The forgotten “wade-ins” that transformed the US
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2020
- How beaches and pools became a battleground for US civil rights.
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When we think of the iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the US, we might imagine bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins or the March on Washington. Most of us won’t think of protests at beaches and pools. Yet these battles in the country’s waters played a crucial role in transforming America.
The campaign in the waters of St. Augustine, Florida, became one of the most critical in the movement to desegregate the US. The photos were published around the world, but the full story has often been left out of our history textbooks. And now, the legacy of segregated public waters continues to this day.
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True!
I had a profit return of $27,000 USD trading with her last week.
She has as well made a good name for herself.
People who say the "past generation wasnt so sensitive"
The past generation: Ahhh a black person is touching the same water has me 😠😡🤬🤬💀
So True.
@Identity is character not group That’s not the point...
@Identity is character not group the woman who was in the pool sed it hurt. Those I'm gathering from the number of unpleasant and strange comments you've left your just a troll. Why you'd spend so much of time writing unkind things to strangers is beyond me.
@Identity is character not group "Simply bad practice" Did you see the video? Did you see the anger and hatred in the movements?
@Identity is character not group because you frames your question in such a way that it is clear you are trying to minimize the hatred in the perpetrators actions. Either that or you have never been around strong HCl but I think we both know that's not the case. Also btw the law very much considers the intent one has when someone does something.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are only two tragedies
in life , one is not getting what
one wants , the other is getting it.
☆ Oscar Wilde ☆
yes in 1963.
and then four years later he wrote, "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" - Martin Luther King Jr., 1967
Gerry Hall Are you saying Desegregation was a Tragedy? 😳
He also said people should be judged on the content of their character not the color of their skin, but the ‘civil rights movement’ today promotes critical race theory, which states a white person is racist because of the color of their skin. And the ‘civil rights movement’ today is promoting affirmative action, causing a black boy to need a lower score to go to college than a white boy.
And the alleged ‘anti-racist’ presidential candidate doesn’t ever consider you black if you don’t agree with him, so far for judging on content of character.
I believe MLK would be shocked by the radical state of the ‘civil rights movement’ today.
“If everyone is thinking alike, Then somebody isn’t thinking” - George S. Patton
Break the norm!
Fun fact: this is actually were the "Black people can't swim" racial stereotype comes from - it's not that they couldn't swim due to inability, but due to being unable to swim legally in public swimming pools. Somehow, this stereotype still persists today.
But man I'm black... We have plenty of pools and alot of the black kids in my school can't swim
That's a stretch.
Why ya gotta make people dumber?
@@chlorhex6785 Pool access and swimming lessons?
@@chlorhex6785 Majority of who? City dwelling Black Americans? Because outside of that most Black populations around the world can swim, especially in the Caribbean and on the coastal areas of all other countries.
In many places, they don't get invited to kids parties at homes with pools, spending less time in the water than many white suburban kids, without ever seeing that they're missing out on anything, as they're not "excluded"... they're simply not invited. This is where the trend of having back yard pools came from... a response to public pools being desegregated was the privatisation of segregation.
The only thing we learned from history, is we never learn from history.
Lexi V!rG!N- S3X : TAP H3R3 thank you, I have a history of bad spelling. I never learn 😁
This is by design. The US education system doesn't want you learning anything "unamerican".
Genuinely interested - why is it that so many people put commas before "is" when a comma really isn't needed? Is this something that is taught in America (because it's definitely not in the UK)?
Dave Olsen Hi. Thanks for the reply. I don’t know how they teach this rule in America. I learned English in England. I’m sure my English teacher would have asked a similar question. I suppose I was using the comma here as a silent sigh. It may well have been literally technically wrong. Call me a rebel but, in this case it spoke to me as being correct :-)
@@daveolsen9980 I assume it's a dramatic pause of sorts.
"why didn't they just follow the law? Then they wouldn't get beaten" I bet they said that too during that time
@Picolas Cage 93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful according to a new report
@Picolas Cage A cop can legally murder anyone they want
@Picolas Cage the fact that you think laws are no longer racist is hilarious. especilaly considering most lawmakers, policymakers and Da's are ding ding ding! Racist white males
@Picolas Cage love to live in the world you do but the real world is not like this at all.
MegaHidanlover lies
Don't let the black and white photography fool you. We are still living within history. Don't let technological advancements null you to believing anything has changed.
Many of the whites who attacked the activists are alive today. They still vote and they still hold the same racist views against us.
Yep most of the civil rights photos were taken in color but it was cheaper to print in black and white but now we can use the color images but we never do if u look in textbooks their all in black and white hmmmm
Yeet or be Yeeted i don’t think they were talking about just the color of the images
You don’t think anything has changed?
@@simon6495 Not compared to whites it hasn't.
Wait, did the guy who threw acid in the pool get punished? ... I have a nasty feeling I know the answer but good god how evil can you be.
You know the answer, I dont even need to tell you sadly...
Maybe the swimmers should have thrown a corrosive chemical in his face in response.
denelson83 what a useless reply
He continued to insist he was a moderate forever and a lot wrote about him tends to present him in a very "woe is me" light even
Technically he kinda did not break the law or well he did but still. He would have prob got arrested if he did it after the act
They love throwing the word "militant' around when referring to black activist groups....so what is the klan? Civil? Peaceful?
they same thing they say about BLM today calling it Antifa
Futility antifa is not even a group though 💀 it’s an ideology.
@@User27111 That's an incorrect blanket statement.
Seeking to somehow equate them is a waste of your time. There will never be a method of protesting racism that racists will find acceptable.
Idk what to call them. Maybe defensive, trying to protect their family, their community and their property
In fifty years from now we’re gonna see the same videos documenting what’s happening now.
Which part? The virus, the killings, the fires, Iran, Belarus? This year will be a full chapter in history books.
Yes
@Michael Wooding Why?
@jutubaeh What does that mean?
Hopefully not... don’t ever forget that’s a possibility ✊🏿
I love how vox covers these topics that are rarely talked about
It’s nice that voz can make different kinds of videos from different authors. Even if someone didn’t like their political videos they can’t say they hate everything Vox makes
@@yucol5661 Vox teaches me so much more than school has ever even dreamed of. Thank you Vox!
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It’s great marketing, personally I feel that is what brings such interest to the content.
@@gq_barry Kenyan here too!
Living in the us has been wild. This channel makes me understand everything so much better
I grew up in St Augustine and we never learned about these events in school. The retaliation against civil rights activists is disturbing.
If they aren't teaching you about this it's because they're trying to hide it.
It’s purposefully left out of your education.
It’s better to tell the dark history than just hiding it.
You wanna tell little kids that someone got Conc. Acid dumped on them just because they were black?
OpinionatorTV
That’s the mistake we want to tell the young generations in order for them to prevent it from repeating.
This concept has had a huge effect on how black Americans interact with the water - including the mode of protests, what happened before (blocked access), and what happened after (neglected city pools and the recent videos). My black friend told me that older members in her family said black people didn’t belong in the water when she joined rowing (a VERY white sport). Huge scores of black communities don’t know how to swim from lack of water access and affordable swim lessons. She still doesn’t even know how to swim and she’s been rowing for 5 years. And their experienced history with leisure water activities is far more violent than the pleasant idea of water activities that white people are able to look back on and think of. I’ve heard of more and more programs teaching inner city kids and black children how to swim, and I hope that continues because it’s so important ❤️
It's disheartening. Friends my age that swim are few, if they have protective parents they grow up thinking the chlorine will damage their hair and are shielded from the horrendous history that prevented their parents from learning to swim.
Thank you for giving us some insight on American Swimming Culture
@Identity is character not group oh I know it damages hair,especially with extended exposure, not arguing that but to list it as the *only* reason they wouldn't swim I think was extreme. Also, he was inappropriately using the chlorine, it states on the directions to mix with water first to dissolve the crystals and then add it to the pool.
@Identity is character not group he was throwing hydrochloric acid
Somehow, Black Dynamite saying he doesn't swim makes a whole lot of sense in this context...
Both of our presidential candidates were teenagers during most of this
Which is sickening.
bet they both loved it too
One candidate has learned and grown, the other not so much.
Ironically Biden was a lifeguard
@@Obscurai The candidate _did_ learn a lot. He learned so much from what happened, that he voted for the 1994 Crime Bill. Not only that, he drafted the Senate version of the legislation in cooperation with National Association of Police Organizations.
I’m a Floridian, why didn’t we learn about this in school during social studies. We learned about sit-ins, but not these.
Omg there's alot of things they don't teach about Florida regarding this subject. I didn't even know about the Ocoee massacre
I wonder why they don’t teach you this... 🙄
I believe vox made a video called "Daughters of the Confederacy" which answers your question.
No one talks about what happened in Rosewood, Levy County, FL either
Same i just graduated and never in my 12 years in public school did we talk about this at all..
Y’all see the flags they’re carrying at 4:56, right?
this should be a top comment
up up up
Yea😔
"ThAtS mY hEriTaGe"
Exactly
I’m a beach lifeguard in New Jersey where you must pay for admission on to the beach (typically $6-$10 a day). This has always been obstacle for the lower income LOCAL residents who historically come from communities of color. This summer, in efforts to reduce crowd sizes on the daily beach passes rose nearly $5 a person making it even less feasible for lower income residents to enjoy a protected beach. What ends up happening is family’s come to the beach and wait for the lifeguards to get off duty so they can get on to the beach for free. There are numerous after hours 911 calls for swimmers in distress and it often is for people who could not afford to pay for everyone of their family members to swim at a protected beach.
Everyone has to pay the same fee right?
Thank you for this comment because it shows that there are still barriers keeping low income folks from accessing spaces.
I live in Virginia Beach (VA) and that’s so strange to me that you have pay to use the beach. Here you have to pay $10 to park in municipal lots ; however, to simply go to the beach it’s free. There is a pretty big tourist industry ($4 billion annually before COVID). Been to North Jersey before, interesting place
@@RMBMS economic segregation makes the financial burden on certian groups significantly higher.
@@fluedgoop good thing I wasn’t talking about that
STILL TO THIS DAY when my family members go swimming there’s always white people who would get out of the pool when we got in
Still to this day, there are people that denies racism still exist. :(
Discrimination on a base of pigment it's stupidity ✊🏿
Once, me and my family (we are latino) went to the pool and there was this white, blonde woman who tried to discriminate us. She called us "filthy" and told us to go back to Mexico.
Alejandro Díaz I didn’t know Mexicans were discriminated by Whites, sorry to hear.
@@shashidharshettar3846 they aren't. Just by that woman. Are you dim
When the man started throwing acid in the pool i started shaking. How can you treat someone soo badly. My god. This brings me to tears and i am not even american, you dont have to be you just need to be human to feel sad.
I get it
however the volume of water in the pool would easily dilute the acid to a non harmful concentration
on the other side that guy is a frickin don g for doing that and I completely understand
@@tone618 The guy seemed to be pouring it directly on people - and could easily have blinded someone - no doubt if someone had gone blind they’d be arrested for going blind.
This is in-bred hate. Their god “steals, kills and destroys.”
These racist did not only pass on their beliefs to their kids but most of them are still alive. TODAY
So they are alive today. Ok, what you want them dead?
Picolas Cage it already has. Would you argue that we live in anti racist world
Eric DeGeer what is your goal with this question? You want me to say yes so that you can have the moral high ground by saying something along the lines of, “You should not advocate for someone’s death”. Again what is your goal.
acdnan to make you realize that somebody existing who was involved with something is meaningless, and does not mean that that something exists today
@@evandegeer9879 I think what they mean is that this didn't happen long, long ago, this happened much more recent then people seem to think
My dad was Diné and told me about some of this stuff when he was growing up in the early to mid-60s. He went to a pool in SLC when he was about 7 and got bleach dumped on him. It burned his scalp the worst, and he forever had scars from it on his head. His family and friends called him Pinto after that because he then resembled a pinto bean but... Still awful.
I feel so bad for laughing. Hopefully he's doing alright ☺️
I am sorry for what happened to your dad...Hope is doing well..love and blessings from India
Man... the thing most of the people don't get even in the comments is, the US was built on racism. Mass genocide of our people. But no, they can't even look at that. Even the ones supporting this video. It's sad. The whole thing needs to be dismantled.
Corina Farrow pretty much every county in the world was built on the exploitation of people
@@User27111 I want my own country so I'm going to put acid on family and face ok?
It’s scary looking at your own parents, knowing that they were alive and also young adults while this was happening
Not my parents
You must have old parents oh grandparents
I remember when it happened. You will find the older you get that old is really not that old.😂
My grandmother is from saint augustine and participated in thoses marches. Thank you for telling part of her story and black history as a whole
I thank your grandmother for being so brave and strong and for participating in the movement. 💕
Thank and kiss her for me. Somewhere a woman appreciates her contribution 🙇♀️
Everyone should have access to the beach. It's a place we all go to during the summer to have a fun time and swim. Unifies generations under the spirit of summer. It's no surprise it played a role in civil rights
Everyone has access now, and during the past several decades. But some demographics aren't seen there as commonly, since they're still significantly more probable to not have the ability/knowledge to swim.
hey, i see you almost everywhere
@Ork nah, not there, i don't know that guy, although i've heard of his name. I've seem them on Drew Binsky's channel though.
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Myelf...worked as pro lifeguard on the beaches in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa (1988-present). Witnessed some truly inhumane behavior, and that doesn't exclude much...but in many respects the shocking behavior also post (after) apartheid is a story un-told
@Ork He's... everywhere. He's on amusement park vids, history vids, Disney vids, videogame vids, travel vids, etc....
RIP Mimi 💜 thank you for everything you did for the movement and its people
12:03 "...it could change the complexion of the private club." Jesus, that's not even subtle racism. This happened not 50 or 60 years ago, but barely 10 years ago.
I visit St. Augustine every year and had no idea about this. I actually just realized that I’ve stayed at that hotel multiple times and swam in that pool.
The more i learn about america the more i hate it. This is incredible, so much for being the a developed country...
We pay attention to our problems other countries just hide and deny
@@finncon4399 Very easy way out. I don't know about "other countries", but in the countries I've lived in (in Europe), scandals do break, problems are put upfront. Yet, the more I learn about American history, the more appalled I get.
1) You don't seem to be paying so much attention, given how persistent AND prevalent these racial issues seem to be
2) This is not just another flaw of a country. This is not just any problem. Please do tell me which other developed Western country has such deeply entrenched racial issue as the US, and then we can compare how much they hide and deny.
Anonymous I agree with the 2nd part of your comment
Pommejaune literally every other country that has ever had European colonists settle in their land has a racial problem. So, a lot of countries. Not just the us. Why is this? Because they enslaved black people!
@Anonymous you already said that. Are we not paying enough attention to you?
"The need for the officers to pursue the attackers" ??? they're swimming Linda
The Wells Fargo CEO must've meant this pool.
What does this mean
@@theuntapstep7789 Wells Fargo CEO said some ignorant comments about lack of black talent at the bank, saying there are smaller pools of African American talent to choose from. Got the blowback he deserved. Hope that helps.
photography is a powerful thing, you can share a brief moment with an entire nation that would otherwise gone unseen, it's a tool of revolution
Its a shame that even to this day, many decades later, black people are still marching for unequal treatment. At least they aren't marching alone now.
They werent marching alone back then either, the pool wade in involved White Protesters booking rooms and allowing the African American protesters to use the pool. And involved Jewish Rabbis in a prayer circle.
I'm not going to deny that there is probably more support from all people this time around, but its dangerous to think that this is the first time it's been like this.
How disgusting and ignorant...these stories need to be widespread.
Picolas Cage We need to learn ALL of our history in order to move forward in the right direction. These stories matter and they need to be told, even if they hurt. Understanding the full scope of an event gives you knowledge and it is not so simple to move on from. The woman in the pool who was treated like a disease is still alive TO THIS DAY. It is not time to move on from these stories just yet.
Seems america isn't learning from its own history
edit: words
I Didn't watch the video , gonna assume that you think that BLM movement is good and America is evil etc etc
@@ILoveYani How can you even know what he is taking about if you don't even watch the video.
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
Of course... America is a place, and places don't learn things, and living in a place doesn't mean you somehow magically know things that other people who also live - or previously lived - in that same place knew. Different people are different people, you're still thinking that a group means something that it does not.
Some people like to act like this happened a long time ago because it makes them feel more comfortable. But many of these protesters are still alive and it would be impossible to tell them that its all in the past
Yes, I remember when it happened and was on the news.
“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here
I don’t need an ad for McDonald’s in the middle of this video.
Ok
😂 with context it's even funnier
The channel needs income to keep going 🤷
This is really sad. I can't believe that people were and sadly still act this way. 😕
Keep shining the light vox. We love you for that.
Jfc the white only pools of the sixties are just the country clubs of today with a new sign
Has nothing to do with race, more like CLASS discrimination. My child's goggles have been stolen multiple times at pools with daily access passes, or the community open days, but when swimming at membership-only pools people tend to already own their own goggles.
..what does the new sign read..?
@@deanoswell3302 members only, I think watching the video might help provide you a little more clarity
@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 good thing racism and classism are completly divorced from each other as issues, sure would be embarrassing for u if they were inherently interlinked
Alori White The unfortunate part about that is that they are quite arguable interlinked to a certain extent. It’s just taboo to talk about so we pretend it’s NOT related at all.
The fact that 400 people disliked this saddens me. This video is incredible.
Those are the people raised in households that perpetuate evil.
A family the steals, kills and destroys stays together - apparently - for generations.
Is there any aspect of life in the US that ISN'T a battleground for civil rights?
*wasn't.
@@Noam_.Menashe no, isn't is correct.
No. Because it was created in racism, invasion, and genocide of millions of people.
@@David-zh5zi not all to the extent of america though. it seems to me that almost everything in america has a racist origin
@@peji636 The critical race industry here is a billion dollar endeavor that can't exist if there is no racism therefore it will redefine and create more racism to justify it's own existence.
I grew up 20 minutes north of St. Augustine and never knew any of this history. That photo of MLK standing in front of the hotel with the Bridge of Lions in the background was particularly moving because it’s such a familiar sight to locals. Now it’s something I’m going to think about whenever I’m there.
11:51 I can agree. I live in the city, in Florida, but anytime I drive to those small coastal towns in Florida (both Atlantic and the gulf side) the vibe out there is not very welcoming, towards people of color. It's just weird out there.
Rest in peace Mimi Jones your legacy will stay here forever
How is it even legal to call the police on someone just because they're black? That itself should be considered a hate crime.
The thing is they call it loitering or play it up more than it is. same thing happens with the police themselves.
Ding ding ding, and people are still doing it today!😊
So what america is going through right now is nothing new.
There's still segregation?
@@abrahamlincoln5185 yes, there is
@@abrahamlincoln5185 did we watch the same video?
The inability for humans to see other humans as humans is quite depressing. I have more faith in animals ❤️
For real
That is between the same species. I have no idea how the world would be if there is another intelligent species.
@@daisuke910 they died out actually. Natural selection is a cruel master
animals are racist too
@@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 possible, we'll never know. Racism as we experience it requires an active will to hate or even harm the other for no sane reason. What we do know is that animals act more according to their nature. Are you saying nature is racist? 'Randomly' selective, sure.
This nation has a very dark history that should never be forgotten.
Some of the people who did these horrible actions are the same people as our PARENTS and/or GRANDPARENTS! They're still alive and well and still just as racist.
I bet they were happy when Obama became president haha I hope rasism dies out completely!
I'll admit up front that I am an outsider looking in, I'm a white Canadian living in Alberta. An apparent resurgence of systematic racial discrimination in the USA worries me not only on it's own but for what it probably means. I'm used to thinking of Americans as a diverse people who are, in spite of any differences, "all in this together". That's how America looked to me in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. But since around the turn of the century that unity seems to be waning and it worries me.
As a St. Augustine local, I can say in full confidence that we are not taught extensively about the protests and demonstrations of the 60s. I recall being in middle school and high school, and the subject was only briefly touched upon in our social studies and history classes. It is very disheartening to see that even today our educators at a state level do not want to dig deep into issues that still resonate with us today-now more than ever.
2020 is like all of history happening in one year. change my mind
I cannot
Mmm no
Why do you think that?
Not at all. 2020 is to be expected. It's the consequences of our actions. Animal agriculture, fossil fuels, and a dying culture is what's causing this.
USA 2 MEXICO lies libs do not control the government
“Something that touches us will touch them”
For the people who lived back then, they should’ve knew that the air was a fluid. :P
They cannot see air.
They were not and still are not that smart.
I never knew about this!
There is alot about RACISM you don't know about..Take For example COPS killing BLACK people..this was always folklore in black homes
God bless the person who had the idea to make this Missing Chapter series.
Nothing but respect for these brave souls. Keep their legacy alive and honor it by never letting you be stopped from striving for equality.
This video reached me in a way i didnt expect. Thank you for your work and thank you to those who sacrificed so much in this endeavor.
Dear future social studies teachers
Please show vox’s videos with your lessons
I would love if my teacher showed me this
Just as I was about to type a comment the part on Wade-ins came on. My name is Wade by the way 😂😂 anyway, similar thing occurred in South Africa during apartheid.
In South Africa people were forced to move away from their homes because it’s a white area, you couldn’t walk freely(when u r black), you couldn’t sit on certain benches they had signs that would say “white only” same thing with toilets, entrances to shops etc
My grandfather moved to Johannesburg from the Eastern Cape
He had to apply to move and then there was a process where a police officer would inspect your private parts. He said that was one of the most uncomfortable experiences ever he says that that’s when he knew it was going to be a long struggle for freedom
12:21 M E G A K A R E N
How was this never covered in a high school curriculum is what I want to know.
Probably the daughter's of the confederacy... and just general systematic racism
They dont want you to know, so the question for you is .... why do you think it is that they dont want you to know?
@@thehoneyeffect because they're guilty but too proud to admit it
It is tho
I love this series! Keep it up vox!
You know we ended segregation but still have yet to address the systematic violence (police brutality) killing US citizens. We haven't forgotten history, we've just moved onto the next challenge in the way of creating a free and equal society.
Can't believe this continues today, so devastating and disgusting. The footage of the kids and the cops breaks my heart.
😂
i din't even realize this was made today wow
Yeah.. Posted like four hours ago with 38K views!! Tells us something!
That must show you how used to these types of videos we are, how sad😟
Someone needs to tell Trump the Civil Right Act exists.
I think we would all be surprised at how few people actually know the history of “black people can’t swim“ and just how racist the stereotype really is. Many black people don’t know how to swim because they and their parents were afraid they would be beaten if they tried to. We are still not a whole in this country as far as equity goes, but we are much closer than we used to be. Sadly I’m afraid we are regressing due to much of the rhetoric we get from our commander-and-chief.
I wish these stories were available with subtitles in Spanish so I can show my family this is still so real
You can turn the subtitles on in Spanish.
Omg I totally forgot that segregation at pools was a thing! I remembered it was taught in primary school, but all I think about are those marches or street/city protests
This breaks my heart, I'm so grateful to not live in 1960s America. RIP MIMI JONES and god bless all civil rights activists.
I grew up in the Sixties..My little town was segregated ...The black part of town was called “The east end “ or colored town ...We’ve come a long way since then but there are still pockets of Racism!!! The thing that marks our progress against racism is the overwhelming admiration for our first Black President Barack Obama !!! We’re moving in the right direction !✌️from 🇺🇸💕
We do not live in the 60s however the damage has been done and the systemic racism continues to plague us. So sad.
the real shocking part is the fact that this type of violent discrimination still happens TODAY. Not 60 years ago, but right NOW.
Watching this makes me furious. And the worst thing is to so see how little have changed.
Thank you for this needed reminder.
This video literally made me cry. People are just absolutely ridiculous. Humans just have no empathy for each other or any other living things. It’s sad.
This was beautiful. Thank you so much for bringing this story to the masses. 😭
I feel like videos like this shouldn’t have four commercial breaks.
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This gives a whole other meaning to the phrase “We will fight them on the beaches”
I actually never heard of this expression, but I think it makes sense.
Don't forget, 27 people opposed the Civil Rights Act.
These videos are really great. Thank you, Vox.
Great video, keep bringing videos like this to light. The youth today need to see history like this.
I just wish every now and then, these stories, which are very important to keep telling so they aren't forgotten, ended with where we are today so we reinforce that big changes, education of the masses, removal of ignorance CAN all be overcome and much faster than we think. Unfortunately, everyone that tells these stories thinks they HAVE to end it with "yet we still have more to do". We will ALWAYS have more to do, something else to change or improve. We are all imperfect, we won't ever have a perfect society created by imperfect beings. But there is value to credit the good that has been done and not just the bad that still remains.
You must understand that victims tend to be pessimists so that’s how these types of stories normally end up being told. If you asked them they wouldn’t deny the significant progress.
You know when you are privileged when you think you are oppressed when people try to be more inclusive.
how can people say this happened a long long time ago when they got these moments on film and VIDEO. people who experienced this are still alive !!!!!!
And don’t necessarily feel that old yet, even. :-)
Finally! We missed our missing chapter! Thank you!
I've swam in the same Florida waters where this took place and I never knew this history until today
Can't Believe America is still stuck in 1957
Every country is evolving backwards,something big is coming
America pays constant attention to our history and injustices unlike others on the international stage 😂
That's because you are wrong. It's stuck in 1947.
Absolutely chilling. Thanks for calling out these dark moments in history. Too many people today want to deny they happened.
i grew up in the ponte vedra/st augustine area and we NEVER learned about this... I'm so disgusted that we were never taught about the civil rights history that happened there.
Hey fellow floridian... There is a lot of black stories that are removed from history in the state of florida.
for example
the first fully incorparted town founded by slaves was in florida.
and Palm beach island, specifically the Breakers, was built by black people, but after it was built, the whites burned down the black peoples houses forcing them to leave.
Im sure there are a bunch of other stories that i dont know about yet
Wow, great history, how far the country has come, this is a forgotten chapter which needs to be revisited.
Thank you Vox. We love your videos so much. Please keep on sharing. We apprecialove it!!!
This is why we still need these conversations today.
How man Civil Rights Acts does this country need to pass to end institutional racism?
I'm a history major. My concentration of study was the US from after WWII. I didn't know about this and I also live in Florida. I traveled to St. Augustine within the past 3 years. I don't swim at the beach. But I do walk on it. I don't remember seeing many African-Americans on the beach. What the activist said about St. Augusting being the same is true.
in my hometown of Baltimore, Elijah Cummings, the late representative helped desegregate Riverside Park Pool, 5 minutes from where I live
Thanks for sharing this wonderful story!
That was amazing thank you
This is just sickening to watch. As a Canadian I find it hard to believe people have such hate for people of different skin colours. This should never have happened, no person deserves this.
Kishan Singh canada loved to erase their own history as if they didn’t come from the same European settlers
Not saying Canada is perfect. We have our own problems too the way we treated indigenous people was horrible. Good job deflecting my comment though :) also I am aware we came from the same settlers I don't remember saying we didn't. We also separated from the USA way back because we have different beliefs just to point that out ;)
One of those beliefs was slavery by the way, that's why so many people of color escaped you're country and came up here, or did you forget that?
Such a good informanant piece on history! I have so much respect for the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.
Thank you for covering this history.