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Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States. Other areas in the United States were also affected by formal and informal policies of segregation, but many states outside the South had adopted laws, beginning in the late nineteenth century, that variously banned discrimination in public accommodations and voting. De jure and de facto disenfranchisement and fearmongering led to this oppression.
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readings assigned for this week of class
Plessy v. Ferguson (1869), Opinion, www.law.cornell.edu/supremeco...
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890), www.americanyawp.com/reader/18...
Bibliography
Ely Aaronson, From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014). amzn.to/3FSkHqm
Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, new ed. (1988; New York: Perennial Classics, 2002). amzn.to/34lFOhq
David Oshinsky, Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997). amzn.to/2udhA8Q
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017). amzn.to/3wkhudA
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2:12 framing
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4:43 end of reconstruction
9:03 disenfranchisement
13:57 segregation
19:33 Woodrow Wilson
23:21 beginning of opposition
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My US history lectures in chronological order: ua-cam.com/play/PLjnwpaclU4wXIeBg-rugKMup9o8ohyEEL.html
*Bibliography*
Ely Aaronson, _From Slave Abuse to Hate Crime: The Criminalization of Racial Violence in American History_ (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014). amzn.to/3FSkHqm
Eric Foner, _Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877,_ new ed. (1988; New York: Perennial Classics, 2002). amzn.to/34lFOhq
David Oshinsky, _Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice_ (New York: Free Press Paperbacks, 1997). amzn.to/2udhA8Q
Richard Rothstein, _The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America_ (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2017). amzn.to/3wkhudAreadings assigned for this week of class
Plessy v. Ferguson (1869), Opinion, www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/163/537#writing-USSC_CR_0163_0537_ZO
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives (1890), www.americanyawp.com/reader/18-industrial-america/jacob-riis-how-the-other-half-lives-1890/
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Here in Brazil, I watched some of your videos.
So glad as a black man to see a fellow American who doesn't ignore his country's wrong doing but actually seeks to inform
wouldn’t it be “our” country?
@@freepalestina48 Depends on if the OP is actually also American, I imagine.
Unfortunately a good chunk of your fellow countrymen are pretty racist. The current Republican party seems like a return to America's dark past to me.
@@freepalestina48
He called himself a “fellow American.” It sounds like he sees it country as well.
@@charlove2916 then go somewhere else.
As a White Southerner who was raised in Mississippi and was educated in White Segregated Schools during the mid and later 1950’s and the early 1960, I never was taught anything positive about the African American culture and history. Sadly I am in my seventies and just learning about Black studies. I may be late but I am trying.
You never really had a choice back then, but now you do, and that is something to be proud of. Keep it up! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Respect. We are your American brethren.
shut up they had a choice wtf @@popkick8350
As a white European I never had your experience, but I wholeheartedly applaud your efforts. And then again, why not. What's wrong with learning something new? (FYI I'm 68 myself🤔)
also watch neo-slavery by knowing better@@gerardvandermeulen62
Cipher must be developing strong willpower...he managed to talk about Woodrow Wilson for almost four minutes without so much as raising his voice.
Tbf I couldn't imagine him doing so in his actual lectures. I'd love to see that though.
The amazement is when you remember this is an upload... it could have been Edited.
The Willpower was displayed when deciding not to modify the speech to add inside jokes.
Between the subject matter and the current state of affairs, I think he's right to avoid too much levity. But I agree still. Wiiiilsooooon!!!!!
I mean let's be honest he probably did that take 3-4 times then said aww fuck it ill just edit out the 10 minute Wilson rant. His videos on Wilson were what made me subscribe.
I was expecting a WWWILSONNN! I think him being calm and ripping him a behind that way did the job better
Just think, there's 14 states you're not allowed to give this lecture in anymore.
My grandad was born in 1898, my mom and dad born in the 30’s. My mom is still alive, this was not long ago. So when I hear “stop bringing up the past”… that past still lives…in my house! When schools were desegregated, my older brothers and the other black students were forced to take classes in the gymnasium because the parents of the white students Picketed the school.
I’m 52 year old northerner and I even felt the affects of “Jim Crow” where I live, how I was educated, and where and when I could go. Things are better now, but it’s foolish to think Jim Crow could be erased, if the reality is different for everyone.
That's interesting...I'm 50, and until recently with the BLM movement I had never even heard of jim crow. I grew up in a mostly black community (I was 1 of 4 white kids in my school) in Illinois. I wonder what the difference was between your area and mine?
@@aliengranpa we should have a conversation?
I'm willing to admit, my experiences are only my own, and I'm open to hearing the experiences of others.
@@aliengranpa I would venture to say Cornelius' story is most likely true and yours probably is not, I say this only, because it's fairly unrealistic to have never heard about it in your 50 something years of living in America, when I, a non-American around half your age, heard about it loooooong before the BLM movement was even a thing. Unless, of course, you somehow managed to never listen to, or read, any news about said subject or talk to anyone who experienced it or knew about it and mentioned it
@@Jim-sx1bh thank u he’s just full of 💩
Also an interestig fact: the last civil war vet died in 1958. My grandparents, as well as yours, could have theoretically met some one who fought in the civil war.
What people really dont understand is that jim crow wasnt just a political system it was quite literally a way of life. Literally everything back then was affected by it. Thats why so many songs, games, day to day activities have a racists origins. Jim Crow affected everything, and the more you research just how much the more you realize hiw much is left out.
@King
Maybe it white people didnt keep buring successful black neighborhoods, lynching black businesses owners, and tearing down black neighborhoods just because then maybe they would have more money.
But in all honesty you have to be pretty stupid (and ignore literally everything about being black at that time) to actually think "separate but equal" but even the point of jim crow in the first place.
@King that's just history revisionism my guy. Under the 14th and 15th amendment racial discrimination was technically illegal so white politicians in the South tried to circumvent that by passing all their segregationist policies under the label "separate but equal" to make it look like these policies wouldn't work to black people's disadvantage. Which ofc they did. Everything from housing, to education, to public transportation to voting rights was deliberately designed to disenfranchise and exclude black people from public life.
@Japhya3 that in and of its self is objectively a racist statement.
@@clintparsons3989 its an objective fact
@Japhya3 100% Facts!
My professor was able to print out some of those “literacy” tests and they had nothing to do with literacy. Some of the questions were so deliberately confusing, there was no way most people could pass that. It’s sad and frustrating.
Could you give an example?
@@boredk47 circle the first, first letter of the alphabet in this line.
@@boredk47 I took one, my favorite question was circle the left corner of this triangle, and you have to circle the right one because when you hand in the test it’s to the right of the person you’re handing it to, The test also requires score score of 100% otherwise you fail
@@boredk47 I saw actual tests at a museum in Georgia. It was a jar of marbles. You had to know how many marbles were in the jar to be allowed to vote. Also, "How many bubbles in a bar of soap."
@@boredk47 the infamous “how many bubbles are in this bar of soap”
As a kid in the 1970s we used to hear our parents "complaining" about how bad things were in the south, my dad left for good in 1963, his father left in 1947, by 1975 we were the only black family in a predominantly white neighborhood in Peoria, Illinois, my dad used to say nothing colored or black in the South worked worth a dam, he was tired of paying taxes and not seeing it put back in the segregated black neighborhood, I asked him in the 1990s why he moved us to an all white neighborhood, he said even up North the black neighborhoods where neglected compared to the white neighborhoods.
Southern plantation living versus crowded neglected northern slums. As a kid from Detroit, my parents would've said the opposite and missed their land from the south and quiet living. Detroit was a very tough place to live and grow up in.
But I do have to say the reason my family was in Detroit was because my great grandfather was hung on his land in High Point NC and my granddad and great uncle fresh out of WW2 had to leave town and made it to Detroit and worked in a paint plant for 40 years each.
@@nathanmyles3785 the irony is we'd hear our parents talking about the "good Ole days", we'd asked them what was so good about living in Segregation, they'd missed the times and music of their youth, my dad is buried in Illinois, just like his father is...both my dad and grandpa were veterans and they didn't like how black vets were treated in the south, around 1988 we had some Pony Boys come down from Detroit, about 8 of them, by the time I graduated high school in 1991they were all dead.
@@nathanmyles3785 yeah, they don't teach how black vets were treated, especially in the south, they wouldn't even let my father use his GI bill in the south, he was discharged in 1957 but didn't use it to the early 1970s, my dad retired from Caterpillar in 1998 with 28 years in.
@@nathanmyles3785 my dad left Memphis for Peoria, Illinois...way smaller than Memphis and about 92% white, your folks left a spacious south for Detroit which in the 1950 was the 4 largest city in America with almost 2 million people, it may have gotten as high as 3rd largest, I
It's interesting how we're still living in the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement
If people did not benefit it, people would not defend it.
@@chrisrautmann8936 benefit from it
We are still living with the consequences of the conquerors centuries before the US!!!🤔👺👹✌👋
@@chrisrautmann8936 the civil rights act should be repealed
it violates property rights
@@robinsss property < a human's rights
Teach your children well! My state is one of many trying to eliminate the Jim Crow era from our history by removing it from our schools curriculums.
Sad and disturbing
It’s good thing I graduated from High School almost 2 years ago.
This is honestly sad, not sure why they are trying to wipe history. Its almost like they fear that the young people hear the truth, and the history behind this racist history in this country.
democrats just what they history erased
@user-sj5br6sr5w if you're trying to say democrats are trying to erase this from curriculum, you're dead wrong. The party switch happened, so democrats don't need to "save face" by removing this from schools
What's sad is pretty soon the only way we're gonna know about true history is learning it from UA-cam, great job man and thanks for keeping it real. 💯 👏🏾👏🏾
Some states are passing laws to keep history like this from being taught in public schools 🤬
Yeah it's unbelievable what these people are doing and getting away with.
Yeah, because apparently when you talk about racism it's racist. Literal doublethink logic
No they're not. They just wanna block CRT. You can teach this type of history without CRT. Case in point, this video.
@@radicalrattler CRT was never taught in high schools. The fear and lies need to stop
It is an ebb and flow, some teachers and schools only want history that paints America in a negative light.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat and repeat.
Or Never Bothered To Learn It.
Imagine having a history so terrible you don’t want it taught in schools…
Hence why it is and should be taught in schools.
@@baneofbanes no it isn't. It's highly watered down, and only touches on the popular parts. It still pushes the lie that the south seceded due to "states' rights", many push that slaves were indentured servants, or enjoyed their plight.
@@keithbaker1951 Ok, I want you to tell us all about it.
@@machsimillian14 no they don’t 🤥
It's pilgrims, wars, constitution, wars, expansion, wild west, industrial revolution, wars. I'm from the south- but I had good history teachers so slavery and reconstruction wasn't glossed over. A lot of time skips.
Another excellent lecture. Even being 61 and a retired accountant I enjoy expanding my mind. History has always been a favorite subject of mine.
So you didn't know this was going on?
Of course I did. Where did you get the idea I didn’t?
Nope.
@Master Moose bro it's 2022, 60 year old people weren't even sentient for this period
@@IfWhatYes ikr what is his perception of time
Great stuff man. This topic is so white washed and misrepresented in the class room that most Americans don't understand how this period of history affects their lives today.
4:01 that is so wild
@@zoanth4 they teach it in most places as though it had an end and everything is completely better now, as though it was a blip instead of an ongoing fight that we only win bits of at a time.
-Slavery.
-(All fixed.)
-Oops, out from nowhere, here's segregation. -(Fixed.)
White washed. Also, the MLK is also portrayed as someone the conservatives of today would agree with. They would not.
@@zoanth4 so because you were taught it everyone else was 😭😭
They taught it I was to busy sleeping or throwing paper at people lol
America is a worse place now since they ended segregation
My mom was born in 1950's Louisiana. She was birthed at home because no hospitals around her would admit my grandma because she was black.
People that say " stop bringing up the past" can f*** off, because the past lives in my home.
Martin Luther king is such an great man he fought against racial segregation in a peaceful way really he is truelly a great man
That isn't the only thing he fought for. American history really neutered MLK and his legacy.
He also fought for worker's right across racial lines, which if he'd lived would have been the 2nd step in his plans
Not that I disagree with him or anything, but some people would argue that it is immoral to remain peaceful in the face of blatant oppression and injustice. And it's an argument that I find difficult to disprove.
Though I suppose MLK's peaceful apporach may actually have been beneficial for winning outside support for the movement. But I wouldn't blame any civil rights activists that used violence either. As long as they their targets were appropriate.
MLK was non-violent. The point of the movement was the heighten the tensions and show the Jim Crow officials as the violent monsters there were. That wasn't peaceful.
@@yoloswaggins7121 The author of this video also made a video on the Black Panthers: long story short, if black people showed any sign at all of (being willing to) use force for legitimate self-defense, complete and total power of both the state and racial civilian groups was used to label the black “militants” as criminals, socialists, terrorists, etc, and they where hunted down and destroyed.
Widespread propoganda, lynching, planting of false evidence, and assasination by police were tools used to this end.
It’s truly horrific.
So yeah, while self-defense by force would have been morally legitimate, it would likely have been met with such overwhelming violence that 1. Cost in human lives would be horrendous and 2. It would likely have been less succesfull
Sincerely, Woodrow Wilson really is the most ick, your right to scream his name in rage.
Woodrow Wilson is by far the worst president in American history. Look no further than the FED
So many still refused to acknowledge what has been done to blacks and Indians. Some want to compare it to thier own ethnic history, thierfore aiding and abetting the ongoing discrimination
Yup! Stupid People Always Put Their Personal Experiences Before Real Information Hence Why The U.S. And Other Countries Are Still The Way They Are After 50+Yrs. And Why It Got Worse.Nobody Wants To Learn About History Until It Repeats Itself Then They Want To Scream And Riot About It.
I swear if I have to hear "the Irish were slaves too" I will start screaming.
@@rasheed12th38 I Always Say "And? What's That Gotta Do With My Current Situation?"
@@rasheed12th38 IKR! They need to GTFOH with that BS. Indentured servitude & SLAVERY aren’t even close in comparison.
@@rasheed12th38Yeah. That actually happened. The Irish were slaves too.
I am grateful you make your lectures publicly available free of charge. Thank you sir.
Also it amuses me you were able to talk about.....That Guy without raising your voice. No a tremor .not a decible above normal. Just..... Bravo to you sir.
"History is not an ever-flowing progressive movement, it can experience regression", please say it louder, cause I don't think everyone heard you.
I just thought of one thing: slaves -> Jim crowe -> no Jim. Where is the regression? Is it meaning after Crowe we went back?
The US prides itself on being the home of democracy. In fact it is a latecomer to the game.
It's a democracy? or a plutocracy?
This video right here would get you fired and lambasted in Idaho where I think we mention this topic 1 or maybe even 2 whole times throughout 12 years of school. Well done sir keep them coming.
Idaho is full Neo Nazis. I believe Boise the Neo Nazi Capital of America.
Let's imagine how amazing this would would be if they didn't work so hard to hold black people back. It's a shame how many lives were lost because of hate.
It was a huge tech loss humans would be far more advanced if white america left black americans to themselves
@Chicago Cubs⚾️ what about Africa. Africa is improving drastically day by day. This stereotype is corny and played out. It makes it obvious you’ve never been there. The statement itself is an uneducated one since Africa is a continent with many different countries. Educate yourself or go outside and travel for once. But of course to do that you would have to leave your mothers basement.
@Chicago Cubs⚾️ mediocre people like you serve only one purpose, to remind the country of the importance of truth. Unfortunately your people are succeeding in pushing the opposite, so you won't be alone in your mediocrity.
@@newstation795 have you visited Sub-Saharan countries? I did amd is not pretty.
@@Sam5D Exactly!
I am from Australia and the smoothing over of these kinds of things isn't exclusively in the US, I am still fascinated nonetheless.
Well said. The common thread is colonialism.
Humans can be very evil. Wasn’t it legal to hunt and kill aboriginals like animals in Australia not too long ago?
Are you referring to the Black War in Tasmania?
@@lordtrigon1733 Actually was thinking of more blackbirding, where people from the sugar cane industry would trick Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders to work on the farms in brutal conditions for almost no income. There is an old shed in Bundaberg where there were auctions of workers to employers. It's something Australia likes to bury.
It's pretty much the same everywhere.
Yeah it's terrible, but pretty much every group does discriminant along cultural or ethnic lines all over the world throughout history.
No one like giving up their power, and if you think the situation was reversed whites would be treated any better you would be mistaken.
The excuses people invent for themselves in order to feel good about denying the humanity and agency of others. It's grotesque.
Neat! I was actually covering this same topic in a class lecture this morning! And it's then one of the first videos to pop up in my feed when I check UA-cam.
Your phone is listening 🧐
@@montymole7519 cope + L + ratio
Your phone heard you, literally
Algeryhthums and I know I didn’t spell it correctly and that’s for a reason my friend! 😂
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Idk how possible this is. But i would love to see how many companies that are successful now because if back then and how they handled speaking about those times. Ive noticed alot of companies that were created around those times gloss over the fact that they benefited off of those times tremendously. Keep the good content going!
It seems like this served as a blueprint for the Nuremberg laws in the 1930's.
Well I mean hitler did get his playbook from Americas treatment of black Americans.
It did serve!
Eugenics was implemented in some southerns states with forced sterilisation of people.
I was born, raised, and still live in the American South. It is deeply disappointing to me that many people here are still nostalgic for the days of Jim Crow.
I should have the right to be around who's comfortable being around me, all this shyytis so stupid
@@aarondigby5054 The older I get, the less sense racism makes. "Eek, a person with different skin color! So very terrifying!" How does a grown adult function in society thinking like that?
If the civil war wasn’t about slaves, why did the south hold down and treat African Americans so horrifically for decades after the civil war? I always want to ask southern sympathizers about that…
When you look into US history slavery potentially breaking apart the USA (with the spreading idea of all men being equal being in conflict with slavery) the best those people can do is to just not teach it in school so people don't know it growing up
Because Slavery didn't end with the Civil War. It continued up until 1942 and was Known as Forced Labor instead of Slavery. There's a PBS Documentary all about this part of American history.
@@maryjeanjones7569 You are absolutely right. Most people don’t understand that slavery didn’t just end immediately after the war…the method just changed…it’s absolutely sickening…
For profit prisons. The South's latest form of slavery @mjgasiecki
i honestly never thought i’d be watching a college lecture for fun but here i am. thank you for making history interesting! learning about these things not only allows me to understand history better, but be a better ally and activist.
Love listening too your lectures while I do my relatively physically intensive job. Makes an otherwise boring job interesting and informative.
Just listening to people talk about history was my favorite part of school. And while I was never cutout to write papers learning about history is almost always a good time especially from someone who is as passionate about the topic as you seem to be.
If I could go back to uni just to listen and discuss history and philosophy without having to write my thoughts out in essays and papers I would be willing to spend my whole life there.
history is so dope man
I feel you man. History, science, philosophy and music are my favorite subject matters. There is always something new to learn and dissect.
What do you do? I do the same thing, listenimg at work
@@AbtinX in college, so I listen during that sometimes
The party idealism switch is honestly kinda mind blowing
He actually has a video dedicated to that (which is part of his larger series of political polarization).
Thank Richard Nixon
@@dukes1993724 parts of it started well before Nixon. The lily white movement started in the Republican Party back in the 1870s. Intentionally ejecting Blacks from the party to attract racist White voters back.
My mother grew up in Marion, Alabama during the 50's and 60's she didnt attend a desegregated school until High School in '68.
Surprisingly, schools in northern cities are far more likely to be segregated today. My grandmas high school (John Marshall High in West Garfield Park, Chicago) began desegregating in the early 50s. It’s now 98% black and has 1/10th as many students as it used to have. It’s also so poorly funded and maintained that the “second” (formerly third) floor is almost entirely barricaded off, and the ground floor/first floor has literally sunk so deep into the ground it’s now a basement.
@@Pantsinabucketsurprisingly I don't believe your deflection to the north. when florida alone is telling the south to hold all its beers. What next? The south fought to free slaves from the evil northern cities? 😂😂😂😂 should clear out polk county of all its indigenous life and let real people move in.
@@Pantsinabucketand what south Florida doesn't have buildings falling apart? Plant city? Lakeland? Tampa? Dade County and manatee County? I'm sure all those building are highly maintained and will never just fall down for any reason. No way it can just collapse down here in the strong southern cities! *Miami*
@@Relentless_Venture yeah I hate Florida and know all about the mess, my other grandma’s condo was nearly eaten by a sinkhole a decade ago.
The point is that an extremely well-built 125 year old building has sunken a whole floor into the ground due to poor maintenance. And that doesn’t change the well-established fact that schools in northern cities have become more segregated than schools in southern cities.
@@Pantsinabucket it doesn't change the fact that your grandma lived in a time where blacks were not allowed in the same condo. But please keep deflecting to the north where half of the south lives now. But please continue which city up north has a "no blacks no Mexicans no dogs" sign and I'll completely agree with you. I'll wait.
Your content deserves more views. I appreciate your presentation of these topics.
Just discovered this video accidentally. Being a New Yorker who has relocated to North Carolina, I'm fascinated and grateful for this accumulation of information. So much of this wasn't in MY history books in the 1980s-90s. The early 90s, with conscious hop-hop at the forefront, told of much more that wasn't easily available to the masses in terms of our true history as a nation. Thankfully, with the creation of the Internet, events like the Tulsa Massacre are finally being given daylight as actual historical happenings. Thank you for this deep dive in history. Trust and believe, this video will be a gateway for many, many more.
Years ago on the UK version of the Antiques Roadshow, someone brought in a piece of Scrimshaw art (an engraved walrus tusk)
Along with various images was the script:
"Jim Crow for New York"
None of the so-called experts knew anything about what it meant.
It's important we all know! This is Real Racism, let's remember it in order to avoid it happening again.
This was a wonderfully indepth video. If history was taught this way then people would see just how relevant the past is in affecting our future. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
I Appreciate the Fact u Decided to cover a Important yet very Polarizing Topic. Whenever Americans that look like me speak on how the Wage & Wealth gap was created from the start of Jim Crow til it’s devolution in the late 1960s or how Red Lining, Sun Down Cities, & Out right State Sanctioned Genocides, Capital Murders & Terrorism Destroyed the Wealth of Our Communities until the 90s ppl call that Victimhood instead of what they should call it..Facts. Appreciate you taking the time as a true Patriot to explain in depth. 🙏🏾🇺🇸
This is honestly, the best channel on UA-cam.
I've been hearing they don't wanna teach this stuff in schools anymore because it's uncomfortable for students. But discomfort can be a place of growth, and as Americans I think it's important for us to know the truth about our history- and world history- even if it's not all peachy.
Some say it exclusively makes white students uncomfortable, but now, at 25, looking back these lectures made me uncomfortable as a young black girl as well. I got the sense that my classmates felt awkward for me too, as I grew up in a mostly white and Asian area of new jersey, and I was often the only black person in the room.
But with further reflection, I think anyone who doesn't have sociopathic tendencies would feel uncomfortable learning about this subject matter- our teacher showed us photos of a lynch mob and their black victim-hanging from a tree, crowds of black folks getting beaten, hosed down, and getting dogs siced on them during a protest. Viewing such depravity, even in a historical context, would cause most people to wince or shudder. All that aside, I am so glad we still learned about this, and that I grew up before the censorship we see today. We have to prepare kids for the real world no matter their color and address these issues in an age appropriate manner. We don't have to make kids believe this world is only filled with darkness, but that shouldn't mean we sugarcoat the truth.
@@GODCONVOYPRIME Love this
Be strong. History can make you proud, can hurt you feelings, can make you angry, can make you realize you have to watch for signs of it happening again. But if you don't know what signs to look for, it will happen before you know it...maybe too late.
Generally a good overview but you went rather soft on Booker T. Washington, considering the controversy over his Cotton States Exposition speech of 1895, criticized by W.E.B. Du Bois as the Atlanta Compromise.
Also there's an impression given that the disenfranchisement of African Americans was completed by the end of the 19th century, whereas in fact the process wasn't actually completed until 1908. As late as 1906 the so-called "purification of the ballot box" was a major issue in the Georgia Gubernatorial race. The racist rhetoric of that campaign is considered to have contributed directly to the "Atlanta Race Riot", witnessed by W.E.B. Du Bois, that same year.
He was a complex figure to be sure.
Thank you for creating this, i believe that one day this video will be required viewing in some classroom. History should never be forgotten, "good" or "bad"
Tell the powers that be this😮
Great job putting this together! Hope it goes super viral so more people can be informed!
Just wanted to thank you for uploading this. Good stuff!
Thanks for everything you do my man.
Thank you for the effort and work put into these videos
Careful…. You could get sued in Florida for this video.
*Angry Ron Desantis noises* You can’t teach about things that actually happened! It goes against my narrative!
I feel like these need to be called what they really were.
Slave codes.
I can't wait for youtube to demonetized and supress this video; while explicitly celebrating black history month.
One of the most shocking facts shown is how the Supreme Court more or less refused to uphold important amendments. "State's rights" alas has been a much-abused term. Anyway, another excellent video.
It seems the US in general prefers unity and stability over treating individuals of all groups well. Even to Lincoln the union was more important than getting rid of slavery
The Supreme Court is good
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This was educational. Thanx for posting. I learn a lot from your channel.
Proud to be a part of this learning experience 🙌
As a non American have always heard about Jim crow but did not know anything about it thankyou for the explanation
What often confuses me is why the lost cause mythe even here in europe has so many followers. While they often do not know what the lost cause myth is, some of its tenets are very well estblished in the public conciousness.
Look up “White Man’s burden”
Such an excellent lecture. Thank you for sharing.
Incredible videos… thanks so much for everything
Wow. You did great. I have a masters in Afro American history and you explained it better than some of my teachers did when I was in school.
Thank you! I needed a refresher course on civil rights history.
Since I’m pretty sure UA-cam will demonetize and bury this video…
I’m a history-buff so I knew most of this content, but your level of detail is incredible. Great work!
Sadly many states across the country want to ban teaching this material thinking this is the same as CRT.
Great work! Sad, I had a friend in college who legit thought Jim Crow was a real politician from the time. I wish I'd had this to show him at the time.
Jim Crow was the stage name of the actor who popularized minstrely (black face) in the States and abroad. It later became used to describe policies and practices that disenfranchised black people.
My sister told me last week she thought it was one individual as well.
I'm learning more about history than I could through school thanks to your videos. Extremely informative.
Thanks for such a good explanation of something I wanted to know about.
Ooh, thanks for posting this. Being from Australia, I don't have a lot of exact context to follow the threads of history outside of specific things.
These sorts of... thread weaving information clear ups really shows the ugly tapestry of harm done.
Thank you for the lecture. I like history
Thank you. I am learning so much, you my friend are a fantastic teacher ❤️ 😊
Great lecture! Great job 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Imagine being afraid that a group of people will do to you as you did to them
Loving the lecture videos they are informative not the same amount of fun but still
Hi love your videos man
And there he is, the indy neidell of civil war
@@wr0ng569 Indeed
Awesome presentation!
Well Done. Good work.
**shakes fist at sky** *WILSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON*
Fantastic video
I love this channel. A lot.
Wow, broski I actually love your videos.. you made this video sound like PBS documentary shows
Even though I know a lot of this information. It still hurts me to my soul to know that simply because of the color of my skin. There will be people out there to this day that look at me as subhuman and not equal. It's unfortunate that my ancestors had to go through so much just to have more institutional racism spring up long after they died.
I feel you, I really do I feel the same way. And some people pay the way that they respond. Just seem to want to brush it off and tell Black people to get over it.SMH
And those people vote for people like Trump & Desantis and have parades in NC screaming “You Will Not Replace Us!”
Fight the ignorant conservative power.
I've known a lot of this information and learned it in my African American history classes in college but it's cool to see it put together this way.
During Antebellum Mississippi had more millionaires than any other state in the union. Just a fact, something to ponder.
You'll never hear this in a classroom anymore..This county is so adamant about trying to ignore this part of history it's sickening.
because then there would be no reason to vote against reparations. just ignore history long enough and then say nobody today was alive during jim crow.
Good work. Well done and thank you.
History is important. May we never forget.
Brilliant video as usual, on my own channel I theorized "What if Reconstruction Had Succeeded?" in which I look into the history of Reconstruction and how it was overthrown in 1876 Presidential Election, as well as the positive effects that were cut short by the Southern Democrats.
I just bought a book called Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies. I haven't started it yet, but the description looks good
@@phanatic215 Sounds really good, I'll look it up!
Just found this and I love this channel already
Great video, refreshed my memory and learned a bit more. Would you consider some of the states recent voting laws Jim Crow 2.0?
This is what we mean by the “system “
With certain people trying to erase this aspect of history now's the time to shine even more light on it.
This is very straight forward and true information. I live in the South and still see Jim Crow still exist and I am in my sixties.
Nice straight forward video
Thank you for making this. Wish this was required viewing for fifth graders
Will you also cover Convict Leasing?
Thank you for this video❤️
Tnx for this run down of Jim Crow
As a young Black American Male, who was identified as a "Color Boy" and experienced the Jim Crow effect firsthand in the rural country town growing up in the Great State of Texas. With that being said, for some reason, my intuition told me the for White's and for Color signs posted on walls over the water fountains and bathrooms was wrong and opened the doors to curiosity. Obviously, I picked my moments to drink from White's only fountain and pooped or urinated in the White's bathroom. Guess what, the water tastes the same and you know what had the same stinky smell. In the meantime, it became a running catch me if you can joke with the town's Law Officer as they escorted me to my Grandmother, instead of taking me to jail for breaking the law. One lesson learned from my personal rebellion, it pays to know the right people, as the Law Officer was also my Family Life Insurance Agent. In summary, could a huge shopping arena such as Buck-ees exist in the Jim Crow era? Just a real curious inquiry and opinion.
Thank you for this. It's such a shame Americans have to learn about the history of racial injustice from UA-cam because schools refuse to teach it
Really I learned this is in both middle school and highschool. Don't know what's the current status but I can't find a reason why they would stop teaching it.
@@negativezero2221 Florida just passed a bill out lawing the teaching of this to shield white people from "discomfort"
@@negativezero2221 my school never went into such detail. Just breezed past it
Well done Brother, well done... and thank you!
seeing the modern engineering of a cooled drinking fountain affixed to a building with a segregated fountain is scary because it hits home how recent this all was