Separate and Unequal | Educational Inequalities in South Carolina (1936) SILENT FOOTAGE
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- A documentary produced by the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the racial disparities in the education provided in South Carolina public schools. The silent film was produced by the NAACP in its drive to desegregate schools which ultimately led to the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown vs Board of Education. We are shown what "seperate but equal" means in the ramshackle conditions of many school, dozens of young children piling into cars, the disparity in state funding and many other facets of the educational reality for Negro students.
In addition to the full documentary approximately 35 minutes of outtakes from the film is available. The outtakes notably contain footage of Mary McLeod Bethune.
From the Internet Archive. Produced in partnership with the Harmon Foundation. This version was dubbed from VHS video from the Harmon Collection at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland.
Reel 1: Maps and charts show inequities from 1920-33. Homes, shacks, farms and Negro farmers at work. Students enter segregated schools.
Reel 2: Negroes enter and leave church. Contrasts facilities and transportation in Negro and white schools; charts support claims.
Reel 3: Charts provide statistics. White children board buses; Negro children walk or hitch-hike. Clinton Normal and Industrial College, founded by American Methodist Episcopal Zionist Church. Friendship Baptist College, Rock Hill, supported by Negro Baptists.
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Thanks for the video. I will never understand why people who pray never pray for the destruction of this nightmare country.
Thank you for sharing.... The actions here, spoke louder than words.... And, we continually see, how important it is to document these situations.... As a reminder that We The People.... Deserve better than that.... Since, in 2017, such things are still happening, in more ways than one.... 😉
Kim McManus The bankers have made us all slaves. Black, white and brown are all slaves of financial terrorism! They want us all to fight while stealing our labour and wealth. Division is the major tool used. Think about it. Straight fighting gay, Muslim fight Christian, Black fighting white, white fighting brown, brown fighting brown, Liberal fighting conservative, etc. But when I think of my daily encounters, I rarely have a problem with any of the listed group except bankers, Federal Reserve and money changers. We are under mind control while they have made us all slaves
Obviously South Carolina had a major horrifically unfair agenda going on, oooff!!!
But I was equally surprised recently watching a 1960's B&W film (w/sound) on the new agenda/idea of school prepared lunches and they showed how schools around the country were incorporating the business of having school lunches available for convenience and ease and also for dealing with the issue of children that were being sent to school without lunches and all sorts of different schools were shown. Some which now had cafeterias and others that didn't and how they managed that.
I noticed that the urban schools seemed to have it best with actual cafeterias and were mixed colour wise and all children looking well-dressed, groomed and healthy.
Many schools had no cafeteria, but a large common room that was set up with tables and benches for lunch and pre-packaged sack lunches (made that morning at a facility elsewhere by lunch ladies) would be delivered daily on a route. Those children looked well too and some schools were more predominantly white, while others were equally mixed.
There was one suburban school which had no common room so the children ate their pre-packaged (that morning) and delivered sack lunches at their school desks. That school was more predominantly well-dressed & groomed, healthy looking POC with a very small minority of white children, who looked a bit lean. But everyone chose to sit very happily intermixed together, after collecting their sack lunches, seemingly enjoying their lunchtime with one another, with no cliques.
What shocked me most were the rural schools! They were ALL white children, the majority barefoot, many dressed in ratty rags. Boys in pants patched and not long enough and in t-shirts. Majority of the girls wearing these interesting pants that ended above or at the knees, and barefoot too. Like only about two wore shift dresses. They honestly looked like they were dressed for part-time field labour. So maybe they worked before or after school.
You have to understand in ALL the other schools all the boys were in button-down collared shirts, sweater vests and trousers and ALL girls in dresses w/cardigans. So it was quite the departure from the norm.
In these one and two-room rural schoolhouse's the teacher's would have to start earlier to purchase the food supplies on the way to the schoolhouse's (some of which had an icebox, if fortunate) traveling on bumpy, dirt roads where the hungry-looking kids would be waiting on the porch. The older girls would prepare the food while the teacher taught the youngers and older boys would wash up the pots & pans in those farm-style outdoor metal HAND PUMPS and they ate sat on upturned old milk crates in the corner around a little wooden slab table! Now all these white kids ate like it was their ONLY meal of the day and the teachers said for many it would be. I just hadn't realized there were one & two room schoolhouse's in 1960's America, so it was an eye-opener for me.
Hopefully, the Southern rural schools that were predominantly POC received their piece of the school lunch program, too! I'd like to think so-- because many of the hired lunch ladies shown were WOC (area dependent ofc, there were also White ladies shown, too) and they probably made SURE of it!! Never mess with a lunch lady, of ANY ethnicity, right??
But everyone pitched in, in their own way, however they had to, getting the American school lunch program going so ALL students had a meal at 12 noon! I got the impression this was the beginning of the federally funded school lunch program, but idk, maybe it was just becoming more widespread.
Although we made what little we had work, and kept pushing. This is heartbreaking to see how black children was treated, denied benefits, such as learning material, construction to their buildings, and transportation, from their state and county officials, And the white children has everything they needed and more, Sad & Sickening!!SMH
My imagination filled in the narration.
*Master Fard Muhammad History*
_His public mission began in 1930, when he walked the poorest black neighborhoods of Detroit with an armful of silks, going door-to-door and trying to sell them to people with no money to spend. Even when he couldn’t make a sale, he regaled his customers with tales of the silk’s origin in what he called their “homeland,” a utopia across the ocean where people lived. longer because they lived better-they had not been brainwashed by living in the Devil’s kingdom into eating the wrong foods and praying to a blue-eyed Jesus. People often invited Fard into their homes to tell them more about Africa. When he stayed for dinner, Fard always ate what he was offered, but then told his hosts that they should not eat such food, because people in their homeland did not eat it._
Source: www.vice.com/en_us/article/remembering-master-fard-muhammad
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The contrast between the white and black facilities were horrible. I just saw a 1966 documentary where they showed the black rural school in disarray. Nothing much change 36 years after this was filmed... so very sad and wrong!!
Much Gratitude for Historical and Social Archaeology.
Ps The powers that be didnt want Fam reading or writing.
Pps I know I can't go back in time however when I use my pen our Fam (Ancestors) are a motivator.
So all the non Blacks in SCHOOL were rich and had amazing schools? 🙄
Thanks
I wish there was sound alittle hard to keep up
+Joy Reed there is another channel that posted with music and a bit of narration but it's random jazz music. I thought that was more distracting. But I agree. My thought is that an NAACP worker probably spoke while the film played originally. Some of this is used in the new Stanley Nelson doc. Happy to have been able to find a copy to share.
yes. I will upload them tomorrow. Busy editing a different project the last 2 days.
sound?
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yymmee100 reading is fundamental lol