How a Lunch Counter Sit-In Became an Iconic Civil Rights Moment - SFA
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Southern Foodways Alliance’s documentary series Counter Histories reveals how sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters were an influential tool in dismantling segregation in public spaces. In Counter Histories: Jackson, filmmakers speak to Civil Rights veterans Colia Clark, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, and Reverend Ed King, among others, about a now-infamous May 1963 sit-in at Woolworth’s in Jackson, Mississippi.
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the folks who had the courage to do these sit ins are such heroes, they deserve all the respect in the world .. to stand up to such ignorance and oppression ..
Chaotic Carbonature what do you call it when someone wants to physically hurt you because you’re a different race?
I agree.
They were incredibly courageous and deserve recognition and honor.
Chaotic Carbonature yet you’re probably too scared to talk to a black guy
These people are the epitome of evil and the incarnation of hate and wickedness. This wasn't even barely 50 years ago and the were lynching these beautiful people. What have your parents been teaching you, what hate and fear do you pass on to your children and grandchildren? When parents teach their children to devalue others, they eventually devalue everyone including their parents, which is why so many of your children are so confused today, in fear and dread or have no respect for their parents or authority because of the hypocrisy and double standards they've been taught to perpetrate by their own parents and grandparents. You all have lived well off of the blood and theft of my people and our lands.
No
Just remind yourself that this is not ancient history. This still has an effect on the world we live in today.
“And us old folks, our role is to have their back.” Wise words from a truly kind heart.
I thank the Universe for people brave enough to stand up to the ugliness.
@Johnny DeBravo stfu
"stand up for what you believe in, even if you stand alone"
imagine how they feel right now .
2020 has me looking up my History
same
im writing an essay about the sit in smh
@@Alexander713likeandsubscribe feel bad, essays suck.
Brave Americans. Stood up for the constitution and freedom. Should be given a medal for bravery.
Thanks for the reminder of the bravery of ordinary people and their place in social change. In this time of backsliding, we need to remember.
Reading Coming of Age in Mississippi brought me here and has now changed my life.
wow, that beginning was powerful.
These folks had guts! I admire them.
Annie Moody's autobiography "Coming of Age in Mississippi" is a must read. I grew up 20 miles and 40 years after she did.
Her dedication to the Movement says everything.
Boy did the prices go up once we started sitting at the counter
Thank you for your contribution to human equality and american democracy. This is a brilliant story.
"Diversity for all, Equality for none".
Underrated views and likes...
Amazing video, thank you Eater!
off!!!!
This is beautiful. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
The hero's in the 1950s. Much respect
1960s
Good God it’s so shocking and almost unbelievable how freaking ignorant and insane people were.. and still are
Thank you! Thank you, for your bravery! Thank you for caring!
Thank you! Stand up for what is right.
Had to stay calm and have a lot of patience to deal with some of those folks. Peace of mind.
The History of African-Americans should be a required curriculum for all Americans.
At some point, maybe during my lifetime, people must realize that the power is in the streets and an undeniable, unbeatable combination
to achieve whatever human , civil, ethical, or moral right we need served is the unified front of (All) particularly black people and white people.
Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Fred Hampton, and the valiant and courageous students who participated in the sit-ins, the freedom rides,
who assembled on Berkeley and other college campuses, Schwerner/Chaney/Goodman realized this. The young have always spearheaded the battles.
Beautifully said.
I n this day and age what constitutional rights does anyone other than the White community have to fight for ?
@@sky4you2b - the fact you think "whites" have constitutional issues right now and no one else does - shows we still have a long ways to go to achieve true equality. Women still face prejudice as do other minorities. Our biggest fight as a country is the overwhelming and unmitigated power in the WH and congress right now. We all need to be concerned about the lack of checks and balances for these areas of gov't. Even the justice department has been tainted - which is suppose to be an independent area of gov't.
@@Kimmy1621 I somewhat agree , except for the fact that you seem to be under the impression that in this day and age women and minorities are not above and beyond the point of true equality at the expense of none other than the white community's abridgment of they're Constitutional rights .
@@sky4you2b oh white people are so oppressed! Gtfoh clown 🤡.
This generation had brains and guts! Watching in 2023
amazing thanks!
Thank you!
Thank you eater
Thank you for uploading this. I’m showing this to my 6th graders!
I’m watching this for class rn😭
be glad, i didn't get to learn this at school, but I wish I did and that i wouldn't need to dig it out of every last place on the internet to know
Excellent video. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland is indeed an inspiration. Hate that her name was misspelled @6:30.
I get so sad seeing stuff like this, be the change.
Thank You
Read Anne Moody, “Coming of Age in Mississippi.”
Wonderful video.
Crazy to think this was only a generation or two ago
Come on, appreciation to all these people who...
We were all born humans but not all of us are identified as humans. These sisters and brothers of all races gave us an identity of real brotherly love for each other. The true heros that made our tomorrow better.
I agree, the old school singing brought back fond memories of my grandma singing late at night. Ms. Mulholland brings back fond memories of the freedom whites who came to the hood. I have to qualify hood because our neighborhood was integrated but blacks and whites had limited interaction. I hate to say it, but the process of civil rights and integration was fun sometimes. Maybe not so much for the activists though.
It truly makes me angry how people couldn't have these basic rights due to fear and difference may america only go forward and we will always remember their great sacrifice they had to endure just to earn these simple rights.
What a great piece of history. And memories for many. These brave young people saw intolerable injustice, and stood together to bring about change. They are now called "boomers" by some. What's in a name?
For me, it started in the late 50s, and I was among these 60s people. Those of us who survived are still progressive. Still in good trouble, in the good fight. The Job is not yet done. Come together, get involved.
the job will never be done because it's not a just cause.... the so-called "civil rights" movement was a Leftist strategy designed to destroy America and the freedom it represents. you all got "played"
@@lumpythefish Translation: "I hate black people"
Mississippi hasn't changed much at all. That's the sad part. Yeah you can sit at the same counter and use the same bathroom, but if you try dating or marrying outside of your race, you face the same hatred.
This is why I always choose to sit at the bar.
Looks like a lovely diner
i love it
I thank God for those that stood strong in the face of adversity. God bless the people that said no to the hate and hypocrisy of the past. Unfortunately, we are seeing this same type of hypocrisy today. People sat in church's in the 40's, 50's, 60's --- and heard the words but ignored their meaning as they pursued a life of prejudice. Now this same mentality is growing once again.
We have to be stronger than the ignorance. We hit milestone progress with the election of Obama - he did great things as president but under the aurora of change - positive change - was the rumbles of discontent - the ones that hate progress, that fear the loss of status and control. The backlash came in the form of the current president. He is the face and voice of hate, prejudice, disrespect, and a loss of ethics and morals. This is our lunch counter moment. We have to vote for progress, for kindness, for love - and end division. I'm not necessarily talking about Democrats vs Republicans - Kasich was a great republican representative and I'm sure there are others as well. We have to stand united and defeat this evil in the voting booth. I know this will come and we will win, but how long it takes and the continued destruction of our nation and planet will be dependent upon those willing to do the right thing. The power and justice of this nation must rest with the people and not congress, the president or the upper 1%. The fight is never over.
Kimmy1621 what in the world are you talking about? What a disgrace that you are comparing the struggle of these people to today. It’s shameful. But You are right on one thing; There is a lot of intolerance and hateful violence out there for sure.
So bad ass man
Mahatma Gandhi's gift to the world - Non violent revolutions.
thank you! we're about to make a sit in ourselves too
why
yep great
helped me with my school work
nothing really changed. just more covert about it now.
IT HAS CHANGED AFRICAN AMERICANS CAN SIT AND NE ANYTHING THEY WANT EVEN PRESIDENT😠
@@tiffanycurtis4794 People's minds haven't changed 😐
Still following our ancestors "footsteps."
Resurrection Sunday 2021
This is a real eye opener for me, I never knew smoking was permitted at a lunch counter.
Change gonne come
When I got my boys scout physical they still had white and black doors. Although prodomently black town everyone in used white door.
0:51 The Jungle Book
I would have sat there and I would have been strong and took the pain. Even if I got splashed with coffee or sprayed with ketchup, etc.
The best of this nations people
“Chief Sitting Bull had to do this first, please don’t let this movement get worse”
Wonder if any of those punks pouring stuff on them amounted to anything
ROLL JORDAN ROLL
What an absolutely shameful episode in the history of the United States.
THAT IS INPORTANT
I am so proud of these protesters of the 1950's and 2020! This is what an heroic American looks like! This is why any of us who remain silent are as complicit as the active racists!
I Think you mean, Peaceful "Protests"
@@ahuskyplaythough3826 Whatever inane point you were trying to make here is made completely incoherent by your poor grasp on the English language.
@@EE-jv5xg Oh, By the Way, I Fixed it!
Be a Joan.
❤🥰❤✌🏽
When you pick a city in North Carolina as the place for this sit in, you create an alibi for Billy Graham-a staunch ally of the SCLC- among the rightists.
(0:29 1:25)--(2:00 3:30)
Of course I remember. I am a white Yankee who grew up in Memphis. I think the issue with the lunch counter sit-ins was the fact that Negros money was fine for goods, but sitting down to eat at the stores lunch counter was forbidden. Those young people who dared to stay sitting at a counter where they knew they would not be served is bravery beyond any battle field where you at least had buddies to stand by you with guns. These young people had no law to help them. They knew what was going to happen to them.
The black people's voices are MISSING in this documentary.
I noticed that too. Actually, I found it kinda jarring.
more white then black people !😁
The piece is ABOUT the white people who had the COURAGE to stand up against the bigots. Can't you realize that? Not ALL whites stood by and did nothing. Thank the Universe for them.
@@bjmccann1 The piece is ABOUT the white people who had the COURAGE to stand up against the bigots. Can't you realize that? Not ALL whites stood by and did nothing. Thank the Universe for them.
@@tiredofidiotz775 Yes, that's never mentioned..
feel like doing a sit in with prioty seats but its not a huge fight !😣
Did they really get hot coffee throw at their faces?
@Devon Digby that wasnt my question chief
I'm definitely sure it's not like this when we leave planet earth know crap like borders or segregation wow what a trip.😎 big loco East Los Angeles Califas 💯 🇲🇽 🇺🇸.
Reading The Help brought me here.
how the Dear Leader's fans would like America again
We have to be stronger than the ignorance. We hit milestone progress with the election of Obama - he did great things as president but under the aurora of change - positive change - was the rumbles of discontent - the ones that hate progress, that fear the loss of status and control. The backlash came in the form of the current president. He is the face and voice of hate, prejudice, disrespect, and a loss of ethics and morals. This is our lunch counter moment. We have to stand united and defeat this evil in the voting booth. We have to vote for progress, for kindness, for love - and end division. I know this will come and we will win, but how long it takes and the destruction of our nation and planet will be dependent upon those willing to do the right thing. The power and justice of this nation must rest with the people and not congress, the president or the upper 1%. The fight is never over.
we've done it before, we'll do it again
I'm glad some white people joined in on the movement. 🙂
whos here from hromaka
If Fox News existed back then, their coverage wouldn't be so different except their skirts would be longer
Its domestic violence my cousin
Interesting to look at these people and "wonder" which side of the political spectrum they would be on today. I will give you 1 guess
It is quite sad that humanity cannot see beyond the color of the skin. This type of behavior cannot be accepted at any given time or place either back then or now.
Agreed, we must ban the Congressional Black Caucus & all affirmative action tonight.
I was arraigned on defiant trespass charges last month.... for refusing to wear a face diaper at my doctor's office. It's amazing that our calendar is filled with days of remembrance of all kind of historical events in our history. Yet despite all of these historical dates on our calendar, it seems like mankind keeps forgetting where they came from to repeat the atrocities of the past.
Not only is this an extreme stretch of a comparison (one between wearing a mask and segregation), but your punishment is also of your own fruition. Any private establishment has the right to make its own rules, and this doctor's office chose to ask you to wear a mask. This could be because we are slowly (yet finally) emerging from a global pandemic that has killed almost a million Americans; might the rule be there because the doctor's office sees many people about a variety of different health issues, all of which may have a connection to the same global pandemic? It's a matter of thinking of others, is all.
Who's here from Google 👆
You.
Why not Black Americans establish their own restaurant instead of giving their hard earn money to people who do not want to serve them.
shame..
Rediculess smh
Interesting how segregated still exist in such places as the Congressional Black Caucus , college dorms , Student Body councils , etc. etc.
I only came in here for some of that refreshing white water
...liberty and justice for all...
white people.
This is just sad all respects to blacks w
Why is this focusing on white people's stories?
Because Pearlina Lewis, Memphis Norman, and Anne Moody, are dead. Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (the white woman) and John Salter Jr. (the white professor) were the only eyewitnesses left alive at the time of this interview. They were telling the stories for them because they were dead.
If you want a black person's account of the events, Anne Moody was a writer and I'm sure you can find her books. I recommend "Coming of Age in Mississippi."
Now the discrimination is against conservatives in this country. It's the same thing.
LOL you are a moron
I thought I escaped history class. Wheres the food eater
No, blacks and whites did not live in "separate worlds." Blacks and whites intermingled, but it had to be in circumstances in which blacks were clearly subordinate to whites. The white Southerners would not mix with them on a basis of equality, and they certainly would not have tolerated a society in which blacks controlled whites (as they feared would happen if blacks were given the right to vote in majority-black counties, a real circumstance in much of the rural South). As for the signs pointing out "white" and "colored," it was no different than "men" and "women" on restrooms is today.
um where's the food
PAYNOC Exactly. That was the question. And instead of being served a cup of coffee and a plate of eggs, these brave individuals were served up a whole lot of hatred.
Yeah what do restaurants have to do with food
MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN
Jesus is God of justice
Get a gun and learn to protect yourself because society is full of crazies o_O