Mississippi U.S.A. 1961.
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- F2013.134.2.0048
Description: Freedom riders had started to travel across the south with the purpose of contributing to the cause of of eliminating discrimination based on race or ethnicity by testing segregation policies in bus terminals. In May of 1961, a bus carrying fourteen black and white freedom riders arrived at a bus station in Jackson, Mississippi, where they were escorted and guarded by armed troops, sixteen patrol cars, and an airplane. At a previous stop in Alabama, the bus had been attacked and passengers had been injured. After exiting the bus, the riders went inside of the bus station and attempted to use the "white only" restaurant and restrooms. When they refused to "move on," they were arrested and charged with disturbing the peace and/or inciting a riot rather than breaking Mississippi's segregation laws. In this documentary, there is footage of the bus carrying the freedom riders into Jackson, Mississippi, the riders unboarding the bus at the bus station, entering the bus station, and being escorted, under arrest, out of the bus station by Jackson police. A WKY reporter explains why integration had not been adopted in Mississippi. The documentary also includes interviews that reflect the attitudes held by different groups in regards to the issue of integrating Mississippi. William Simmons, the secretary of the White Citizens' Council, explains why he believes segregation should continue in Mississippi and responds to the reporter's questions concerning his views on equality. Medgar Evers, an African-American civil rights activist and field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), explains why he thinks Mississippi citizens were less aggressive than those in Alabama, as well as the lack of leadership in Jackson's black community. Charles Oldham, the national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), explains the purpose and goals of the freedom rides and how he believes the freedom rides will lead to changes in policies and attitudes that support integration. The reporter discusses Mississippi's resistance to change traditional institutions such as segregation and white supremacy. Mississippi's governor, Ross Barnett, speaks before an audience about how the behavior of Mississippi's white citizens during the bus's stop in Jackson. Men and women are stopped on the street by the reporter and share their opinions about integration and/or the Freedom Rides. The night of the freedom riders' trials, Jackson's black leaders hold a meeting. Footage of three men speaking to the 126 people who attended the meeting. Governor Barnett responds to questions about how long the state planned to finance the fight against integration. The documentary concludes with Oldham, Evers, and Simmons briefly explaining why they believe integration will or will not occur.
Creator: WKY News
Coverage: Jackson (City), in Mississippi (USA)
MARC Geographic Areas: Mississippi (msu); United States (xxu)
Extent (quantity/size): 28min 51sec
Media: 16 mm film; Moving Images
AVI 1920 x 1080 29.97 FRAMES PER SECOND
Subjects: Barnett, Ross R. 1898-1987 / Civil Rights / Congress of Racial Equality / Discrimination--Law and legislation / Documentary television programs / Equality before the law / Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 / Freedom Rides, 1961 / Jackson (Mississippi) / Race relations / Racism / Segregation / State Action (Civil Rights) / White citizens councils
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This is why history is so important.
Now they call it being "woke"....the Rethuglicans want us back to "I owe my soul to the company store", and you black lizzards best off get back.on your knees where you belong!
The DEMOCRAT Party was founded by slave owners. In his book "Negro President - Jefferson and the Slave Power," Pulitzer Prize winning historian Garry Wills writes that party founder Thomas Jefferson and his fellow DEMOCRAT Party politicians had a political "indebtedness to the slavemasters." Wills notes that while "everyone recognizes that Jefferson depended on slaves for his economic existence, fewer reflect that he depended on them for his political existence. Yet the latter was the all-important guardian of the former."
The party’s first six political platforms from 1840-1860 supported slavery.
Seven DEMOCRAT presidents owned slaves.
Democrats in Congress opposed the 13th Amendment that abolished slavery, the 14th amendment that gave Blacks due process and the 15th Amendment that gave them the right to vote.
@@jb-vb8un like I said, the Rethuglicans want us back to "I owe my soul to the company store"...wake up! Things are todays now......and you're the problem.
@@jb-vb8unya the Democrat party started out with racism as well. But if you fastforward to the 70's and 80's these same racist politicians switched there party to republican! That's facts! The kkk has reinvented itself many times.
@@jb-vb8un A lot of the Dixiecrats in the south are still alive. Because of southern strategy I dare you to call them Democrats in the present day.
It's wild seeing Medgar Evers talking and looking so young. Rest In Peace legend.
Lick. Lick. Yo. Juicy juicy.
I hear ya Arie
Rest in peace is a ridiculous term. He and many others are in paradise and have no negative memories from this world. Their all living but not where we can see them
@@ladellmorris2745 No they're not. They're dead.
My God bless his soul 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I've traveled to Gulfport/Biloxi MS over the years (and vacationed there last year) and I've never had any negative interactions with anyone and felt welcome everywhere I went. Mississippi has definitely come a long way, for which I'm thankful. I will share the only negative experience I had in the south was in Montgomery, Alabama (another area known for it's brutal treatment of blacks and anyone associated with them during the civil rights era). I was at a family reunion there in 2009 and stayed at a hotel that most of the areas were rented out for our reunion (which included the pool and certain dining areas). A middle aged white woman actually approached one of my family members and wanted us to leave the pool area so her kids could use it. Needless to say, that didn't happen. She stomped off, pissed off, but yes, there are still some ignorant people out there who feel they are better than others.
The Gulf Coast Region Culture is VERY DIFFERENT FROM NEW ORLEANS REGION TO MOBILE, ALABAMA REGION. THIS CULTURE IS OF CREOLE AND CAJUN CULTURE OF FRENCH,. SPANISH, NATIVE AMERICAN AND AFRICAN. ITS IN THEIR FIRST NAMES OR SURNAMES AND THE RACES MIXED AND HISTORICALLY FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR. MOST OF THE DESCENDANTS MIGRATED TO CHICAGO AND CALIFORNIA
I don’t believe that
@@blossom1643 Who cares what you believe...It happened and I've got no reason to lie about it. There are still some people in this world who believe you should bow down to them and do what you're told.
@@blossom1643I used to live in a white neighborhood. Born from Mexican (we are "the" Americans) parents, we were looked after by a white lady (3 of us) while my parents worked. It was only for an hour or 2 after school.
SHE WAS AWESOME!
Treated us good...and I can't say enough about how kind she was to each of us.
… but you do NOT understand how awful people (white people) can be, if you think the story that the op told isn't true?
That is kind… actually.
SHE ASKED them to leave.
When they refused SHE WALKED (stomped) AWAY!
Since you don't believe that… it’s probably a much wilder thought to know that white people usually DO NOT STOP THERE!
Law (which usually helped them) or NOT!
@@blossom1643- black people used to get hung for looking at a white girl.
… and you can't believe this guys comment?
Not that long ago. We have made huge steps. Respect to my parents and grandparents that had to endure such nonsense.
Kimber Ann I'm 55, born in 62. It was not that long ago. You must be a very young grandmother.
Kimber Ann does that lie make you feel better?
Tracey Johnson lol with 11 grandkids wth???
@Kimber Ann - Comparing 911 to what a race of people endured during slavery and Jim Crow is asinine. Not wanting to look at our history won't change anything. It's sad , but the mindset of many whites hasn't changed that much. The younger generation should be taught. Believe it or not, history can be repeated if we don't learn the lessons of the past.
MiaNichole paid for by the government I’m sure.
As a trucker ,i absolutely love driving through Mississippi i-55..I waa upset when they took down one of the last good ol' mom and pop truck stop called space way on 1-20 meridian, MS..The best chicken sandwiches you can buy on the road(so fresh and delicious)..The nicest folks you could ever encounter...Also the silver slipper casino in Gulf port allowed me to not only park but gave me V.I.P treatment allowing me to park right next to the water out front...Always a beautiful encounter with folks of all kinds in the great OL' MS......I LOVE THESE OLD HISTORICAL FILMS..THANK YOU
I loved space way too. Didn’t live too far away from it, it’s fuel man. Culture has been deleted there
My first time being in Mississippi was a couple years ago in July and even though I had an air conditioned rental car, I couldn't help but think of how anyone in their right minds lived with all of that heat and humidity. It was so unbearable. I couldn't imagine living down there 50+ years ago when there was no air conditioning in homes or in the cars they drove. I'll take my northern blizzards and sub-freezing temperatures any day over that summer heat.
Because you have a comparison between having air-conditioning and not having it. When there is NO comparison, as people in the South years ago didn't have air-condition, one doesn't think about what comfortable element is missing. They just endure and see it as another hot and humid day.
That’s true piano man. We didn’t miss what we didn’t know. He can have his sub zero blizzards. The South is wonderful. Always was.✌️
@@blossom1643 blossom, you actually stated my thought more succinctly than I did. Thanks!!
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What does the temperature have to do with segregation?
@@pianoman551000 true
14 young people
attractive and dressed in professional clothing, scared the crap out of the entire state of mississippi
now that is power
WRONG.
They did NOT scare anybody, it was the possibility of a riot being started.
Your twist accomplished nothing.
Angered is a better word. Fear is an overused adjective.
@@gearshifterg9756 fear creates anger
you hate what you fear
no twist...now go back to practicing your cross burning
@@thewkovacs316
Normally,being ignorant is not a quality most people tend to boast about, but here you are displaying it as if you have won first place.
But I guess when you are nothing more than a simple minded little snowflake, it's all you have. Now PLEASE quit destroying people's private property and burning down structures.
@@thewkovacs316 ain’t nobody fearing them blacks
my dad was born in 1915 and was born and raised in Mississippi. I didn’t learn about the history of the south until the 70’s & 80’s and it was not something that was discussed at all in our household. learning about the type of environment my Dad grew up in it always amazed me that he never had a bad word to say about white people and was always quiet and dignified. he has passed on but I admire and love him and try to pattern my behavior to his.
Bless Up.. Your Father seems like he was a great man
What would Randolph Elder do ?
❤❤❤
Your Father was a good Man, God Bless him and may he RIP.
Did you call him Sir
@@johnwalsh7806I call all my elders sir or ma’am.
These sort of records are invaluable today. Thanks for sharing them with us.
I live in MS and this makes me so sad. My first reaction was anger, but then I just felt bad for the ignorance and that some people still act this way.
Y feel bad just b glad its not u thats sooooo ignorant
What's sad is the change that was forced on our people miscegenation is sin it's disgusting and disgraceful and this atrocity is to blame I'm a Mississippian and my family has been here since the Civil War and I say Segregate! There's nothing unequal about living separate we can learn from the mistakes of the past and make separate but truly equal facilities this time but we will never get along living side by side it's unnatural the blue bird doesn't lay with the red bird open your eyes you have been indoctrinated
Listening to the yt guy explain how no one is equal and whites don’t complain about being segregated, priceless. Hope his descendants see this.
Near Yetfar Forced change is a must when people don’t do what is morally and ethically right. They had a Lynch Street in Jackson?
How did they think they could take tax money from Black citizens but prevent them from benefits? Ross Barnett speaking about Blacks obeying the law, while supporting lawless whites.
I remember traveling by car through Mississippi and Louisiana as an eight year old child, spring of 1961. Being from Queens, New York, and white, I went to school with black kids, played with a handful of black kids in my neighborhood, and never really gave it much thought. I saw for the first time restricted signs, “Colored,” “White Only,” on public restroom doors, at hotels where we stayed, and on restaurants. We didn’t normally stay in hotels or eat out, so these were a treat. At one point, I asked my mother if we had brought Donna with us, (a black girl I played with) couldn’t eat there since she’d be our guest. Mom hushed me up in a hurry and said she tell me later. When I persisted, I got the “look” that meant “shut up and mind your elders.” It wasn’t until we met Dad on base (Navy) in Florida that the matter was spoken of. The consensus was that it wasn’t right, however, we would keep our mouths shut in public because some people there had resorted to killing over it. We were individually expected to speak and act respectfully to all people, whether black, white, oriental, or whatever, just as at home. I was left feeling very disturbed that there were murders about such a thing making it dangerous to mention, but like always, strong feelings were not discussed or outwardly expressed in our family. I did as I’d learned to do, think about it, then put it in an imaginary box and put the box on the back shelf in the closet. “To Be Dealt With at a Later Time”
Too bad the entire county can't be as wonderful as Queens. A true paradise on earth.
Spoken like a true northerner.
Words can explain but that’s mind blowing
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Today as we speak about racism human beings are being bombed and killed in Ukraine and most of us put the issues on a imaginary box "to be dealt with at a later time". This ukranian "journalist" is asking to "eliminate" 1.5 million russo- ukranians because they are "unnecesary" and "superfluos". Did we forget about the Holocaust? Yesterday it was jews and blacks, today it is ukranians, what it will be tomorrow? Mexicans?
thanks for sharing!
Every time you see someone claiming that he or 'his race' is superior to others, you're immediately struck by how painfully and patently mediocre he is. Every. Single. Time.
It's happening again now
Brings to mind BLM movement and the DemonRat party.
Also painfully ignorant.
Wait till you hear why abortion exist and why RBG said roe vs wade was made legal. It's disturbing
@@danimotherofchickens479 Please explain to me again why abortion was made legal in America in 1973.
R.I.P Medgar Evers.
Thanks Mr. Medgar Evers....WORDS are inadequate what you mean to me and how you gave your life for Blacks to be free from these DEVILS
smells like something died
@@arkybaldknobber8062 Love your name. Lol
I'm not American. I know the name but wonder what he meant to people - not the media or google.
Love Byran Dela Beckwith. Great hero.
@@arkybaldknobber8062 could b ya mouth its close to ur 👃🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️🤷🏿♀️
That's why my parents who was born in the 1920's in Mississippi move to Michigan to raise a family.
love and defense of segregation was spoken so freely. This stuff runs deep and is still around.
Definitely agree 👌. Look at Jackson Mississippi today in 2023. Looks like Zimbabwe 💩
Democrat Woodrow Wilson, born under the Dixie flag, became US President in 1913, for 2 terms, and made segregation official.
@@AmigoKanduand back then, the parties were the opposite that they are now.
Segregation forever!
Amazing what inbreeding does back then...these people take shotguns to alien sightings...."why do u need shotguns"? "So we dont wana be abducted"........"and leave all this....learn to read a road map and leave......im lown away how people can be conditioned etc.were all the same consciosness having a physical experience.....
We have been an increasingly incompatible society ever since.
It’s sad that there is still such hatred in people hearts how many years later. Heart wrenching
Hatred is a mental illness affecting the heart. Plus if u hate someone just because of ur foolish pride u become a murderer.
barely
@@normaheflin5670 no its not a mental illness, just an ignorant mindset. It's not like there's a chemical imbalance affecting the mind compared to majority of other healthy humans (like with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder).. It's like people who buy into a cult, just these types bought into racism and hatred. They don't need medication to help them, just a good ol reality check.
anti-American DEMOCRATS have their entire history rooted in hate & anarchy
It’s not hatred. It’s a fear of unfamiliarity and inability to have empathy
"We Delawareans were on the South’s side in the Civil War." - Joe Biden
These video capture the true sentiment of the south yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Sad.
It’s not just the south.
Rip Jackson Mississippi those black mayors destroyed the city
Sounds like it was ruined long before black mayors! Ok over half the population was segregated
The state politicians of Mississippi particularly Republicans had a lot to do with it
That you Tom?
My grandparents where in there early 20s during this time here. Crazy to see my grandmas stories she would tell me.
My grandma lived in southern Missouri crazy stories in the 1930’s as a kid
Share with us
I can’t believe this was only 61 years ago
Hope I'm spelling his name right, but I just heard on the ABC Radio News (posting 12:05 am ET on 8-26-21) that Ernest "Rip" Patton, one of the Freedom Riders, recently died at age 81. I'm guessing it was three or so days ago. He was in sit-ins at Nashville lunch counters.
Mississippi was very hardcore. Kind of surprised it ever changed at all there.
It changed. Thats good.
It hasn’t actually. It’s still stuck in the 50s when you go there.
@@joecool1409 no, it isn't. You just find what you look for. But if it just riles your delicate little perfect self so much, stay out of Mississippi. We can do without your judgmental behavior.
O Alabama era pior.
Yea, the south never changes, but the north and NY and California can have the names Michael Griffith, Yusuf Hawkins, Charles and Caroline Stuart, Tawana Brawley, Bernard Goetz, the Central Park jogger suspects, Rodney King, George Floyd, Michael Brown, "Hands Up, Don't Shoot", Eric Garner, "I Can't Breathe", Tamir Rice, Orlando Castille, Trayvon Martin, all within the past FORTY YEARS, but you're going to go back SIXTY YEARS in Mississippi to find 'racism'.
That's why America isn't changing it's racial perspective.
We have to give props for the freedom riders.They had aspire people to fight for right ,to go where you to go.eat at restaurant,washrooms,slept in hotels,we were fighting for people call us yes sir and mams for black folk.much love core,NAACP,southern christian leadership,urban lead,other unsung heroes!🌉⛺🏩😝😒🏰🐐😂😂🏤🏩🐽🐴🐨🌊🌁🌏☀🌕🌗🌜🌛🏬🚞🚀🎢🚂🚈🚂
I would have been scared shirtless....
lol look at the destroyed American cities today.
This tears my heart out!!!!! Even as a child, hearing about stuff like this; I just didn’t understand the hate & cruelty.
An excellent documentation of this particular history.
I'm white so I don't understand all the things being black you have to go through. I just can't wrap my head around how our nation leaders let this go on against their citizens who some actually fought and shed blood for that same nation. It's the sad part of our history.
The white leaders was and still a big part of the racial problem. TRUMPTY DUMPTY
@@nanjemoyal-kursi3078 No, the Democratic Party held african americans back for nearly a century after the Civil War. Lincoln, a Republican, freed the slaves. Democrats response was to found the KKK. Republicans had presented civil rights bills as early as the 1880's. Democrats voted against them. LBJ got civil rights passed, but he had to do a TON of talking to convince his fellow Democrats to vote yes. The Democrats have a long history of hate and division, never forget that.
@Constitutional Conservative A bit of history. The Republican party, the party of Lincoln was supported by black people until the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In the aftermath, authorities were severely criticized for favouring the white population during relief operations. Thousands of African American plantation workers had been forced to work shoring up the levees near Greenville, Miss. Then, as the waters rose, they were left stranded for days without food or drinking water, while white women and children were hauled to safety. Young white Boy Scouts guarded African Americans at gunpoint. Black people were forced to participate in relief efforts, and to clean up flooded areas while receiving inferior provisions for themselves. At least one black man was shot, reportedly for refusing to work. After the flood, black loyalty to the Republican party ended.
@@cz4259 A bit of history. The Republican party, the party of Lincoln was supported by black people until the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In the aftermath, authorities were severely criticized for favouring the white population during relief operations. Thousands of African American plantation workers had been forced to work shoring up the levees near Greenville, Miss. Then, as the waters rose, they were left stranded for days without food or drinking water, while white women and children were hauled to safety. Young white Boy Scouts guarded African Americans at gunpoint. Black people were forced to participate in relief efforts, and to clean up flooded areas while receiving inferior provisions for themselves. At least one black man was shot, reportedly for refusing to work. After the flood, black loyalty to the Republican party ended.
@Freethinkers You know dsmn well ur silly old ass ancestors got a government welfare in the form of either the homestead act,the new deal or the Gi bill
Systematic racism never stopped.
And it Never Will
It’s obvious, look at the prison system and racial profiling.
Well if niggas would stop being niggas
It never should
And it ain't stop
i'm 63 yrs old white male...i grew up in segregated jim crow mississippi...it was horrible...i didn't go to school with blacks until i was 6th grade...racism is still rampant, but it has been somewhat tempered relative to the way it used to b...but yes, there is still plenty of racism...it's a blight on society.
Shut up white boy ur racist
“Somewhat tempered”
Only somewhat? There isn’t 10% of the racism that used to exist in the 60s.
Yawn. No it’s not. It barely exists. And even where it does it doesn’t mean jack shit. Go to the hood and try to hang out. You’ll get your ass whooped.
I'm black. From Texarkana, AR. School for me started Sept 1969. I was 6 years old. We all black and white played together with no problems
that wasn't the case when I started school...once we did integrate, it was a bit tumultuous at first, but it did seem eventually to "stabilize" - but that's not saying racism and the subsequent tension was eradicated...the strategy to incrementally implement desegregation in the schools first was a wise one, with the belief that children are more malleable than, say, adults whose entrenched beliefs seemed to "ossify" and were next to impossible to overcome...by the time I graduated high school, some of my best friends were black...we had a great time together...of course, we all went our separate ways to get on with our lives...but we still cross paths on occasion...I had a class with a beautiful black girl when I was at the University of Southern Mississippi...I wanted to date her, but she refused my intent, and I always got the impression that I was just "too white" for her (lol), i.e., just another bigoted redneck...but I wasn't then, and I'm not now...I wasn't b/c I'm ugly; it's b/c stereotypes can be ugly...society is still reeling from racism.
Is this when America was great?
@@Withlovefrominterent Maybe you should ask your Republican politicians who run Mississippi as to why the state is crap.
@Dn j l was born there and actually lived it. I saw it and experienced it. I was there during the killing and terror. You must not be black. Try walking a mile in our shoes and you will get a real education. America was never great for me. Thank you.
It’s very sad to see what’s happened to jackson today. Most of west Jackson where I grew up is a gutted waste land. I used to cut grass up and down west capitol. We were not well off but our neighborhoods were kept nice. I walked to the zoo and the library. And now it’s so dangerous. Jackson is a regular top 10 murder capitol of America. Drug and gang violence is rampant. All development moved away to Rankin and Madison county. No one wants to build in Jackson. It’s around 85% black now. What happened to Jackson? I really wish some black people would comment on what they think caused Jackson to fail. Was it democratic policy? Is there a lack of visionary leadership?
This is simply America not one place is prosperous in this country for ever. In no time those suburbs will be run down as well. Prosperity in America tends to always favour the new communities vs the old.
@@seanthe100Also guessing there was massive white flight out of Jackson when desegregation happened a few years after this film was made.
Blacks moved in whites moved out and took all the resources with them, therefore creating an environment of hopelessness, a cycle of terrible education structure, then top it off with drugs and alcohol..I present to you the ghetto..do blacks need to be held accountable? Of course but, the odds were stacked against them from the beginning..
I''m sorry,it's 85% black, that is what happened.
It is amazing how blind people are.
That’s what happens when you don’t allow 42% of your population to the same level of education as the whites. What did you expect was gonna happen? Blacks were treated as less than second class citizens. They had no voice, the education and facilities given to them by the state was no where near to the level given to the whites. Segregation ended and suddenly blacks are supposed to be on the same level as whites? This isn’t a race issue. This is the result of segregation
Being from Mississippi it is very strange and upsetting to hear people talk and act this way. People from large population centers such as N.Y. CA. and so on believe the majority of Mississippians still believe and act the way they did back in 1961. We have made great advances in equal rights. True there is still room for improvement. I love my home and the people here no matter what color they are. Please don't stereotype people of Mississippi just because you heard a happening back during those days. I'm sure someone will trash and call me names about my comments but I believe overall all people no matter what color they happen to be are of the same mind. Keep fighting for Freedom. Everyone's Freedom. God Bless you all.
B.S.
And I’m a Mississippian. Too little has changed. This is the same ole non sequitur filled straw man crap I’ve heard my whole life to justify keeping as close to the status quo as possible. Shameful.
Every minority of every ethnic background (not just African Americans), should never forget the sacrifice and tremendous courage these people (Freedom Fighters) exhibited in order to assure that everyone should have equal rights.
I grew up in Texas... I just turned 53 yesterday (Aug 2024). In 1981 I was in the 5th grade, and that was the first time I was ever in a classroom with a black student. I had never seen a black kid at school before that day.
By the time I graduated high school in 1989, there were maybe 60 to 80 black students..in a school of about 2200 students.
Last summer we moved my dad out of the house I grew up in (he moved in with us due to his failing health). My parents bought that house when I was one year old.
In the time he lived there, over 50 years, the neighborhood changed a lot. There had always historically been a significant hispanic population, and there were really no problems between whites and hispanics.
But now, there is a significant black population. The older neighborhoods are mostly hispanic (more than before).
The newer neighborhoods, and apartment complexes are almost entirely black residents.
All I can say is that it was a great town to grow up in, from its founding to propbably the late 1980s or early 90s.
Since then, it has become riddled with crime. It has new businesses, new housing, new infrastructure, etc... Its not a question of decline, and turning into a ghetto. But for some reason, its a very low trust place to live now. The grocery store has 4 armed guards...three inside and one outside. There is a ton of investment in that area, new schools, new eveything... yet its terrible there.
I dont think black people would of had a problem with segregation if they water fountains was gone get clean water like whites, they schools was gone be built properly etc.
Eugene Conners separation not segregation
You’re a dumbass now ain’t ya.
@@EA-xe4sr ,no. Actually, I don't think blacks would mind separate but equal if it had truly existed. I can tell you this, I remember more black owned businesses then than now.
what's strange and funny is that the blacks in this video were well-spoken, calm, and well-dressed; completely opposite of most blacks in the US today.
Explain how most black people are not well dressed? Oh being well dressed is dressing like a white man huh? Gotcha
God's TRUTH is marching on. An nobody can stop IT.
Yea, praise be unto Allah and Islam, right? Moron.
Passages of the Old Testament were used to justify holding people in subjugation as Slaves-proof that it was written by men, no Divine Creator would have decided to bring about a race of people for another race to abuse, murder, rape, and enslave.
I was born October 1960. This and all like it has happened in my lifetime...WOW
This is why we fight for reparations stand with us as in abolitionist like in the days of slavery when some whites fought to help free slaves join the fight
@Cynthia Dickerson do you own your on business
John Gwin Texas I am 4 years behind u. I’ve been through some of this personally myself. Not as harsh though
@Klaa2 so what are your plans
@Klaa2 English please
This is the struggle the black man had to endure. There accomplishments are nothing less than amazing. It is sad to see the young black man of today to throw away the opportunity that was so hard to gain.
So sad..I'm so proud of Mississippi though..we have come a long way.
So much to say about this! It was 1961 (May 13, the exact date, I believe). In Anniston, Alabama, several freedom riders were brutally beaten and the bus was torched. Also, though I know this refers to Mississippi, Rosa Parks made her stand (no pun intended) in Montgomery, Alabama. The city eventually let people ride wherever they wanted, and that was more than eight years before federal civil rights legislation was passed.
It happened before Rosa, in Louisiana, maybe...? People have always protested and stood up for their human and civil rights. Unfortunately, it wasn't always televised or otherwise recorded. May those brave souls rest in freedom and peace. The challenge remains as does the protest/fight to QUASH it!
Do you know that the black citizens boycotted the bus system for over a year, Montgomery felt the pinch in the pocketbooks, them blacks boycotted for over a year, the city of Montgomery was resistant as it could be.
God bless the confederacy and mississippi!
These citizens had so much fortitude and courage. To keep coming back after being knocked down shows their true mettle.
That was probably the last time Jackson actually looked nice
@@pastorrickstevenson5325 white people
Fuk ya
So much was sacrificed. So much hope was expected. Yet look around you today sixty years later it starts again.
President Obama was the cause of making me feel oppressed all over again
Sad...that a small group was able to terrorize an entire community. Plenty of people were too terrified to speak out against these oppressors. Can you imagine!
Um yes I can imagine. As someone who had their life threatened with murder attempt in high school...
You know what it Is, but when you actually here it and it's so well entrenched . Emmitt Till
Emmitt shouldn't have whistled
@@wadescott2036 You are justifying the murder of a black boy for whistling at a white woman? Seriously??
@@tomfields3682 yup
I live in mississippi and it still feels segregated in our communities.
Amber Milton really ?
By choice not force tho
Y'all still racist in Mississippi
@Prime Minister of Redneckistan By force too.
Yes in some areas that's how it is . But now it's a choice .
History is embarrassing. It never lies.
Look how they ruined a once thriving city.
Fascinating glimpse into recent history.
Emphasis on recent!
That bus clip.....what a glaring piece of propaganda. No support because support meant loss of job, loss of home, canceled insurance policy's, physical harm, incarceration.
My grandfather moved from Mississippi to Albany NY in the early 1940's and I see why.
I live in Albany ny now ! Wow
@@tqswagga cause they get mo food stamps and welfa shecks up dare
@@wildestcowboy2668 Yikes , I wish any of us asked a question for you to answer. Also wish you had proper grammar 😔
@@tqswagga bet playa
Sorry he moved to Albany. 😅 jk
I grew up in TN during the 60s and integration. I remember going to see the movie "The Bible with my mother and grandmother. I remember watching the NAACP protest peacefully because blacks had to sit in the balcony. I was only 7 or 8 and didn't understand everything but felt change was coming. About 50 yards from that protest still stands a statue of Gen. Hatton CSA.
How did you enjoy the whites only section?
These Gringos have not changed much.
My father's Mother had her house burnt to ashes, because some one accused my grandmother of spitting in a white water fountain. But they really wanted to destroy her Moon-Shine business.
We didn't need integration we needed the same opportunities that these gringos were given.
18:48...She needed to get a DNA test before talking... ;)) Foolish people
She definitely passing 🤣 lips and nose give her away
Difficult to believe there were people that would violate others basic rights. I was born in the sixties and remember going to school after desegregation with one black kid in class. Never bothered me then doesn't bother me now.
I “didn’t get it,” either. The school where I went was mostly white, but there were a few black or Asian kids in most classes. I was best friends with a girl from India, probably the only Indian family in the school. I thought of her as having a different, almost exotic life at home. It was never in terms of who was “better” or “worse.”
We should have never let "Them" loose. "They" destroy every town ,city and village they infest
goodness. feels like a hell hole. So very thankful this changed so quick. miracle doesn't begin to describe it.
wow, how uncivilized the nature of many are
lol that wasn’t stone wall Jackson, that was Jefferson Davis
ziggy morris I caught that too.
@@TexasMan77
So did I! I thought the man in that painting didn't look like Stonewall Jackson.
Going back to the end of the American Civil War, If the North would have put more severed consequences on the south in post-war and during reconstruction: I strongly believe America would have been alot more different when it comes to race and equality.
Listen to Steve Winwood's 'Traffic' album "On the Road" . The song "Freedom Rider" is about those brave people on those buses.
We are ignorant if we think we can fix 400 years of oppression in 60 years 1960 to present. But what really annoys me is the victimhood we have today. People think they have it soo bad in this country now in 2020, but they never lived a day of slavery or lived in the days of white fountains and black fountains and sundown towns and water hoses and beatings and lynchings. We don't do this shit anymore. I wish people would stop living in the past. This shit is over. Time to forgive. We can't fix what already happened. All we can do is move forward and learn to love each other. The media fuels alot of this division. Cherry picking racist stories.. White cops vs black people. They have been doing this shit for decades. It fuels the readers, and the listeners. But I go out everyday and meet people of all races, alot of them black people (because my city is very mixed) and there are white people doing things for black people. Treating each other with courtesy playing sports together, swimming together. That's how it's always been since I was growing up in the 80's. Whoever is a racist these days, was taught by their parents to be a racist. We are nothing as a society like they used to be in the 60s and before. We have come a long ways. Farther than some people might think. Minorities might still be at a disadvantage in society in some ways, but to think they can't get ahead or become something now is absolutely ludicrous. I know alot of white people who pull the poor me victimhood card. It's not just black people. Alot of lazy, entitled, spoiled people pull that card. At some point, time to grow up, time to be an adult and stop blaming everyone else for your problems. Stop blaming shit that happened 200 years ago. This country is 1000 percent better off than where we were 60 years or more ago and if you don't think so, then I don't know what else to say.
There ARE people living today who DID live through “White Only” and “Colored” facilities, and businesses. They’re in their 60s on up. Many have changed, but some, sadly, have not. Even when these have all died off, there’ll be racism because hate isn’t a race problem, it’s a heart problem.
What's very concerning is we still hear the same rhetoric they used back then to oppress people.
My first Time visiting Mississippi I couldn’t believe the Heat,I told myself the Ancestors were Strong People
"The more things change the more things stay the same" But, Jackson, MS is over 75% Black now... Go figure 🤔
White flight ! With fright 🤧
I love Jackson
@@JayeNovember elevate, explore, expand, evolve my brother.🙏✝️🕊️
@@rosalindhampton24 wtf u talking about...I said I love Jackson what's wrong with loving my hometown...I live in Arizona.
@@rggyuhtgggbji5017 imagine a third world country full of violence, despair, corruption, Urban decay, extreme poverty, broken mind set (mentality) limited resources, shortage of police, crumbling infrastructure, etc. PRAY FOR MISSISSIPPI 🙏✝️🕊️
From slavery to freedom. From freedom to discrimination. From discrimination to equality and integration. But this is not only coming from Law, but from our hearts.
Like ur name
@@tomassamuel260 Thanks Samuel !
And those with that heart is a very sad heart🤷🏿♀️
Man black people had to go through so much for equality. Sad!
-they still don't have it-don't be fooled-just watch the news. Can you imagine a white man being slowly, cruelly and so sadistically murdered like George Floyd was?
When he's explaning the "lack of Mississippi leadership", Medgar Evers says a lot of their previous leaders had "decided to move away". Is that low key for got scared out by rough handling and death threats?
I was born in Jackson, Mississippi 1961...
Never heard of Charles Oldum until this video. Salute to him as we salute others
I was looking on the Internet for "Charles Olden"! Thank you for easing my search.
Well, I just looked for Charles Oldum, and couldn't find him, either. I cannot imagine the bravery of the people on that bus, though. (White) people talk about Omaha Beach, but this is something else altogether.
Things haven't changed much in racist fascist USA. It still lacks the basic human rights and sane laws all civilized countries have.
Now that they can work and study, they decide to not put any effort for their freedom of work. Sad, truly that the younger generation do not appreciate what their ancestors fought for.
True and Sad !
Randy Taylor 69 there’s mental strongholds you didn’t live in their flesh so keep quiet.
Please explain
Fighting for freedom has many paths. The beaches of Pacific islands stormed by young men and the beaches of Normandy. These activists also enjoy the title " special generation " .
Thanks for uploading this. It really shows how level-headed and law-abiding most people of Mississippi were toward outsiders invading their state trying to cause trouble. Notice, not one person, black or white, said anything hateful about the other race. It would be nice if people who disagree on issues today could do so as civilly as they did back then.
@John Jacobs Yeah. I'm talking about the Freedom Riders. Integration would have proceeded much more smoothly and peacefully if groups like CORE had been patient and not tried to rub integration in Mississippians' faces. They went to AL and MS specifically looking for violent reactions.
@John Jacobs It was highly imprudent for CORE to sponsor something like this, knowing they might be sending those people to their deaths. And, no, getting to sit next to white people on a bus isn't worth dying for.
@John Jacobs Again, getting to sit next to white people on buses is not worth starting a revolution over. Plus, what did the Freedom Riders accomplish? The interstate system caused private interstate automobile travel to replace interstate bus travel for middle-class Americans. All that effort and sacrifice ultimately achieved nothing.
@John Jacobs The Americans in 1776 were rebelling to start their own country. That's not what black Americans were trying to do in the 50s and 60s. And on the segregation of public facilities, yeah, I understand their wanting to change that. But potentially risking their lives and stirring up racial animosity by violating state laws wasn't the way to go about it. If anything, they put the cart before the horse by pushing for desegregation before getting serious about registering more blacks to vote.
Any black person that spoke out was killed..like Evers was. All he said was if I’m going to pay taxes. I want equality. Otherwise its Taxation without representation...the same exact thing the American revolution war was fought over.
Thank you for uploading this though the music track with "Dixie" & that audio warp is absolutely interminable. lol.
Not a damned thing wrong with the song Dixie .
It suits the occasion. The warp in the sound that is.
Seeking Constitutional Rights as a citizen was met with resistance just goes to show that the Constitution wasn't written for all people, as interpreted by those who were in office in Mississippi.
The constitution was written for white people. When it was written the massive slave trade had hit started yet and the ones that were here, these idiots lacked the vision to think they might be free someday
But it was. Lincoln said so in the 1850’s- that the words “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” DID apply to negroes. He said, referring to a negro woman, that “in her right to eat the bread she earns with her own hands without asking leave of anyone else, she is my equal, and the equal of all others”. It was the segregationists, in defying the federal rulings & laws, who were violating our Constitution. The white citizens council official at the beginning of this video misquoted and misapplied Lincoln’s words. A common tactic.
At 18:29, looking at that womans nose screaming 'I'm black", and she's talking about "I do too", I bet you do young lady.
I want my white America back . No more equal justice BS .
If you want it back then get a time machine and go back to the 1800 instead of typing it on YT
18:36. That girl is passing for white. Very commonplace back then.
its because she is white.
@@blacksultan85 More like damn near white.
Wait, what? I thought we weren’t supposed to see race.
blacksultan85
I was thinking the same thing being one knows their people 😄
sidney Grosshar
What are you blind now?
The blunt force of a sharp intellect and a forceful initiative that marked Medgar Evers make his murder, nearly 56 years ago, more of a tragedy than can be imagined. Remember that Evers was a blood-and-bone Mississippian and not an “outside agitator”. Ross Barnett blames the violence on people like the Freedom Riders, not on the Klan and the Citizens’ Council and isolated individuals like the man who called for an “open season” on people like the Freedom Riders. Mississippi prison work farms, the lot of some of the young people who came to the state, were notoriously brutal. The Freedom Riders were peaceful, but in a sense disruptive. And disruption is sometimes necessary to uproot anachronistic and oppressive traditions.
I wonder how many people in this video are still alive
Plenty we still here
@@elrededwards863 let me say fuck you and try that shit now
@@briandaniel931 u forget to whip
Based on the comments here, I'd say this video was just filmed last week. Nobody seems to understand a time frame of any kind here.
My mom was 5 yrs old.
Nina Simone was right -- "Mississippi, Goddamn!"
They don’t look Nordic white tall and blond. They are short and dark like Melungeons and Romanichals.
Italians too.
Mississippi whites are characteristically fat, bald, ugly and dull. The first two traits are more prominent in females and the latter more exaggerated in males. Curiously, this pattern of sexual dimorphism is the reverse of their Alabama relatives.
They may be further differentiated from Alabama whites by their hairier ears, louder and more frequent expectorations, and their decreased tendency to mate with siblings.
@@PogueMahone1 and don't forget dumb too
In 1966, when James Meredith was shot at start of his "March Against Fear" in Mississippi (he survived), the attack brought out thousands of Black Folks to complete the march to Jackson in his place.
A major MLKJr, and James Brown attended the concert at Tougaloo College where Brown sang "Say It Loud: I'm Black & I'm Proud".
The phrase "Black Power" was used by Stokely Carmichael at a speech in a park.
And James Meredith had healed enough from his gunshot wounds to rejoin his One Man "March Against Fear" that had grown to one of the major events in the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's.
I have traveled many places, but I can never get myself to go to Mississippi....to me, it's a state that reeks racism exponentially. I've always said it's a state that is stained with so much blood and lynchings.
Mississippi is NOTHING like that now! I get so tired of ignorant people that have never set foot in our state. We have some of the finest and most generous people, black and white, that you would ever hope to meet. Our race relations are second to none in this country and we have a ton of biracial couples and children and guess what? No one cares! I wish people would stop with the 1960's Mississippi and let us move on.
I’m in Mississippi and it’s nothing likes this today
I agree with you. I'll never step foot in Mississippi because of their past. A lot of bad stuff happen in Mississippi.
@@traceyf4842 I have been to Mississippi many times it is nothing like this now
Yeah, you’re keeping it going along with all the woke dills. You want it to be the same , 99% don’t.
This is the history people who are against teaching critical race theory
do not want taught. The truth might make a few people uncomfortable.
Our creator made us equals.
The "Creator" certainly did but he did not write the Bible which sanctioned and laid down rules for slavery-it could only have been a work of man.
I live in Mississippi on the coast. It saddens me to see where this state was in terms of policy back then. Unfortunately, racism is still alive and well in this state. Racism just changed forms and is now difficult to identify.
My dad said the same thing, I wanted to buy land there because of the soil and he said it would almost be impossible because racism still exists there.
Like Morax said ; racism I still alive & well but not just in MS. 🤭
@@music0452 that didn't age well now, did it!
Which racist laws are still on the books in Mississippi? Please cite them so we can fight them together.
Imagine living in Mississippi..like even today.
I would never go to Mississippi. I am totally scared of that state. You never hear anything good about that state.
I live in Mississippi, come on down; you will find it a very pleasant state to visit. Especially the Gulf Coast.
I'm born and bred NYS..lived in Mississippi from 2013-2020..everyone that I met knew I was a yankee once I opened my mouth, however, all accepted me with open arms..It would take me a year to express the warmth that was given to me while there..the history both good and blighted opened up my eyes to the challenges this state had to go through to evolve her people's as one and strong..maybe I didn't see the ugly underbelly of racism, all I know my time there rubbing elbows with members of both races were some of the best experiences of my 70 year old life..lmo
You could probably count on 1 hand how many white people in this video weren't klan.
Nobody wanted to film them if they weren't Klan.
This was interesting. I looked at some of those people being interviewed, I wondered if they knew where they came from. Some looked Italian. So ignorant. There is a list at the Elis Island. Selective amnesia can do wonders to American citizens. Lack of historical knowledge and truth. Bless their littles hearts is all I can say. Just SMH.
Italian? This is Mississippi, not New Jersey. The South (or the white part of it) is a Anglo-Saxon region.
@@sc9881 Still can you see the irony. The USA is a land of immigrants. No one is native except the indigenous of the land.
What does an Italian look like?
@@sc9881 Some French, too, especially along the gulf coast and near Louisiana I would think. I thought one of the "white" ladies interviewed looked mixed race ... maybe she would be considered '"passing" as white ?
There are many Italians in the Mississippi Delta.
Wow! One can only marvel at the courage of the Freedom Riders! On a lighter note, who is the narrator?
#Gary Kerns Sounds like Mike Wallace
Keep fighting! 🙏🏾
Joe Biden has jumped on the race hustler bandwagon under the guise of diversity training with his recent decision to rescind an executive order from former President Trump that would have put restrictions on advancing racial equality by limiting diversity training for federal government employees and its contractors. In other words, more identity politics. Unfortunately, this isn’t an anomaly for Democrats. This isn’t a blip on the Democratic arc of history bending towards justice. Judging people by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character has a rich history in the DEMOCRAT Party.
Megar Edgar was a good man.
That's why they decided to make him a Dead Man.
Some would be surprised that some towns behave just as they did in 1960. 🙄
PC in 1980. You can still call a spade a spade, just not to his face.
2022 -- There is none now and never has been racism in America.
Where I’m White And Want To Move
Couldn't even control himself in the language he uses
Why would he have? You did see what year this was, didn't you? It was normal language at the time.
I would like to use some of this footage for a documentary on the Biloxi wade-ins
I went to Biloxi last year, went to the beach where the wade-ins took place. When I was there, I got the feeling that the blacks I saw there probably didn't care about the history or it was lost on them.
I'm from the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. That was a terrible situation.
Interesting choice of background music “Dixie”?