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  • By the 1920s, Oklahoma was home to some 50 African-American towns, in addition to a large and prosperous black community living in the city of Tulsa. These towns and their self-reliant middle class and affluent residents are documented by the home movies of Reverend S. S. Jones, an itinerant minister and businessman. Known and respected by the citizens of the towns whose lives he captured on film, Rev. Jones’s work offers revealing glimpses of these communities as a haven for African Americans who very often faced discrimination elsewhere in America. The subjects are everyday life: a family on the front porch of their bungalow, shop workers at a storefront, farmers plowing their fields, children playing on seesaws in a schoolyard. Much of the material documents the economic life of the towns, from business districts filled with prosperous merchants to the homes of successful professionals, with an abundant countryside beyond. As Rhea Combs, curator of film and photography for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, points out in her commentary, here we even find a married couple who were oil barons, proof of the extraordinary progress made in the relatively short time since the end of slavery. The fashions and hairstyles, automobiles and horses, and even such details as a man manually pumping gasoline at a filling station make the films a fascinating record of the lives of Americans, and African Americans in particular, in the early 20th century.
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    Rev. S. S. Jones Home Movie Collection
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  • @heyheyhey40
    @heyheyhey40 5 лет назад +1675

    But you didn’t talk about how these communities were destroyed.

    • @sarathewonderful7561
      @sarathewonderful7561 4 года назад +5

      ArtZ nerd seriously...

    • @bernardwade8096
      @bernardwade8096 4 года назад +85

      @live life the Republican and democratic party use to be one party they on the same team when it comes to black people

    • @joshbreidinger2616
      @joshbreidinger2616 4 года назад +64

      @live life You know that the Democratic Party and Republican Party switched, right? Why do you think that all of the descendants of the racist Democrats in the South vote Republican today and the descendants of the pro-abolition Republicans in the North vote Democratic today? Are you to tell me that it's just a coincidence that all of the most racist states historically once voted Democrat but now vote Republican? And these are the states that still have the most racism even today?

    • @marcinna8553
      @marcinna8553 4 года назад +7

      What I read was that the Depression killed off these towns -- it wasn't politics. A lot of people moved out looking for opportunities elsewhere and never returned.

    • @joshbreidinger2616
      @joshbreidinger2616 4 года назад +15

      live life Explain why the South used to vote for the racist Democrats and now the South only votes for Republicans. And also explain why the North which used to vote for the non-racist Republicans now votes for the Democrats?

  • @georgejgilles.3999
    @georgejgilles.3999 5 лет назад +757

    This should be taught in our schools.

    • @robertbalibrera2583
      @robertbalibrera2583 5 лет назад +2

      George Gilles sounds like you're spreading enough hate already keep yourself stupid

    • @TheTaekwon3
      @TheTaekwon3 4 года назад +70

      Don't expect to be taught truth from the enemy

    • @jody8526937
      @jody8526937 4 года назад +9

      Teach it yourself.

    • @grimreefer3946
      @grimreefer3946 4 года назад +33

      More like so people can learn real history not the myth of Chris Columbus 😂 finding America

    • @P.ONSUREZ84
      @P.ONSUREZ84 4 года назад +16

      THE PROBLEM IS OUR SCHOOLS TEACHES US , WHAT TO THINK. NOT HOW TO THINK.

  • @mba5
    @mba5 4 года назад +544

    It’s footage like this that needs to be released in it’s entirety.

    • @thatk.t.a._flow
      @thatk.t.a._flow 4 года назад +11

      This is what we need not these political movements

    • @danishbutter1847
      @danishbutter1847 4 года назад

      @JustJ WhoIsAsking a non-allegiance movement

    • @Anon1370
      @Anon1370 3 года назад +7

      yeh including the part where the towns where burned to the ground once the whites gathered together when they accused a black boy of doing something to a girl within the town...hmm yesss i heard about it

    • @jamesfranko1568
      @jamesfranko1568 Год назад +2

      @@Anon1370 Exactly and America is still by far the best country on earth which is why African Americans refuse to leave US while actaully Africans desperately dream in moving to US including yourself 🇺🇸 🫵🍔

    • @marjorjorietillman856
      @marjorjorietillman856 8 дней назад

      @@jamesfranko1568. We can’t leave, because our people’s sweat and blood is in the soil of America! And we built the foundation and infrastructure of America. We put it on the global map and it has been second to none, since then!❤

  • @romij8070
    @romij8070 4 года назад +1089

    They bombed those communities in Tulsa they forgot to teach us that in school

    • @GoldenGod69
      @GoldenGod69 4 года назад +13

      Spoony G terrible metaphor

    • @Princesss93
      @Princesss93 4 года назад +34

      Spoony G you have no clue what you’re talking about. Please don’t speak on issues that you’re unaware of.

    • @turdferguson7105
      @turdferguson7105 4 года назад +29

      They tell you it was the past, and to get over it for the fact that they do not want you to remember what blacks can accomplish, and keep you ignorant. Why blacks had a hatred towards whites and why so many of them feel the way they do now.

    • @geewhite2241
      @geewhite2241 4 года назад +7

      Spoony G you are a troll and idiot so both of these attributes fit you well.

    • @geewhite2241
      @geewhite2241 4 года назад +8

      Marjorie Tillman, these people were Black Indians, the national guard was brought in to bomb them along with thousands of kkk

  • @tarachristine5727
    @tarachristine5727 5 лет назад +5445

    my family owned acres in texas.... the KKK ran them off it. AFTER they had got it producing immense crop of course. My aunts who STILL have the original deed tried to go to court to get it back and the judge basically told them (in the chambers) that they would most likely get killed if they continued to pursue it and for their own safety he advised them to just let it go. They tell us to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and when we do they take it all... smh but they never teach you THIS history in school

    • @jairousparker2311
      @jairousparker2311 5 лет назад +348

      TaraChristine, No and THEY never will teach our children. Why would or sould THEY? WE will have to TEACH. WE have always been OUR best lawyers, doctors, architects, engineers, teachers, electricians, plummers, craftman, police and firemen and the list goes on and on and on and on......Harold Melvin and the Bluenotes said it best and sung about the only solution, "Wake🎶Up🎶Everybody🎶".

    • @Mattology1
      @Mattology1 5 лет назад +106

      Sorry to hear about that

    • @thulasmash2195
      @thulasmash2195 5 лет назад +181

      Hopefully y'all get that land back

    • @cindyking7229
      @cindyking7229 5 лет назад +301

      That's alright the most highs judgment will right all the wrong that these edimites have done to our ancestors believe me it's coming

    • @godsun6892
      @godsun6892 5 лет назад +248

      *They are of their father the Devil*

  • @kierajae
    @kierajae 6 лет назад +599

    I can’t believe I’m just now finding this video! I’m from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and it bothers me when people question if there are black people in Oklahoma. Of course! We are still here even after all the turmoil that has happened. I grew up in the area where Black wallstreet once stood (north tulsa) and after the massacre, many blacks stayed. It’s a poor area and never recovered, but just like the black community has always done, we continue to survive without much resources. I wish the history of black people in Oklahoma was more well known. Myself and many of the kids I grew up with survived the poverty and violence and made it to college (I currently go to Oklahoma state) and I’m proud to be from Tulsa and I hope to make my ancestors and my community proud by being successful!

    • @ThatLadyDray
      @ThatLadyDray 5 лет назад +43

      I can relate. I'm originally from WV & I NEVER, not even in WV history classes, heard of Katherine Johnson. I'm like 🤔 So the Black Woman who helped us get to space & a native of the state couldn't be mentioned even to kids in WV? 😐😒 & people forget we live there too.

    • @kimberlywilson8956
      @kimberlywilson8956 5 лет назад +7

      You document that area, i would love all information i can recieve about my race,

    • @countryboy6855
      @countryboy6855 5 лет назад +12

      I know huh like really okla,Tulsa was the alt back in the day All the rich blacks was there but they won't tell you about that. My friend parents was in that stuff she was one of the last people to tell her story he have a vhs tape on it, It's pretty good. I'm from a small-town black town called Langston so it's funny when i go out of state they ask if black people here like we have or had the most black town's in the U.S. lol

    • @shaniewestllc
      @shaniewestllc 5 лет назад +4

      @@countryboy6855 I would love to see this video. Please reply if you ever put it on RUclips.

    • @shaniewestllc
      @shaniewestllc 5 лет назад +7

      I'm proud of you. Do everything they say you can't. I know you are making our ancestors proud.

  • @rooseveltdumornay4954
    @rooseveltdumornay4954 3 года назад +246

    It's just goes to show you that even under the harshest circumstances black people thrived and prospered.

    • @sheldoncooper0
      @sheldoncooper0 3 года назад +6

      Yeah Somalia a real great place to live...

    • @apo5895
      @apo5895 3 года назад +11

      @@sheldoncooper0 just like Eastern Europe . Poor whites who don’t have money

    • @tbwms3243
      @tbwms3243 3 года назад +15

      @@sheldoncooper0- It may be, but we'll stay in the country that we helped to build.

    • @sheldoncooper0
      @sheldoncooper0 3 года назад +5

      @@tbwms3243 Hahahaha, yes definitely blacks have contributed a lot to the great United States of America. You guys invented electricity, the light bulb, the motor cars, the internet, the television, space flight, Apple, Google, RUclips... Oh wait...

    • @tbwms3243
      @tbwms3243 3 года назад +25

      @@sheldoncooper0- Yes, we do have a number of inventions under our belt, but I was speaking about the multi-million dollar economy we built in the south (primarily during slavery) with no pay.

  • @LordHaveMurcielago
    @LordHaveMurcielago 4 года назад +1308

    300+ black owned business destroyed in a matter of days. The black dollar was circulating 12 times over within the black community in those days. The black deli owner would buy from the black farmer who would in turn buy from the black hardware store owner. There was a solid support system in place.The dollars stayed in the community. There were no chinese restaurants or middle eastern owned bodegas for our money to escape to or through. No Korean nail salons or chinese hair care stores. I’ve always felt that desegregation was a ploy to gain access to the black dollar and more and more it’s starting to look like MLK was their paid puppet (either knowingly or unknowingly). Black businesses in places like Tulsa were doing international trades with Canada in those days that’s no small feat.

    • @jetsjetsjets1044
      @jetsjetsjets1044 4 года назад +76

      I Agree. Mlk was a puppet.

    • @nicolesright4800
      @nicolesright4800 4 года назад +13

      Well said

    • @deebsooreal
      @deebsooreal 4 года назад +148

      Never forget though that they didn’t kill MLK until he started talking about black economic equality...

    • @lashondahaddock_staff-mill419
      @lashondahaddock_staff-mill419 4 года назад +50

      MLK was not the puppet you think he was.. look at his message after Vietnam starts... Look at his poor people campaign...

    • @geraldpierson2970
      @geraldpierson2970 4 года назад +31

      My friend it's called Group Economics which they don't teach in the public schools anymore. I remember my grandparents telling me about the Black Wall Street. When blacks had capital.

  • @malinstella6965
    @malinstella6965 5 лет назад +60

    The group of children playing just adorable.

  • @jamesdean1695
    @jamesdean1695 5 лет назад +286

    Didn't learn this in school

    • @jameswatts6878
      @jameswatts6878 5 лет назад +36

      Because they don't want us black people to know about our true history...intergreation was a trick

    • @bettythomas8660
      @bettythomas8660 5 лет назад +4

      Your not meant to!

    • @Amos_Israel
      @Amos_Israel 4 года назад +3

      @BenTheBoss you don't have to and hes talking the trutu of people being racist to use dont support us your not our people you dont care in the first place so hes not complaining and Idc

    • @YouTubeExplore777
      @YouTubeExplore777 4 года назад +1

      It's fake history. Schools dont teach pseudo history.

    • @00II0
      @00II0 4 года назад +4

      The level of ignorance racist people display is so astonishing that actually records and documentaries still are omitted truths. That right there is a serious mental illness/disease...

  • @tr377723
    @tr377723 4 года назад +37

    In spite of all the oppression look at how well put together our people were back then, look at how well dressed and business oriented they all were. Just trying to live a good clean life. It's so beautiful and encouraging to see how we cared for one another back then.

  • @melissallab7983
    @melissallab7983 4 года назад +221

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️ I wish our black communities would build another civilization like those times

    • @mansamusa1452
      @mansamusa1452 4 года назад +14

      The Time is Now we would and will we're doing it now join the movement and start building your legacy that will be reduplicated and pass down it starts with one dream and one desire you can do it queen

    • @prozombie6768
      @prozombie6768 4 года назад +50

      Won’t happens we can’t even get along as a people. We fear each other.

    • @onecooldude954
      @onecooldude954 4 года назад +13

      @@prozombie6768...exactly.

    • @chrisrobinson8339
      @chrisrobinson8339 4 года назад +9

      @@prozombie6768 which needs to stop. You are not my enemy.

    • @thebrotherfromanotherplane297
      @thebrotherfromanotherplane297 4 года назад +6

      @@chrisrobinson8339 Yes it needs to stop of course. But is it going to stop or are we going to try and stop it?

  • @soulsista1223
    @soulsista1223 5 лет назад +2553

    They didn't like that we were doing just fine without them.

    • @dewittheard1479
      @dewittheard1479 4 года назад +203

      You are sooo right. We should make a New Black Wall Street.

    • @bigballer1399
      @bigballer1399 4 года назад +81

      DeWitt Heard that’s exactly what we need to do. Unify, and pool our resources together to create our own. This most likely won’t happen, but that’s exactly the remedy.

    • @Auld17
      @Auld17 4 года назад +42

      Well said sister! You should go back to Africa!

    • @ameriqueindienindigene9096
      @ameriqueindienindigene9096 4 года назад +81

      @Soul Sista#1:
      This WHOLE continent was doing good before the [original] Europeans landed in the Americas in 1492. None of us came from Africa! In fact, that wasn't that continent's name back then. We are the true "Indians" that was found here.

    • @queofques32
      @queofques32 4 года назад +62

      They learned and TOOK from US! Some still do by coming and monitoring our comments, videos, blogs etc. Still discovering thru the most creative minds AA.

  • @cjezinne
    @cjezinne 7 лет назад +536

    This town is remarkable... until the Tulsa Race Riot happened and burned all this progress to the ground. And just like that, they were back to being poor & homeless...

    • @mesosjar
      @mesosjar 7 лет назад +6

      Wow. Legit racist.

    • @rzrselliott
      @rzrselliott 7 лет назад +5

      I wish the op's comment was a subjective view point. It really happened though. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

    • @lettie131
      @lettie131 7 лет назад +36

      AI Webb there were a few million people living here before Europe "found" it! Now if I came up to you and took you things saying I "found" it should that make it legally mine? So your ancestors stole someone else's land, killed almost all of them off for protesting, then made "laws" to protect and keep it from generation to generation, and no one should mention that?!

    • @noid7500
      @noid7500 5 лет назад

      @Juan Richardson why you here😂😂😂😂

    • @baddestfemaletaurus5347
      @baddestfemaletaurus5347 5 лет назад

      Chidubem Ezinne Tulsa Oklahoma baby

  • @reakwonnji
    @reakwonnji 4 года назад +766

    Once they found out we can do without them they got scared.

    • @jgmoffat8274
      @jgmoffat8274 4 года назад +77

      ohsevenone don’t think these people were playing the victim in the video you dummy

    • @TriniGamerGirl7
      @TriniGamerGirl7 4 года назад +39

      ohsevenone racist and biased POS

    • @cecegiles4583
      @cecegiles4583 4 года назад +9

      @ohsevenone suppression brought blacks to that point.

    • @eddiemontgomery7088
      @eddiemontgomery7088 4 года назад +6

      True

    • @primumdiscenti
      @primumdiscenti 4 года назад +7

      @Your Name Here you open to know why or do you have ur answer to the question already

  • @sunshine1287
    @sunshine1287 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for posting!

  • @glorymosbyfloyd3878
    @glorymosbyfloyd3878 5 лет назад +406

    This is beautiful, seeing my People do what they do, which is succeeding against all odds

    • @terrenceperkins5282
      @terrenceperkins5282 5 лет назад +20

      We can do it again !!!! The sell out have 2 go 1st make 1 nation stop being part of other nations

    • @yir9383
      @yir9383 5 лет назад +3

      So true...Remarkable & Awesome!

    • @jonesfredrick94
      @jonesfredrick94 4 года назад +1

      That's nothing if were not Still fighting to this day, we need to get started again today

    • @David.lovesU
      @David.lovesU 4 года назад +1

      Phil Collins against all odds

    • @joepiedepoepie7973
      @joepiedepoepie7973 4 года назад +1

      @@terrenceperkins5282 haha.When and where do you start?

  • @MrDFJohnson
    @MrDFJohnson 5 лет назад +556

    Soooo ... black men marrying black women, forming strong black families and loving, supporting and protecting them. How odd that these traits led to financial and cultural strength. Duhhh.
    But when we build a strong self-sufficient community to shield us from this nation's racism and hatred, they destroy it.

    • @grayman735
      @grayman735 4 года назад +6

      Yes duuuuuuh🤔

    • @romieeley8106
      @romieeley8106 4 года назад +7

      UNTIL....

    • @aMANuhtah
      @aMANuhtah 4 года назад +1

      D. F Johnson imagine

    • @NoName-ot8kl
      @NoName-ot8kl 4 года назад +7

      Don’t get me started on this...

    • @loualbino5536
      @loualbino5536 4 года назад +9

      @@romieeley8106 Until nothing. Do it again today. Nothing is stopping you but yourselves.

  • @CraftyMarieArts
    @CraftyMarieArts 2 года назад +4

    They need to show this more. Thanks so much for sharing this!

  • @reneedennis2011
    @reneedennis2011 4 года назад +1

    Thank you for showing this!

  • @kimberlymcdonald7405
    @kimberlymcdonald7405 5 лет назад +203

    These black men and women exudes excellence.

    •  5 лет назад +1

      Exude, no need to pluralize it. Uless uz beez hood talkin yo.

    • @csmith2971
      @csmith2971 4 года назад +2

      Josh Rick Who cares about English ? Really don’t deceive yourself the only reason people entertain such a language is because of the status of America Of which on the backs of a people who weren’t even allowed to read at one time was built.... Smh

    • @jaydub8596
      @jaydub8596 4 года назад

      @you speak that language real well. Let you tell it snowchimp, thats where ebonics come from..your people.

    • @marceldemarr4190
      @marceldemarr4190 4 года назад

      @ There is a star out to get you.. worry about that

    • @marceldemarr4190
      @marceldemarr4190 4 года назад

      @ Sooooo... Ssuunnntttaaannnn llloootttiiiooonnn isn't vital?
      What about mmmmeeeelllaaatttooonnniiinnnn???
      Birth rates aren't too swell are they???

  • @jazmynbrown6820
    @jazmynbrown6820 5 лет назад +91

    Most of my family comes from Oklahoma, so I'm proud to know that some of these people talked about in the film could be my family members from the past! 😊

    • @jameswatts6878
      @jameswatts6878 5 лет назад +2

      True fact's

    • @ameriqueindienindigene9096
      @ameriqueindienindigene9096 4 года назад +4

      @Jaznyn Brown:
      You should be proud to know this is the birthplace of your progenitors you're NOT African related at all.

    • @myrnadavis2409
      @myrnadavis2409 4 года назад +1

      Alright now I'm an Okie too 🙂 Love my people and no telling who we are related to since slavery broke up and separated so many families

  • @MrTwenty20video
    @MrTwenty20video 4 года назад +2

    Thank you for presenting this history video.

  • @aliciapinkcotarot
    @aliciapinkcotarot 4 года назад +60

    We need to bring this back

  • @WisePhenomenal
    @WisePhenomenal 7 лет назад +359

    History repeats itself.... and We shall do this AGAIN ~

  • @catherinealexis9459
    @catherinealexis9459 5 лет назад +146

    What is sad is that a lot of us don't know our history in North America and the Caribbean where I am from. About the great things our ancestors did and strives they made.

    • @brandy1883
      @brandy1883 5 лет назад +2

      Whatever, your history, is our history. We are all one big family. Share your history.

    • @inca4397
      @inca4397 Год назад +3

      @@brandy1883 no.

    • @bushwacka5187
      @bushwacka5187 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@inca4397 I agree, no.

    • @mufasa1794
      @mufasa1794 3 месяца назад

      @@brandy1883 no. Fba are different

    • @mufasa1794
      @mufasa1794 3 месяца назад

      @@inca4397 agreed

  • @ritamo68
    @ritamo68 4 года назад +3

    Tears.....Thank you for sharing.

  • @lowtech5380
    @lowtech5380 4 года назад +66

    Black students in public schools need to see this. Slavery couldn't even stop our resolve.

    • @menofbronze6884
      @menofbronze6884 4 года назад +7

      & This is only second and third generation of free Americans. Racism is about wealth, power, political influence. We were rising fast. yt didn’t like that.

    • @ceeceetracey9839
      @ceeceetracey9839 4 года назад

      @@menofbronze6884 THANK YOU. Thats what needs to be taught to our young generations today. That we are only two and three generations removed from slavery and look at what we've achieved. BUT ALSO our young people need to know that so they understand that we still have a lot of catching up to do so do not SETTLE for where we are today. There's more for us out there.

    • @smokeabaguhthat5443
      @smokeabaguhthat5443 3 года назад

      We were doing this BEFORE slavery fam

  • @AR-uz6kq
    @AR-uz6kq 5 лет назад +382

    WoW...you can see the 'black pride' and self confidence in their faces (especially the men). Kids are happy, playing together.everyone looking out for the each other....this was PARADISE!! Then the demons came and burned their homes while 'murdering' most of the men out of plain JEALOUSY!!

    • @sunnyedaize1262
      @sunnyedaize1262 5 лет назад +22

      That's not "black pride". People didn't think like that back then. What you're seeing is humans living in unquestioned comfort and freedom as all people should be able to.

    • @queen_giaa62
      @queen_giaa62 5 лет назад +68

      @@sunnyedaize1262 What you are seeing sir, is black pride.

    • @prestoncrawford2934
      @prestoncrawford2934 5 лет назад +7

      The KKK and other DEMOCRATS have the same high opinion of themselves, regarding other whites, as well as blacks. Many people just don't know that it's a class thing...the global "elite" certainly had plenty to do with slavery and mal treatment of more than one race or class of people. It's called greed, jealousy and hate.

    • @yir9383
      @yir9383 5 лет назад

      Speak on it!

    • @nickybrown5091
      @nickybrown5091 5 лет назад +7

      @@sunnyedaize1262 you are 1000% right and correct this is how it was and still should be this is natural people living , getting alone with one another ,looking out for each other and the children as a whole community this is who you were back then as a people, now look ?? Stupidity have stepped in a long with the manipulation and deception

  • @JadaPanadaaaa
    @JadaPanadaaaa 6 лет назад +87

    Honestly this had tears in my eyes it’s amazing to see what it was like when my great great grandparents grew up in communities like these

    • @theruddyone6443
      @theruddyone6443 2 года назад +2

      positive. mostly peaceful

    • @regh2033
      @regh2033 11 месяцев назад

      They have stolen so much from us 😢

    • @Maynard-il1yj
      @Maynard-il1yj 7 месяцев назад

      @@theruddyone6443 😂

  • @bylanphoenix2422
    @bylanphoenix2422 2 года назад

    Thank you for showing

  • @KimyKW
    @KimyKW 4 года назад

    Thank you for sharing this!!!

  • @robertneeley4135
    @robertneeley4135 5 лет назад +130

    Jealousy and envy produces hate and destructive behavior , especially among those who fear genetic annihillation💯

    • @karenhetherington9358
      @karenhetherington9358 5 лет назад +9

      Don't forget ignorance too!

    • @robertbalibrera2583
      @robertbalibrera2583 4 года назад +6

      very intelligent statement

    • @stevewoodson4635
      @stevewoodson4635 4 года назад

      Diagonally . terminology is still one is a way to get everything done by Friday vv. Thanks so much for your help and have to be at u you think e and the skyguys and I will use the update and for all your help

    • @ROYALP100
      @ROYALP100 4 года назад +1

      That statement says it all my friend.

    • @vergespierre4271
      @vergespierre4271 2 года назад

      I agree- but why are they jealous?; Once we know our true story, then it all makes sense. and a psychological shift brews- we are under a spell, as we know- psychological chains

  • @gwennethbryant5850
    @gwennethbryant5850 7 лет назад +31

    OMG we need to have more information about our ancestors. Thanks for posting i have sent the link to my family.

  • @glorymosbyfloyd3878
    @glorymosbyfloyd3878 4 года назад +14

    I love, love , love seeing videos like this
    I would appreciate the whole documentary

    • @PHlophe
      @PHlophe 4 года назад +1

      Auntie Glo. ur cute

    • @glorymosbyfloyd3878
      @glorymosbyfloyd3878 4 года назад +1

      @@PHlophe Auntie Glo🙄🤣🤣🤣

    • @dragonknightofamiraka3636
      @dragonknightofamiraka3636 2 года назад

      Love?
      What’s is there to love about this knowing that so many of us were slaughtered in those times?

  • @master-n-teachvirgo8557
    @master-n-teachvirgo8557 4 года назад +404

    So black people made more money an did better when they were segregated? That's what I take from this 🤷

    • @zionssoldierofwar7194
      @zionssoldierofwar7194 4 года назад +48

      Yup thats why the Most high told us to always be seperate from everybody.

    • @master-n-teachvirgo8557
      @master-n-teachvirgo8557 4 года назад +3

      @@zionssoldierofwar7194 😝o so world means other nations means other races? That's what I take from this,,, maybe the ones outside the 12 or 13 Bible tribes?

    • @zionssoldierofwar7194
      @zionssoldierofwar7194 4 года назад +3

      @@master-n-teachvirgo8557 Yes! The Torah speaks of different nations, basically different races. You read the Torah?

    • @master-n-teachvirgo8557
      @master-n-teachvirgo8557 4 года назад +1

      @@zionssoldierofwar7194 IAM a different type of thinker,no I don't subscribe to Islam

    • @zionssoldierofwar7194
      @zionssoldierofwar7194 4 года назад +8

      @@master-n-teachvirgo8557 Its not Islam. We as the chosen are not of any religion. We have a special relationship with the Most High and His Son. The Torah/Scroll/Instruction is the original Bible before things were altered and tooken out. If you really want knowledge on this, this is for your soul and most of all your relationship with the Almighty YAH. Start with The Seed of Israel Videos. I first awakened with his videos, but of course all the credit is to The Most High. Start from there and come back and tell me how you feel.

  • @Vampiria000
    @Vampiria000 5 лет назад +32

    This was truly beautiful thank u

    • @ameriqueindienindigene9096
      @ameriqueindienindigene9096 4 года назад

      It was like this all over America, sis. This is the land of our progenitors!!! We are not African related people.

    • @dragonknightofamiraka3636
      @dragonknightofamiraka3636 2 года назад

      @@ameriqueindienindigene9096
      America is the Land of the Serpent.
      Figure out what that means and you won’t be as lost as you are. You think we were hunter gatherers or something else stupid but I guarantee you that we were magicians.

  • @MeanBlackDude
    @MeanBlackDude 7 лет назад +81

    Great video.
    Someone NEEDED to see this.

    • @studmalexy
      @studmalexy 5 лет назад +2

      im always confused why 90% of blacks constantly vote Democrat (and shun the Party which stands for self reliance and conservative family values).
      Democrats are more than happy to keep blacks on welfare constantly "suckling on the teet" of Government (as a permanent supply of voters).
      This is why they hate Trump so much....Trump (ironically) is probably in fact the LEAST racist candidate in US history.

    • @kayesisslemczeal4547
      @kayesisslemczeal4547 5 лет назад

      Great day for all! President just signed the hemp bill. Blessings

    • @marceldemarr4190
      @marceldemarr4190 4 года назад

      @@studmalexy two wings of the same bird.. your argument is null n void

  • @DJUniMekaju
    @DJUniMekaju 4 года назад +3

    Wow. This was amazing to learn. I am proud they were able to accomplish these feats.

  • @kimmurrell7971
    @kimmurrell7971 4 года назад

    Awesome video Thanks National Geographic.

  • @cristyluv1205
    @cristyluv1205 7 лет назад +1230

    Kinda makes you wonder..... what are they afraid of? Why is every attempt black people take to better ourselves always destroyed and allowed to be ripped from us?
    Is there something about us I don't know?

    • @bobbybabylon1385
      @bobbybabylon1385 6 лет назад +53

      smarter people fled usa for countries with human rights people in usa have never had

    • @Ryder_Rek
      @Ryder_Rek 6 лет назад +179

      Cristy Luv Most black people I talk to don't take the time to think about that exact question, you're the type of girl I need in my life lol.

    • @rashadshabazz5818
      @rashadshabazz5818 6 лет назад +79

      Cristy Luv it's right there in your bible psalms 82 6 and John 10:34 but people not peeping game

    • @Finalize777
      @Finalize777 6 лет назад +111

      When we better ourselves, they lose theirs

    • @Finalize777
      @Finalize777 6 лет назад +88

      We the black followers of the most high

  • @Chidulo
    @Chidulo 5 лет назад +44

    When David Chapelle once said that his great grand father was a wealthy man...I believed him

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 4 года назад +1

      First self made female millionaire in america was black, over 100 years ago.

    • @billion86
      @billion86 4 года назад

      @@sharksport01 What's her name? Mary Ellen Pleasant?

    • @sharksport01
      @sharksport01 4 года назад

      @@billion86
      Madam C.J. Walker.

  • @cynthiastevens8302
    @cynthiastevens8302 4 года назад +1

    Great video!!!

  • @rogerdodger5415
    @rogerdodger5415 4 года назад

    This is so awesome!
    I didn’t know this.
    Thank you! 🙏

  • @TheKbg045
    @TheKbg045 7 лет назад +490

    Being racist is just a sad excuse for those who are not happy with their lives

    • @TheKbg045
      @TheKbg045 7 лет назад +10

      Smh

    • @dothedeed
      @dothedeed 7 лет назад +24

      No - its about tangible things like who gets a job, who gets power and wealth, whose children get to achieve their dreams and who gets to live in a healthy beautiful community. Feelings are way down on the list.

    • @SomebodyPerfectly
      @SomebodyPerfectly 7 лет назад +14

      Racism is mostly based on being afraid of the unknown.
      I don't really know how you picture rascists but they're not a bunch of retards, they're mostly normal people, no mental illness needed to fear change

    • @SpicyGelato98
      @SpicyGelato98 7 лет назад

      Oh, the irony...

    • @anniem.8803
      @anniem.8803 6 лет назад +1

      dkamb88 I am unhappy in my life, but it doesn't make me racist.

  • @mercyis4theweak238
    @mercyis4theweak238 7 лет назад +164

    We were doing so well back then.

    • @yalexander9432
      @yalexander9432 7 лет назад +2

      +Dave Kemp racist alert

    • @sulaymanjallow7869
      @sulaymanjallow7869 7 лет назад +10

      AI Webb if you're more evolved why do we have 100percent human dna and physically superior?

    • @mesosjar
      @mesosjar 7 лет назад +10

      Well that's ignorant of you. Skin colour is based on where we live. Those who live near the equator have darker skin to survive the intense sunlight. Those who are near the poles have lighter skins. So technically speaking, black people are more stronger than white people in skin factor.

    • @rzrselliott
      @rzrselliott 7 лет назад

      nobody has 100% human dna dumbass

    • @rzrselliott
      @rzrselliott 7 лет назад +4

      You're black by default, buddy. You come from a single point in Africa nearly 70,000 years ago. Refrain from using insults, it portrays the image of an individual who does not possess the intellectual capacity to provide a basis for a strong argument.

  • @peterthegreat6732
    @peterthegreat6732 4 года назад +40

    Beautiful Black history ... clean and prosperous ...

  • @Theblessedlifewithlala
    @Theblessedlifewithlala 4 года назад

    Thanks for sharing❤✊🏿

  • @maybaby2013
    @maybaby2013 7 лет назад +36

    Incredibly interesting. Wish there was a longer clip. Would love to learn more

  • @themrjones
    @themrjones 7 лет назад +16

    I love seeing old video of anything.

  • @speaktothestreets2424
    @speaktothestreets2424 3 года назад

    Thats amazing history. Thank for sharing :)

  • @felishapittman2778
    @felishapittman2778 4 года назад +3

    We need this back...😔 2020...

    • @FAMEROB
      @FAMEROB 4 года назад

      in corners of the USA this does exist

  • @listentoomeeh
    @listentoomeeh 5 лет назад +136

    Sad we lost it all I know our ancestors are rolling in their graves

    • @listentoomeeh
      @listentoomeeh 5 лет назад +8

      Lone Cheetah we still in slaved

    • @jazminember2350
      @jazminember2350 5 лет назад +10

      @@listentoomeeh you right but this is just mental slavery and we torn by that...physical slavery is going to worse than our ancestors

    • @tinaf600
      @tinaf600 4 года назад +34

      We didn’t lose it; it was taken from us 😞

    • @pinkskincanthandlethesunli6508
      @pinkskincanthandlethesunli6508 4 года назад +4

      @@tinaf600 💯

    • @AGENT-dl2lu
      @AGENT-dl2lu 4 года назад +2

      @@tinaf600 amen

  • @entensevibez
    @entensevibez 5 лет назад +17

    This footage is beautiful

  • @tatek6602
    @tatek6602 4 года назад +1

    Beautiful video.

  • @karellt2355
    @karellt2355 4 года назад +18

    I didn't know we had oil wells....!

  • @themoregrouprichmond
    @themoregrouprichmond 5 лет назад +686

    Integration was a trick

    • @jameswatts6878
      @jameswatts6878 5 лет назад +35

      Yes it was...true story

    • @raramuri100
      @raramuri100 5 лет назад +7

      @@jameswatts6878 do u know who was behind the intergration movenent?

    • @letshearit6219
      @letshearit6219 5 лет назад +1

      What exactly do you want?

    • @antwoneshareal1956
      @antwoneshareal1956 5 лет назад +4

      Agreed

    • @chrism7163
      @chrism7163 5 лет назад

      @Tia J he also said he still believed in his dream and still has hope in the full video

  • @angied.6874
    @angied.6874 5 лет назад +22

    I wanted so see so much more of this. Love it.

  • @jeffmcclure6347
    @jeffmcclure6347 4 года назад +2

    Beautiful lesson

  • @JulianPhotofit
    @JulianPhotofit 4 года назад +4

    That’s so beautiful and heartbreaking. 🖤

  • @joaquinblanco1516
    @joaquinblanco1516 7 лет назад +14

    Incredible, thanks NGC

  • @ZachVanHarrisJR
    @ZachVanHarrisJR 5 лет назад +19

    Makes the heart smile, peace and one love ✌❤🤗

  • @Doggfan
    @Doggfan 4 года назад +2

    Lets find away to get back to this

  • @rolaine733
    @rolaine733 4 года назад +8

    I almost cried, it was almost like the pains of slavery kept us together. It just seems the more freedom we had, the more divided we became. Super sad for our people for so many reasons.

  • @koyowens1397
    @koyowens1397 5 лет назад +12

    LOVE THIS VIDEO THANK YOU FOR SHOWING THIS

  • @QueenBthatsMe777
    @QueenBthatsMe777 5 лет назад +17

    You put this short doc exactly on what the focus should have been on.... the things we can accomplish if we ever learn to stop hating on one another! Wish it was a bit longer

  • @alicesbeloved4109
    @alicesbeloved4109 4 года назад +2

    Wow. What history I never learned including in an HBCU.
    Awesome resource & news.

  • @Rosedaleb1
    @Rosedaleb1 4 года назад

    More!!! More!!! We want to see more videos like this!!🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

  • @kelvinreed8229
    @kelvinreed8229 5 лет назад +19

    2000 Barrels a day was alot in the 20s and it's alot today.

  • @tr377723
    @tr377723 5 лет назад +60

    I luv my people so much. It's hard to watch that. Knowing how great we've always been and still having to endure so much hate.

    • @tonybrown5173
      @tonybrown5173 4 года назад +1

      Yes I love my people. Long suffering to the end. Eventually this will all seem like a dream.

    • @allencompassingevil
      @allencompassingevil 3 года назад +1

      "No, I do not weep at the world-I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife”. Zora Neele Hurston

    • @crazybastard2.041
      @crazybastard2.041 2 года назад

      Stop trynna be the victim

  • @noeleverett5235
    @noeleverett5235 4 года назад +11

    Facts that are not taught in your local public school. I surely wasn't informed, until later in life.

  • @elijahrose2144
    @elijahrose2144 4 года назад +2

    Amazing

  • @aliciabrillante
    @aliciabrillante 5 лет назад +3

    Thanks for posting this. We have such a proud history of courage and resilience and we need to always remember and talk about it!

  • @yo-yolanda4654
    @yo-yolanda4654 5 лет назад +7

    Thank you for posting this, it came up in my recommendations. I ♥️ this. I wish we could go back to this.

    • @stefanhouston8616
      @stefanhouston8616 2 года назад +1

      We are doing now . Peace and love family . You are loved and cherished

  • @whitley17
    @whitley17 4 года назад +4

    I didn’t search for this video 🤎😪 Wheeeew, the timing 😩😫

  • @nnj6918
    @nnj6918 3 года назад

    Good documentary

  • @dorislee8459
    @dorislee8459 5 лет назад +22

    This is sooo powerful. What powerful people we are.

  • @spaceghost1670
    @spaceghost1670 5 лет назад +72

    So basically that dude went around spying on black communities and recorded a lot of intel

    • @gregoryross9770
      @gregoryross9770 5 лет назад +14

      I kind got that feeling to bruh.....

    • @Angela-ny9di
      @Angela-ny9di 4 года назад +4

      @Sarah R It was a Black videographer. I read about him.

  • @thegreatone5059
    @thegreatone5059 4 года назад +1

    Omg ! I would've never imagined. This is so beautiful.

  • @BeautyLuvsMii
    @BeautyLuvsMii Год назад +3

    This footage is beautiful. We can definitely get along, live, & thrive as a people. I love us for real

  • @webbgems67
    @webbgems67 5 лет назад +89

    The Gap Band song "you dropped a bomb on me" is about how the enemy came and destroyed their community. Facts!

    • @muskegontribune
      @muskegontribune 4 года назад +1

      @ItzMikeOmg I had to illustrate this to an assoiciate of mine that said the same thing. I asked him to read the lyrics and show me any historical references...

    • @webbgems67
      @webbgems67 4 года назад +1

      @Van Tastic not me. that's your great grandma you talking bout 👵factz. 😂😂😂

    • @yourhuckleberry6757
      @yourhuckleberry6757 4 года назад

      @@webbgems67 how he switched kkk for baby.. It's soo obvious now.

    • @webbgems67
      @webbgems67 4 года назад

      @ItzMikeOmg not my fault you are third eye blind dunce brain 🧠

  • @sonnygallo5662
    @sonnygallo5662 5 лет назад +55

    Yeah and who stopped these thriving towns from being ? Where's the REST of the story ?

  • @theodorecruz5173
    @theodorecruz5173 4 года назад +2

    good footage 🎥 💜♠ ☺

  • @playboyflex
    @playboyflex 4 года назад +4

    Seeing that brought tears of happiness to my eyes fr...sad how things ended all we wanted was peace 🖤

    • @dluvv19761
      @dluvv19761 4 года назад

      We? You don't speak for all those people back then

    • @mollyascot5064
      @mollyascot5064 4 года назад

      @@dluvv19761 shut up

  • @philipfranklin8273
    @philipfranklin8273 5 лет назад +8

    WOW this information was very inspiring helpful and beautiful.

  • @motomookie8032
    @motomookie8032 5 лет назад +58

    Been watching us close ever since. 😂😂

  • @4whirledpeas
    @4whirledpeas 4 года назад +13

    Nine years after this video was filmed, the Tulsa massacre took place.

  • @armoriya
    @armoriya 4 года назад +25

    Sad to see that our American dream has now become an American nightmare.

    • @accaricuvell8624
      @accaricuvell8624 4 года назад

      spanish rampage Aren’t those Mexicans who do that?

    • @RyanSmith-uw2ni
      @RyanSmith-uw2ni 4 года назад

      @Mr. Devon Slavery ended in the 1800s. If you're in the US you've been free for years, to make something of your life. I grew up in poverty. But I made something of myself. It's a choice.

    • @mynmhsnvwls1124
      @mynmhsnvwls1124 3 года назад

      FUN FACT: Cops were HEROS back then

  • @sussekind9717
    @sussekind9717 7 лет назад +67

    great video. I never knew about the black townships in Oklahoma. Very interesting.

    • @lifebeautifulsimplewithken8371
      @lifebeautifulsimplewithken8371 5 лет назад +2

      This is where “Black Wall Street “ took place until the town was numbed and burned down by the devils offspring. Google Black Wall Street in Tulsa, OK

    • @marceldemarr4190
      @marceldemarr4190 4 года назад +1

      There are many other than this one city

  • @cheesebeef4902
    @cheesebeef4902 5 лет назад +41

    This happened to my grandpa and his land he wouldn’t leave.he told the klan he prefer death to running.and I still have one of the 1863,38 Winchester rifles that my grandpa and our relatives had for protection. But the clan never came thank God because the klan would have won.

  • @july172
    @july172 4 года назад +2

    Through this video you can feel the peaceful serenity

  • @e.m.p.3394
    @e.m.p.3394 4 года назад +14

    I'm from Florida
    Y'all ever heard of a little town called Rosewood?

    • @marceldemarr4190
      @marceldemarr4190 4 года назад +2

      There were many brother

    • @drefields4727
      @drefields4727 4 года назад +2

      the Rosewood massacre

    • @keegancrichlow8391
      @keegancrichlow8391 4 года назад

      Watching this clip and learning about what happens after got me thinking about that.

  • @homer1075
    @homer1075 5 лет назад +44

    Before Dad was replace with government, Thank you for posting this!

    • @Denise6000-cs4mo
      @Denise6000-cs4mo 5 лет назад +4

      Whites set up the social conditions for him to be replaced though.

  • @mzeasha2
    @mzeasha2 5 лет назад +49

    A lot of trolling under this video. Every time a video makes me smile I scroll down to see the REAL in people’s minds and hearts. I gotta stay away from the comment section 🤦🏾‍♀️ process your thoughts below 😐 I’m glad my faith keeps me and not yall🤪👊🏾✌🏾

    • @francenastewart8645
      @francenastewart8645 5 лет назад +2

      mzeasha2 Amen Sister

    • @POFs_Tuxedomask
      @POFs_Tuxedomask 5 лет назад +1

      mzeasha2 don’t scroll

    • @tiffanytiffany4564
      @tiffanytiffany4564 4 года назад

      Yes hun. they are everywhere.😂😂how miserable can one be lurking around on different videos to spread their hate.lmao. I actually have a little petty for them.

  • @Tonezhomz
    @Tonezhomz 3 года назад

    Good post

  • @sherryhall6946
    @sherryhall6946 5 лет назад +1

    Good video. I love American history of any kind.

  • @blueballedtech
    @blueballedtech 5 лет назад +21

    Only a 1:45 I need to see the full footage. It was so beautiful and inspiring.

  • @chiquitabonita3018
    @chiquitabonita3018 5 лет назад +58

    These are the towns of the west portrayed in cowboy movies, but without the black faces.

    • @mjgfromthed674
      @mjgfromthed674 4 года назад +12

      Yes. My husband and I discussed this yesterday. After the civil war where did all the free slaves go? Here! But their stories are not told. We need this for our people again.

  • @LoveVanillaRose
    @LoveVanillaRose 4 года назад

    Beautiful!!

  • @malyikaj
    @malyikaj 4 года назад +1

    Yay👏🏾👏🏾! Positivity!