Rare Footage: Hundreds Gather at a 1920s African-American Baptism | National Geographic

The practice of communal outdoor baptism was-and in some cases still is-a central community event among both black and white evangelical churches in America. This home movie footage from Oklahoma, filmed in the mid-1920s by Reverend S. S. Jones, a minister and businessman who lived in the region, provides a penetrating view into the spiritual lives of people in the state’s many booming African-American towns. Rev. Jones had deep connections to the lives of those gathered around the water for the event, allowing him to record up close an event that some of the congregants may have remembered as among their lives’ most important moments.
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This footage is from the film archive of the Smithsonian
National Museum of African American History and Culture. Read more about the new museum in "Black America’s Story, Told Like Never Before"
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Rev. S. S. Jones Home Movie Collection
2011.79.1-9
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Gift of Naomi Long Madgett
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[@yongary01]

So glad this was documented and survived.

[@MrCeora]

Wow... That is such a spiritual and sacred moment. To have that footage of the practices that remain with us today handed down from these people is humbling. I am thankful to see this film.

[@immasoxfanbaby]

This is how black towns in America started

[@st.apollonius5758]

The key problem these days is the lack of parental guidence towards many young black kids on a large scale back in the past black families had both parents and they instilled good values to their children atleast in the majority of cases.

[@MrCJ-qz9dl]

Shhh...don't say that truth too loudly. You may be called a traitor to the Black race.

[@gloriouse4458]

Good footage👍🏻🌹😻🐶🐾💖👏🏼🌺

[@lsd25records]

Glorious E of uneducated peasants receiving more brainwashing. . this is fucking heinous

[@dreamergirlbaby]

This is beautiful. So glad it was filmed

[@whitebullterrier4214]

now a days people lost this

[@immasoxfanbaby]

Speak for yourself. Mother's don't teach their children how to build a house. Just how to sew and cooo

[@JacquelineZe]

They lost everything and now the planet too

[@gloriouse4458]

Good footage

[@ladyashephd727]

Wonderful, Thank You for Sharing

[@aimeechapman5780]

Awesome video.

[@kellyjohnson960]

Hallelujah 🙌 Praise Jesus

[@CenterPorchNP]

we need to see this move of the spirit today

[@DJ-zd3gj]

My ancestors! ✊🏾😊♥️👏🏾

[@vergespierre4271]

Wow,no overweight outta shape people

[@liesunplugged]

Our people are lost 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@careforjusticealways]

you’re just bitter

[@liesunplugged]

@@careforjusticealways I can tell you a 🤡

[@Thizlamic]

1920's BLACK Baptism....We weren't considered "Americans's" back then. Barely are now.

[@Thizlamic]

I'd love to get you in a ring you Sally.

[@Anti-Cult]

Thizlamic not yet . they still call blacks African American., and they call white American

[@flexthought7655]

human for that matter

[@ronprater3604]

Back then I agree. But it's not that way now and if you think it is you're completely out of it

[@tesstefera6334]

JESUS 's love!

[@wfs4227]

Now the black church make you take membership classes for 6 weeks to qualify you for baptism but require nothing for you to tithe.

[@PK-in5jp]

jesus crying

[@Fruitarian.]

too bad jesus is white

[@chellenicole5070]

Yes he is and Greek

[@observingcat9049]

He was born in the Middle East 😐. Besides it doesn’t matter what He looked like anyway because He’s at the right hand of His Father now and He likely doesn’t look how He did when He walked the earth. You people need to repent for your obsessions with outward appearances that are mere flesh and turn to Jesus who’s actually important

[@grandcanesque]

@@observingcat9049 🎤drop!

[@garikaprasanth9890]

​@@chellenicole5070. No. He. His. One. Jew.