Felicia (1965) A Day in the Life a a Watts Teenager
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- In 2014, the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress added to its esteemed list the short documentary film, “Felicia,” about the life of a teenage girl, named Felicia Bragg, growing up in the Watts section of Los Angeles.
Alan Gorg, one of the filmmakers of “Felicia,” later wrote about how the film came to be made, stating:
“My involvement in the civil rights movement began while I was a student at UCLA. Residential areas and employment in California had been largely seg-regated historically and remained so until the 1960s. As a result, schools were mostly segregated, and there were only two African-American students in a student population over 2,000 at Hollywood High School when I attended. My education in the history of racial segregation in America came from black students I met at UCLA. They and the news reports made me conscious of what needed to be done.” - Library of Congress Blog
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SHOWS THE LIFE OF A NEGRO GIRL IN WATTS, Los Angeles, California. PRESENTS HER OBSERVATIONS ABOUT LIFE IN A SEGREGATED COMMUNITY, EXPRESSING SOME OF THE HOPES and FRUSTRATIONS OF THE NEGRO POPULATION AS A WHOLE. Shows the disadvantages, frustrations, and hopes of Negro life in an American ghetto as seen through the eyes of a young Negro girl living in Watts in suburban Los Angeles in the spring of 1965, a few months before rioting broke out.
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Her full name is Felicia Bragg and she did end up going to UC Santa Barbara, one of the first students from Watts to go on to College & had a long career in politics & activism. Working in political campaigns for Tom Bradley & US Rep. Maxine Waters. Also fundraising for non profits.
Is she still alive?
@@CoreyChampagneTV Yeah.
I work at LAX. To see Tom Bradley’s name used in that context had me reading it twice. I’m used to him being referenced as a terminal! It threw me off! 😂
Thank you
@@roxxylala26 Oh ok because when i read " Her name was" I thought she passed.
Not much online about her now, but one article states...
_...Bragg (Felicia) was among the first students of color from Watts to go to college, studying history at the University of California at Santa Barbara and going on to a long career in politics and activism. Gordon said Bragg worked on political campaigns for Tom Bradley (who was mayor of Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 Rodney King riots) and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. She has also done fundraising for nonprofits..._
Tfs!🖤
I found a few articles on her...a view anniversary articles about her...here's one link from LA Times Magazine...
www.lamag.com/culturefiles/50-years-after-the-watts-rebellion-felicia-still-finds-relevance/
50 Years After the Watts Rebellion, Felicia Still Finds Relevance
www.lamag.com/culturefiles/50-years-after-the-watts-rebellion-felicia-still-finds-relevance/
Thank you
African American I’m amazed at how articulate and self aware she was at her age.
I really hope she ended up doing EVERYTHING she wanted to do in life ... God bless her
And Her Little Sister
I wish all of them well. They had good intentions to do better.
@UnBothered Most definitely!
Short film... What's the end!!! Needing a lil more info...
Sandra Davenport just embrace and absorb it for what It is, you don’t need more.
You’re missing the rawness for what it is by wanting more. It’s meant to leave you to
ponder.
A beautiful black girl with a beautiful mind.
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An soul.
She not fully Black. Look at her mother and her immediate family. She looks mixed to me.
@@sharjjahnaziz4122 she is a beautiful lightskin young lady who's complexion and hair texture mimics many of my own older relatives. She identifies and is categorizes and treated as an African American. She is most certainly and fully living the Black experience in America in all it's oppressive glory as evident in this video. Not sure what other credentials are needed to make her "fully black" to you. Unfortunately because of the rape and brutality of enslaved women, African Americans are not "fully" Africans and therefore have Caucasian features with various skin tones and hair textures. It's probable that just both of her parents were lightskin.
@@LadyDayK87 I understand that. But did you see her mother and her grandmother. They do not look 100 % Black to me nor to others around them at that time. I doubt it if she her skin complexion and and hair texture mimics your families appearance in present day America. But that was a nice try. You have a nice day.
Wow, this is deep especially being black teenager in the 1960’s!
I was so impressed by how eloquently she described her feelings about her life and family. I pray she was able to succeed.
chozensaga same here especially living in LA at that point of time the hardships living in Watts
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She should be 70. If she hasn't went to go rest yet then she's been alive for 14 presidents. My oh my what our parents & grandparents have seen.
Yes.. she is still alive shes 72
I would love to a follow-up documentary with her.
@@honeybeeful1 Wait, you actually know her???
@@FullyAutomaticAddict410 yes that's my family her sister Rosie is my Aunt!
@Beauti Deedee yes she did
As an L.A. native i remember Watts As being a very rural part of the city for a long time...seeing this footage brings back those memories. Its was a place full of southern transplants where some people grew collard greens and cabbages in their front yards and there were multiple peach , plum and apricot trees everywhere. In my moms era (50s) they had a rough gang set from watts called the "Farmers" and they wore starched bib overalls and stacy adams shoes. Compton was another rural city with a high southern transplant population. Compton is still zoned for horses and there were lots of black cowboys in compton up until the late 70s.
Being serious. You should write a book of these recollections.
@@Theoppositesex
Funny you say that. My kids tell me the same thing. This city has changed so much i feel like i was raised in the lost city of atlantis...very few of us left who remember what it was half a century ago...
That person is right, you should write a book because all these memories will be lost if you don't. I grew up in the Lynwood, Eastside of Los Angeles (slauson & Hooper) area and when I go back now, nothing looks the same. Maybe you should start doing youtube vidos visiting some of the places and giving everyone a story about what it was once like. I would watch.
@@sunrah4469 Make it happen! Have a lovely day. :)
sun rah 44, are you serious? There really was a gang wearing bib overhauls called the Farmers? That is hilarious!!
I used to tell my grandma I was born in the wrong times ... Seemed like people respected themselves more back then...
Drugs, gangs, and guns hadn't flooded the neighborhood yet so there was still hope for a better future
@@nefariousdisciple301 Yes, and it was beautiful. My kids think it's crazy to believe that we actually left our front doors opened in the summer during the 70s, with only a light screen door to keep the flies out. They can't believe it.
@@nefariousdisciple301 white people in result of intergration put drugs in our neighborhoods etc🙄🙄🙄🙄....there were gangs even before this ..so shut up.
Wow!!! Someone else who feel like i do. 1love
I get sad when my mom tells us about how growing up they’d leave their doors open, the neighbors watched them while they played, and everyone went to church or had parties together often. People helped you out if they had it. It really was a village for them growing up.
They talk soo humbly back then, sorta like old folks real sweet, and gentle.
Technically they are old folks now
@@kayabanton6943 lol the irony.
@Louise Gross we were told growing up.... children were seen but Not heard. That's what the elders use to say, I'm 45. 😁
Yassss
Thank goodness things have changed.
Imagine being black and having to say the pledge of allegiance during the 60's.. WHEEEEW CHILE.
Fr! I was born in 74’ in Texas and Singing Disney’s “Yankee Doodle Dandy” in music class always felt wrong but I didn’t pinpoint why. Now I’m definitely awakened.
We had to say that every day before class. After we were transferred to public schools (1977) , On the first day of class is when I discovered the Pledge of Allegiance was no longer required.
Exactly, and still until this day having to say it is not ok.
I was taught how to say the pledge of allegiance in 1968, by my first grade teacher, a black woman named Miss Pratt.
Synthetrix And she learned from a white person. That’s how all of us non-whites grew up in this world because the world was not under our control.
The filmmakers were flabbergasted that anyone remembered this 12-minute film they’d made as college students,” Gordon said. “So was Felicia. After I tracked down her address, we started a correspondence and eventually met. She’d never actually seen it before we showed it to her at a coffee shop in Echo Park. That was something.”
Bragg was among the first students of color from Watts to go to college, studying history at the University of California at Santa Barbara and going on to a long career in politics and activism. Gordon said Bragg worked on political campaigns for Tom Bradley (who was mayor of Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 Rodney King riots) and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. She has also done fundraising for nonprofits.
Everyone would like to see an update of Felicia. If possible can you help in organizing an updated video of her life? Everyone would appreciate your hard work. Thank you for sharing your experience with Felicia.
And anyone that currently uses the dismissive phrase "Bye Felicia!" should immediately stop doing so.
@Maleek Maleek Even if Ice Cube didn't know about this documentary, he needs to do a documentary about this era.
@@warriorwoman432hz People should stop using anyone's name as a dismissive phrase.
@@Synthetrix Agreed. Becky and Karen are having it rough right about now!
At such a young age, her mind seems so sharply aware of the social conditions and it's causes. Many youngins were almost oblivious to that when I was coming up. We probably thought that a liquor store was supposed to be on every corner as the natural order of things
Yes. I thought the exact same thing. And not to take anything away from this young girl or the message... it’s all so beautiful...but it still is just a film. She did a great job
You're right!!
Looks like she was vloggin back then
She was
Yes she was!!! Amazing
Right. Lol
And she was doing a voiceover
I notice women back in the day spoke really feminine and elegantly
Life before rap music and feminism.
Tyler James nah men
Wokerthanwoke What??? Please explain were you got that idea from. The feminist movement just started in around 1965, men have always encouraged a society for females to be feminine, but females after feminism brainwashed females to believe it was “controlling and abusive”. With all due respect, please do your research before you speak because your “blame men” mindset is the reason why elegance in a woman will never return.
Tyler James feminist movement started bc of the biased,over controlling, abusive, sexists males
@@wokerthanwokez well now it made women stay away from their femmine side. They often see it as a sign of weakness. Feminism back the was great by nowadays , it does more harm then good.
Different time same narrative.
Rite! Smh
Yup
Pretty much 💯
U ain’t never lied
Crazy right.
The music played at the end of the documentary is the same music Spike Lee used at the end of “He Got Game”. Documentaries like this are a national treasure.
Aaron Copland.... mesmerizing piece of music
So much so it made it to National Film Registry (Library of Congress)✊🏾
So, this young lady would be about 72 years old now! It's great that she and her siblings have this snapshot of their family captured so many years ago. I'm most impressed by how quiet and orderly the classroom was. I work in a high school and I know some teachers who would give anything to have students like these! They are actually attentive. No distractions from cell phones. lol
People weren't diagnosed with all kinds of bs based on emotion made up disorders. Young people behaved like they were supposed to.
@Shawn Ben Orrrr maybe because they’re literally being filmed?
@@USMCLP Maybe, but believe me;being filmed wouldn't make one bit of difference to so many kids today. In fact they might intentionally act up more, hoping to me the next social media *star".
"be"
@@USMCLP Whatever
The mother reminds me of my grandmother who raised me, life was good back then.
You're Beautiful😍
Bay Area West Vallejo Thank you ☺️
Absolutely love this channel. It’s better than any history class I’ve attended. I will definitely show these video to my children and so forth. 🙏🏽💜
I agree with you 💯. I have the same attitude.
I'm telling you! My daughter and I just watched this as I combed out her hair. This channel is priceless
I love it too
Hi. I just wanted to suggest that you consider downloading a video editing software like Adobe Audition and save it there. Then save it to an MP3 file, then save it on a flash drive, dvd, and maybe vcr tape. I plan too. This channel is awesome
The part where she mentions that her white classmates would not talk to her outside of the classroom reminds me of when I was in middle school and my white classmates will not talk to me outside of the classroom and that was just 21 years Ago 😳 Things have not changed much.
Same here. Nothing changed at all
OMG‼️ thank you this was so informative. I grew up with older folks who didn’t have the chance to get an education. They all encouraged me to go to college. When I was accepted into college, some of them would pressed 5 or ten dollars into to my hand and tell me to put it on a book. I DID. I graduated college. It does take a village. They were sticklers for cleaning though. Folks couldn’t litter or leave abandoned cars on the street or in yards. They would call them out until it was removed. I hope Felicia got to go to college and had a good life.
Now the mom washing dishes is so sweet n I think she’s washing Tubberware..us old schoolers know wat that is,and she’s $ewing...love this clip
Yes, I remember. All the women in my family would have Tupperware parties and invite other women on our street to visit and they would buy bowls and cake holders. There would be Tupperware and Princess House crystal. Damn, I miss those days.
My oldest sister still have her Tupperware.
Alain Quartermaine what does “t/f” mean?
@@todo8328 lmfao the fuck
OG BARSS ouch sorry. I just asked a question. No need to be cruel
Little sis was vlogging way back then. 😂
😂😂
She was waaaay ahead of her time...I wonder if she was the first one
😂😂😂😂😂😂 she really was tho
Sho was
As someone from the Bronx, I feel a connection to this. That piled junkyard scene was emotional
Not to mention extremely dangerous. Felica was correct in her observation. Exposing people, especially children, to the noise, air, soil, and water pollution from leaking fluids and other various chemicals is and was tragic.
Wow! This brings back memories to me. Felicia and I are the same age because I was a sophomore in high school back in 1965, and I remember looking at the Watts riots on television. Although we were both young, black American girls living at the same time, we lived VERY different lives. I grew up in the racially segregated South, and I NEVER had white principals, teachers nor fellow white students. I lived in a large city in middle Tennessee with both my hardworking parents taking care of eight children. While we weren't poor and had everything we NEEDED, we had few luxuries like kids are used to today. My siblings and I ALWAYS knew that IF we wanted to go college we had our parents' support. We were blessed to have two HBCUs within commuting distance which made getting a college education relatively easy. Most of us took advantage of this opportunity, graduated, and lived (and STILL do) GOOD middle class lives. While my older siblings (I am the youngest.) had to leave my beloved South, I and my younger brother didn't have to leave the South to get good jobs. After living through the turmoil of the waning days of racial segregation, the 1960s/70s, and watching what is currently happening, I realize that race relations can and will be IMPROVED (I and my family are living proof of this.), but the hatred and ugliness in the hearts of MANY will never, ever be ELIMINATED while we are still living on this dark, SINFUL earth. Racism is a heart/spiritual problem that will only be solved by God and His Son, Jesus. Each generation has to deal with this EVIL during their time on this earth. Btw, I wonder what kind of life Felecia and her family managed to live? Also, the time goes by so FAST, so make the BEST of it because we only get one life on this earth. God bless you all.😁😁👍👍🧡🧡
I just love this channel. Its treasure chest of awesome black history is second to none 👌🏾👌🏾
It really is no lie I like it to
Same here! 💙💜
That was depressing. My mother had a friend who was a teacher in Watts in the late 80s early 90s and she got combat pay along with her salary for teaching. This in Watts only got worse after 1965 when this video was made. I don't know what it is like now. I am from Detroit where things are not all that much better.
Yeah it did right after 65 riots in watts everything changed for the worse
Do you still live in Detroit? I'm from Detroit too, I grew up in the seventies and eighties. I live in the suburbs of Chicago right now
@princetachalla I JUST moved away from Texas about a month ago. We were living in West Texas, El Paso, in the Desert! The mountains were beautiful, but I DO NOT like the hot desert climate and all of the sand!👎🏽
Amazing. I was born in 1965. My Mother used to sew as well with a Singer sewing machine. Her Mom was washing dishes. That good old Tupperware.
I was born August 1963 in Los Angeles and I'll be 57 in a couple of months so this kid must be like 70 now....... Crazy
In 1969 the house we lived in was on 119th street and San Pedro, Watts area. They were asking us to move back then so they could start building the 105 Freeway which they didn't start building until around 1987
She’s be about 71 yrs old today 2020... and as we all know, WATTS is a Mexican neighborhood now. Same depression, different people...
Bragg was among the first students of color from Watts to go to college, studying history at the University of California at Santa Barbara and going on to a long career in politics and activism. Gordon said Bragg worked on political campaigns for Tom Bradley (who was mayor of Los Angeles at the time of the 1992 Rodney King riots) and U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters. She has also done fundraising for nonprofits.
@@lauraveney1412 God bless her.
@@lauraveney1412 yes she was very active.. that's my family!
Watts is mexican?
Watts started out as a Mexican neighborhood. It was known Colonia Watts. There has always been Mexicans there, ask the older residents from Watts. Watts is currently being gentrified as rapidly.
This is the exact same time period when my grandma was a young girl. Crazy to see video of it. Such a shame that our people who literally did nothing get treated with so much disrespect for something nobody can control. Which is the color of one's skin 😔
What a beautiful human story..where ever she is i pray that she became who is wanted to be a successfull person
www.lamag.com/culturefiles/50-years-after-the-watts-rebellion-felicia-still-finds-relevance/
Kids today need to watch this video and appreciate the opportunities that are afforded them compared to had they grown up just a few decades ago. I hope this bright young girl is now healthy and has lived, or is living, a wonderful transformative adult life!
Umm there are LOTS of kids in America today who are still going through this and don't have the opportunities. Watching this video for them would be even more depressing
@@jmatthews5685 -- I do understand that many kids are still struggling with social, economic and racial disparities in this modern day society, but I would hope that this video serves as a tool for hope, change and empowerment for those still living under similar circumstances--rather than a depressive reminder of any dire circumstances. However, more often than before, kids today "commonly" are recipients of many things that would unquestionably be considered pure luxuries to the young girl in this video.
This was SO GOOD.
Such a well-spoken and insightful young woman during that era.
This young intelligent woman is so ahead of her time! She analyzed what was going on in 1965 and predicted what still goes on today. I hope she is doing well in 2020! Great film!
I'm 32 years old and I can say, that this young lady in that Era was way more advanced before her time.
I hope she Made it, because she sure deserve it ❤️
Thank you for uploading so much knowledge!! The past is so important!! Keep em coming!! God bless!!
She's very beautiful, I hope everything turned out well for her and her family. This was a very interesting and raw video to watch
I would love an update in this brilliantly smart young woman💜
I remember when they left the rail cars with guns over weekends along Willowbrook Ave to start the gangs. I remember when they ushered the crack cocaine into the city. Felicia's rationale was way beyond her years. My jaw dropped when she said she thought people should stay to build the city rather than leaving. I love this channel.
Wise young lady.
What kind of people would choose to take the guns and commit crimes or do crack cocaine?
@@sarcasticallyrearranged when that plant for general motors was shut down it changed everything.
I love how the little sister came out to give her sister her jacket that was sweet and innocent
I would've never known about this documentary had I not researched my name. What a wonderful gem to find on Juneteenth.
I love this type of history 🥰
That's my family Rosie is my Auntie
honeybeeful1 wow. Beautiful family! Is Rosie the mother? What happened to her after this film?
@@Mjohnson3030 no rosie is felicia little sister in the film. Rosie is my auntie. Shes doing well she had 4 children. Felicia is doing well, her daughter is a professor at a college in texas.
Tell Felicia that she is a beautiful soul ahead of her time,I wish I could see more of this film.My family were civil rights activists and attorneys as well from Georgia.Googke Clennon King and all of his brothers.
Honeybeeful1 I truly enjoyed watching the story about your family. Please inform Felicia that I'm happy to have watched the video and thank you for sharing her story.
@@honeybeeful1 Beautiful and admirable women.
This young lady tells her story living in Watts in 1965. She gives a view on what life is like. I hope someone will watch this story and hear what she has to say.
This was really interesting to watch.
I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting!
It just looks so relaxing to live back then.
This was so calming to watch!
This is my actual grandma. She went on to do gr8 things in life. I'm her grandson Darius
It will be nice to see her on a livestream or regular youtube video...to tell her story
"You see your mother and what she has and you think, 'She doesn't have much, how could I?' and you give up before you even start."
Damn, that hit me hard. That's so true for me. I need to change something, but I don't know what and I don't know how.
It's good she had a optimistic mindset about the future especially for the times during the period. Could you do a now update on her if she's still alive today 🤗
Wow! She's probably nearly 70 now.
Nothing has changed. It so precarious living in the ghetto. She said it all "If everyone moves out then only the people who can't help will stay here and that won't be good." I hope she made it.
Vlogging in the 60’s sooo authentic!! ❤️❤️❤️
She was very mature for a girl of her age. Im sure she grew up to be a beautiful woman 💕
Great video. Thank you for uploading. Felicia is my mother's age.
I just found her on Facebook. She looks the same and still beautiful just older now. 😍🙏😇
So much wisdom in such a young girl. Still going on in 2020
What a thoughtfully rendered film and beautiful human.
Wow, absolutely loved this. Such thoughtful insight from such a young lady. Keep finding these gems!
This could have easily been filmed now. Im sitting here in amazement at how smart Felicia is.
No nothing is the same this look like a different world it seems as if they could breathe better even In the existing conditions.
This Is Such A Powerful!!! Short Film. As Soon As I Pressed Play I Begin To Cry. Being A Native Of Watts/South Central Myself Coming Up In The 70’s/80’s Era. Different Person, Same Narrative. I Loved My People & My City Despite All The Pain I Witness. So “ReelBlack” Thank You So Much For Taking Me Back. I Will Forever Treasure This Short But All So Powerful!!! Film. P.S “Felicia” Reminds Me Of “Angela Davis”. Thanks Again, & “GOD”🙏🏽Bless😊
I agree. I'm from the 80's & 90's era. Didn't realize until after I left the military that we grew up in a warzone.
Bruce L. 😊
Its amazing looking at this film. Its a window to the past. She was definitely a articulate and poised young lady. Thanks for sharing.
The year my mom graduated from high school. RIP
Look how well Dressed they were at their High School. I was Teenager Lady,during the 1980s. I would love to have any updates on her if she is still living. This Channel is a Historically You Tube Channel and I love the Videos on reelblack🙋🏾♀️
I’m really grateful that you’ve posted this to RUclips. I probably never would have seen it otherwise. Thank you
This so cool to watch, wow 1965!
This hurts me to watch. I hope she was able to accomplish all she wanted.
Thank you for what you find abd share.
One of the many thinks I liked about the 60s is our people carried themselves in a manner that did not align with what some may deem as a desperate or undesirable situation. The ladies were ALWAYS well put together. I enjoyed this video. It gave me some insight of what a day in the life of my Mother may have been like. Thanks for sharing! 😊
Back then teenagers didn't really have to worry about acne and other issues and Felicia wAs simply gorgeous ❤️ a lot of my relatives of my dads side migrated to the west and east coast to escape the south only to find out things weren't that much different
I just saw her Facebook picture, glad to see she is doing well.
A lot of the guys didn’t go to college; they went to Vietnam.
Thank you. I enjoy all of these old clips. Loved this one, the tenament doc, the neighborhood street doc and the doc about the rural farm family.
I was 6 years in 1965, very interesting video, my experience however was in Miami Florida, hope you're still alive and well, bye Felicia.
She has aged beautifully! you can see what she currently looks like on FB!
BRO I LOVE Y'ALL'S CHANNEL REELBLACK !!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤. SHOUT OUT TO DA BLACK BROTHAS I L❤VE Y'ALL DIS COMIN FROM A BLACK GIRL❤❤❤❤❤.
Your way of speaking is worse is what is keeping us down clean up the way you speak it is ignorant.
Amy Crumedy BRO SHUTUP
Amy Crumedy IF U DONT LIKE IT LEAVE STOP BULLYING ME
I was somewhere in South Central LA at the time of this video, born in August 63 and my brother born January 65. My Mother used to sew as well when we were growing up. We actually did live in Watts during the late 60s right at 119th street and San Pedro
Such a beautiful kid, I hope and pray she has and still is having a wonderful life 🙏
REELBLACK is by far the best channel on RUclips.....Can I get an amen?
amen
Those house still look the same in 2020...
WATTS UP!! ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿Pretty Good Video. Sad How She Highlights The Junk Yards of Piled up Cars and Families Living Near Them. This Was Right Before The Jump Off With The Riots...
Weird comment for this video..
This video ahead of its time 👏👏👏
That’s crazy that racism was at its highest when this was filmed
What? Go back 50 years before that and then another 50, you think racism was at it's worst in the 60's? Honey, get an education.
Shes so intelligent and pretty and has so much foresight,I wonder what happened to her.
There are updates in the comments above, and in the description box
Wow, this is deep, nice to see what it was like from someone's perspective. My birth year.
To me her house was nice clean comfortable with good mother doing her best to see her children through on the right path 💯💕
Hi Felicia!!
What a smart, intuitive, wise young lady! What happened to her after? I hope she accomplished everything she wanted!!
Almost brought me to tears. I take education for granted....never again
Beautiful ......Loved it❣
This interested me because it was filmed the year I was born. I love looking back at how we use to take pride in the little things. I loved how women dressed and behaved like ladies. Thank you for sharing.🤗
Where is Felicia today?
She studied History in college and pursued politics and activism.
@@shaungresham4968 Thanks! Wonderful to hear that she went to college
www.lamag.com/culturefiles/50-years-after-the-watts-rebellion-felicia-still-finds-relevance/
@@chozensaga Thanks for sharing!!
I want BOTH, the oldheads and the youngins to see this!
The oldheads often get amnesia and start believing that everything was peaches and cream. They often blame everything bad on social media, rap music, films, etc.
This short film depicts some of the SAME plight of today! Derelicts, truants, fatherless households, substance abuse, etc are nothing new under the sun!
Man. Felicia’s around 69 or 70 now. And Watts was on the brink of becoming a really bad area at that time. I hope everything worked out for her and her family.
Great upload
Thank you for uploading this gem!!!!!!
11:22 's stutter was father's instead of adults...
Who else caught that?
Yes, she was going to say 'fathers', but Felicia quickly said 'adults'. She was disgusted at how the men were just sitting around doing nothing all day, and her mother worked so hard to care for the family. Sad life...
Wow, I didn't at first. Had men standing around, but not many father's/dad's doing their part in the household/community.
I pray this virus wakes our black people up.
Hm.....and here I am thinking the men were different back then.
@MOTHER SERENITY
I dunno
It’s easy to assume..
But brothers like Harry Belafonte, Sidney, Stokley Carmichael ,etc.
Who’s to say there weren’t local factions that doing their part for the cause?
I say all that to say, just because she wasn’t privy to it, possibly due to her age.
Doesn’t mean “ fathers/men” weren’t on the fore front...
@Cydney James
I think, and maybe I’m wrong.
But the editing of this “documentary “ makes it appear as though black men were not making keg moves on a local level.
I think her age and proximity to information may play a factor...
One of my favorite short films i watched this so many times another black film production...
I love this so much. I love her. She is my mom's age. They could've been friends. Thank you for this.
This girl and I are both the same age. We both lived and were raised in LA. Our neighborhoods were slightly different as well. I'm glad she did well in life.