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Rare Footage Shows All-Black Towns in 1920s America | NowThis

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Published on 23 Jan 2021 / In Film and Animation

This rare footage shows what life was like in all-Black towns during the 1920s.
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In US news and current events today, this rare footage shows life in all-Black communities in the 1920s during an era of fierce racial tension.

Reverend Solomon Sir Jones was the son of former slaves. He moved to Oklahoma in 1889 and became an influential Baptist minister. Jones was also an amateur filmmaker in the early days of moviemaking

Over the course of 4 years, he filmed 355 minutes of footage in more than 50 all-Black communities across Oklahoma. He also documenting his trips to other states and abroad. Jones films capture vibrant Black communities thriving at a time when racist violence & segregation were prevalent in many areas nationwide.

Oklahoma came to have the greatest number of all-Black communities in the 60+ years following the Civil War. In these towns, Black Americans started their own businesses, many Black doctors, lawyers, & families thrived.

Some white Oklahomans tried to block or slow the growth all-Black towns by imposing ‘oaths’ that limited hiring Black laborers or refusing to rent or sell land to a Black person. In 1921, the ‘Black Wall Street’ neighborhood of Tulsa was decimated during an incident of white mob violence. Dozens of Black residents were killed & hundreds more injured in what became known as the Tulsa Massacre.

For decades, the incident was barely taught, if at all, in schools. All-Black communities in the state entered a period of decline during the Great Depression.

Today, Jones’ footage is considered some of the best documentation of what life was like in Black communities at the time. The films showcase unique, culturally rich towns full of communities that supported one another despite an often racist society around them.

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Johnny Exodice
Johnny Exodice 3 years ago  

As we can all see that WW2 the {MEMORIES of all} WE THE PEOPLE in these OLD MOVIES were "erased" once again from our Common Knowledge cause {BLACK and WHITE} did not have RACISM till after WW1 and then a grace period from 1920 to 1930 and even in {1940 Dark Skins} and Light Skins had not ISSUES,

but all had become [really bad] by these FREE MASON Lodges and their U.N. Troops: after WW2......., and still these Dark Skin {FREE MASON} Lodge Members "sell out" you from Kanye West to Joe Biden of Donald's and "QANON" White House EXECUTIVE ORDERS

as WE ARE the minds of the masses by: THEY LIVE will be [MIND WIPED] +=+ once again by the Sorcery of the TV RAPTURE known as (COVID19) where AFRICANS and all we [Light Skins] QBALLS~ /_\ AT the same Time be you AFRICAN rather then just an American...

Now at 1:59 in this movie, it was NOT White People or a Race RIOT, it was the League of NATIONS prior to today's UNITED NATIONS that used the U.S. Military and Airplanes after {World War One} too BOMB "U.S. Citizens" of predominantly BLACK ONLY Successful WALL STREET Black Bankers, and this was not the only Native American DARK SKINS: Taken out as we know the MUD FLOOD Buildings {Pre Date} all Buildings in The 1920's,

so know YOUR ENEMY no matter your {Skin Tone} are these FREE MASON [U.N. Troops] / * \ in Total Domination, and Control of ALL U.S. states FLAGS.........,

and this "is why" youm NEVER see your {STATES FLAGS} on your Police, nor Militias called the National, and State, and Coast GUARDS: whom have [no reason] nor RIGHT too wear the Occupation U.S. FLAG of these FREE MASON U.N. FLAGS doing Sedition - Treachery - High Treason as OATH BREAKERS to their OATH OF OFFICE from: the Southern Hemisphere in our Northern Hemisphere FLAT EARTH Celestial Sphere Reality....

The Commander~ #JINX [{**}]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrSDUEkbyvU

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