Rare footage of all Black towns in Oklahoma in the early 1900s

[loyola llothta]

longer versions of the clips:

Rev. S.S. Jones Home Movies (1924-1926)

Published on Mar 18, 2019

16mm documentary silent film of what daily life was like in some of the 30+ all-black towns that existed in Oklahoma in the mid-1920s.

Preview Clip: Reverend S. S. Jones, Home Movies (1924-1928)

Published on Aug 20, 2016

http://www.daarac.org/2016/08/reveren... Reverend Solomon Sir Jones documented African-American life, culture, and success in Oklahoma a few years after the Tulsa Race Riots. His films demonstrate the nuance and diversity of the Black community during the period. His camera captures children, deacons, young professionals, homemakers, businessmen, community leaders, landowners, field workers, students, and neighbors. Some of his subjects included formerly enslaved men and women and their descendants who built these thriving towns. Together, these communities worked, worshiped, played celebrated, loved and mourned together. Jones takes considerable care to illustrate how they built something special - self-sustaining and self-determined societies.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

white ppl didn't wanna see prosper

 

[MoveForward]

Looks better than alot of these countries that call themselves being towards black Americans in 2019.

 

[Prince Luchini]

Thanks for posting this

Always like to black people living and flourish especially in that era. Really cool to see, hope we get to duplicate that but on a wider scale in the future.

 

[Lord_nikon]

B back

 

[Cat piss martini]

#SickofWhitePeople

 

[loyola llothta]

Boley Oklahoma

 

[Unknown Poster]

And it was said many times Black people couldn't create their own successful thriving communities.

They did, and white people destroyed them out of hatred, envy, and jealousy cause they couldn't stand to see black folks doing good or better than them without them.

 

[loyola llothta]

And it was said many times Black people couldn't create their own successful thriving communities.

They did, and white people destroyed them out of hatred, envy, and jealousy cause they couldn't stand to see black folks doing good or better than them without them.

As well as Oilfields aka resources

 

[Booker T Garvey]

We had lower divorce rates than white people back then too, the family unit was very strong and important to us - they were terrified of our rapid progress and unity and sought to destroy it.

Interesting that none of our "allies" that were so buddy buddy with dubois and the NAACP protected us from these terrors back then

 

[Trece]

2019 Baltimore

 

[alpo]

Bu bu bu but civil rights said that we didn’t have nothing

 

[Doomsday]

we need to get back to doing that if you want to be real.

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Black people went to Oklahoma back then because it wasn't a state yet and post civil war, the government was letting blacks claim land out there. Then when the railroads were built they ended up having to go through black owned land and cities which allowed black people to make money off of the white owned rail companies and their white passengers.

White people were not too happy with black people getting rich off of them

 

[wastedmermaid]

We need movies showing the prosperity of blacks back in the day. Done had enough damn slave movie