The forgotten “wade-ins” that transformed the US

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How beaches and pools became a battleground for US civil rights.
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When we think of the iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the US, we might imagine bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins or the March on Washington. Most of us won’t think of protests at beaches and pools. Yet these battles in the country’s waters played a crucial role in transforming America.
The campaign in the waters of St. Augustine, Florida, became one of the most critical in the movement to desegregate the US. The photos were published around the world, but the full story has often been left out of our history textbooks. And now, the legacy of segregated public waters continues to this day.
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@Vox 3 года назад

For the first time ever, we released this story in podcast form, too! Listen here: spoti.fi/2GuKqLz The podcast provides a more in-depth narrative from the protesters who were in St. Augustine in 1964. Listen, subscribe, and tell us what you think in the comments! -Ranjani

@HaroldTheWizardCat 3 года назад

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@Vox 3 года назад

@@HaroldTheWizardCat You can contact us at voxvideo@vox.com!

@shetty98 3 года назад

@@Vox If you step out of America you will came to know that there are many countries outside of America. 🙄Why you are not exploring other countries stories. BTW love your content 🔥

@watsap3414 3 года назад

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@watsap7941 3 года назад

She has as well made a good name for herself.

@herivelasquez6712 3 года назад

People who say the "past generation wasnt so sensitive" The past generation: Ahhh a black person is touching the same water has me 😠😡🤬🤬💀

@FirstnameLastname-uo3yu 3 года назад

So True.

@FirstnameLastname-uo3yu 3 года назад

@Identity is character not group That’s not the point...

@zarasamuels9377 3 года назад

@Identity is character not group the woman who was in the pool sed it hurt. Those I'm gathering from the number of unpleasant and strange comments you've left your just a troll. Why you'd spend so much of time writing unkind things to strangers is beyond me.

@raingram 3 года назад

@Identity is character not group "Simply bad practice" Did you see the video? Did you see the anger and hatred in the movements?

@Cameronmid1 3 года назад

@Identity is character not group because you frames your question in such a way that it is clear you are trying to minimize the hatred in the perpetrators actions. Either that or you have never been around strong HCl but I think we both know that's not the case. Also btw the law very much considers the intent one has when someone does something.

@muathahmed4548 3 года назад

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

@gerryhall9163 3 года назад

There are only two tragedies in life , one is not getting what one wants , the other is getting it. ☆ Oscar Wilde ☆

@thrisbt1 3 года назад

yes in 1963. and then four years later he wrote, "Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?" - Martin Luther King Jr., 1967

@BigMastah79 3 года назад

Gerry Hall Are you saying Desegregation was a Tragedy? 😳

@simon6495 3 года назад

He also said people should be judged on the content of their character not the color of their skin, but the ‘civil rights movement’ today promotes critical race theory, which states a white person is racist because of the color of their skin. And the ‘civil rights movement’ today is promoting affirmative action, causing a black boy to need a lower score to go to college than a white boy. And the alleged ‘anti-racist’ presidential candidate doesn’t ever consider you black if you don’t agree with him, so far for judging on content of character. I believe MLK would be shocked by the radical state of the ‘civil rights movement’ today.

@kshatriya1414 3 года назад

“If everyone is thinking alike, Then somebody isn’t thinking” - George S. Patton Break the norm!

@BATMAN777888 3 года назад

The only thing we learned from history, is we never learn from history.

@BATMAN777888 3 года назад

Lexi V!rG!N- S3X : TAP H3R3 thank you, I have a history of bad spelling. I never learn 😁

@dipperdandy 3 года назад

This is by design. The US education system doesn't want you learning anything "unamerican".

@daveolsen9980 3 года назад

Genuinely interested - why is it that so many people put commas before "is" when a comma really isn't needed? Is this something that is taught in America (because it's definitely not in the UK)?

@BATMAN777888 3 года назад

Dave Olsen Hi. Thanks for the reply. I don’t know how they teach this rule in America. I learned English in England. I’m sure my English teacher would have asked a similar question. I suppose I was using the comma here as a silent sigh. It may well have been literally technically wrong. Call me a rebel but, in this case it spoke to me as being correct :-)

@dipperdandy 3 года назад

@@daveolsen9980 I assume it's a dramatic pause of sorts.

@GTAVictor9128 3 года назад

Fun fact: this is actually were the "Black people can't swim" racial stereotype comes from - it's not that they couldn't swim due to inability, but due to being unable to swim legally in public swimming pools. Somehow, this stereotype still persists today.

@naimr.4301 3 года назад

But man I'm black... We have plenty of pools and alot of the black kids in my school can't swim

@sshlept8070 3 года назад

That's a stretch. Why ya gotta make people dumber?

@liuxiaokun4012 3 года назад

@@chlorhex6785 Pool access and swimming lessons?

@natturner1619 3 года назад

@@chlorhex6785 Majority of who? City dwelling Black Americans? Because outside of that most Black populations around the world can swim, especially in the Caribbean and on the coastal areas of all other countries.

@annoloki 3 года назад

In many places, they don't get invited to kids parties at homes with pools, spending less time in the water than many white suburban kids, without ever seeing that they're missing out on anything, as they're not "excluded"... they're simply not invited. This is where the trend of having back yard pools came from... a response to public pools being desegregated was the privatisation of segregation.

@CassCo6 3 года назад

"why didn't they just follow the law? Then they wouldn't get beaten" I bet they said that too during that time

@CassCo6 3 года назад

@Picolas Cage 93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful according to a new report

@josephgarcia7572 3 года назад

@Picolas Cage A cop can legally murder anyone they want

@cerinashippey 3 года назад

@Picolas Cage the fact that you think laws are no longer racist is hilarious. especilaly considering most lawmakers, policymakers and Da's are ding ding ding! Racist white males

@lookitsvane 3 года назад

@Picolas Cage love to live in the world you do but the real world is not like this at all.

@rypdx 3 года назад

MegaHidanlover lies

@HaroldTheWizardCat 3 года назад

I love how vox covers these topics that are rarely talked about

@yucol5661 3 года назад

It’s nice that voz can make different kinds of videos from different authors. Even if someone didn’t like their political videos they can’t say they hate everything Vox makes

@gq_barry 3 года назад

@@yucol5661 Vox teaches me so much more than school has ever even dreamed of. Thank you Vox! Sending love from Kenya🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪

@sanjanamacharla6945 3 года назад

ikr

@cancel_naomi 3 года назад

It’s great marketing, personally I feel that is what brings such interest to the content.

@faithmwanzia8416 3 года назад

@@gq_barry Kenyan here too! Living in the us has been wild. This channel makes me understand everything so much better

@keyholes 3 года назад

Wait, did the guy who threw acid in the pool get punished? ... I have a nasty feeling I know the answer but good god how evil can you be.

@Fish-gl6is 3 года назад

You know the answer, I dont even need to tell you sadly...

@denelson83 3 года назад

Maybe the swimmers should have thrown a corrosive chemical in his face in response.

@goatmandy9787 3 года назад

denelson83 what a useless reply

@Tinil0 3 года назад

He continued to insist he was a moderate forever and a lot wrote about him tends to present him in a very "woe is me" light even

@ThatGuyCanmanNC 3 года назад

Technically he kinda did not break the law or well he did but still. He would have prob got arrested if he did it after the act

@RichardHannay 3 года назад

In fifty years from now we’re gonna see the same videos documenting what’s happening now.

@petermanou9083 3 года назад

Which part? The virus, the killings, the fires, Iran, Belarus? This year will be a full chapter in history books.

@RichardHannay 3 года назад

Yes

@petermanou9083 3 года назад

@Michael Wooding Why?

@petermanou9083 3 года назад

@jutubaeh What does that mean?

@onair141 3 года назад

Hopefully not... don’t ever forget that’s a possibility ✊🏿

@keywolf23 3 года назад

Don't let the black and white photography fool you. We are still living within history. Don't let technological advancements null you to believing anything has changed.

@naifalbaihed1230 3 года назад

Many of the whites who attacked the activists are alive today. They still vote and they still hold the same racist views against us.

@zizi6538 3 года назад

Yep most of the civil rights photos were taken in color but it was cheaper to print in black and white but now we can use the color images but we never do if u look in textbooks their all in black and white hmmmm

@notavailable1174 3 года назад

Yeet or be Yeeted i don’t think they were talking about just the color of the images

@simon6495 3 года назад

You don’t think anything has changed?

@yzfool6639 3 года назад

@@simon6495 Not compared to whites it hasn't.

@Dsoto137 3 года назад

I grew up in St Augustine and we never learned about these events in school. The retaliation against civil rights activists is disturbing.

@keeganmoonshine7183 3 года назад

If they aren't teaching you about this it's because they're trying to hide it.

@sydneyw4282 3 года назад

It’s purposefully left out of your education.

@gregory_the_griffon 3 года назад

It’s better to tell the dark history than just hiding it.

@opinionatortv6457 3 года назад

You wanna tell little kids that someone got Conc. Acid dumped on them just because they were black?

@gregory_the_griffon 3 года назад

OpinionatorTV That’s the mistake we want to tell the young generations in order for them to prevent it from repeating.

@trafficcontrol2420 3 года назад

They love throwing the word "militant' around when referring to black activist groups....so what is the klan? Civil? Peaceful?

@gouledawad2377 3 года назад

they same thing they say about BLM today calling it Antifa

@josearriaga4656 3 года назад

Futility antifa is not even a group though 💀 it’s an ideology.

@cheesychio8317 3 года назад

@@User27111 That's an incorrect blanket statement.

@greg_216 3 года назад

Seeking to somehow equate them is a waste of your time. There will never be a method of protesting racism that racists will find acceptable.

@jensjensen9035 3 года назад

Idk what to call them. Maybe defensive, trying to protect their family, their community and their property

@Whatsayoutuber 3 года назад

This concept has had a huge effect on how black Americans interact with the water - including the mode of protests, what happened before (blocked access), and what happened after (neglected city pools and the recent videos). My black friend told me that older members in her family said black people didn’t belong in the water when she joined rowing (a VERY white sport). Huge scores of black communities don’t know how to swim from lack of water access and affordable swim lessons. She still doesn’t even know how to swim and she’s been rowing for 5 years. And their experienced history with leisure water activities is far more violent than the pleasant idea of water activities that white people are able to look back on and think of. I’ve heard of more and more programs teaching inner city kids and black children how to swim, and I hope that continues because it’s so important ❤️

@Textile_Courtesan 3 года назад

It's disheartening. Friends my age that swim are few, if they have protective parents they grow up thinking the chlorine will damage their hair and are shielded from the horrendous history that prevented their parents from learning to swim.

@gq_barry 3 года назад

Thank you for giving us some insight on American Swimming Culture

@Textile_Courtesan 3 года назад

@Identity is character not group oh I know it damages hair,especially with extended exposure, not arguing that but to list it as the *only* reason they wouldn't swim I think was extreme. Also, he was inappropriately using the chlorine, it states on the directions to mix with water first to dissolve the crystals and then add it to the pool.

@keeganmoonshine7183 3 года назад

@Identity is character not group he was throwing hydrochloric acid

@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 3 года назад

Somehow, Black Dynamite saying he doesn't swim makes a whole lot of sense in this context...

@sydneyw4282 3 года назад

Y’all see the flags they’re carrying at 4:56, right?

@peji636 3 года назад

this should be a top comment

@mj_2484 3 года назад

up up up

@asunflower7993 3 года назад

Yea😔

@EE-yx4xp 3 года назад

"ThAtS mY hEriTaGe"

@tessemo 3 года назад

Exactly

@disingenuous4899 3 года назад

Both of our presidential candidates were teenagers during most of this

@preoximerias7366 3 года назад

Which is sickening.

@zimmerlicker 3 года назад

bet they both loved it too

@Obscurai 3 года назад

One candidate has learned and grown, the other not so much.

@yamomma6479 3 года назад

Ironically Biden was a lifeguard

@amrahmed7856 3 года назад

@@Obscurai The candidate _did_ learn a lot. He learned so much from what happened, that he voted for the 1994 Crime Bill. Not only that, he drafted the Senate version of the legislation in cooperation with National Association of Police Organizations.

@adnanmustafa5923 3 года назад

When the man started throwing acid in the pool i started shaking. How can you treat someone soo badly. My god. This brings me to tears and i am not even american, you dont have to be you just need to be human to feel sad.

@tone618 Год назад

I get it however the volume of water in the pool would easily dilute the acid to a non harmful concentration on the other side that guy is a frickin don g for doing that and I completely understand

@sharongillesp Год назад

@@tone618 The guy seemed to be pouring it directly on people - and could easily have blinded someone - no doubt if someone had gone blind they’d be arrested for going blind. This is in-bred hate. Their god “steals, kills and destroys.”

@bookishbassoonist2210 3 года назад

I’m a Floridian, why didn’t we learn about this in school during social studies. We learned about sit-ins, but not these.

@MulataLinda8 3 года назад

Omg there's alot of things they don't teach about Florida regarding this subject. I didn't even know about the Ocoee massacre

@jase09218 3 года назад

I wonder why they don’t teach you this... 🙄

@DoubleDDD 3 года назад

I believe vox made a video called "Daughters of the Confederacy" which answers your question.

@wait4it31 3 года назад

No one talks about what happened in Rosewood, Levy County, FL either

@wowlizzy4039 3 года назад

Same i just graduated and never in my 12 years in public school did we talk about this at all..

@taylordavis4424 3 года назад

I’m a beach lifeguard in New Jersey where you must pay for admission on to the beach (typically $6-$10 a day). This has always been obstacle for the lower income LOCAL residents who historically come from communities of color. This summer, in efforts to reduce crowd sizes on the daily beach passes rose nearly $5 a person making it even less feasible for lower income residents to enjoy a protected beach. What ends up happening is family’s come to the beach and wait for the lifeguards to get off duty so they can get on to the beach for free. There are numerous after hours 911 calls for swimmers in distress and it often is for people who could not afford to pay for everyone of their family members to swim at a protected beach.

@RMBMS 3 года назад

Everyone has to pay the same fee right?

@tmaposa2229 3 года назад

Thank you for this comment because it shows that there are still barriers keeping low income folks from accessing spaces.

@devonnareynolds 3 года назад

I live in Virginia Beach (VA) and that’s so strange to me that you have pay to use the beach. Here you have to pay $10 to park in municipal lots ; however, to simply go to the beach it’s free. There is a pretty big tourist industry ($4 billion annually before COVID). Been to North Jersey before, interesting place

@fluedgoop 3 года назад

@@RMBMS economic segregation makes the financial burden on certian groups significantly higher.

@RMBMS 3 года назад

@@fluedgoop good thing I wasn’t talking about that

@lex5768 3 года назад

STILL TO THIS DAY when my family members go swimming there’s always white people who would get out of the pool when we got in

@SparkPrincess 3 года назад

Still to this day, there are people that denies racism still exist. :(

@pratik2480 3 года назад

Discrimination on a base of pigment it's stupidity ✊🏿

@alexceous 3 года назад

Once, me and my family (we are latino) went to the pool and there was this white, blonde woman who tried to discriminate us. She called us "filthy" and told us to go back to Mexico.

@shashidharshettar3846 3 года назад

Alejandro Díaz I didn’t know Mexicans were discriminated by Whites, sorry to hear.

@TheMagicJIZZ 3 года назад

@@shashidharshettar3846 they aren't. Just by that woman. Are you dim

@screamcheeese7175 3 года назад

My dad was Diné and told me about some of this stuff when he was growing up in the early to mid-60s. He went to a pool in SLC when he was about 7 and got bleach dumped on him. It burned his scalp the worst, and he forever had scars from it on his head. His family and friends called him Pinto after that because he then resembled a pinto bean but... Still awful.

@gq_barry 3 года назад

I feel so bad for laughing. Hopefully he's doing alright ☺️

@emsontopno5603 3 года назад

I am sorry for what happened to your dad...Hope is doing well..love and blessings from India

@chickennugget6233 3 года назад

Man... the thing most of the people don't get even in the comments is, the US was built on racism. Mass genocide of our people. But no, they can't even look at that. Even the ones supporting this video. It's sad. The whole thing needs to be dismantled.

@User27111 3 года назад

Corina Farrow pretty much every county in the world was built on the exploitation of people

@solomonreal1977 3 года назад

@@User27111 I want my own country so I'm going to put acid on family and face ok?

@kiraanastasiaandersen1145 3 года назад

It’s scary looking at your own parents, knowing that they were alive and also young adults while this was happening

@Dina-dm4un 3 года назад

Not my parents

@classicjay1880 3 года назад

You must have old parents oh grandparents

@jamberry8026 Год назад

I remember when it happened. You will find the older you get that old is really not that old.😂

@acdnan 3 года назад

These racist did not only pass on their beliefs to their kids but most of them are still alive. TODAY

@evandegeer9879 3 года назад

So they are alive today. Ok, what you want them dead?

@acdnan 3 года назад

Picolas Cage it already has. Would you argue that we live in anti racist world

@acdnan 3 года назад

Eric DeGeer what is your goal with this question? You want me to say yes so that you can have the moral high ground by saying something along the lines of, “You should not advocate for someone’s death”. Again what is your goal.

@evandegeer9879 3 года назад

acdnan to make you realize that somebody existing who was involved with something is meaningless, and does not mean that that something exists today

@guessmyname1246 3 года назад

@@evandegeer9879 I think what they mean is that this didn't happen long, long ago, this happened much more recent then people seem to think

@moosechoose 3 года назад

I visit St. Augustine every year and had no idea about this. I actually just realized that I’ve stayed at that hotel multiple times and swam in that pool.

@moonee12 3 года назад

"The need for the officers to pursue the attackers" ??? they're swimming Linda

@kasaiart1281 3 года назад

My grandmother is from saint augustine and participated in thoses marches. Thank you for telling part of her story and black history as a whole

@---nobody--- 3 года назад

I thank your grandmother for being so brave and strong and for participating in the movement. 💕

@RojaJaneman 2 года назад

Thank and kiss her for me. Somewhere a woman appreciates her contribution 🙇‍♀️

@brandonf.8360 3 года назад

The Wells Fargo CEO must've meant this pool.

@theuntapstep7789 3 года назад

What does this mean

@hayaglamazonluxe 3 года назад

@@theuntapstep7789 Wells Fargo CEO said some ignorant comments about lack of black talent at the bank, saying there are smaller pools of African American talent to choose from. Got the blowback he deserved. Hope that helps.

@julissiajones6198 3 года назад

RIP Mimi 💜 thank you for everything you did for the movement and its people

@themessiha 3 года назад

12:03 "...it could change the complexion of the private club." Jesus, that's not even subtle racism. This happened not 50 or 60 years ago, but barely 10 years ago.

@jennifertrujillo9261 3 года назад

This is really sad. I can't believe that people were and sadly still act this way. 😕

@alexc7857 3 года назад

photography is a powerful thing, you can share a brief moment with an entire nation that would otherwise gone unseen, it's a tool of revolution

@AverytheCubanAmerican 3 года назад

Everyone should have access to the beach. It's a place we all go to during the summer to have a fun time and swim. Unifies generations under the spirit of summer. It's no surprise it played a role in civil rights

@SerenityM54L2SAM5L5N1 3 года назад

Everyone has access now, and during the past several decades. But some demographics aren't seen there as commonly, since they're still significantly more probable to not have the ability/knowledge to swim.

@azraq5036 3 года назад

hey, i see you almost everywhere

@azraq5036 3 года назад

@Ork nah, not there, i don't know that guy, although i've heard of his name. I've seem them on Drew Binsky's channel though.

@deanoswell3302 3 года назад

.. Myelf...worked as pro lifeguard on the beaches in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa (1988-present). Witnessed some truly inhumane behavior, and that doesn't exclude much...but in many respects the shocking behavior also post (after) apartheid is a story un-told

@axelpatrickb.pingol3228 3 года назад

@Ork He's... everywhere. He's on amusement park vids, history vids, Disney vids, videogame vids, travel vids, etc....

@mehrcat1 3 года назад

“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.” ― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

@knight671 3 года назад

How disgusting and ignorant...these stories need to be widespread.

@knight671 3 года назад

Picolas Cage We need to learn ALL of our history in order to move forward in the right direction. These stories matter and they need to be told, even if they hurt. Understanding the full scope of an event gives you knowledge and it is not so simple to move on from. The woman in the pool who was treated like a disease is still alive TO THIS DAY. It is not time to move on from these stories just yet.

@yukaira 3 года назад

Seems america isn't learning from its own history edit: words

@ILoveYani 3 года назад

I Didn't watch the video , gonna assume that you think that BLM movement is good and America is evil etc etc

@djahgf 3 года назад

@@ILoveYani How can you even know what he is taking about if you don't even watch the video. “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

@annoloki 3 года назад

Of course... America is a place, and places don't learn things, and living in a place doesn't mean you somehow magically know things that other people who also live - or previously lived - in that same place knew. Different people are different people, you're still thinking that a group means something that it does not.

@fabiolourenco1827 3 года назад

The more i learn about america the more i hate it. This is incredible, so much for being the a developed country...

@finncon4399 3 года назад

We pay attention to our problems other countries just hide and deny

@AlbertaKevinaMel4 3 года назад

@@finncon4399 Very easy way out. I don't know about "other countries", but in the countries I've lived in (in Europe), scandals do break, problems are put upfront. Yet, the more I learn about American history, the more appalled I get. 1) You don't seem to be paying so much attention, given how persistent AND prevalent these racial issues seem to be 2) This is not just another flaw of a country. This is not just any problem. Please do tell me which other developed Western country has such deeply entrenched racial issue as the US, and then we can compare how much they hide and deny.

@finncon4399 3 года назад

Anonymous I agree with the 2nd part of your comment

@daniaflores8013 3 года назад

Pommejaune literally every other country that has ever had European colonists settle in their land has a racial problem. So, a lot of countries. Not just the us. Why is this? Because they enslaved black people!

@AmandaPanda87 3 года назад

@Anonymous you already said that. Are we not paying enough attention to you?

@makesandskates 3 года назад

Its a shame that even to this day, many decades later, black people are still marching for unequal treatment. At least they aren't marching alone now.

@devastator5042 3 года назад

They werent marching alone back then either, the pool wade in involved White Protesters booking rooms and allowing the African American protesters to use the pool. And involved Jewish Rabbis in a prayer circle. I'm not going to deny that there is probably more support from all people this time around, but its dangerous to think that this is the first time it's been like this.

@danielduvernay3207 3 года назад

I don’t need an ad for McDonald’s in the middle of this video.

@jordanstewart6012 3 года назад

@gq_barry 3 года назад

😂 with context it's even funnier

@thisisme2681 3 года назад

The channel needs income to keep going 🤷

@desciplesofthomassankara3021 3 года назад

Keep shining the light vox. We love you for that.

@Jacobzx 3 года назад

Some people like to act like this happened a long time ago because it makes them feel more comfortable. But many of these protesters are still alive and it would be impossible to tell them that its all in the past

@jamberry8026 Год назад

Yes, I remember when it happened and was on the news.

@ThomasW215PHL 3 года назад

The fact that 400 people disliked this saddens me. This video is incredible.

@sharongillesp Год назад

Those are the people raised in households that perpetuate evil. A family the steals, kills and destroys stays together - apparently - for generations.

@randyjax09 Год назад

I grew up 20 minutes north of St. Augustine and never knew any of this history. That photo of MLK standing in front of the hotel with the Bridge of Lions in the background was particularly moving because it’s such a familiar sight to locals. Now it’s something I’m going to think about whenever I’m there.

@lovelygigi1661 3 года назад

Rest in peace Mimi Jones your legacy will stay here forever

@Lets_go_lesbians 3 года назад

Jfc the white only pools of the sixties are just the country clubs of today with a new sign

@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 3 года назад

Has nothing to do with race, more like CLASS discrimination. My child's goggles have been stolen multiple times at pools with daily access passes, or the community open days, but when swimming at membership-only pools people tend to already own their own goggles.

@deanoswell3302 3 года назад

..what does the new sign read..?

@Lets_go_lesbians 3 года назад

@@deanoswell3302 members only, I think watching the video might help provide you a little more clarity

@Lets_go_lesbians 3 года назад

@@ludwigvonmiseswasright4380 good thing racism and classism are completly divorced from each other as issues, sure would be embarrassing for u if they were inherently interlinked

@thecrippledpancake9455 3 года назад

Alori White The unfortunate part about that is that they are quite arguable interlinked to a certain extent. It’s just taboo to talk about so we pretend it’s NOT related at all.

@CorpsesofCupids 3 года назад

Is there any aspect of life in the US that ISN'T a battleground for civil rights?

@Noam_.Menashe 3 года назад

*wasn't.

@trillionbones89 3 года назад

@@Noam_.Menashe no, isn't is correct.

@chickennugget6233 3 года назад

No. Because it was created in racism, invasion, and genocide of millions of people.

@peji636 3 года назад

@@David-zh5zi not all to the extent of america though. it seems to me that almost everything in america has a racist origin

@actually5004 2 года назад

@@peji636 The critical race industry here is a billion dollar endeavor that can't exist if there is no racism therefore it will redefine and create more racism to justify it's own existence.

@MulataLinda8 3 года назад

11:51 I can agree. I live in the city, in Florida, but anytime I drive to those small coastal towns in Florida (both Atlantic and the gulf side) the vibe out there is not very welcoming, towards people of color. It's just weird out there.

@SomaHoste 3 года назад

So what america is going through right now is nothing new.

@abrahamlincoln5185 3 года назад

There's still segregation?

@emersoncaicedo3146 3 года назад

@@abrahamlincoln5185 yes, there is

@victor-zi7bu 3 года назад

@@abrahamlincoln5185 did we watch the same video?

@Aye.Robito 3 года назад

This nation has a very dark history that should never be forgotten.

@lalakuma9 3 года назад

How is it even legal to call the police on someone just because they're black? That itself should be considered a hate crime.

@smoldogo2979 Год назад

The thing is they call it loitering or play it up more than it is. same thing happens with the police themselves.

@penname8441 11 месяцев назад

Ding ding ding, and people are still doing it today!😊

@wobblemind 3 года назад

The inability for humans to see other humans as humans is quite depressing. I have more faith in animals ❤️

@gq_barry 3 года назад

For real

@daisuke910 3 года назад

That is between the same species. I have no idea how the world would be if there is another intelligent species.

@gq_barry 3 года назад

@@daisuke910 they died out actually. Natural selection is a cruel master

@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 3 года назад

animals are racist too

@wobblemind 3 года назад

@@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559 possible, we'll never know. Racism as we experience it requires an active will to hate or even harm the other for no sane reason. What we do know is that animals act more according to their nature. Are you saying nature is racist? 'Randomly' selective, sure.

@SunStaro 3 года назад

As a St. Augustine local, I can say in full confidence that we are not taught extensively about the protests and demonstrations of the 60s. I recall being in middle school and high school, and the subject was only briefly touched upon in our social studies and history classes. It is very disheartening to see that even today our educators at a state level do not want to dig deep into issues that still resonate with us today-now more than ever.

@phillip7731 3 года назад

Nothing but respect for these brave souls. Keep their legacy alive and honor it by never letting you be stopped from striving for equality.

@naomi-qd2mu 3 года назад

2020 is like all of history happening in one year. change my mind

@donnmeharg5192 3 года назад

I cannot

@HaroldTheWizardCat 3 года назад

Mmm no

@HaroldTheWizardCat 3 года назад

Why do you think that?

@utetwo9709 3 года назад

Not at all. 2020 is to be expected. It's the consequences of our actions. Animal agriculture, fossil fuels, and a dying culture is what's causing this.

@Kingdavidw106 3 года назад

USA 2 MEXICO lies libs do not control the government

@notafeesh4138 3 года назад

“Something that touches us will touch them” For the people who lived back then, they should’ve knew that the air was a fluid. :P

@RaymondHng 3 года назад

They cannot see air.

@Obscurai 3 года назад

They were not and still are not that smart.

@ocon10731 3 года назад

Dear future social studies teachers Please show vox’s videos with your lessons

@mera3581 3 года назад

I would love if my teacher showed me this

@MadMrMatter 3 года назад

Some of the people who did these horrible actions are the same people as our PARENTS and/or GRANDPARENTS! They're still alive and well and still just as racist.

@elishh8567 3 года назад

I bet they were happy when Obama became president haha I hope rasism dies out completely!

@jhbf 3 года назад

How was this never covered in a high school curriculum is what I want to know.

@jacque5599 3 года назад

Probably the daughter's of the confederacy... and just general systematic racism

@thehoneyeffect 3 года назад

They dont want you to know, so the question for you is .... why do you think it is that they dont want you to know?

@gq_barry 3 года назад

@@thehoneyeffect because they're guilty but too proud to admit it

@User27111 3 года назад

It is tho

@davidfortier6976 3 года назад

I'll admit up front that I am an outsider looking in, I'm a white Canadian living in Alberta. An apparent resurgence of systematic racial discrimination in the USA worries me not only on it's own but for what it probably means. I'm used to thinking of Americans as a diverse people who are, in spite of any differences, "all in this together". That's how America looked to me in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. But since around the turn of the century that unity seems to be waning and it worries me.

@RabbitWithFeathers 3 года назад

God bless the person who had the idea to make this Missing Chapter series.

@ediaz951 3 года назад

I never knew about this!

@louismwanja 3 года назад

There is alot about RACISM you don't know about..Take For example COPS killing BLACK people..this was always folklore in black homes

@justsomeoneelse5942 3 года назад

I love this series! Keep it up vox!

@hipnuts9180 3 года назад

This video reached me in a way i didnt expect. Thank you for your work and thank you to those who sacrificed so much in this endeavor.

@ModfrPlays 3 года назад

i din't even realize this was made today wow

@deanoswell3302 3 года назад

Yeah.. Posted like four hours ago with 38K views!! Tells us something!

@gq_barry 3 года назад

That must show you how used to these types of videos we are, how sad😟

@louisbaleston2814 3 года назад

This gives a whole other meaning to the phrase “We will fight them on the beaches”

@leejaerim8972 3 года назад

I actually never heard of this expression, but I think it makes sense.

@andrewrapport1414 3 года назад

12:21 M E G A K A R E N

@AntTonyLOLKID 3 года назад

Omg I totally forgot that segregation at pools was a thing! I remembered it was taught in primary school, but all I think about are those marches or street/city protests

@dieharddancer28 3 года назад

Can't believe this continues today, so devastating and disgusting. The footage of the kids and the cops breaks my heart.

@baltaci774 3 года назад

😂

@GraceNuLop 3 года назад

I wish these stories were available with subtitles in Spanish so I can show my family this is still so real

@jamberry8026 Год назад

You can turn the subtitles on in Spanish.

@RejectedInch 2 года назад

the real shocking part is the fact that this type of violent discrimination still happens TODAY. Not 60 years ago, but right NOW.

@stevenbaker7025 3 года назад

You know we ended segregation but still have yet to address the systematic violence (police brutality) killing US citizens. We haven't forgotten history, we've just moved onto the next challenge in the way of creating a free and equal society.

@susanamosquera3399 3 года назад

I've swam in the same Florida waters where this took place and I never knew this history until today

@torbjornlekberg7756 3 года назад

Watching this makes me furious. And the worst thing is to so see how little have changed.

@soiledhalo2296 3 года назад

Don't forget, 27 people opposed the Civil Rights Act.

@wadehendricks2322 3 года назад

Just as I was about to type a comment the part on Wade-ins came on. My name is Wade by the way 😂😂 anyway, similar thing occurred in South Africa during apartheid.

@liyemalanga7419 3 года назад

In South Africa people were forced to move away from their homes because it’s a white area, you couldn’t walk freely(when u r black), you couldn’t sit on certain benches they had signs that would say “white only” same thing with toilets, entrances to shops etc

@liyemalanga7419 3 года назад

My grandfather moved to Johannesburg from the Eastern Cape He had to apply to move and then there was a process where a police officer would inspect your private parts. He said that was one of the most uncomfortable experiences ever he says that that’s when he knew it was going to be a long struggle for freedom

@alexmontinola3376 3 года назад

how can people say this happened a long long time ago when they got these moments on film and VIDEO. people who experienced this are still alive !!!!!!

@joedellinger9437 2 года назад

And don’t necessarily feel that old yet, even. :-)

@Lugh314 3 года назад

I feel like videos like this shouldn’t have four commercial breaks.

@abberss 3 года назад

adblock

@PlaySA 3 года назад

This one should be free

@TheNuclearGeek 2 года назад

I just wish every now and then, these stories, which are very important to keep telling so they aren't forgotten, ended with where we are today so we reinforce that big changes, education of the masses, removal of ignorance CAN all be overcome and much faster than we think. Unfortunately, everyone that tells these stories thinks they HAVE to end it with "yet we still have more to do". We will ALWAYS have more to do, something else to change or improve. We are all imperfect, we won't ever have a perfect society created by imperfect beings. But there is value to credit the good that has been done and not just the bad that still remains.

@donaldtrumplover2254 2 года назад

You must understand that victims tend to be pessimists so that’s how these types of stories normally end up being told. If you asked them they wouldn’t deny the significant progress.

@amalsinkarina447 3 года назад

in my hometown of Baltimore, Elijah Cummings, the late representative helped desegregate Riverside Park Pool, 5 minutes from where I live

@mawamatakama5150 3 года назад

Someone needs to tell Trump the Civil Right Act exists.

@RankinMsP 3 года назад

R. I. P. Mimi Jones and thank you for everything. May your gentle soul rest in peace.

@khaleelarend5368 3 года назад

Thank you Vox. We love your videos so much. Please keep on sharing. We apprecialove it!!!

@yabIoko 3 года назад

i grew up in the ponte vedra/st augustine area and we NEVER learned about this... I'm so disgusted that we were never taught about the civil rights history that happened there.

@dillmon1 3 года назад

Hey fellow floridian... There is a lot of black stories that are removed from history in the state of florida. for example the first fully incorparted town founded by slaves was in florida. and Palm beach island, specifically the Breakers, was built by black people, but after it was built, the whites burned down the black peoples houses forcing them to leave. Im sure there are a bunch of other stories that i dont know about yet

@jprhino6665 3 года назад

History does not repeat itself. History teaches us that humans will never change.

@catmangrove 3 года назад

This was beautiful. Thank you so much for bringing this story to the masses. 😭

@aloe.0v0 3 года назад

9:58 Announcer refers to protesters as "attackers". Not much has changed.

@justinakers3196 3 года назад

I think we would all be surprised at how few people actually know the history of “black people can’t swim“ and just how racist the stereotype really is. Many black people don’t know how to swim because they and their parents were afraid they would be beaten if they tried to. We are still not a whole in this country as far as equity goes, but we are much closer than we used to be. Sadly I’m afraid we are regressing due to much of the rhetoric we get from our commander-and-chief.

@nathanngumi8467 3 года назад

Wow, great history, how far the country has come, this is a forgotten chapter which needs to be revisited.

@edsmith3052 3 года назад

Great video, keep bringing videos like this to light. The youth today need to see history like this.

@ThankYouESM 3 года назад

Thank you for this needed reminder.

@HaroldTheWizardCat 3 года назад

It’s a battleground to get a spot at the beach

@navdhillon7912 3 года назад

Unsettling how this was not so long ago.

@CS-nw9si 3 года назад

Millennials are turning 30 and this wasn't even 30 years before we were born.

@BicycleFunk 3 года назад

These videos are really great. Thank you, Vox.

@flounder4285 3 года назад

How man Civil Rights Acts does this country need to pass to end institutional racism?

@frostingfox8180 3 года назад

This video literally made me cry. People are just absolutely ridiculous. Humans just have no empathy for each other or any other living things. It’s sad.

@onikagrande 3 года назад

This breaks my heart, I'm so grateful to not live in 1960s America. RIP MIMI JONES and god bless all civil rights activists.

@peppermoon7485 3 года назад

I grew up in the Sixties..My little town was segregated ...The black part of town was called “The east end “ or colored town ...We’ve come a long way since then but there are still pockets of Racism!!! The thing that marks our progress against racism is the overwhelming admiration for our first Black President Barack Obama !!! We’re moving in the right direction !✌️from 🇺🇸💕

@Mephatass 10 месяцев назад

We do not live in the 60s however the damage has been done and the systemic racism continues to plague us. So sad.

@Private-Citizen1 3 года назад

Just over 50 years ago...

@lienschuur4897 3 года назад

Allyship is so important! We shouldn't fight for our own rights only, we should fight for everyone's rights!

@seth_deegan 3 года назад

Such a good informanant piece on history! I have so much respect for the Civil Rights movement in the U.S.

@eduardopelliccia2106 3 года назад

This is why we still need these conversations today.

@TheCristallo83 3 года назад

If you'd like to know another story from that area and time, look up the history of Axe Handle Saturday. It took place in Jacksonville, FL which is right up the road from St. Augustine.