1972 SPECIAL REPORT: "BLACK ST. LOUIS"
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- "The problem of the twentieth century" wrote W. E. B. DuBois in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903, "is the problem of the color line." The words of the great African-American writer on race relations was as much a statement of historical trend as prophecy. By the time those words appeared in The Souls of Black Folk the lines of segregation in America were drawn in thick, bold lines. St. Louis was no different. Racial segregation was institutionalized in St. Louis by intent, accident, or benign neglect throughout its history, effecting the nature of race relations in the city today.
1972. I wish my mother was alive to watch this with me.
yeah my mom passed on in 2016 but like my mom your mom is watching it from above with you truth
@@heatherhopfinger3942 wow my Mom passed in 2016 too.
@@wilfordfraser6347 y’all have the same mom
Same here! Same here!
Me too. My mom’s family sent her to St. Louis as a child to escape extreme Jim Crow in Louisiana. Unfortunately life wasn’t much better there so they sent her further west to Sacramento. #Reparations
WOW!! You've took time to touch on MY city!! I always wanted to see what The Lou was like in the early 70's.
I’m so happy a get to grow up in such a great City
@gregory griffin True words indeed bro. STL 👍🏾✊🏽🙏🏽
St.Louis Stand up
So glad I was born in St Louis
@@timthefoodboy6709 idk if it’s such a great city anymore
To have grown up as a child in the projects of St. Louis (Car Square Village), I am proud of being from "The Lou," and proud to have grown up experiencing the struggles of the inner-city life of St. Louis. The strength of my character, which resulted from that experience of living in the rat-race of St. Louis, is immeasurable! They say that if you can live in St. Louis, you can make it anywhere. How true! Two thumbs up to the video !!
I agree. It's great area to grow up in!
I grew up in North St. Louis
Riverview Gardens , here…👍🏻
Soulard neighborhood
Thank you for sharing your thoughts Mr. Earl.
Pruit and igo projects ...wow ! Old school for real ! I love it !
Uh oh, Hezakya is in the zone. Dropping nothing but the cleanest of UA-cam videos.
MOST💖DEFINITELY✊🙂📣📣
@@terryshaw1545 a
@@nickikelley3900 good morning 🙏 🌄 😴
I grew up in St .Louis from this time here and I still live here, we had a lot of fun and love here back in the 70's on up until the early 2000's I was born and raised in St. Louis, the West Side on The Horseshoe
As I was growing up, a lot of what this documentary shows was changing. It also burns in my mind the legacy by which I am inspired. Black St. Louis stand up.
What the fuck it matter what color. Is it like everyone in St. Louis stand up or just us blacks?
@@Phillmagroin JUST US ... Duuuuuh
@@Phillmagroin The title was Black STL. U must be White or married to a White. I BET.
@@Phillmagroin nigga the video say “Black St. Louis”
@@africanamerican6936 WORD!!!!!!!!!
St. Louis is still very much segregated
Just like Milwaukee and Buffalo, hyper segregated.
Birds of a feather,
Flock together.
2024, video is everywhere, blacks don't like whitey.
I grew up in StL. Suburbs 65-85, we never spoke badly of city people,never heard the words that is in most hip hop music.
Victimhood releases one from bad decisions and behavior.
Chicago is very segregated
@@paceflchickwhat you just said made absolutely no sense at all? Blacks don't whitey? What are you talking about?
The Delmar Divide.
crazy that parts of St Louis looked like a real shit hole even in 1972, my family reared in Baden and Jennings , Walnut Park area which were good areas back then but are a real dump now! Crime riddled .. Both of my aunts ( dad sisters) were murdered 6 months apart in 1986, it changed my family forever! Im still proud to be from St Louis i come home often bc my parents are still there and while some areas have improved , its very clear the same issues exist, lack of resources, money , jobs, adequate housing for blacks no one cares abt the black people in St Louis they never have ! The white people take their money, resources and run out west leaving the poor blacks behind , St Louis has soooo much potential lots of beautiful architecture. My grandma used to tell me how alll the blacks were pushed to live in the slums, downtown St Louis she was finally able to buy a home in 1976, we still have that house today in the family.
Breed, born, and raised Feb. 1972 in North STL. Still here and fighting for deliverance. Unprogressive, racist, and overall methodically corrupt city.
most of StL City Hall (Mayor, DA, Aldermen, Police Chief) are black people. WTF? The Fire Chief is white....so I can't say "ALL".....LOL. "Victims" NEVER make progress.
Racism is everywhere by EVERY race. St Louis wasn't as racist as you make it to be back in the day. I also was raised in North STL. People today call racism out when there isn't any. It's fueled now because of that crap. We all played together hung out together for the most part.
Don’t let the lion tell the kangaroos story.
@@kalonjimclemore7293 racist by design. It's well-documented. You are correct.
My hometown! Very interesting to see that things are STILL the same minus Pruitt Igoe. What is the intro song?? Its 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥!
Brand Nubian...Wake Up
Yep still the same I pray for my city and this was before the crack hit🤔 just heart breaking 💔
The group is Brand Nubian
Yeah, apparently that is what it seems like to me. I have I came across a recent. Video about the area, and I could not believe the conditions. I have been up and down the east coast way up into Canada, and the Westcoast only once, but I have never ventured into the middle of the country. Admittedly, I never gave it much thought, other than the big cuties with large black population a. I always thought it was going to be nicer than NYC was in the 1980’s eye. I was growing up, . Sadly, I am so wrong. Something has to be done. What? The suggestion of the elder gentleman who suggested an in-depth study of St. Louis. And civil rights was on the right track for sure. I wish they would have done it it would benefit many places.
JVL
WOW!! This was a good documentary it was made two years before I was born my dad was raised in the Pruit-Igoe.. I was born and raised half of my life in the Peabodys. This was very informative.
I didn't know that there are Peabody social housing in the US, we have some in the UK too.
Home! Thanks for posting this!
I see my friend Babatu is teaching the African youth about their culture at the end of this video.... and he is still very much active in the black community today ... much respect to my brother Babatu... thanks for the video upload .
Born n raised in the Lou in 82 & remember all shops along west florrisant from downtown to the county
How much money has blm given to help fix these areas along with those rich multibillionaires who live in that city?
Zero
@@countdown2xstacy exactly
@@spunkywarrior777
BLM is and was a big scam.
Wow, I will definitely have to watch this again after I read all the comments on my great City. And oh yes I left a 👍🏾💝😊🌹
I was born 1970 in Saint Louis, North Side.
I left and never returned in the late 90’s
#CLASSIC I grew up (1975 - 2001) in Carr Square Village Projects in St.Louis....14th and Carr. We called it "The Village!!!" #LOVETHIS
I grew up in the county during this time and as a pre-teen, had no conception of the real struggle. I loved the Rev. Cleophus Robinson program early Sunday mornings. He inspired so many. "No matter who you are, where ever you are... I want you to know that God loves you!" Thank you for posting this!
Don't know the name of the church but that's the pastor of the church I went to very early in life with my God parents the Weedens in the early 80's
@@SC-three I read on Wiki he pastored the Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church in St. Louis.
St. Louis is a Great City. IMHO - the people don't need to change - the politics needs to change. We need a system that encourage people to be their best, to be strong, to be proud. We need a system that promotes growth and cherishes what we have........ IMHO - What we have now doesn't do that......... Grow Strong St. Louis - Grow Together !!!!
I am a Paraguayan by nationality who lives for many years in St Louis, respects this interesting history of the Saint Louisians
The guy at 10:00 is a great historian. Thanks for posting this amazing video
I just had to pause to take it in a bit...
When women were naturally beautiful.
Yes, the black women where gorgeous here and the black men where handsome and very respectful, just like the black women where
I lived in Pruitt Igoe in 1968. PBS also did a documentary called “The Pruitt-Igoe Myth.
My dentist thr now,smh
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Yeabthey sent me to school down by Pruitt Igo and it's BS they should have sent yall back down south if you couldn't afford rent. Instead they build big buildings and let you live free. That just proves democrats and liberals are insane. Someone can't afford rent get a job. I've never heard of free rent until I met black folks. Free rent was unheard of in my part of STL. Strong as nails. Wow
@@MikeSmith-cn6ub You’re so racist you can’t even show your face.
This was filled with information and insights. So much going on in Saint Louis! Everyone in this report was energetic about their activism and documenting of history. Loved it. I had understood Saint Louis, the city 300 away from my hometown, for the baseball Cardinals, and a few generalities. I've now seen so much more. This may be the best Tony Brown's Journal/Black Journal I've seen.
I would have loved to talk to this guy. So much history. St. Louis is a great city problem is too many young black men are wild and do stupid shit that gets them hemmed up. They should listen and respect the OGs around them.
Lou town gets down my home town.
6 interesting facts:
STL is built on a network of caves.
One of the first modern skyscrapers was built in the city.
The city hosts the largest African American theatre in the country.
The largest AA event in the country (The Annie Malone May day parade which use to be much bigger when it was on Natural bridge)
The word Ebonics came out of STL
And the city once almost became the nations capital.
STL is a city with a very rich but almost unheard of history and especially AA history which there's a ton of.
May Day parade use to be the shit 💯
@@t-weezy2934 yes, you would see people you haven't seen in 10+ years there. Which theatre you speak of is the largest African American Théâtre in the country
@@moneysnappin The Black Rep. At one time the city had 31 black owned theatres.
@@t-weezy2934 sure was... Especially when i was a kid watching older women march pass like damn I'll hit all them
Not to mention one of the most important Freemasonry, illuminati
Buildings and secret society's for which they have one of the biggest temples right Downtown-ths city is built on bones...
MY CITY!!!!! THANKS FOR THIS ONE HEZAKYA...
What do you mean your city this is our city
@@antonybrown432 I BELIEVE HE IS TRYING TO SAY ,,🛑THAT IS WHERE HE WAS BORN AT OR FROM💯🥰🥰
ALL RESPECT ‼️‼️‼️✊🆗️
@@antonybrown432 Chill nigga!
Same here,, Born and raised in Fenton, lived most of my life here. Love STL.
I’m from estl then moved to StLouis and stcharles
It was good you showed the hometown alot of rich black history in the Lou that is rarely talked about I still get excited when outsiders talk or ask questions about St Louis in a positive light based on this documentary about the city alot has changed but alot has stayed the same #314
I would fucking die and go to heaven if they had a Texas episode. Know they won’t but it’s gravy. It ain’t like Hezakya can go back in time and force them to do a Houston, and Dallas/Fort Worth.
I would love that being from Houston!
They probably do have one it’s probably lost somewhere
Still looks exactly like that
Tony Brown's Journal produced this video, so Mr. Brown and his show should be credited in the UA-cam title. No disrespect to this channel but that show was a precursor to today's independent Black media that now does this type of work and deserves the recognition.
21:15 my heart aches for Ms.Walker
Repping the 314. My home. Mad respect
044STL
(PEACE), TO THE 🎶 MUSIC✊😊
(💢HEZAKYA*NEWZ)💯 I MUST SAY,,THANK♡YOU FOR THE INFORMATIVE,,CONSCIOUS✊🥰VIDEO 📹 THAT YOU DISPLAYED AGAIN 👑👑🥰😁
Keep bringing the videos knowledge is power we need to understand and educate our countries of the United States 🇺🇸
I always like hearing the old-timer tell n history like it was sum n they dont teach are kids today💯
Thank you for the trip home and back in time. I lived many places in
Saint Louis or "The Lou".
Labadie and Union, the county twice, back to the city 3 times, before moving out of state. If things settle down, I'll be with my family again.
“Together We Will Win” 🤝🏾✊🏾
I miss them days when stl was a better place not like today.poor white or black kids alike playing outside swimming at the parks lots of thangs to do without money just people out having a good time
Love the music 👍 wow 50 years ago amazing video
BRAND NUBIAN/ WAKE UP EXPLICIT REPRISE IN THE SUNSHINE!👌🏽🙏🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏽✊🏾✊
Ms. Robbie from Sweetie Pies brought me here. Super interesting.
And what is crazy is MO is still racist I m from from STL
Yep, still very racist until this very day
I lived in a small town for 4 years predominately white and i never once became racist. Sorry that people can be so evil and hateful because of the news media and sociaty that tells us what to think. I never really conformed to the standard of society.
@spunkywarrior777 that's cool bro and it ain't everybody just some
The freed blacks were and are still the indigenous coppered colored mound building people of St. Louis aka "Mound City". They are not African at all. They are by definition (Webster's Dictionary 1828) of Native American : Native American originally applied to the multi coppered colored races found in America by Europeans; Native American now applies to the dependents of Europeans in America.
I grow up in the 80's in STL an this was part of my growing up "knowledge" an looking out for each other the whole neighborhood north to west
The year I was born! Wow! Beautiful!
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Wow great content my great brother💯
The end made me proud to be a black man from STL
Be proud regardless!
all praises to the most high the most high will deliver us black and brown stand up were at the end all
Stfu welfare rat
6-17-22...
ThAnkh you, for, this!
S T L...
RISE & SHINE
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❤❤❤💯
U City born and bred..
Finally my city...we still here and strong af.
Really?
Great Film I Grew Up Not Far From St.Louis A Beautiful Part Of The Great State Of Missouri !
Great Content❤
2021 and nothing's different
Bullshit!
Pruitt-Igoe wasn't a mistake...
white people feared the educational and political power that the Pruitt-Igoe was moving towards
the enemy refused to keep up the maintenance in the Pruitt-Igoe and forced the Pruitt-Igoe residents to disperse into single family homes throughout other areas in the St Louis area.
which in-turn benefited white landlords.
today the white man is building high-priced high-rise apartments all over St Louis in their attempt to try and capture the Pruitt-Igoe family and political type atmosphere for themselves that they witnessed in the past Pruitt-Igoe...
1972 in St Louis I was 15 yrs old living with my father who ran a hohouse on Del mar and academy I was boxing for vashon center and before we my siblings and grandparents lived in the darst webbe projects all my life living in St Louis it was a war zone
Knew a few from the peabodys in the 90s
It was a pimp that drove a custom red Eldorado that lived in the 5100 block of Delmar. Was that your pops? I lived across the street from the pimp at 5126 Delmar.
@@N2LADIES55 no
My Granddaddy Booker lived 2 miles from the arch in a 2story brick house we would visit every summer fight with the kids on the block then running with them towards the end of the summer had a great time.St Louis is one of a kind.
This HERE!!!!
Before the crack / heroin epidemic. Please reach out and do what you can to help at least one Black baby boy have a responsible male figure in his life and have him pursue a career in S.T.E.M.
Intro music always on point
Great video that bring back so many memories. What's the tune at the beginning?
Sunshine reprise by brand nubian
@@mikeingersoll7344 Thanks, but I found it in a round about way, and still playing it. The sheriff at 3:50 is my cousin Elton parks, and I just noticed that with my magnifying glass wo.
Damn, it has changed a bit from Bass, Clay, or living in St. Louis projects. Why do we still put up with madness?Hey, do anyone knows if this school still ASSIST in St. Peter's? Be aware black people, time waits for no one.🔊⚖📚🇱🇷
WOW..WOW....WOOOOOOW!!!
Robert McLarty @ "23:00" is Our Uncle Bobby", our Mother's Baby Brother...he Transitioned in 1982!!!
#JustAWESOME
Interesting that the hockey team is named St.Louis Blues
St. Louis city Blues in the state of Mizzery (Missouri)...by design 💯💪✊
Why is it interesting?
@@snolen89 because we know that white people despise black people and it's interesting they would name it after something associated with black culture
Haha they do?
@@tristanwalls6266 that’s a rather shallow statement to make. The Salomon’s had no racist bones in their bodies the and original investors of the team were minorities. Maybe quit trying to find a reason for things to be racist?
Watch driving thru The Lou, many don't follow the driving laws, they don't stop at 4way intersections, stop signs, no blinkers, and 3 and 4 lane changes within 50 ft, it's so bizzarre and dangerous.
Hell yeah aint no police patrol for sht and its empty space like a mfkas so people drive how they wanna
You get that in every city.
Any major city.
Go to New York and drive around.
Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis would be some of the first housing projects to be demolished. Robert Taylor Homes and Cabrini Green in my hometown Chicago would follow suit albeit 40+ years later.
This was powerful to watch st Louis is my hometown very unique in many ways but everything in this video is still going on today! Love The end “ Together we will win! “
I agree. St. Louis and Kansas City are great areas to visit and grow up in.
That arch was built inthe middle of a black community
my city!!!! thanks for the video.
I was born in STL City of St Louis 1980. I wish I was born in the 70s.
When this was made I lived on 48th st. Washington Park East St. Louis.
Thank you for this! #STL
I’m from the Lou and I’m proud! Ayyee!!
Yea downtown ain’t Changed much lol
💯💪✊Thanks for this man! RIP to all of my STL Family and Friends that's Transitioned. Much love forever Chico 21st and Ferry N. STL B1 #4Life
Together they will win what? What was it they were teaching these kids to win at. Win at what
Life in general
And ain't nothing changed with Kroger being racist. I have dealt with it in there stores here in Colorado.
I try to look at my hometown and see the good, but it is hard to see it. I am just glad that I left finally and have been far better off since leaving. The last time I came back to visit in January 2020 I drove around the areas that I use to frequent and nothing has change, no improvement. People still have the same mindset and it was so depressing. I doubt that I will comeback anytime soon.
Nice footage! Check out the documentary "St.Louis Kingpins" on my page...covering the most notorious Black gangsters of the Pruitt-Igoe era
What a cesspool of a city ! Crime rampant always on the top top most dangerous cities
Wow Thanks 🙏🏾 Born here
Always like seeing these to see how certain areas and places use to look..history is a bad MF!
1972 North side St Louis Carter& Marcus. I had fun. It was bad back then but has gotten worse.
Those buildings and design of those projects looks identical to alot of areas in Toronto, in Canada in general but Toronto has alot of pockets like that. Canada don't matter your race, if you're poor you're equally treated as sub human until of course election time lol
Word.
My city back in the day. That was me in our hood in1972. Born and raised in city. Blacks was not allowed to go pass Grand Blvd.
Now it's the murder capital of America
couldn't go west of grand? what a load of ****....my junior football team played against U-City in the 70s....their whole team was black.... N. Kingshighway is white? No.
Great work
I love the music classic vibe,,real people
Alot of great people was born and raised in st.louis
And isn’t it a coincidence that they all left…
Grew up on Dressell, just off of Goodfellow and Natural Bridge.
I grew up on Ferris
@@serena4600 my family lived there from 1965-1978.
@@jamesalford877 oh ok I was born 1978 when they left
Thank u for this I was only 4 yrs of age then.
Ferguson.......... Chicago............... Madison................... how's all that been going ?
Thank you for this! The year I was born, December to be exact. Jewish hospital 💚
The mound city before it was called St. Louis was built by a nation of people extending from St. Louis to Louisiana. The people are still there. They are called African American today.
RIH to my uncle Lil Buddy in the video @ 3:39mins in the Red shirt❤️💞, You and My granny look so much alike... 9 siblings and I can definitely tell Great Granny Had Strong Genes passed to all her Children.
I live through this period of St.Louis history, relatives in Pruitt Igoe, I can remember when William Clay was I insurance man...lol
I got family from there too
Thanx.