without thinking twice. But I will say this. At least they dont hide their racism and its easier to deal with whites there. Where as other places like California and the northeast. Whites smile in your face and act like they cool with you. But in reality I know they can't stand my black ass. It's easier to deal with white people in the south. They tell me fuck me and I say fuck you and I know where I stand with them. The behind the back racism is the fucked up thing.
Ma1nguy cause people around the world know what the Europeans do to us in America how could u fight for them
@@intelligentbeing4095 Tell you one thing though John, They won't get in your face and call you the "N" word but they'll call you that from a passing car because They're afraid of Black men and so they walk gingerly around us in the north. Oh I wasn't fighting for America oh no. I was a conscientious objector so I was a medical corpsmen. I didn't believe in that war then and I don't believe in it today. I know that during the turbulent 60s Johnson and J Edgar Hoover (closeted gay) FBI Director who hated Dr King with a passion. Anyway the two of them connived to get as many young Black men off the streets during the rioting and so they accelerated the draft. We made up 12% of the entire population in America but a higher ratio of Young Black Men were drafted and sent to Vietnam. Another form of genocide in which the American government was complicit. At least I got free college education and home under the GI Bill. Yeah America owed that to me.
@@Ma1nguy About the draft, wasn't the draft done by dates of birth? Can you explain a bit more about how the draft was manipulated to send more blacks?
Helen Heinz : I was born in the 60’s so this only a guess on my part. I think they instilled the draft to effect the POOR and uneducated which mainly comprised of Black People due to their RACIST MONETARY LAWS. You see if you were in college back then. They said that you could avoid the draft. Thus, the 5 deferments Trump gotten. Notice there was not that big of a stench on Trumps deferments. Because most WHITES was playing that game. But they tell you not to Kneel because they so patriotic. RIGHT!!!! LOL!!!!! Also, the Rich Whites, And Whites that knew someone in government with power could get their kids out of serving. Or if they did served they would give them non combat jobs. Now, you get the picture....only POOR whites and minorities (mainly Blacks) was drafted. And after serving came back to Bullshyt like the Black man who fought and died in the previous wars.
Keep fighting! 🙏🏾
Joe Biden has jumped on the race hustler bandwagon under the guise of diversity training with his recent decision to rescind an executive order from former President Trump that would have put restrictions on advancing racial equality by limiting diversity training for federal government employees and its contractors. In other words, more identity politics. Unfortunately, this isn’t an anomaly for Democrats. This isn’t a blip on the Democratic arc of history bending towards justice. Judging people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character has a rich history in the DEMOCRAT Party.
God's TRUTH is marching on. An nobody can stop IT.
Yea, praise be unto Allah and Islam, right? Moron.
Passages of the Old Testament were used to justify holding people in subjugation as Slaves-proof that it was written by men, no Divine Creator would have decided to bring about a race of people for another race to abuse, murder, rape, and enslave.
wow, how uncivilized the nature of many are
Listen to Steve Winwood's 'Traffic' album "On the Road" . The song "Freedom Rider" is about those brave people on those buses.
When he's explaning the "lack of Mississippi leadership", Medgar Evers says a lot of their previous leaders had "decided to move away". Is that low key for got scared out by rough handling and death threats?
So much was sacrificed. So much hope was expected. Yet look around you today sixty years later it starts again.
President Obama was the cause of making me feel oppressed all over again
History is embarrassing. It never lies.
It's all worked out so well.
Sad...that a small group was able to terrorize an entire community. Plenty of people were too terrified to speak out against these oppressors. Can you imagine!
Um yes I can imagine. As someone who had their life threatened with murder attempt in high school...
We are ignorant if we think we can fix 400 years of oppression in 60 years 1960 to present. But what really annoys me is the victimhood we have today. People think they have it soo bad in this country now in 2020, but they never lived a day of slavery or lived in the days of white fountains and black fountains and sundown towns and water hoses and beatings and lynchings. We don't do this shit anymore. I wish people would stop living in the past. This shit is over. Time to forgive. We can't fix what already happened. All we can do is move forward and learn to love each other. The media fuels alot of this division. Cherry picking racist stories.. White cops vs black people. They have been doing this shit for decades. It fuels the readers, and the listeners. But I go out everyday and meet people of all races, alot of them black people (because my city is very mixed) and there are white people doing things for black people. Treating each other with courtesy playing sports together, swimming together. That's how it's always been since I was growing up in the 80's. Whoever is a racist these days, was taught by their parents to be a racist. We are nothing as a society like they used to be in the 60s and before. We have come a long ways. Farther than some people might think. Minorities might still be at a disadvantage in society in some ways, but to think they can't get ahead or become something now is absolutely ludicrous. I know alot of white people who pull the poor me victimhood card. It's not just black people. Alot of lazy, entitled, spoiled people pull that card. At some point, time to grow up, time to be an adult and stop blaming everyone else for your problems. Stop blaming shit that happened 200 years ago. This country is 1000 percent better off than where we were 60 years or more ago and if you don't think so, then I don't know what else to say.
There ARE people living today who DID live through “White Only” and “Colored” facilities, and businesses. They’re in their 60s on up. Many have changed, but some, sadly, have not. Even when these have all died off, there’ll be racism because hate isn’t a race problem, it’s a heart problem.
My grandfather moved from Mississippi to Albany NY in the early 1940's and I see why.
I live in Albany ny now ! Wow
@@tqswagga cause they get mo food stamps and welfa shecks up dare
@@wildestcowboy2668 Yikes , I wish any of us asked a question for you to answer. Also wish you had proper grammar 😔
@@tqswagga bet playa
Sorry he moved to Albany. 😅 jk
Interesting choice of background music “Dixie”?
I am astonished that all this was happening in the 1960s, not that long ago
Funny ...... Parts of Mississippi now look like Zimbabwe. Jackson, the state capitol is plagued by violence. The city has serious management issues.
That's what I'd call a failure of significant magnitude.
WP 14 👌🙏👌
I would like to use some of this footage for a documentary on the Biloxi wade-ins
I went to Biloxi last year, went to the beach where the wade-ins took place. When I was there, I got the feeling that the blacks I saw there probably didn't care about the history or it was lost on them.
I'm from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. That was a terrible situation.
At 18:29, looking at that womans nose screaming 'I'm black", and she's talking about "I do too", I bet you do young lady.
Difficult to believe there were people that would violate others basic rights. I was born in the sixties and remember going to school after desegregation with one black kid in class. Never bothered me then doesn't bother me now.
I “didn’t get it,” either. The school where I went was mostly white, but there were a few black or Asian kids in most classes. I was best friends with a girl from India, probably the only Indian family in the school. I thought of her as having a different, almost exotic life at home. It was never in terms of who was “better” or “worse.”
What's very concerning is we still hear the same rhetoric they used back then to oppress people.
Those racists have no shame. After tormenting and exploiting and treating human beings like tools for 200 years, instead of feeling shame for their cruelty and inhumanity, they still believe in the "gallant south" of gross injustice and lynchings. They make me want to vomit.
Yawn...Everyone knows the history of the Democratic and Republican parties. Please try out some new material. Also it's you're.
@109059729358630158824
I am not from the US but even I, know that the roles and even the identities of Republicans and Democrats have been reversed over the years.
@Steven Bergh the sheer ignorance and racism contained in that one comment is just sad.
@Steven Bergh Why bring blacks into your own country in the first place idiot :)
@Steven Bergh Blacks dont get to have that choice or luxury...Why?
It's strange but people actually looked different back then not just the style of dress the people themselves. I don't know if it's the camera or what.
Erin, not sure what you mean. How are they different?
TB Wms they just don't look like the people of today. It's hard to put it into words.
@@erinlevere6881 I notice that too. We are more mixed and hella fatter.
A simple minded ass statement...
Erin levere : The next two generations will say the same about this time frame.
That was probably the last time Jackson actually looked nice
@@pastorrickstevenson5325 white people
Fuk ya
I live in mississippi and it still feels segregated in our communities.
Amber Milton really ?
By choice not force tho
Y'all still racist in Mississippi
@Prime Minister of Redneckistan By force too.
Yes in some areas that's how it is . But now it's a choice .
"The more things change the more things stay the same" But, Jackson, MS is over 75% Black now... Go figure 🤔
White flight ! With fright 🤧
I love Jackson
@@JayeNovember elevate, explore, expand, evolve my brother.🙏✝️🕊️
@@rosalindhampton24 wtf u talking about...I said I love Jackson what's wrong with loving my hometown...I live in Arizona.
@@rggyuhtgggbji5017 imagine a third world country full of violence, despair, corruption, Urban decay, extreme poverty, broken mind set (mentality) limited resources, shortage of police, crumbling infrastructure, etc. PRAY FOR MISSISSIPPI 🙏✝️🕊️
Wow, have seen most of these types of civil rights movement videos but had never seen this one. Very interesting.
I grew up in TN during the 60s and integration. I remember going to see the movie "The Bible with my mother and grandmother. I remember watching the NAACP protest peacefully because blacks had to sit in the balcony. I was only 7 or 8 and didn't understand everything but felt change was coming. About 50 yards from that protest still stands a statue of Gen. Hatton CSA.
How did you enjoy the whites only section?
Called the Black people the N word in the live TV and it's in 1961 daayum that's messed up
@Curtis Liner,
You got that way backward. The liberal democrats are the ones that don't have a problem with races mixing. just look at how few black americans are in congress as republicans, and how many as democrats. The racist switched teams when a certain democrat politician endorsed desegregation. Now the republican party is almost all white, and the democrats in 2008 around 60% white if I remember correctly. but somehow I think you already know this, and you're just trying to spread disinformation.
@Stor Bokki, good luck talking sense to a Turnip.
@Curtis Liner
You are so full of it. The far right consists of the nazis, kkk, christian militias all of which would love to start a race war with whites vs. blacks, muslims, and jewish people, anyone not white basically. Most of these groups are on government watch lists for prior terrorist activities. Your last comment is itself full of racist terms. The alt-right is all about spreading disinformation and that's all you have. You aren't fooling me. I i didn't say there are more liberal black officials, I said there are more Democrat elected black officials. Everyone knows that the republicans have gone way overboard with gerrymandering requiring democrats to lead by 10 to 20 percent in order to win in many districts. But Trump's election has people woke. Republicans are going to get hit hard in the 2020 election, just like how the democrats won 40 seats in the house during midterms. And before you start calling me a liberal, I'm actually not. I'm pretty conservative. I've voting both republican and democrat, even splitting my votes between parties based on who I thought was best for the job at the time. I've never registered for either party, but have voted in elections since 1980. And by the way, I'm white and lived in the south most of my life, and I've heard the true racist talk from people that think I must share their ideas for whatever reason. I know which party the racists are in, the republican party, or the Trump party.
donjon bro I was shocked to hear that too . H didn’t even bat an eye when he said it
@Curtis Liner , That's a whole lot of disinformation you commented there. Funny how you avoided answering my comment directly to you above. More African Americans are democrats and only a very few are republicans now. It's no secret who the KKK, Nazi sympathizers, and Christian Militias support. They make clear they are Trump fans and they vote far-right. What is "manipulhthem" and do you meaning by "overcompensate the fact"? Are you a russian troll? Is English your first language?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_United_States_Representatives
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_United_States_Senators