Bronzeville, the Black Metropolis
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- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2017
- Excerpts from footage for the documentary TALKING BLACK in AMERICA www.talkingblackinamerica.org
For the DVD visit www.languageandlife.org
look for TALKING BLACK in AMERICA on PBS in 2019
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Harold Lucas talks about the rich history of Bronzeville in this clip from his interview for the forthcoming documentary, TALKING BLACK in AMERICA.
The Twentieth Century saw the largest migration of people in the history of North America as African Americans fled the oppressive conditions of the American South for the promise of opportunities in Northern and Western cities and industrial centers. One of the primary destinations was Chicago, where at one time it was estimated that twenty thousand African-Americans arrived each day. Housing Covenants were passed that restricted African-Americans to living in a narrow band of land on the south side of the city. Within the overcrowded area, which came to be known as Bronzeville, arts and culture flourished.
Learn more about Bronzeville and its impact on American history at the Bronzeville Visitor Information Center: bviconline.info
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a production of the Language and Life Project at NC State
www.languageandlife.org
I grew up in the historical BRONZEVILL neighborhood graduated from Melvin Fuller elementary and graduated from Wendell Phillips high school on Pershing Rd. Didn't realise it was so historical until I gotten older wow So many great black people came from Brozville.
They didnt tell you in the schools you went to?
The feel of Bronzeville is amazing!
Not anymore . It’s being filled with white people
😥😢
Thanks for truth & our history.
@@warrencarter1555 yes, whites who benefit by a system rigged to give advantage & guard the privilege of whites, specially white fascist males.
It was so much nicer when the white people who built it still lived there.
You people have always been violence in other people's neighborhoods.
I love bronzeville I can feel the culture in the air when I'm in that neighborhood
I visited bronzeville to look at a home the other day. What a lovely neighborhood.
FBA 🇺🇸 all day ‼️
Fascinating!
Love this video ...
Thanks for this amazing piece of Oral History, I'll be sure to use it as a source for my Chicago project.
Have you listened to the Bronzeville podcast/story? I listen on Spotify...its absolutely amazing. Check it out if you haven't already.
Admiring the dress attire. When women covered themselves and men wore slacks and jackets.
THANK YOU
I worked in Bronzeville!
Blacks in those days making $20million a year while things were hella cheep back then.Hamburgers were 15 cent,movies were .50cent.$20million in those days are like being a billionaire.
@Sylvester Steel no dumbass. White people changed parties. So fuck outta here with that bullshit. Not to mention that white people methodically dismantled thriving black cities. Including the Ariel bombing of one of them and the overthrow of a government to get rid of another.
@@WaxDat8800 Not you.Wrong guy.Sylverster Steel I'm after.
@@WaxDat8800 WaxDat8800 I confused you with Sylvester Steel,forgive me.
@@AlfredoHernandez-vr3wc what are you referring to?
@@WaxDat8800 My apologies to you WaxDat8800.I mixed you up with Sylvester Steel,he seems racist toward blacks.MY MISTAKE!
As of 2017, We, as an Ethnicity, have 1.3 Trillion Dollars in Wealth.
We must move away from consumerism, and stop investing into companies that are not created, and funded by Our People.
In order to Build Black Wealth, We must Divest, and create New thought with entrepreneurs, and build businesses that are created by Us.
This is how We, as a Collective of educated, creative People, will again, become Business Owners, Land Owners, Investors, Stakeholders, that can have full ability
to reclaim and sustain Our economic Resources, and Wealth.
We must focus on economics. We must focus on Health. Protecting and educating Our Youth.
This will give them the Platform to create the Academic Model, Business Models to become Business Owners.
We must build a Food Corridor Internationally.
We must buy Land.
We must start recirculating, and extending the Indigenous Dollar,
(Black and African American are Not Legally recognized by Law in the United States of The North Americas), to create an Strong economic base.
We once owned our Wealth in our Communities, Therefore, We must reclaim Our Wealth.
This Economic Wealth will pass to Our Children and their Children.
The Time Is Now.
Think Up©
Venita K. Bennett-Bonaparte
Bonaparte International©
N'COBRA
Media Director
The National Coalition of Blacks For Reparations In America©
Chicago Chapter Midwest Region
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@7thSonOfA7thSon Lol but yet every other races band together and stand behind their own, your mindset is only going to further divide the black race. Its good to band together with people that look like you because they can relate to you, they know what its like to be black, where as other races can care less about black struggles because even the poorest white man thinks hes better than the richest black man because his people own and control majority of everything.
I used to try to patronize black businesses but all I ever got back in return was bad service and attitude. From restaurants, to hair salons, clothing stores, cleaning service, even construction work in my house. The experience hasnt been good. I thought it was me at first but then I talked to others who had the same experience. Maybe I will try again one day.
@@flightschool1016 haha white men don't hold the controls if they did why would they bash themselves in the media all day?
@@tj.4079 I'm an African Americans buisness owner and I do none of those things. Problem is you went off the shade of someone's skin to give your buisness to. If the buisness sucks I go elsewhere idc who is running it. I like to support small businesses.
at 1:49, still was used for the book, Overground Railroad. The book is about the Green Book.
👏🏾 TFS!
I'm from Chicago.
I live in bronzeville now they are gentrified; it’s still a beautiful place to live
Lived in Bronzeville and have that portrait on my wall. I wonder if any of those young men are still around.
NO
Big Unc, Harold Lucas
Black people had group economics back then and to they flourished was an understatement. We have ZERO of this now and it saddens my heart to see what we have become
Hate to say it but liberalism destroyed us
Interesting
I need someone to find the guys on that famous picture of those kids in Chicago.
So bronzeville is basically the Chicago version of Harlem on the south side. Makes perfect sense.
I grew up in the neighborhood next to Bronzeville. Went to high school there. It's mostly college kids and Starbucks now.
That's right, and lots of Asians are moving into the community also.
@@gookawild5543 thank desegregation for that
They are moving in and white folks as well. They are buying all of the property. And the cost to stay in bronzeville is extremely high now . I’m on 47 Michigan right now and grew up on 49 th Vincennes so you can’t tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about. This neighborhood has changed and it no longer belongs to our people
@@warrencarter1555 "Your people" don't have the greatest track record in the city. So I'd say white people moving isn't a bad thing.
@Zakaria Farah It probably will be soon if it's not already.
Bronzeville is Harlem of Chicago.