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1966 SPECIAL REPORT:"CICERO"
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2021
- After Martin Luther King, Jr., working with the Chicago Freedom Movement, negotiated with the city of Chicago on public housing issues, some local blacks felt that he had been duped by empty promises. Members of the Congress of Racial Equality decided to march to Cicero, Illinois on September 4, 1966.
Racial segregation and violence were deeply rooted in Cicero. In 1951 there was a major racial crisis when the Clarks, a black family, rented an apartment and in response 6,000 white people violently attacked the family of a black bus driver. Then Illinois governor, Adlai Stevenson called in the National Guard. In the end Harvey Clark and his family were never able to live in Cicero.
In 1966 Cicero still had no black residents, but many blacks were employed in the city. When protesters marched through town, white residents threw bottles and bricks at the activists. But the marchers were not pledged to nonviolence; they picked up the bricks and bottles and threw them right back. The divide between races seemed to be getting wider, and more blacks felt drawn to the nationalist preaching of Malcolm X.
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The Chicago Outfit was was extremely relevant in Cicero..They ran it
Of course
23 hour liquor license back in the day. They basically shut down for a quick cleanup and then the daytime drinkers would get a jump on the day.
Exactly
Joey doves at the towne restaurant and hotel
They ran it? They still do. Its no secret they have restaurants as fronts. Back in the 80s and 90s you would see raids on those restaurants for running numbers. That's why at some point they made arcade slot's legal cause they had illegal slot's all thru Cicero.
Man I remember this, I lived in Cicero when it took place, people were crazy back then. There was a lot of hate. Looking back after 73 years of life all over the US I think we all have to love one an other more
@Billy B That's sad man, how did things get this way?
@Billy B That's what I see too
Absolutely correct
@Red what part of Cicero did you reside in? Also, please indulge us with some stories! I love history. I lived in the 30th st and 50th ave. Half a block away from woodbine school.
@@JR-jk5wz I lived on 61St. Ave 2 locks east od Cermak Road
This is amazing! Born and raised in Cicero!! How different things were back then but still somehow things haven’t changed
🤔 girl what. It’s the ghetto
It's the hood of Al Capone.
Cicero is far from “the ghetto” , but this reminds me a little of the most recent confrontation with blm.
The Cicero residents came together and didn’t allow anyone into “their neighborhood” , especially not to vandalize.
@@ghullier4736 but it's ok for gang bangers to move to cicero?
@@ghullier4736 ; South Philly of Chicago ‼️
Cicero now 85% Mexican lol.
Mexican immigrants like to move in to neighborhoods that were White working class Catholic like Polish, Lithuanian, Czech. I'm seeing a lot of good Catholic relationships with older White Catholic guys and young Hispanic gals. Nobody likes College miseducated White women like Hillary.
19:00 we don't want to integrate
And a third world.
94% now
Cicero is a shithole
Ironic the guy from Mississippi was the smartest sounding guy lmao
You sound like an assh0le for assuming southerners are just dumb hillbillies. How’s that for irony?
That was Matt Damon wasn't it?
@@jillpatton3432 he was like a baby in 1966 lmao
He looked like a mixed dude.
Martin Luther King Jr did say once he got there that the racism in Chicago was WORSE than Mississippi 🤷🏿♂️
Crazy how Cicero might be one of the least white Chicagoland towns now
Yeah crazy how all the white people were so terrified of people with darker skin that they moved all the way to the suburbs. Those scary black people!!!!
Cicero in 2023 is pretty much little Mexico now lol
Why did Blacks wanna live in their communities so bad instead of building their own? Always perplexes me.
Because racial segregation perpetuates and exacerbates the problem of social, economic and institutional inequality and creates a profoundly negative isolating cycle of ethnic insularity which served to further widen the chasm of inequity that exists between the American of African descent and his lighter-skinned compatriots. Not to mention the explicit White Supremacy of disallowing outsiders to live amongst them because of their color.
Look at it now, it went from nice and peaceful to dark and gloomy and it's almost as if they knew something critical back then while defending their town.
They tried building there own communities (Black Wall Street, Rosewood, Central Park) those communities were bombed, burned down, or force to leave. They had no communities to go to that’s why they had to move into other places 🤷🏽♀️
BS
@@boydfloyd3955Cicero is not dark or gloomy, that sweet ass suburb 😂
Racism is terrible . But could you imagine how awkward and nerve wracking it must have been for that first black family moving in after all this shit going down . I can just picture the father being like Sidney poitier all proud and standing his ground . Whereas the wife and kids would be like ohh fuck what's he got us into now .
It went way beyond awkward, it was petrifying. Over 4,000 whites gathered in front of the black family’s apartment building and hurled bricks, stones, and Molotov cocktails into their windows. The National Guard had to be sent in and they could barely control them.
@@ArtistsCry13that was on the Chicago side of the street
My family got out of Cicero in the early nineties, by that point many white people were already moving out and gang violence was out of control.
White america killed the most peaceful man in America because he wanted justice and equality. This was traumatic and gave a whole generation of black people PTSD.
@@themarbleking That's not how ptsd works.
That goes to show you what they were trying to keep out
@@AngelofDeath-Y2K they had gangs then too dumbass 😂 🤦🏿♂️
@@AngelofDeath-Y2Kthey were the ones doing it 😂
They’re cowards
Really interesting footage. As I watch this, I can't help but think of the summer of 2021. There were no national guard then, and the town is mostly Mexican, but things got alot worse.
You're talking about 2020
55 years since then but still. How far have we come?...and where will we all go?
Civil War & Race War? Balkanization of the country along Political, Cultural, and Racial lines for each group in the country.
Every goal of the civil rights movement has been achieved. The outcome of some of those goals has been positive, and others negative. There is no perfect society, and fanning the flames of some issue usually leads to violence everywhere.
We've come a LONG way, baby!!!!!!
I remember when we first moved in to Cicero in 1989. The majority was white, I’d say 90 percent at that time and about 10 percent Mexican! I was 13 and didn’t know what to expect! Lots of Italian and Czech lived in the area. However, the kids and neighbors were ok with having Mexican folk moving in as long as you kept yourself clean and out Of trouble! But they didn’t want blacks even back in 89’…..unfortunately.
1989 is when all the Mexican street gangs from Chicago started moving into Cicero. That's when the town was starting to get dangerous.
@@hueso5071 most of those gangs were all started due to racism from waaaaay back is what my Tios all tell me from both sides of the fences
@@daensanchez3821 yeah most of them were started in Chicago then over time they started moving into Cicero as more Mexicans came in.
@@hueso5071 you got to keep in mind that Cicero already had gangs and they weren’t Mexican! They had the 12 street players, Noble knights etc… they were all white gangs. However, you are correct that Mexican gangs started to infiltrate Cicero in the early 90s.
@@JR-jk5wz then the players and knights started getting more mexican members
Why move to an area you're not welcomed? Jesus told His followers to leave areas that did not accept them. Freedom is not necessarily forcing others to accept me. True freedom is having the liberty to create my own.
Good question. I wouldn't.
Your ignorance of just about everything- Jesus, Christianity, America, Democracy, etc- is absolutely staggering.
Compare today's crime rate in Cicero, with the crime rate of adjacent all-black Austin, you would prefer to live in Cicero.
Mexicans were allowed to move in as buffer. In fact an interesting coincidence of Latino buffer and rail tracks is across Chicago land between whites and Blacks.
Latinos are used as a buffer in Humboldt park and little village too.
Cicero was a longtime stronghold of the Chicago Mob, but they didn't want Blacks there tho...
yes, many italians moved to Cicero from Chicago after WW2.
@@dachicagoan8185 no, he’s talking about before ww2, around 1920’s and ‘30’s
@Viper could be but I see that evidently in Berwyn.
@@ghullier4736 you live in berwyn?
What a shame
I'm all for people moving to wherever they want to but then again I can understand those who are concerned about certain people moving in.
I’m confused. If you live in a nice area made up of educated professionals, wouldn’t you expect the same kind of people to come in. I have lived in many upper middle class suburban neighborhoods with diverse ethnicities represented but all professional and everyone’s property was kept up nicely.
@@lyndawilliams4570 If you're confused then figure it out. Otherwise shut up!
White people killed the Indians and replaced them with cows. What about their concerns? Maybe you would approve more if black people wiped out white people and replaced them with dogs? Which would be fair when you think about it right?
@@MIKECNW So says the leftist who lives in a all white Suberb.
Well maybe I wasn't clear the 1st time So I'm sorry for reacting the way I did.
Yes there are people for whatever reasons just hate people who are different from them.
But then I've also heard where certain people move in and the neighborhood becomes bad causing those there before to flee.
So I feel I have to look at things in both ways.
Everyone should move around freely but at the same time you can't allow neighborhoods or whole towns to fall apart.
The memories........... I grew up in Cicero, Lincoln Elementary School, Morton East High School, Morton East Jr College. Left for California in 1962 at the age of 18. Henrys hot dogs on Ogdon Ave. near Austin Blvd. I loved em ........ $.25 for a dog and fries.....I'm 79 now, it all feels like a dream.
So did you and your family have a problem with Negroes moving into Cicero?
Another Classic.
They called them block busters.
WOW, this is unbelievable footage. THANK YOU!!
Love that old rock music playing
Song names?
Imagine being a Cicero cop living in Cicero
Protecting marchers against the people that you know and know you
My hats off to guardsman and officers that stood for 1st amendment 🇺🇸
Cicero was one of the most corrupt mobbed up cities in the country. Every cop was on the payroll
I lived in San Rafael in 66
The houses were going for 20 thousand
Now there worth a million dollars
I lived in Cicero in the 90,s it was a nice town to live back then. I’m Hispanic and I never had any trouble with anyone.
3:20 apartheid
I tried to describe exactly how racist Cicero and Berwyn in the 60’s and 70’s on another channel a few years ago. Kids were barking at me like I was a racist. I was just describing how it was. Cicero is were all the outfit guys lived. The crime rate was low because outfit guys were on sheriff and police depts.
What's an "outfit guy?"
@@ApartmentKing66Chicago outfit - Italian mafia members
Al Capone’s criminal den back in the ‘20’s.
Thanks, Hezakya. ☮
As bad as America was divided then, it's even MORE divided now.
Because of white liberals 😜
America is not on that level by no means,wasn’t Obama president for eight years ,the thing that made people look down on him is that he was a puppet for the new world order 😜
Communists and hardcore libs started the "racial divide" during Obama.. It's non existent. I'm Hispanic in NYC.. It's rich liberal whites that make up "make believe problems"
@@Thirthton Right carnalē. The same BS they've been pushing for years..
@@joelmaldonado1735 it only took the complete collapse of the stock market, banking industry, and housing market for scared white people to vote for a biracial president
America has a dark history
23:05 He brought his momma into this! 😂😂😂
Harvey Clark's daughter, Michele, became a well-known correspondent at CBS in the 1970's. Sadly, she was killed in a plane crash late in 1972.
Wow bunch of ignorant folks then and still today!!! so sad!!!
Dude: if they March(peacefully) , it'll start TROUBLE...🤔
Being born in 1981 I use to think the 1960's were so far back in time. This was only 15 years older than me which is such a short time. These people were still living when I was born and most even lived up through the 90's.
Some still alive now,they know who they are!
To all the blacks and MLK that marched to give me the freedom I have today. Thank you and I love you.
Thank you for recognizing nuestro sacrificio.
You must be asleep if you think we’re better off than before when most minorities have a mother and father in the house. After Martin Luther King, broken family.
@@Metromania2022 that ain't MLK fault. YT supremacy does a good job at shape shifting thru eras. The feminist movement was crow barred in to counter balance and nullify the civil rights movement. After feminism is a more accurate assessment. MLK sired a large and prosperous family.
@@Metromania2022 white society destroyed the black family by jailing or killing as many black men as they could. Would you like to be black in America?
Many whites marched to. Whites and blacks lost their life to give you your freedom - don’t forget that
And this was in the North… imagine what the South was like. Bridgeport is probably worse
The brave people in Cicero prevented the community from totally collapsing into a black hole like Austin neighborhood of Chicago they should be commended for their resistance
These kids are parents and grandparents now.
Or dead
sadly
Wow how things have changed Cicero now is predominantly all Hispanic
I grew up in Austin and the North Lawndale areas Near Cicero in the late 90s 2000s. We shopped over that way often. It was Mostly Mexicans by then. But they still looked down on Black people moving into Cicero. The police use to fuck with us all the time.
Al Capone's Old Hood.
"s'Matter wid You?...We Slappa you FACE!"
Consistently amazing content b 👏🏽
Are you Jewish
For anyone on that "I would NEVER have be racist back then." Yea you probably would've. That just the way shit was. The 60's was not very long ago
Such a gem and wealth of knowledge @Hezakya
Who were the predominant white ethnics groups of this area at the time? Some of them reminded me of some old timer Italians from Brooklyn the way they spoke. Cicero was probably like Bensonhurst Brooklyn at one point....
Poloks and lithuanians, then poor people from rhe south who came to work in facrories. They just spoke like greasesers
@@mattgrelee2199 thanks for the answer. Haven’t been to Chicago yet but when I do go, I wanna check out the differences of these areas between then and now.
@@FormerlyNYVulgarian my dad grew up in brighrion park chicago south side , all tje families rhat lived there where ethnics but if u spoke to the teens and kids rhey all sounded and looked like greasers
@@mattgrelee2199 relax with the greaser shit firstly, secondly Cicero was a primarily Italian city
In Order Italians, Irish, Polish, Czech, Serbian , Lithuanians,
The irony of it all is that now 58 years later Cicero is the majority Hispanic and less than 4 % African American. In a way the African Americans were marching for the Mexicans to move in.
Mexicans were allowed to move in to stop blacks from moving in. They saw Latinos the “lesser” of the evils I guess.
I just don't get it. Why are black people called ignorant? When people clearly haven't changed.
Gage Park, Marquette Park, Bedford Park. I never understood the need for Black leaders to demand inclusion among lower class white people. Why didn't they target Lincoln Park?
They didn't want their wives and daughters looking at those brothers!
They knew about the BBC. 🤣🤣
@@JR-jk5wz Yep...
Agree. Their scared all "their" women will go with a "spade".
It’s the same in Russian neighborhoods even today.
That boy from Mississippi looks a little dark.
I lived there in 66. A nice Italian neighborhood. They wanted to come in and start trouble. Why didn’t they just improve their own neighborhood. MLK was a trouble maker.
MLK was a marxist actually
Rip Dr 👑🙏
This is awesome video. Too bad it's not in color but very interesting looking back.
Looks like he is standing on Cicero Ave or Roosevelt in the beginning
That’s Cermak Road.
Today, Cicero is around 94% Hispanic.
@Cringe2Win 😂
@Cringe2Win In other words you people lost the war. Lol
@@thomasbrown3356 they didn't lose a war.. come join the military boy.. we'll show u what wars like.. they left cicero because of the gang violence and robbery's and loitering.. soon as they left crime went up.. not hard to grasp
@C2W83 why is it sad??? People move away and new folks move in. Last time I check those same people you call sad have hundreds of thriving businesses around Cicero. Just come out as a racist POS already!
@C2W83 ahhh… I do believe there’s a few left. I mean you can probably count them lol
Wow....very deep. Thanks for sharing.
Watch the eyes on the prize series for more
I grew up in Chicago and we all knew not to go to Cicero running our mouths. That's for everyone and I was a white kid 38 years ago we would go to a strip club called the Show of shows. Going there was a right of passage. Organized crime made sure that nobody just having a good time that Cicero was safer than anywhere.
Some crazy shit my brother
Gee, as a Georgian, I'm baffled. I thought Chicago was the Enlightened North, right? Only us awful Southerners ever acted like this. Maybe it turns out these scenes took place everywhere from NY to Birmingham to L.A. at different times, but only the South gets saddled with the reputation.
HATERS ALL OF THEM AND THEIR GRAND KIDS ARE CHEFS: THAT IS WHY I ONLY LIKE TO EAT AT CERTAIN PLACES
They were more honest back then
Morton East class of 1990 there weren't too many blacks in Cicero then like one cop was black think his name was Lesley?
Unbelievable!!! The hate!
😂 they poking the shit outta people with those billy clubs 😂
WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT SONG.
remember during the blm protests all those gangbangers were throwing shit, shooting at, etc. any black person they saw driving by…some things never change. have seen a lot more black residents around town though
I think somebody Better Call Saul!
The blanks just wanted to agitate Cicero because the people their preferred to live among their own
U see/saw what happened to South Africa after Mandela came out of prison...
Holey shit The Fonz at 2.15 lol
….he sounds like he just got off the train from Brooklyn.
“Well, he puts his cigar out in your face just for kicks
His bedroom window it is made out of bricks
The National Guard
Stands around his door
I ain’t gunna work on Maggie’s Farm no more”
Thank you!!! I've shared your channel with young people!!!
Are you settled in your new digs???
🙇🏾♀️🙇🏾♀️🙇🏾♀️💝💝💝
Thank you...I move in October.. still looking
@@HezakyaNewz God bless you sir. Thanks so much for sharing this real Chicago history with us.
al's cicero pizza, yeah baby 😃
It was demolished.North Riverside has a location.
@@AB-xh4vr right on, i have not lived there for years, thanks
@@g-dcomplex1609 for a couple years now they had a fire
I used to work with the Italians in Cicero and they didn't want blacks to move in ,it took them 30 years to move in.
The Italians were cowards…
I just seen the Biil Cosby documentary Let's talk about Cosby from Showtime, and they use some of your footage in the doc. I see ya home moving up fast keep pushing for greatness bro!
Cosby allegedly raped 36 white women in the 70’s. And none of them felt powerful enough to tell on him? Do you believe that? Knowing what America was like for black people?
11:00 trouble makers
Do you enjoy watching that rapist? Disgusting racist.
Man The Godfather of Harlem got me looking for old clips of harlem. The show is about Bumpy Johnson and he was an amazing Man. I know they changed the story for t.v. but it's still a crazy story and im sure the truth was even crazier.
Sadly ignorance has been breeding strong for all these years.
Yea unconsciousness racial bias. We need to educate them
I lived in Chicago and Cicero has such a terrible, reputation, I've never been there in my life. 🤔🤨
@Blah blah blah Yes indeed!! ( Never been there.)😬
Don't judge where you haven't lived
Is that Grand Funk Railroad? I can't make it out. Sounds like Farner.....
16:30 Wow. Truth bomb! Aged well...
back then it probably had a more symbiotic meaning. But today, ignorant minds transferred this into violence.
Message from the future. Black folks still live across the street from Cicero.
All by design.....order out of chaos......brought to us from the synagogue of satan....the only real enemy of all mankind
That's right, the Freemasons.
Ordo Ab Chao. The 'Secret Fraternity inside the Fraternity'. Satanic.
LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹
In the now, tell me why ppl mad when I'm quiet.👀💅
Merry Black Christmas NAACP not the same today.
They were started by a white woman
Listen to john henrik clarke
Thats Crazy I Live In Marquette Park! Not Even 20 Mins Away From Here.
Facts Crazy Stronghold There
Wasn't the Marquette Park march when MLK took a head wound and afterward said that it was the first time he thought he might get killed ?
@@andymullarx6365 Yes Your Very Much Correct! He Got Hit In The Head With A Brick. He Said Our Community Was More Racist Than Any Down South State He Marched Through 💯💯
I still live in Cicero
...
Were you around for the March? I lived on 30th and 50th ave
anybody know who sings the song in this video?
I had a homie from chi town ole boy and his Lil bro were gds from the Southside ,I had told em where my grandpa lived and were my father was born first thing he said,was " shit some girl told me to pick her up in Cicero ,I said f no,that's where they'll kill my black ass " I lmfao but he was serious and this was 2017
Haha damn we can prb see Slipping Jimmy
2:14 Johnny big bucks
And now look at it.
THATS WHY THEY WERENT WANTED, CICERO IS RUINED NOW.
I wonder where and who those guys were in the white tee .
... THE I TIES GIVING IT SOME DO " WOP " .. DON'T BREAK NO BONES SLIPPIN' ON YA ' GREASE ' ... " BOOPA-DI BAPPA-DI '.. 💀💀😇
Stay in your own community and improve the conditions.
But all the jobs are I other communities
@@Jeremy_Meeks had we not desegregated we would have the industry.
@@Mc007- a completely disagree. Leave your community, move to a nice white neighborhood and let the white people reclaim it. Repeat the process as necessary to stop gang culture. Lots of kids die with your strategy
I heard stories about how racist and segregated things were in Chicago and suburbs, my family when I was a kid told me the stories ,there was a bridge that divided the west side Chicago and cicero il blacks could work there but not live there back then.
THAT'S ALRIGHT!!!!! We won't want none of your heathens in our KINGDOM on judgement day either, how about that!!!!!
What's the name of the song?
Everyday it’s cool by Sabattis
Sad to see how people back then and still this day can’t think deeper and past appearances.
9:30 please accept me
True because its not like there are facts and crime statistics to support what the Cicero residents were worried about right? Hell im Mexican and can admit we definitely bring up the crime rate when we move in as well. But not calling it out and acting like it isnt true just makes the issue worse