The Eastern Kentucky Social Club 

A great big amen!!!!!!!!!!!

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Certain things about the South wernt tought in school. I learned a ton about the real South when I was a kid on our relatives farm in Louisiana. In my mind Kentucky isn't quite in the south but close. Congrats on your great organization.

Amen , truly appreciate seeing this as a 36 year old African American woman, and this truly inspired me to stand for God by walking in his favor! God bless ❤️

I love African American history also. This is really interesting because I had a great uncle who was from Alabama who left the family for coal mining. My grandmother never talked about her brother. I've done ancestry DNA and have family of course all over and many that are first, second and third generation blood kin but don't know how because many families were dissolved for several reasons including adoption. I would love to research this further to see if my great uncle lived and worked in the mines of Kentucky. And if I have family there. This is a goal and passion of mine. 🙏

Me too brother! Me too..

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Thank you for saying that, we/I need to hear this....🙏

Dane Calloway channel check it out

Totally agree. GO COLONELS!

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Bless you and your family...

Wow...you should be proud ..I hope she stays safe.

Good for her!! 👏👏👏

I'm proud of her too!

I was born in Bowling Green but raised in Louisville and also have family members who have worked the mines. I'm proud of your daughter too. Thats a very necessary job for our society and a very risky one. She's one of the brave ones.

Great comment, we are truly an amazing, resilient people.

@@alfonsom8286 You mean Americans?

Well Said 👏👏👏

Hear hear, well said.

I too am proud of your family 💪🏿

Hey cousin! My grandmother is Edythe (Combs) Fox❤️ I was looking for Harzard on this documentary.

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Are you related to any combs from beattyville?

Coal Miner's Daughter is one of my Fav movies😁

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Shoutin back, from East Tennessee.

I grew up in floyd County ky, proud to be a kentuckian

Jessica T Yes My mother and grandmother used to tell stories of family history. I wished they could have told me more. My grandmother was a walking book.

I miss Lexington. Hell, I miss Kentucky! Be so proud of your heritage.

Kentucky is the best! I'm moving back asap. Family there old family history there. I've been living in NYC for the last 10 years for work. I've grown to hate it here. Ready to go back to kentucky.new York is for the birds.

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@@lindamaemullins5151 by. Cu

My grandmother is from Harlan county

this is a great documentary. i’m glad it was on my timeline

I am a Lynch. My Mother's maiden name. Our G-Grandfather X 6 founded Lynchburg, VA. My Mother's Father's Family lived in Louisville, KY. They often moved to a larger city for School/College and for Career Opportunities. My Great-Grandfather owned the Grocery Store in the area they lived and his daughter, my Great Aunt was gorgeous. She was a model at the turn if the Century and was friend's with Henry Ford's son. She dined with them often. There's a great deal of History in the Eastern, KY and Virginia areas. As a teenager I attended Majorette Camp in Lebanon Junction, KY (1974) and met a girl from Evarts, KY. We became immediate friends and kept in touch for years through letters. After College I lost connect with her. I've attempted to find her through FB, but no success yet. Tommie Klutts and she supposedly married and moved to the closest larger city. Great connections to the area. Hope y I find my friend one day. Thought you might appreciate this share. Best Wellbeing ...

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You have an AMAZING story. Based off your story that is integration at it's finest. I hope y'all still own the land.

Love and care knows no prejudice. Good folks are good folks. I grew up in VA and the family that lived on a garden stretch and in a farm house down from my grandma's house were a Black family. I always thought they were my grandparents as well. I loved them as my own as they did me. I mourned for them when they passed as my blood. I'm so glad to see a positive documentary where we truly are 1 people.❤

Please everyone write your story...it's history, your history, American history...thank you.

EXTENDED FAMILIES WERE COMMON , EVERYBODY HAD SENSE OF COMMUNITY.

Public school is a government indoctrination camp. They're there to design a good herd. Parents everywhere need to understand this and teach their children how the real world works and how government ran by large companies pit us against each other so they can control us instead of us controlling them like free people would.

The school system is wrecking our kids. I was born and raised not far from there and remember well when roots came out. I was in an all white school there had been black students in years before but not then. When roots came out I was the only student with fuzzy hair that stood up., so I became their substitute to reenact scenes from the movie. Hung from a tree and beat with river cains ,I became their koonta from then on out. I left and dread when I have to return, even now in my mid 50s. I have bumped in to one of those people since , he looked at me with a tear in his eye and told me ,if I had only understood what I was doing back then. He walked away and wouldn't talk any more. The only black lady in the community was old enough all her children were grown and had left home. The paper bundles were dropped for my routs were dropped in front of her house. Every morning ,no mater the weather, she came out in a shower type cap and a robe that I think had been made of old towels. Every morning she brought me a cup of coffee and a fresh biscuit with bacon and jelly. I never let her pay for her paper. I always have and always will love her as a friend.

Wow, it's hard to believe a teacher would show that movie to children. I'm white and from SE kentucky. That movie traumatized me also. My mom was watching it, I guess thinking I was so small I would just play and not pay any attention to it. When I climbed in her lap in tears asking her why they was hurting people, she told me that it was a longtime ago and the people hurting others was very mean and it didn't happen anymore and she turned it off. I refuse to ever watch that movie and my kids never watched it. Omg, if a teacher had showed that to one of mine in class 😳 I don't know o w what I might have done. I was always raised around black people, school, church and family friends that I love very much. I really enjoyed this documentary. It made me proud to be from SE Kentucky. ❤ 💙 💜

That's what you have to do educate them yourself there not getting it in school.

It shouldn't be shown during Black History month. It should be shown anytime. It's American history, and fascinating.

Are you part BLACK yourself?

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@@kaleahcollins4567 no. Part Cherokee and Irish. But my father was a cop back in the 70s and his partner was black and my godfather. When I was a baby. My father passed at 34 from a heart attack. They're isn't gonna be a high school reunion due to covid.

The majority of todays youth, can not even begin to comprehend what a struggle is. It's sad.

I'd love information on this reunion

Very fascinating!

Same but with Alabama roots.

Me either and I'm from a little small town in Kentucky I appreciate this black history

*Foundational Black American History

Me either I'm a free thinker just looked up Kentucky

True history and not just regurgitation vomit.

Me either, but I sure am HONORED to know it now!!💪🏿

He chose a beautiful part of Ohio to live! I have friends and family who live in Shawnee state forest. We're in Cincinnati now but It's where I want to finishing raising my children

Your story is great! My husband and I have land but my job keeps us locked in the city! One day I hope to leave the city and go raise chickens!

I grow up in Payne Gap, went to grade school at Fleming Neon 1st through 6th grade. in the 7th grade I transferred to Jenkins School system graduated from high school in 1971. I still live in Jenkins with my wife.

@@malirabbit6228 it would be nice I dream of it but.

Watching this documentary, is so eerily reminiscent of the challenges my elders would face as immigrants from the West Indies, decades later. It’s sad that foundational Black people, who were here before this country ever existed, and fought in every war the US was ever in, yet they were treated like they weren’t even citizens. Their values of making education as a priority. The parents leaving first to make a way for their families, is a huge part of our story, packing barrels of items to send back to their families.

My mothers maiden name is Fleming she is with Jesus nowadays we buried her earlier this passed year. My God just keep on blessing you and your family and neighbors Ole Mountain man fire keeper!

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@Melissa Geiger, I'm 30 minutes over the bridge in SC. Family in Savannah.

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Born and raised in Savannah Georgia, I was raised by my grandma who lived in West Savannah and I also lived with my dad who lived in East Savannah “State Streets” neighborhood. My wife is from Beaufort raised around St Helena Island after her dad retired from the Army

Amen ❤

We need to keep that unity nation wide its our real strenght our only way out is unite in every way stop useing our money to kill our bro an sis gang banging and a whole lot of other shit

We definitely used to do better

What industry could this be built around?

AMEN 🙏🏾

Agreed! Very fascinating documentary. I never knew anything about the black miners or what they dealt with, how they overcame and thrived. "Strong people" is a very accurate statement! Makes me want to visit Lynch just to see this history.

What a wonderfully put-together treasure of this part of Eastern Kentucky history. My mom was born in Tomahawk, Kentucky. She was 2nd oldest of 15 children born to William Vale and Loucinda Mills Allen. Granddaddy was both a stone mason and a coal miner. Mom passed in 2017 at age 97. After seeing this presentation, I can honestly say I am jealous, in a good way, of the way these citizens of Eastern Kentucky have developed and kept alive such a precious sense of community born out of the heritage and experience of each individul and family. Unfortunately our family did not. I am, however, truly thankful and honored to be a blood-bought member of God's family community which makes me related spiritually to those I've just met here in this presentation and look forward to a heavenly reunion with them. I am in awe and greatly humbled. Thank you for sharing such heart-warming testimonies. God bless and prosper all in the various Social Clubs of Eastern Kentucky. 🙏❤✝️

Oh my could listen all day

This documentary is awesome! 👏🏾 👏🏾 👏🏾

Thanks. This. Black History. If.We. Could get. Our children. To. Get. Off. X. Boxes. Listen to this Thanks l

Me too !!

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Frank Dehne brother Fred Dehne. My wife Mindy Howard...Madison County KY

I live in Madison but my mother is from beattyville

Hey, my mother & her family have been in Berea for generations. My 96 year old aunt sent me a copy of the deed to the property on which they were raised. It was purchased from John Fee & his wife in 1890. Lots of rich history there. I wish I visited more often when I was younger.

Any investment opportunities in thar area?

+ Terri T. My maternal grandfather was a black coal miner. I never met him because he died in s coal mining accident when my mother was only 6 years old.

I remember that everyone was black, at quitting time.

I visited too visited Booker T. Washington site. I found it on my travel to Washington D.C. I never knew the park exited.

I’m from a Coal Mining Town in WV. The middle school I attended was actually built as a segregated school for black students, the coal camp they lived in was called String Town. When the mines shutdown the black population moved away. My family also moved away to Chicago.

Rev peake preached my husbands funeral in tram ky

I find your post interesting. My Black ancestors are also from Maryland and I’m also from Southeastern Ohio.

@@riverbilly64 my family on my father's side (the Taylor's) is from Jackson, Ross & Gallia Counties in Ohio... my father was born in Hamilton County. We now live in Clark County, Ohio. We also have ties to Darke County, Ohio. What about you?

Lots of melungeon tri racial folks have been living in cumberland,ky and on over into blackwater,va community and over into sneedville,tn in Hancocke county,County,. They came out of the eastern parts of virginia and North carolina by the mid to late 1770's.

You've mentioned some of my favorite places on earth.

Outstanding

Between Louisville and Lexington lies the capital, which the river runs through it. Nothing much more but distillery n farm land, valleys and lots of good fishing 🎣, but we've been blessed to live here n raised 9 kids on the river behind the distillery ! Been married for 28 years n together for almost 32. We had 2 biological n took in 7 !.. now we have 7 grandbabies n 1 comin in January , Blue moon n Bluegrass and music 🎶 are highlights, n 1 God has kept us all together and Blessed always. It is a Scenic route to take, drive it thru the back roads, n even more pleasant than the highway 🛣️ my friend !

@@ericmayssr.6054 Pppppppp

McDowell County WV also had a long time Black population that once made up 25% of that county’s population. Steve Harvey was born there.

We a Commonwealth my brother.

Gates Hill's are Cleveland Hill's

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Why can't it be that way above ground?

I imagine that it must have been difficult. That place was hard for black folks to live in.