Omg that is my Great Uncle. His name is Robert Lee O’Neal. He was an artist who was also very active in our community. Actually my whole family is. He passed away most recently. It’s nice to see him in this light. Especially in the city’s history. Thank you!❤
@@staceyhuckleby7058 HI STACEY!!! I grew up in Bond Hill on Portman around the corner from where Todd grew up, I also went to Woodward. I remember after Todd graduated, I think in 1980, a year or two later he came back to lead Woodward's gospel chior a number of years. Long before that, when the brothers had their band, they would play in their garage. You could hear them play all over the north east side of Bond Hill in the summer, like a free concert! People would sit on their porch to listen. I have a lot of wonderful memories of the O'Neal family from my childhood and early adulthood. I think my fondest memory is of Mrs. O'Neal, Todd's mom. She used to walk almost everyday. When she would pass our house, she would always stop and talk with us for a while. I no longer live in Bond Hill. I miss seeing them. Todd knows me. He was good friends with my cousin when they attended Bond Hill Elementary School on California.
As a Black person, we grow up learning history from our elders. This is why many of us are disgusted by they absence of it in school, and most documentaries about urban communities. Just because people are poor does not mean there was not HAPPINESS, PRIDE, AND COMMUNITY!
Although i took AP american history, we basically learned an elementary version of black history. The people who control our education system don’t want black history to be known, the revolution will never be televised
Thank you for this. Urban renewal broke up my family in the 70's. I am bi racial. My father is black. His family, all my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, etc... lived on one street in Altoona, PA. In the late 70's, the city bought out all their homes and tore down everything. They built a highway over the place where they all lived. I now live in Cincinnati, have for the past 28 years. Breaks my heart. I am a blues and rock and roll guitar slinger. Don't know how i missed this project, but i am definitely about to start playing that "going to Cincinnati " song! Thank you!
It provided a history that is new to me and it brought back found memoires of living in the West End during the 1950s to the 2000s My heart belongs to the West End
I grew up in the suburbs, my Dad spent his early years in the Lincoln Courts in West End. Now that I’m gone, I’m learning more about Cincinnati, particularly about our history there. I wish I had learned this much earlier.
Just read your comment. I visited the city three years ago. The people are very friendly and helpful. We visited some areas and was saddened by the levels of no growth in many of the black communities. Overall it's a nice city @@lashunnalove8336
I lived in the Laurel Homes in 1940s and 1950s. I lived on the white side of Armory Ave. during segregation. I remember alot. I went to St. Josephs school. I was born in 1943. We were not segregated in Catholic school.
This is so interesting and I'm glad I came across this video. Really wish local history was also taught in schools, not just the "general" history and/or Black history that's taught in all American schools
I've talked about this for years. Is it any wonder there was so much discontent in the 60s after so many African American communities were destroyed? Connections that were formed over decades were wiped out overnight eliminating support systems that held community together.
@ claudermiller: I just read your comment. I visited there and learned so much about that city. I had no idea it used to be very vibrant and progressive. We spoke with some elders who gave us some important insight on how it all happened. We really appreciated the information they provided.
@Leroy-tj9jg Every time the city had a project, a highway, a stadium, a business park, it meant a well established black community would be bulldozed to make room for it. They even had the nerve to run a new major thoroughfare through the main black business district, forcing dozens of minority businesses to close, then naming it after Martin Luther King. Like it was a kind of cruel joke to name an ethnically cleansed neighborhood after him.
😎I grew up here.. on those steps .in these alleys and tall buildings & meat shops off vine~ i live in s.florida now but im also over it and would like 2 buy an ol moneypit on the river back home 2 refurbish😉. Great job btw♥️
Not really the land was cheaper and the poor people Black and White didn't have the political power to fight it. With 20/20 hindsight they sould have bypassed the cities like what wound up happening with the circle freeways.
@@hjr228 yes sometimes, but do you really know the topography of the northern ky area, they would have to go at least 15 miles to either side to go around. And I don’t know about much but that seems unrealistic.I am sorry about people who happened to live in the way of the path of destruction but life sucks, wtf are you gonna do against the power of the state. They were dealt a shit hand in the game of life, many people are of all races. Life sucks