A 1914 film showing black people dancing in a dance hall - Great dance moves. Getting jiggy with it! 

Mark Gable ... And they had the support and backing of the Northern Democrats.

@Mark Gable: There was a racial incident at the beach in Chicago in 1919 when a black boy strayed into the "White Only" area of the water. He was hit with rock while in the water and drowned. "It" happened in many places in the North, as well. Besides, Jim Crow happened in the South because the Republican party finally realized it couldn't occupy the South indefinitely (Reconstruction), so the GOP just gave up and left Southern blacks to their fate, which was roughly another 100 years of harassment and death. The Southern Democrats were actually "Dixie-crats", far different from Northern Democrats and actually more similar to the modern Republicans (Goldwater and Nixon) who devised the "Southern Strategy" of courting Southern whites after Kennedy and Johnson (Democrats) had pushed through civil rights. You probably know all this stuff; you just pretend you don't know it and hope that other commenters here don't know it, either. "Sad", as Trump would say.

@Sideswipe 84: Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood and the Democratic Party didn't invent abortion. Abortion has been around since before Jesus, when ancient Greek doctors began doing first-trimester abortions.

@Mark Gable: Wow, what stale nonsense! Lincoln went to war to preserve the Union; ending slavery was an afterthought. Even his Emancipation Proclamation freed only the slaves in the rebel states, not the ones in the border states that had not seceded. Of course, the ones in the Confederacy were not free until the war ended. But one editor, in noting the specifics of the Proclamation, said, that Lincoln had "freed the slaves where he could not (in the rebel states) and had not freed the slaves where he could" (the border states which had slavery but had not seceded; Lincoln let them go on with slavery to keep them in the Union). History is much more gray than black and white. Try reading it sometime.

Lyndsey I was just thinking that its not what we were taught either and what else don't they tell us!

They're doing the Charleston ten years before it came out!

@@VictrolaJazz They were doing a fast reel. Charleston was often not danced in hold and this didn't have the steps. It was much more like trying to do a Lindy Hop in long skirts.

@@653j521 Thanks! It also looks like a square dance in many ways where they're changing partners. If that's what they were doing in '14, imagine how they danced in the 20's!

Mr. West lndian t.v. Yea I’m sure he knew that he was just..... nvm smh 🤦‍♂️

No shit and so were other races just like as they are today. Geez race doesn't define if one can dance.

Chorrell Piqué Never will!

It's engraved in your blood

I miss 8 track tapes.

You did !!! The sound . X

I wonder if our descendants will look at the current time and think the same thing

Ife's Voice you guys have rich history too...

@@JC-qe3ot Smh

My exact thought!

Same. I feel proud and hurt at the same time.

@@MamaJas88. It just shows that even though they were living through terrible times overall, when they were amongst themselves, and felt safe temporarily, they proceeded best they could, to live normal lives!! Because it was definitely scary times for them, because they had no say over anything!😔❤

I hear yall... laugh r cry....but u can see where the origins of "ALL" Dances came from....ALL OF IT!!!!

Totally true and there are people out there that still get insulted because of their colour, shame on people out there who are that way given, some people who feel that way should maybe watch the Catherine Cookson film Colour blind. ❤.

What do you mean even back then....that doesn't make any sense.

@lilton25 your daddy did

So then what happened ???....most black musical artist today have no soul whatsoever....R&B is dead

They really are timeless, instinctive!

VJ W That’s what Michael Jackson said on his last tour

The moon walk goes back to a black tap dancer, Bill Bailey, in 1955. It's posted on RU-vid, something like "Bill Bailey, 1955". He does the moonwalk in that video, though in those days it was called the "Back-Slide".

That dog didn't know what the heck was going on!😁

Tom Jones - I wonder whether any of the sidemen in LeProtti's bands played with any bands that DID record on the West Coast in the 1920's, maybe for Sonny Clay or tbe Spikes Brothers.

Me, too it was silent movie after all..maybe someone will see it and actually try to put some music to it that fits the time frame...

Tom Jones Music wasn't added to movies until about 1927 or 28.

Todd Robbins Death meets us all. It's the natural order of things. Someone will be looking at your picture one day and you will be no more. It's life.

Yup, and for many it's later than we think.

Regardless of where is all came from, the question is how did it end up in the African-American community in San Francisco in the 1910s?

Lindy Hop came from Jackson FL. Swing Came from New Orleans. Jitterbug is a derivative. It ended up in our community because it thats where it came from. Along with Hambone. Country & Rock.

Well, if you say so then it must me true.

Celeste Rob Wow!!!!God Bless her, you're so lucky!!!!

Ask your mom was she taught that she was from Africa.

my 82 year old white mom was practicing her Charleston last night so that's why I'm here. thanks.

Ziaberry : It was scandalous because jazz music was considered lewd and jazz was originally jass (shaking of the ass).

Yeah from Europeans. Those are culturally Europeans dance moves.

Bowel moves u mean 🤔

FIFTY years later!

Fifty-four ... .

Calm The Fuck Down So funny because I always think about who was born in my family and all those people dancing are dead . My grandpa was 3 in 1914. he waa born in 1911 died in 2001 (90) my grandma wasn't born until 1916 and died 2015 (99).

Please fix your grammar...

Calm The Fuck Down - I thought the same thing. My mother born in 1915 passed away in 1994. Born, Live, and Die! What's important is what we do while we're alive.

Helene Papageorge they make anything look less square lol

Sofia Bravo don't be jealous

Sofia Bravo hate yourself much lol

@@searchjesus2123 If you're going to be negative when it's uncalled for, you should change your youtube name. Giving a bad representation to Christianity. This is why many people think Christians are hateful (see example - the talking heads on Fox News and the Republican party all CLAIM to be Christians)

Much classier then.

Amen🙏🏾❤️

Did you see the drummer? He was jamming, no doubt.

interesting observation! Also, the food back then was not as chemicalized as it has become over the modern era! Good catch!

Wow you’re completely right. People were definitely more active in this time, with hardly anything else to entertain themselves but dancing they had to do it pretty often on top of the labor they already did at work. And I believe this is still a time they walked most everywhere. I’d say they probably didn’t indulge as much either due to finances. It’s amazing to see how small changes in society can make such a difference like that

Ugh!

Cristy Luv blacks began gaining weight in the late 70's

@@yolandajohnson8685 Really, have you been to the south in the 40's we have had big people in our lineage for a long time. Hence the stereo typing that you see on tv.

ha ! funny how you all assume shit like that .

J C Funny how you can’t take a fucking joke

+Lonnie Dobbins III and style brother

amaru Zu that's not the case then..or now!

@@glennsheppard3622 Dear Glen Sheppard, haters will be haters.

So with weaves we still killing it

You're ignorant. Weaves aka hair pieces were very popular back then. They only have a bad reputation today because they are primarily associated with Black women.

@@tatriceshipp9139 Thank you.

Black women are beautiful... Without or with hair extensions (Which some women opted to where then to). #EducateYourself

Hey what do you call this dance there? Very interesting and thank you.

@@Monaedeezy Heare in Limón Costa Rica its call Square Dance one of ower tradicional dance .