Desegregating Baltimore City Schools

A Look Back at Brown vs. Board of Education. A 2004 documentary produced by the Baltimore Sun.

[@barbibutton9619]

I lived in Baltimore as a child 😹 n early 60's. My first best friend in life was black. Then MLK was shot and rioting and they would sound sirens to warn us to be inside by 4 p.m.. then when things quieted down, our parents thought it best we didn't walk back and forth to each other's homes for our safety. So, of course, we never saw each other again. I didn't have another friend for 2 years until we moved out of Baltimore. As a child, I did NOT understand. I just knew it wasn't fair I didn't have my friend in my life anymore. It was a big deal and I was crushed

[@speedracer1945]

I grew up by Liberty heights in the 60s . At the time all my friends were white then the riots and real estate people paid Black teens up the street with baseball bats one day I saw a White adult running to door to door across the street as they beating the heck out of him . My Mom called the police . It was so fast that almost all the whites moved out overnight so I made friends with the Black kids but had to prove myself by fighting and was number 2 in my gang after we moved I did stopped by once since they were my friends.

[@millermark445]

The riots changed everything. White flight to the burbs accelerated and racial tensions increased. People were afraid to come downtown. Unfortunately, integration in public schools didn't work that well. The result is defacto segregation in city and county schools.

[@SCORPION89199]

@@millermark445 That's not the full truth,yes there were riots in the big city's(partially because of the CIA and the FBI higher ups shot exsiccated,JFK,RObert kennedy ,MLK and Malcolm X )in his book,color,communism and common sense(written in 1958 by a high ranking black gentleman named manning johnson) who became a top ranking american communist party member)a college friend of his invited him to join the party in 1935 where not to long after he joined the communist party he was first trained in what the book calls "red political warfare, and he was also trained in party warfare and other kremlin tactics in Moscow,in 1945 manning left the red communists and reconnected with his christian faith and spent the next 14 years traveling around the USA speaking at events and town meetings out against all the ideology and strategies and(what the book calls red politics)communist and marxist groups had once taught him. in the book,those riots that happened in black community's and white ones in the 1960's manning johnson explains that those riots were orchestrated,how the red would sent in party members to infiltrate black churches,and schools,to(after a tragedy like the mlk or Malcolm x execution happened)sow seeds of helplessness,hate and discontent into urban communities in every city,they lied to the men and women in those neighborhoods,telling them,"if you help us(the kremlin)get rid of capitalism,your problems will go away,racism and your problem will vaish and every one,no matter what their shade of skin or wealth status will get along and love each other and america will be one big utopia for everyone" ,this was of course one big lie that many americans are still believing today. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nJ62YX9mh8x7mqc archive.org/details/color-communism-and-common-sense

[@nikkibass2280]

My father who was and still is in my book a phenomenal dad graduated from Poly Technical High School. Class of 64😘❤️😘Landis Will Royster, rest well daddy❤️💪

[@shortliner68]

Nikki, your Dad graduated the year before I started at Poly in 1965. So very sorry to hear he has passed away. :(

[@bubblinbrownsugar616]

I'm glad I stumbled on to this. Very good documentary. :)

[@marycurry837]

Cruel People Back Then. They Will Reap What They Sow!

[@NoahBodze]

Indeed. Blacks have never built anything and destroy what others build.

[@yetzchaqeaton6888]

My father was one of the blacks to desegregate Poly Technical HS, during the 60s.

[@Bliind]

Hey do you think you father would be open to an interview?

[@mrchubbyfella9421]

I just learned that Muhammad Ali believed in segregated schools and societies.

[@anthonyw9129]

Of course he did and he was right

[@curtis8954]

and he dated white women

[@teresawicks-kq3bq]

@@curtis8954 who told you that lie?

@@curtis8954 Actually he didn't. But don't worry about facts 'n shit like dat.

[@5xq38p4u]

He converted to Islam. Blacks wanted equality. When they got it they did everything to be outside of responsible society. Welfare Programs took away ambition ans responsibility. Now many black families are single parent because it's easier to get Gov't support (money). With so many Black millionaire athletes why don't they go into the hoods and help their "brothers" and "sisters"?

[@rachelball1174]

I just found this . My mother was a reporter for the Howard County Times, and she chronicled school desegregation before the Baltimore Sun began to. She was a great lady, and watching this made me proud of her all over again.

[@macvena]

I went to a Baltimore City public school in the fall of 1969. I left in 1981. It was 12 years of Hell. Drugs, and violence. I liked schooling, but that place was just daily misery. I quit and joined the Marines. Bootcamp was better than anytime in public school.

[@shockawha9]

I remember the Baltimore Student Walk Out in the 70’s...every kid in every school marched to the next school n picked them up, headed to next school n picked them up.... the group of students grew until it ended at City Hall...we didn’t care about segregation but that forced busing was bs.... why would you send someone clear across town? They did that so that by now, people think nothing of working just as far away from home leaving millions of latchkey kids vulnerable to criminal activity....it was really the start of cradle to grave govt interference in ones life......

[@mellimel1174]

Most of the better, upstanding families White AND Black, have left the city which left the school system lacking quality staff and students.

[@johnsampson8741]

This presentation really, really put things together. 1/2 of the population with substandard education support and coming from a background where they needed more support was over night put into the same schools as the white students after years of fighting to maintain the system of apartheid practiced in the United States. It was as if they wanted to see the system fail with 50-60 students packed into small classrooms. The next year-white flight to Baltimore County, Bel Air and other places, reduced tax base and the whole Baltimore system begins to collapse. Now what? There must be a solution.

[@elsiedankwa805]

Lol, we Africans also use the books the African-Americans finish. We use your old clothes, underwear’s, bathing suits, everything! Even your used electric gadgets

[@GetTheGrandFunkOut]

11:13: Narrator: So -- the stage was set. When Baltimore school children returned to school in the fall of 1954, they would do so side by side with children of another race. No one knew exactly what to expect. But trouble was brewing, among some white parents, even at Polytechnic High, where the prestigious A course had been desegregated two years earlier. Dowell Schwartz, Polytech Institute, class of '54: "These people were hand picked and highly selected and were most likely to succeed; and they were smart, you know, and could adjust. But the fear was that: 'Well, once the masses start coming, then, that's going to be a different story,' " Thank you, LORD, for letting me look into the history of Baltimore, MD tonight, to stumble on this video that's explained what I DIDN'T know!

[@AwesomeBeatles]

Social Engineering should not be a function of government.

[@kinkiesse7736]

That was not social engineering but applying the law...........the constitution.

[@House_Of_Cards_]

Very interesting documentary. I noticed people were so thin and healthy in the past when compared to modern day students in the video. You see a lot of obese young people :(

[@ginajoseph8776]

I was thinking the exact same thing. No wonder type 2 diabetes is rampant in younger people.

[@radicalgreek99]

It's all about sugar and corn syrup in everything now.

[@5xq38p4u]

Fast food restaurants were just becoming popular, that's when people stopped eating balanced meals. Big Macs and fries with a large Coke!

[@adianpryde1526]

True, you can look at year book photos from through the 20th Century and only in the last two decades you see obesity from poor diets and lack of exercise.

[@catrathat08]

People were actually cooking their food until fast food came along.

[@antoniooverton49]

Some things are better left a lone . Most black kids didn't want to go to schools in white communities but we didn't have a choice. White kids was not forced to go to schools in black communities because the parents refused to let then and no legal actions were taken.

[@thomassaehler9038]

Look at Baltimore City schools today..... 😢

[@tsaffran]

And that my friends was the beginning of the end for Baltimore City

[@barnacles62]

I see how much better it made Baltimore, it has become the top of the list in violence. You CAN NOT force people to like other people, just like you can lead a horse to water, but cant make it drink. Both are true in this case....

[@ladylove8998]

Lol I'm a baltimorian I agree. Baltimore is a sad place... there is no unity... the solution is leave...

[@speedracer1945]

@@ladylove8998 even though it was city limits , I loved Rosedale since as a young teen I hung around in Overlea , in the 80s I lived in Frankford then in the 90s I moved to Rosesdale and stayed there till 2018 nice neighborhood sure still crime but Baltimore county has some nice parks or places like Loch Raven or drive north up Harford rd .

[@darthvaderoftheredpill5196]

No one is forcing anyone to like anyone, stop being a racist clown and sit down. Boltimore isnt "the top list in violence" as you so vaguly insisted and whatever violence there is does not have to do with beijg between races so what you said has no corelation. Grow up.

[@Maryland_Kulak]

@@darthvaderoftheredpill5196 Your knowledge of crime statistics is right up there with your spelling ability.

[@Maryland_Kulak]

If you mix clean water and dirty water, what do you get? Baltimore. And no self respecting horse would drink that.

[@aarondigby5054]

The AA women teachers really put their heart and soul into it as did many of the yte woen teschers thanks to the educators for doing a great job.

[@nikkibass2280]

At one time my heart couldn’t tolerate watching the hate displayed from one group of people to another because of the color of their skin. I am so glad my heart loves instead of hate because only EVIL spirits enjoy hating and I pray the Creator of ALL will open your eyes helping you to rid yourself of ignorance. I’m proud to be black and I’m happy & thankful we were STRONG enough in our journey to withstand the pain of and from white supremacy. All praises to the most high God for creating us in his likeness and image. Thank you father for taking the hate for them out my heart ❤️❤️❤️

[@anako1976]

Watching during the protests. Educating myself

[@Tubulous123]

Yes!!! Thank you!!!

[@pallybro8620]

Look at Baltimore schools now, congratulations

[@rogerbing5314]

Well according to the test scores and how some of the POC behave in school maybe it’s not such a bad thing .

[@JordanWilliams-ix2td]

so whos doing all the school shootings? id much rather have my child go to a predominantly POC school

[@isaacpowell1408]

We should have just fought for equality and remained separated. Because look at the conditions now😰

[@isaacpowell1408]

@Jon micheal hindsight is 20/20

[@kyanamorsell5891]

Agreed

[@mcleb84]

@Jon micheal I think you are full of shit. Very full of it. The South has evolves for the most part. The South warned us all of the federal foe that was once known as the North or the Union. They have completely fucked everyone now and made things worse than ever. Even though the North was very similar to the South in many ways, the ones who win control 'The Story of History', propaganda, the lies etc. The civil war was not to end slavery. The South had a booming economy based on natural resources and extremely favorable agricultural conditions. These are things that many Millenials and especially Gen Z affiliates will never understand. Because today, the majority rely on grocery stores for deadly food at severely high prices. Back then it was survival. The Union/Federal govt doesnt EVER talk about the conditions and regulations that kept people down and in shitty living conditions. They won after-all. They get to program the new generations to come. They are the reason why a majority of cities in this country are dying and will never recover. The states still have a bit of power over their residents' fate but in reality...these days people are fleeing to the South for a better life because the North/Union/Federal Govt has made places unlivable. It goes so fucking deep. There are states in the North and South that would love to break free from the Federal foe that is destroying this country by suceeding from the country. But it would be a repeat of the civil war. They would just go to war with that state and take their ass over again. It is all about control. Don't ever think the one's you are told are 'anti' actually give a fuck They are out to fuck all of us and they are doing a damn good job. Before you think about blaming another peasant, remember the peasant cannot change what angers them either. You have peasants and club members. The club members wanted to control everything so they took over the South. Now they have made things worse!

[@gmore842]

That's a fact. Know disrespect but I'm not a fan of Dr. King

[@marisutton334]

@@gmore842 I agree.

[@joyceterrell3969]

I'm a Great Niece of Bessie Smith and I integrated Gar-Field High school in Woodbridge, Virginia. Those demon kids treated me horrific. Emmy Lou Harris was one of the few who treated me kind. I survived. My graduation day was and still is one of the happiest days of my life. Story is in my book entitled A Blues Song 🎵 OF MY MY OWN. Peace and love ❤

[@johnnyrico6202]

Fast forward to 1970s, I white kid had only black women teachers who put thier heart and soul into us. No music classes, decades old books and overcrowded. Definitely equal...equally terrible. But we never doubted the passion of those good women.

[@mikesampson3467]

Downhill from there.

[@adriannarobeson4758]

I can not believe that you have people that actually think Africa is a country,,😆😆 it's a Continent,, my God,,

[@bgoneification]

If they decided to go back "home" they wouldn't know where to go.

[@margaretnorvell9555]

You did it. Congrats. Look at Baltimore now

[@learntospellpeople]

You right wing troll bots regurgitate the same nonsense over and over again. Dishonest bigoted ghouls all of you.

[@adianpryde1526]

When HBO wanted to do a show on a corrupt and crime ridden city with systemic self inflicted problems they chose Baltimore as the setting for 'The Wire'.

[@gmatinky3965]

No shit. The characters are also based off real people.

[@speedracer1945]

I watched that show every week . The mayor was based on mayor O Malley who was pissed and bad mouth the show . Liked Omar and how he robbed drug dealers .

[@CosmicHyperborean]

A colossal failure.

[@raskltube]

here we go, this is gonna be a hoot lol

[@vanessaboyd3798]

So many schools have closed down my elementary , middle and high school are all closed down, SMH 🤨😔🦋🌺

[@edycrowley2878]

I went through this at School#66, the school at Mr. Royal. It was difficult...all around.

[@debbennett7125]

LMFAO that worked out well

[@darthvaderoftheredpill5196]

It actually did you bigoted ghoul.

[@CosmicHyperborean]

A total failure.

[@williamrubinstein3442]

How many Baltimore public schools are actually integrated now, with a balance of both races? Very few I would bet. Thousands of whites in Baltimore moved to the suburbs to escape inner city schools, or send their kids to private schools. I alsi wonder about the test peeformance

[@williamrubinstein3442]

To continue. The test performances of blacks vs whites. Are they really equal, thanks to 70 years of integration? Let's see the stats.

[@olovyn]

Wow this worked out so great! Baltimore today is such a nice, lovely, beautiful city. Those people who wanted to keep segregation has been totally proven wrong! Muh MLK!!

[@FM-Patriot]

Such a struggle and what a triumph for those young men getting into Poly..... And now today you have a City long controlled by the Dems where they do all they can to keep the black community pacified and under their thumb.

[@bingybeats189]

The schools there are an absolute nightmare today. I hope the issues get resolved eventually and things normalize. Bmore has a wild and very violent history.

[@TSquared2001]

This is timely

[@nikkibass2280]

Love American History ❤️❤️❤️🌎🌎☮️☮️☮️

[@outlsd1590]

Me2 (:

[@teresawicks9859]

Me too!😁

[@thomassmith3397]

Like all liberal ideas and programs this worked out great!

[@outlsd1590]

Thomas Smith you’re taking one extreme to another. Check West Virginia and see what the red does for those communities. Last time I checked, their going thru the same dirty water pipes as flint. So good jobs republicans.

[@thomassmith3397]

@@outlsd1590 More than 100 years of mining is the issue not really infrastructure.

[@darthvaderoftheredpill5196]

It worked out great and it kept racist punks like you pissed.

[@thomassmith3397]

@@darthvaderoftheredpill5196 What ignorance do you speak? Smart people, live in top areas and send their kids to top public schools, home school, or great private schools. Thinking very little of crap hole areas and leaving low IQ people like you getting a crap degree in mass communication and feminist studies.

[@thomassmith3397]

​@@darthvaderoftheredpill5196 Individual people make up the family. Families make up the street and the streets make up the neighborhood. The neighborhoods makes up the school. Bad schools and bad areas are because of bad Individuals! Government can't and shouldn't try to fix this with social engineering.

[@paulgonzalez5957]

Well, how’s Baltimore doing today🤡?

[@jamalbell7771]

blacks were strong and bow we lost sight for what's important

[@barnacles62]

The whole country has lost that sight, all colors. People have become so self absorbed and selfish they have forgotten what`s important. Our youth have been pampered and act like spoiled rotten brats, and true discipline is all but gone. The blacks at that time cared about an education, kids now days of either color could care less, they expect everything to be given to them. If the future is over 50% of our youth, this country is done over the next 30 years, everybody will feel they got their way, but it wont last long when China and Russia, or Muslims are running the show, they will wished they had the old days back in a hurry.....

[@leshagayle5991]

Real Talk

[@learntospellpeople]

@@barnacles62 You're a very busy rw troll on this video. z posting your repetitions & old white guy bs over and over. And if you think China Russia or the Muslims are gonna 'take over' (like China & Russia are not all ready superpowers) you re even more of a know nothing right winger. The US is an imperialist virtually bankrupt war mongering institutional racist country It has no moral authority to think it is supposed to dominate over China Or Russia as equally flawed in different ways as they are.

[@trevinhickman9022]

Integration & Segregation has always been controversial in America. America has always been divided over this topic. As a Black American I have always felt that integration was important not just for Black American's but for all Americans. Segregation caused a divide and split in America that compromised unity & progress for Americans. Since White American's were pro-segregation and Black Americans were Anti-Segregation well interest now became central to the matter. The learning needs of student's varies. Some educational institutions are better for certain students and others are not. If students are blocked from receiving a quality education America suffers as a whole on every level. Considering one of God's Ten Commandments is to love thy neighbor and not be racist towards one another and divide ourselves, well then segregation at that point is contradictory to God's will for all of mankind. Unity reinforces love and division facilitates hatred amongst American's. If Black people have their own and white people have theirs the dynamic of division is still here in America. Segregation conviently passified the desires of Americans and Integration forced Americans to overcome their indifferences towards one another and out achieve the challenges of racism & segregation in America. We shall overcome was not just a motto but it was an ideal embedded into the hearts, minds and spirit's of all Americans to overcome hatred and indifferences between one another and unite together for the greater good of all Americans. As a Black American I am a product of an integrated society that overcame segregation. The right to choice for all Americans to attend an educational institution of their choice should always be intact. It is in love and unity that America stands and in division America falls.

[@alvinmendez349]

Baltimore is beautiful and historic city. Now its a slum. Baltimore, chicago, haiti, and any damn poverty stricken country in Africa. The all got one thing in common. Just say,n.

[@ETBeMore]

How many poverty stricken African countries you've been to? Let me guess your ignorant behind never been out of your bubble! Plenty of African countries are way better of some trailer parks & small towns in America. And inner cities issues are all Americans problems, not just blacks! Have you been to Canada? Why don't they have issues like this when there are so many blacks in their country? Educate yourself!

[@adriannarobeson4758]

It's called liberalism, corrupt Democrats are the biggest racist of all , they don't want minorities to better themselves, the more poverty the more uneducated the more havoc the better to lie control and brainwashed people,, black people in Baltimore and Chicago and other Democratic run city's need to wake up and stop and think and ask why hasn't anything changed, why, why has Baltimore gotten worse,, think about it,,,

[@marisutton334]

@seventhsinn Y'all talk a lot shit and lies behind your keyboards knowing damn well you won't say shit in real life on the streets.

[@marisutton334]

@seventhsinn And correction those white people in SA you talking about? That land is feeding people not whites.

[@Mjfa9923]

Selam ዘኢትዮጵያ Maybe most of the Canadians are not as racist as USA citizens are. Also, I have never been to Africa but even I know all of Africa is not a slum.I have seen videos of beautiful places in Africa...seek(research) and you shall find.If you keep a prejudiced, closed mind you will only see the negative... what you want to see.

[@memalephyudth]

2 of 3> What makes it so bad during THAT era were the so-called African American families (my own included), which were older than me, went to fight for another peoples freedom and respect as a nation. They had very little freedom of their own; they believed that by going to war; it would show the European Americans that they were good US Citizens to gain the respect they deserve.

[@joebrown9895]

They were paid to

[@marisutton334]

@@joebrown9895 But that's not what he's talking about and you know this , they came back from fighting this war and still got treated like shit from their own so called country "corporation"

[@peachvanilla9833]

Mari Sutton you are sharpe and on point! Yess! I love it 😊

[@adriannarobeson4758]

My mother grew up on St. Ann's Ave in East Baltimore in the 1940s & 50s and she would tell me story's about black people had to ride on the back of the bus,, i was appalled, let alone she was telling me black people had there own neighborhoods,, if this wasn't racism I don't know what is,, me personally I don't tolerate racism from no one I feel it's the lowest form of intelligence and uneducated and ignorance,, all because another human being has a different color skin and hair texture,,,

[@taurussun2228]

@Rusty Shackelford So because you experienced this now you're bitter. You can't hate the whole race because of what happened to you..

[@taurussun2228]

@Rusty Shackelford Oh please.. save it. You're bitter..and it shows.

[@marycarson6836]

You need to find the meaning of racist . before you call black people racist ,whites have always thought they were the superior race and tried to keep blacks down no other race has been treated bad like the blacks here in America.America white started racism weather you agree or not .

[@adriannarobeson4758]

@Rusty Shackelford I'm far from being liberal believe me,, I just don't tolerate racism from anyone regardless what color they are,, you have racist blacks and you have racist whites,, and it shows ignorance and lack of intelligence,,

[@mattwuxx3888]

@@taurussun2228 Hmm..interesting. So when felonious, violent individuals like Treyvon Martin, Mike Brown, Jacob Blake, George Floyd and too many more to list, interface with armed citizens or cops who have to use extreme methods to keep their violent behavior at bey(sometimes with lethal force), those cops and citizens may in fact not be in the wrong and certainly, all other cops and the predominant white population should *definitely* not be judged by the actions of a few people? I'm sincerely glad you offered both of us a chance to share this accurate moment of contemplation and proper perspective.

[@mariekatherine5238]

In New York Catholic schools there were black kids at this time. Not that many, but a few in nearly every class. I didn’t think of it as an “issue.”

[@AustrianAnarchy]

4:48 "And Poly became the only public school south of the Mason-Dixon line to have racially integrated classes." While technically true, it is still misleading. Buffalo, NY and many other cities to the north had no racial integration at all, well into the 1960s. Boston took a little longer.

[@terryrobinson2324]

Interesting looking back. The problem of yesterday is not the problem of today. Race is still an issue but it has changed,

[@outlsd1590]

Terry Robinson I honestly like the optimism. Thea comments are annoying with all the clear racism

[@thomasward00]

All the stats show that they are...

[@victoriamatthews5108]

“We are now operating a school system in America that’s more segregated than at the time since the death of Martin Luther King” - Jonathan Kozol...In Prince George’s County - where white enrollment decreased from 28 percent to 4 percent during those two decades - nine of 10 black students attend a school where at least 90 percent of students are minorities. Nearly four of 10 black students go to what the Civil Rights Project report calls “apartheid schools,” where 99 percent of students are minorities...

[@dianakidd4219]

That’s because white kids get the he’ll beat out of them and are bullied by black kids. If a white parent has money or can hone school, we do. I went to school with black kids in the 60’s. It was the same. I was there to learn, they were there to punish us for being white.

[@yungjamir]

🙏🙏🙏

[@reikomyles1495]

Hallelujah, Jesus is coming back soon! All hate, racism, discrimination, crime, drugs, and all desperately wicked evil sins will soon be eradicated forever. God fearing people of all colors will live in eternal unity, joy, and peace. Come Lord Jesus come.

[@malcolmcanning548]

When do kids realise they are different

[@teresawicks9859]

4 or 5 yrs old

[@atwilliams8]

That was good..

[@macvena]

Baltimore City public schools are a complete failure in the 21st century. I mean they are abysmally failing to educate. This is not the fault of integration or blacks. Those who run the City and the schools. The blacks got screwed after they got in. Even in the 70s the curriculum and teaching methods were altered to give the appearance that black kids were doing well. It was all just simplified and dumbed down, thus providing shit to those who fought for a chance at getting a good education. That was the point of integration. The white schools were good and well funded. Someone in charge ruined it. I was there. I had to take remedial classes to enter college. I had always been an A student. I couldn't believe I wasn't capable of entering college, because I was undereducated, but it was true. I was introduced to material that was never touched on or not comprehensively covered. It was a waste of years of my life, and I would end up paying for additional classes in college to get to where I needed to be.

[@bono894]

Why is segregation of the races considered to be such an evil thing?

[@trevinhickman9022]

Segregation facilitates division. When America was segregated the problems were still here and nothing had changed for the better for all Americans. Protecting interest seems logical but when the progress and development of American society as a whole is compromised then segregation is unhealthy and self detrimental for all Americans. The bible teaches the principle of love. Segregation reinforces division and hatred amongst American's. What's evil about segregation is that it puts mankind's interest before God's will for all of mankind. If evil divides and destroys then love conquers and unites.

[@margaretnorvell9555]

Diversity is the death knell for homogeneous nations

[@learntospellpeople]

@@trevinhickman9022 Well said. Peace

[@learntospellpeople]

@@margaretnorvell9555 No it's not. Your trolling is piss poor. I guess it d never occur to you that so-called white nations "homogenous" are not. There is no such thing as a completely homogenous nation That d lead to inbreeding and inbreeding is bad for any group.

[@undergroundrailroad4946]

It's said that blacks don't stick together figure this is a new coincidence, and not of the past' Segregation hadn't forced blacks too develop their communities, freedom had. Integration didn't rob blacks of this ability, the desire to have a better quality of life; i.e. homes, hospitals, education, federal assistance, etc. had. In retrospect to, wonder had this been the best process in which to gain this equality of life in the best nation on earth / Or now with integration is thee goal of equality satisfied or achieved?

[@yarixavega2137]

I go to that school 20:23 what a coincidence

[@kohlcooke8789]

And I went to RPMS (20:40) up until a year ago. It's fairly diverse now, I would say (at least in my class) there was about an equal number of black and white kids

[@kohlcooke8789]

@Clorox Bleach Dude I'm just reflecting on how things have changed since then. I'm not trying to make any sort of statement. And I'm not in the mood to argue with you

[@nocomment5160]

I wish it was still like this!! The good ol days !!

[@Syisulis]

wow small world i just saw a family member in this documentary

[@gmatinky3965]

Iaint know my city fought segregation too oldhead said it wasnt too much like dat up here back den...😬they lied

[@MarkHoward660]

Segregation kept us all safe from the keeds and looters

[@outlsd1590]

Mark Howard stop typing. Cool your racist, I’m so offended oh no... next.

[@leeb.7188]

But, but, we wuz kangz, en sheit. HaHaHaHa!

[@learntospellpeople]

Where's your right wing conservative troll farm "Mark Howard"? You bots are _very_ busy on this video.

[@learntospellpeople]

@@leeb.7188 You clowns really are the most unoriginal dummies there ever were. Repeating the same tired bs and sad asf "jokes". What sorry excuses for human beings you bare.

[@alphamale2754]

And the clear people don't see racism 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@barnacles62]

Despite being a small city, Baltimore used to be considered one of the most pleasant cities in the country to live in or visit, in large because of its shipping ports and the Chesapeake Bay and its seafood. It was beautiful, and safe. It was voted the eighth most dangerous American city in 2010, and its even worse now. I live on Maryland`s eastern shore, but follow Baltimore news, EVERYDAY there are at least one or two shootings, the whole city political system is black run, and the mayor as well as other members are being forced to resign because of corruption, she had replaced another corrupt mayor. During the riots of 2005, supposedly over Freddie Gray (the Michael Brown incident made a fool of BLM and their hands up, dont shoot crap, after black eye witness testified his hands were not up and he was charging the officer). So, they made the Freddie Gray incident a reason to loot, riot and basically tear up the whole city, while police were ordered by the mayor to stand down, as they were spit on, had feces and urine thrown on them and rocks threw at them. Many places that were destroyed sued the city, and some are still after them due to negligence of protecting them in a moment of need. I had family there many years ago that lived on East Monument St., which was then an all Czech neighborhood, but by the 1970s, the blacks had run many out, with the drug and alcohol use as well as crime. They moved to places over near the airport to Brooklyn Park, then come over here to the Eastern Shore, or to Texas. The last uncle I had there died in the early eighties. What a shame to allow trash to ruin a whole city, and ruin it they have done. Its now an armpit of America....

[@domow865]

OLD BAY you’re a racist

[@dabruddasistahkode5975]

There are many things at play whrn it comes to how Baltimore got this way and its not all self inflicted..

[@adriannarobeson4758]

My mother lived on St, Ann's Ave in East Baltimore, back in the 40s she now lives on the Eastern shore Md.,, she would tell me story's how Baltimore was a beautiful safe place back than nothing like today , and I ask myself why is that? Why? Corruption, corrupt politicians that don't want people ( mostly minorities) to better themselves, and they live off there misery , Democrats have been proven to be the most racist of all , there tactic,, the more Misinformed uneducated, the more in poverty the better to control and brainwashed. Black folk's need to wake up and stop voting for these people in Baltimore, and stop dwelling on the past and move ahead, stop blaming other people, for why the situation is the way it is now,, because there has been a lot a minorities that grew up in poverty crime ridden infested neighborhoods that became very successful and I'm not talking about rapper's and Athletes they became successful at other thing's because they thought for themselves and choose not to be lie to and control by corrupt politicians, life is what you make out of it , no it's not easy but ambition is a must,,

[@Jryder933]

Adrianna Robeson: The black community doesn't need a white women or a white person to speak up for them period, so please stay in your own lane and worry about your own race, and let black people worry about them! The black community does not need a white person to speak for us regarding black issues, nor do we need a white spokes person for that matter.

[@marisutton334]

@@Jryder933 Thank you, they act like Dems and Reps are not the same snake with two heads and they are blind to the fact of the system of white supremacy and what it means because they benefit from it because it was made for them but they will deny it then deflect as usual.

[@drippin_beats8632]

God is amazing

[@1300mikehoward]

It is a tradition in some white families to breed the art prejudices against Afro Americans. I experienced prejudices myself without prior knowledge because of my age and innocence, my parent hadn't warmed me of the malicious practices of whites . But after several incidents implemented by either young or adult white persons, my parents were forced to inform me in an effort to ensure my safety.

[@bobbeckey6941]

Mike you're full of shit and a racist. what did a white person ever do o you? nothing.

[@ssobdog72]

And the black Americans (especially today) did/do the same thing. So please put your victim card back in your wallet before I am forced to pull mine out...and then we will see whose card trumps whose.

[@marisutton334]

Mike you are right about that tradition.

[@learntospellpeople]

@@marisutton334 Wouldn't it be better to thumb up mike's OP, to counter the 4 likes (so far) for the first reply to his comment, obviously by self-serving whites who approve bob beckey calling _mike howard_ "full of shit & and a racist". I don't waste time on beckey and his ilk, but I wanted to ask this person, "Really, in a country where black people were strung up to trees, castrated for often trumped up baseless accusations and all this _after_ they were supposedly freed from literal _SLAVERY,_ _you_ re going to ask a black man talking of his experience of prejudice from whites, "what did a white person ever do o you? nothing". This white guy/woman asked a rhetorical question of a man _he does not_ know, doubting the black man's experience. Doesn't get more arrogant and fragile white person, than that. "Certain" ppl get very sensitive all of a sudden when black people accuse them of racist prejudices; this comment section in particular seems esp. infested with these sorts, the link to the video must have been posted on some right wingers website or they searched for it liked the obsessed bigots these types are.

[@marisutton334]

@@learntospellpeople absolutely.

[@lysagreen2314]

Sadly, decades after integration, race still can be an issue. It was in 1991 here in Clarksville, TN. My daughter who is mixed race, was I 1st grade. She was doing great until the first parent/teacher meeting, when her white teacher met my husband and I together. After that, she separated my 6 year old child from the rest of the class and made her sit in the back of the class. Then she made her turn her desk around and face the back of the classroom. We could not figure out why suddenly my daughter would break down and cry when it was time to get on the bus.My daughter did not tell us about this because she thought she was being punished for doing something wrong. By the time she did tell us, she was being made to sit out in the hallway away from the class with the classroom door ajar so she could hear, but not near any of her classmates, black or white. When we went to the school, they refused to change her to another class. They could not understand why we were so upset about it. They finally moved her to another class after we threatened to go to the school board and our state congressman if they did not move her immediately. I am sure that ours was not an isolated incident.

[@bobbeckey6941]

lysa I think you story is false. I think you made it up. in fact I know you did. shame on you.

[@jules151968]

bob beckey, thinking the same Bob.

[@bobbeckey6941]

biracial children are pretty easy to spot, and female elementary teachers are very liberal. not to mention administration. plus there are a lot of biracial children out there. I can't believe a teacher didn't know the child was biracial since the teacher supposedly thought the child was white. and this happened in the 90's? maybe the 60's. it's a shame that people make these stories up. it hurts blacks more than whites.

[@lysagreen2314]

I agree that now more teachers are more liberal and used to seein biracial couples and their children. However it was not as common in the 80s and early 90s.. when this incident took place. My daughter is very light skinned, even today. People now question her race, and don't believe her father was black. People today are used to seeing inter racial families, and most people who have a negative opinion about these relationships tend to keep them to themselves, or make sure everyone knows their feelings. Some call that progress. Is it?

[@rednad2727]

Lysa Green Which school in Clarksville did she go to?

[@chosenpeople5881]

They did Mr.Marshall wrong at the end. He was the lowest paid On the bench

[@pinkiesue849]

Joseph Campbell: I hope you are joking...

[@pinkiesue849]

I don't see any young women at the A Course...

[@iplantobegreat7055]

Poly was an all boy's school

[@marty239]

@@iplantobegreat7055 the girls went to Western

[@iplantobegreat7055]

@@marty239 I'm know that she asked why weren't there any women in the A course referring to the video about Poly. I'm a Western Alumnae very aware.

[@normakirkpatrick9486]

Poly and Baltimore City College were all boys schools. Western and Eastern were all girls schools. I graduated from Western. They had an A course.

[@NatSoc14888]

Just watched a video of Baltimore in 1959 boy stark contrast of epic proportions...funny might just be a coincidence but as soon as the demographic swings the other way to minority majority and governance goes to Democrats..seems like everything goes to shit.

[@phillipsolesky2677]

Poly has become a joke. not because of desegregation (i graduated in '76) but because it was turned co-ed!

[@bignuts850]

Deez Nuts

[@user-lt1ky5wd9c]

I have a question. At the time when there was segregation between white and black, what about people who were neither white nor black? They were under segragation, too?

[@adamfuhrman4105]

Why is this video an attempt to justify the Baltimore sun? What a joke

[@Shahid-qj4nj]

Yeah it worked out pretty well. we have a nice city with the lowest crime in whole US. And I did got robbed on 4 September 2019. And no one took my car and left it few block away, all trashed. Nothing happened.

[@learntospellpeople]

So all that happened because of school integration? What a dishonest ignorant dummy you are.

[@CRAZYHORSE19682003]

For all the people claiming this is what killed Baltimore...just stop it. What killed Baltimore is the loss of its industrial base. Baltimore used to be a MAJOR manufacturing and industrial center. Did you know that the steel mill at Sparrows Point was the LARGEST in the world at one time? It employed 30,000 workers. Baltimore lost 75% of its manufacturing jobs between 1950 and 1995 over 100,000 jobs lost. THAT is what killed Baltimore, all the blue collar jobs left. Who is to blame? POLITICIANS pushing the industrialist backed free trade policies. Free trade spelled backwards is exploit third world countries for cheap labor. The top 10% in this country own 90% of the wealth while the other 90% struggle over the last 10%. Why do you think the media is always trying to divide black and white people? If they keep us at each others throats we are not paying attention while they PLUNDER the country. Look at how the elites have DESTROYED the middle class. Where did that wealth go? Right into their pockets. The wealth in this country is in the FEWEST hands that it has been in our nations history. WAKE UP!!!!

[@thomassmith3397]

THIS IS WHAT KILLED Baltimore!!! Baltimore sits in one of the best job areas in the country, mainly due to Federal Government's overpaying jobs for dumb people, and if it was not for the school system and the Baltimore warzone, also due to poor government social engineering, than Baltimore would be one of the hottest cities in the US. Your argument hold no water!

[@drewhendley]

Desegregating didn’t help, all the teachers put the black kids in the back of the room and ignored them and they graduated illiterate

[@ghostwriterpurpleflyink7199]

All speakers was apart of it .... nothing's changed .... about you lice head beast

[@starrtillman3240]

We were bused to a all black school and in a all black neighborhoods. The first day of school i went into the girls room and there were two black girls beating an Asian girl for her lunch money. They attempted to do the same to me. I told them you have no idea who i am. You don’t know what would happen if they tried. I was from West side and my cousin was Jimmy Roach leader of the gang. And they back down and i took the Asian girl to the office. Those girls saw me get on the bus after school and told me i was crazy. But the never hurt me, but the did beat my brother on his first day. Nothing was done. By senior year, i was the only white girl in my class. I made friends with the biggest black boys in the school, most of the football team. I was voted 3rd most popular. It was rough in the beginning but got better.

[@learntospellpeople]

Cool story bro.

[@shmujew4791]

what a bunch of lies

[@Tiger_Woods]

They were angry because black people were going to school WOW

[@larzuthul5315]

I’m all for equality but not if it means dumbing down our nation’s education system. George Carlin was right about why education sucks & the no child left behind act helped contribute to it.

[@suebryant2537]

If I remember it was 1960's I w a s in 5th grade when blacks came to our school

[@normakirkpatrick9486]

I started elementary school in Baltimore in 1954. By the time I got to Junior high schools had already been integrated for a while.

[@billygoat520]

Early into the 7th minute the former mayor is saying words to the effect of: If blacks work hard and do the job "they'll be accepted." I am writing this in Dec 2019 and when I look around racism is alive and well, even more to the point it flourishing under our current fool sitting in The President's chair.

[@mattwuxx3888]

So what you're saying is that we should be celebrating blacks staying unemployed in their neighborhoods, giving in to generational welfare and staying in their pop-Leftist anti-white separatist mindsets? Yeah, that sounds really healthy. Also, Trump's unemployment numbers for blacks, were the lowest since the 1940's. Keep pushing that MSM fake news, anti-Trump horsesh|t, kid. Maybe one day after the nation descends into outright civil war and the Right finally asserts itself permanently in all these formerly failed Leftist-led communities, you will begin to understand what a Marxist-fooled toolbag you were.

[@learntospellpeople]

@@mattwuxx3888 You're a bigot through and through. And a particularly ignorant one. Repeating alt right horse shi as expected. Go back to those sites to get some more dumbass talking points.

[@noneofyourbusiness5803]

Segragation was right.

[@maurice8607]

None Ofyourbusiness Blacks are as just as American as you, mate.

[@jackmeyers9291]

Don't forget the whole damn city and state were then and is still today Democrat

[@learntospellpeople]

Don't forget to keep repeating the same bs conservative bs over and over again like the ventriloquist dummies you are. The dems are corrupt as the repubs. If you think it's dems only you're a dishonest or ignorant rw bot.