Colored Only Entrance Signs in Richmond, Virginia

Signs at train stations, on the street. Segregation in the South. People on the streets. Street cars. And the Brown and Liggett building.
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[@JhonnyBoi]

Richmond looked much more cosmopolitan back then.

[@roberthall6161]

The Black Community was somewhat self sufficient. All kinds of Black Businesses, immaculate homes surrounded by huge yards. Clean streets, and I can go on and on.

[@kafenwar]

What my mom and dad used to see until they left in 1962.

[@greenverdir2605]

Richmond could’ve did better at building the city up it look more of a city back then than today

[@antonioharris2753]

The city was burned down during the civil war. A whole lot of construction was the real motive to build the city up. Now It's tore down from not reconstruction the problem destroyed by racism Richmond Virginia where I was born ✊🏿❤️💯

[@mikedavis9891]

I remember signs such as these in downtown Dallas when I was growing up in the 50’s. Thank God you don’t see this kind of racism in stores anymore but we still have a long way to go to eradicate racism in this country sadly. If each of us would just try and spread some love and respect for our fellow man/woman maybe it would eradicate more quickly.

[@gillybob7747]

Those are some wise words sir, i wish you the best

[@shawnwhite3662]

Does anyone know what this particular area looks like today? Where is it?

[@tomaco7310]

First we have Broad Street Station (Science Museum of VA). I think 0:35 is East Broad St around 5,6,7th st. That looks like the Central National Bank building, but it's hard to tell because if so a lot of building have been cleared out since then. 0:59 same, but a bit further west closer to the bank building. I don't recognize the last building (and I can't say anything about those close up shots, but probably not far from the wide shots.)

[@antonioharris2753]

Richmond Virginia Capitol of Virginia

[@rahstabass]

Basically VCU college campus and Mcv hospital

[@truebetold65]

There were more Sun Down Towns (blacks out by night) in Midwestern states such as Illinois, Wisconsin than five to six southern states alone. This was continued way until the 1990s.

[@NoahBodze]

Look what happened to these towns when it stopped. They destroyed them.

[@tonynasaofficial]

@@NoahBodze maybe because jobs and education where kept away from certain people

[@synskyzoChannn]

@@NoahBodzehappy they destroyed them white folks 😂

[@southernman5839]

One sign?

[@DillonRust]

All the people moved South towards Raleigh, Charlotte, and Atlanta. Those are the big Southern cities of the 21st Century.

[@Classy4514]

All what people cus Richmond has more of a big city feel to it then any of the southern cities you mentioned Richmond is similar to DC it has more of a northern city vibe to it that's just my opinion.

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

​@@Classy4514 Richmond was the blueprint for San Francisco.

[@804MRMAN]

It should be known that Union Station was built around 1900, and it still stands. It's called Broad Street Station, or Main Street Station these days. It's located in an area which was a market for slaves. Hence, the name the area still goes by these days. Market Place, which is located in the historic Shockoe Bottom area. Shockoe Bottom, Churchill, and the Manchester area were predominantly black until the 50's when they started knocking down homes and putting black people in the projects. While the black people still held a stronghold in the Church Hill/Eastend/Northside area with homes up until this day, it slowly became gentrified with young white real estate companies buying mini mansions for pennies on the dollar selling them back to young white people.

[@neutrino109]

Broad Street Station and Main Street are different. Main Street station is the one you're talking about on Main Street and Broad Street Station is on Broad Street. It now houses the Science Museum of VA.

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

What areas did Mulattos have a stronghold on besides Maggie Walker of Jackson Ward?

[@suemccleary7312]

Is there sound with this post?

[@thrillington2008]

It wasn't right that the African American community had to go though hell and beyond then.

[@deezy_m9791]

I'm curious is everyone dead in this old footage

[@KingRoseArchives]

Probably.

[@deezy_m9791]

@@KingRoseArchives they look like they were some good times they had

[@hotboywalt7968]

Deezy_ M shut yo bitchass up

[@Corrupted_truths]

Nope it was only 60 ofd years ago

[@deezy_m9791]

@@Corrupted_truths there's no way people is still living in this old footage they all dead now

[@diamonddave81]

what signs?

[@804MRMAN]

I see people can't seem to figure out what period this was. Well, the street cars in Richmond ( the first city wide electric street car system in the UNITED STATES ) ended around 1950. So there's your time period. Also, what's unique in the video is that it SEEMS as though the white folk weren't bothered by the FEW black people showed walking and standing Downtown on Broad Street.

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

Why would they be? Slavery ended in 1864

[@convoy814]

I was EXPECTING more

[@mikedavis9891]

Convoy81 How much more do you need ??

[@fairfaxcat1312]

@@mikedavis9891 NPR found a white nationalist behind every street sign, every lamp post, and every doorway in this footage. The mainstream media have no evidence that young African American males are targeted at a rate inconsistent with their participation violent crime. The more woke the media make us the more their soft bigotry of low expectations increases to further the Times’ 1619 Project.

[@krazyjnva2up2down55]

​@@fairfaxcat1312excuses

[@tkjordan1376]

What’s the date on this footage

[@KingRoseArchives]

Have had this discussion before. The records don't give us any hints. I'm guessing the 1930s. None of the cars look like post War vehicles. Open to any thoughts.

[@gwarrichmond6232]

Should be 2019

[@bonitomusolini3291]

@@gwarrichmond6232 too bad it wasn't

[@checkyoursix5623]

@@KingRoseArchives Richmond's street-cars were phased out around the 1947-1948 time frame in favor of buses. Had to be before that. WW-II or before ?

[@the_gilded_age_phoenix8717]

@@KingRoseArchives I'd say early 40's maybe.

[@OtaviaBrown]

is this happening now

[@HircusHircus]

you know very well this wont happen in the 21st century

[@williamw5600]

I wish. Was much cleaner, safe, and white.

[@JohnRebCSA]

Milo McGinnes history repeats

[@geoben1810]

@@williamw5600
You RACIST piece of garbage.

[@geoben1810]

@TheZoneRanger
Unbelievable huh? 🤤

[@fairfaxcat1312]

Just one sign and that had to have been no later than the mid-40’s. And I doubt whether anyone paid any attention to it and whether it was even observed and whether it was an enforceable and applied law by that time. I grew up in Richmond in the ‘60’s when there was nothing like this. Were there redlining and foot-dragging on integrating the schools? Sure. Open housing and court ordered busing changed that. Today there is a refusal by the mainstream media to focus on the incredible racial progress which has occurred nationwide. Focusing on Black Lives Matter, an inherently dishonest hard edged Democrat-vote padding movement, conforms to the media’s left wing narrative. I say dishonest because the BLM movement preaches that young African American males are disproportionate victims only and never disproportionate perpetrators of violent crime. Even President Obama made a distinction between the two, recognizing that both phenomena exist, in a speech shortly after the NFL lineman-sized Ferguson, MO man robbed and violently attacked a convenience store clerk and then attacked a police officer.

[@hi_wifi_guy]

Are you black? If not then you have no way of understanding their experience. I know you posted this before the murder of George Floyd, but you don't get a pass. What you call incredible racial progress, educated people would say we have a LONG way to go before there is true equality.
Your comment about vote-padding is laughable and shows where you get your information. Fox, Brietbart, and that idiot currently occupying the White House. Such a load of complete bullshit.

[@nobrang5146]

@@hi_wifi_guy and were you raised in the 60s?

[@nobrang5146]

@Sean R were you raised in the 60s?

[@clarenciashade8276]

Did you know Oliver Hill and Clarence Newsome?

[@kaymack6383]

Damn I can’t wait for you boomers to just pass on.

[@TheGeosto]

Emmet Till was still alive when this footage was shot.....

[@brendalaprincegooglenext9736]

Are you kidding me😎

[@ursulasmith6402]

now that's wrong.