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Julian the Historian

Julian the Historian

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How They Built Jim Crow: The Untold Story

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#jimcrow #blackhistory #ushistory #civilrightsmovement

We must never Forget

— @davidallen346

In a room in North Carolina's State Capitol in 1898, nine men in three-piece suits sat around a table solving a problem. Not a moral problem — they'd already settled that. A legal problem. How do you strip millions of people of their voting rights without technically violating the Constitution?

These weren't ignorant racists in hoods. They were lawyers, judges, U.S. Senators. They'd studied constitutional law. And they were reverse-engineering the 15th Amendment, finding its loopholes, building a system of oppression so clever, so technically legal, that it would survive for seventy years.

We still made it….. building anyway❤

— @nursegraham3068

This is the untold story of how Jim Crow was built — not by mobs in the night, but by architects in government chambers. From Benjamin Tillman's literacy tests to Carter Glass's grandfather clauses, from convict leasing to sheriffs who turned badges into licenses to kill. This is the story of the laws that made segregation mandatory, the economics that made it profitable, and the violence that made it enforceable.

But this is also the story of resistance. Of Ida B. Wells investigating lynchings when it could get her killed. Of Robert F. Williams arming his community when the Klan attacked. Of Fannie Lou Hamer being beaten in a Mississippi jail and still demanding her rights. Of a movement that finally, after seventy years and thousands of deaths, broke the cage those architects had built.

Black people had their own federation and confederation. Remember you guys stole the idea and copied it placing your own white leaders in charge.

— @RadicalforGod

From the room where the blueprint was drawn in 1898, to the bridge in Selma where it was broken in 1965 — this is how American apartheid was built, maintained, and finally dismantled.

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📋 KEY SOURCES:

So damn supreme why didn't they go work the fields,be breeding stock,and builders. Then do all that but still making you pay taxes,under jim crow. My parents grew up under this and share cropping here in great NC. I think of all this history, plus the natives and other minorities when I hear proud to be an American.

— @9CLINE

Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina Constitutional Convention Records (1890-1900)

Congressional testimony of Tillman, Vardaman, Glass

It's amazing how these so called Christians believed they were and still are right. Labeling others savage when who's the original terrorist? Then okay to be raping our women and girls but talking about what the black man doing. Just like all this not getting charged taken folks out of office and feds doing nothing, pardon traitors even here today Jan 6. Don't believe that lie that whites gave Christianity to blacks. God has never nor ever will be hate. My grandparents went thru this voting as. If it's a hell these folks would be right beside Satan himself.

— @9CLINE

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

NAACP lynching archives (1877-1950)

May God bless the few white people that helped FBA’s fight. Without them we wouldn’t be free! ❤❤.

— @RestlessNoMore

Douglas A. Blackmon, Slavery by Another Name (2008)

C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955)

So Jim crow wasn't a person?

— @sandiwilbur9083

Ida B. Wells, The Red Record (1895)

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters (1988)

AI SHIT

— @Nomaswearefull

Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns (2010)

Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow (2010)

AND THEY WERE DEMOCRATS!!

— @PaulaNichilo

Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law (2017)

FBI civil rights case files, newspaper archives, court transcripts

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— @nursegraham3068

⚠️ DISCLAIMER:

This video is for educational purposes only. It contains discussions of racial violence and systematic oppression. We do not promote violence, hatred, or discrimination. All content is based on credible historical sources and academic research. This documentary examines how legal systems can be weaponized to oppress populations.

a lot of stuff he is claiming genius is not at all genius. lt does not take much thought power to come up with these rules

— @michaeljackson6674

Content Warning: Contains discussions of lynching, police brutality, and racial violence. Viewer discretion advised.

CHAPTERS:

Please understand this is happening now.

— @mrmerv3840

00:00 - The Architects

15:00 - Reconstruction's Collapse

Jolly well told

— @davidluckens3479

30:00 - Building the Cage

50:00 - Daily Life Under Jim Crow

Ribirin H-S 😮

— @henrysantos121

1:10:00 - The Enforcers and Violence

1:40:00 - The Economics

Great doc's very well done ✅ Matatan H-S ®

— @henrysantos121

1:55:00 - Resistance & Excellence

2:20:00 - WWII & The Cracks

Please jesus do not let us go back to jim crow I have three little girl.

— @ElvinAxson-xi3oz

2:40:00 - The Fall

#unitedstateshistory #history #historydocumentary #slavehistory #segregation #documentary #19thcentury #ushistoryfacts #reconstructionera #racialtrauma #racialinjustice #blackamericanhistory #hiddenhistory #untoldhistory

Appears need a hate crime bill for just US’

— @undergroundrailroad4946

More User Perspectives

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Well For 20 yrs black Americans hàvbeen doing this to whites and like Jim Crow any black person with the love of God to speak they mob them too. Jim Crow is not dead it evolved into its evil twin the unforgiven Jerome Crow with his side kicks Mohammad Crow and Jose Crow,

@AprilCreary-r3u
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South Africa was none the better during the apartheid era from 1948 up to 1994. The Group Areas Act was the worst when people were forcibly removed from their homes n had no choices as to where they could re-establish their new homes in safety n security. Their businesses were also terminated, lock, stock n barrel. The best, elite Areas were allocated to the privileged whites. The apartheid government provided job opportunities n accommodation to their own brethren. Non-whites weren't allowed to use public facilities n libraries......discrimination was endless n poverty amongst people of colour was a very common sight.

@mayshreeparbanath7795
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Excellent!!! The truth is a miraculous thing, it truly does set you free...as I read the comments it really mystifies me how people still hold this childish concept of divine justice (Jesus coming he just taking his time). That's not how it works... there's no good guys and bad guys...angels and demons...no black and white... Existence is an exercise in gray area... This is educational. It teaches me DON'T TRUST PEOPLE... ESPECIALLY NOT WHITE PEOPLE. simple and plain... thought about it...had to edit, speaking just for myself, won't go back....no protesting, no democracy...just violence!

@RobertMays-t6g
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The proper terminology is organized crimes against humanity.
The alien 👾 clause of the constitution was initially put in place after germany lost the Civil War of illegal immigrants.
Our Heavenly Father had the United States military build the himars weapon for the Lamb and piece by piece with their own hands.
Our Heavenly Father gave me rights to the himars weapon to shoot this 🛸 and drop the R for Revelations and a God fearing right to bear arms.

@tamikajackson3419
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The mental illness of these racist yt folk but then they had so much power to hate us after bringing my ancestors the fuc over here, in the first place, then to treat them like shyt as if they asked to fkn be here is beyond evil and retarded😒 im never forgiving this place because let’s be clear, it’s very prevalent today and until this shyt burns to the ground it will never end.

@Peppa56
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👩🏽‍🏫 that’s all I can

@jacqueznarvaez1246
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Did he say pbs pinch back was black?

@Fanifu
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Thank you again for an in-depth documentary. These documentaries cut straight to the heart.

@hughgrant4778
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Let us not forget, that these europeans landed on our beach in the year 1492...

@joseamirandajr3723
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Remembering the fact that these europeans, hung us from trees and used our babies as alligator baits...

@joseamirandajr3723
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Tell your stupid ai tool to stop padding this out to over 2 hours. Utter Rubbish

@illiterate.ink.
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The Emancipation Proclamation was dated 1864. Why does this documentary state "enslaved" in 1867? Not dissing this documentary, just wondering why the discrepancy?

@TiffanyHodgin
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In some ways I think Jim Crow was worse than slavery, at the very least just another part of slavery! Maybe one day humanity will be redeemed for all the things we have put ourselves through!

@katdoe192
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It was a sad time and I now truly understand the anger, but those times are over.

@couchpotatoemperor
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Segregation worked , blacks hate whites but love to tear up what they built. Bring it back , it will not happen, but drop the protected status equal but protected ain't EQUAL. If u don't want blacks in your town it's your right ,. You have rights also.

@gunsmoke8801
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Making America Great Again????

@jamesrogers5928
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Do a video on how Jim Crow laws were legally became no more

@coreyparowski6718
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Love this 🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿🫶🏿

@bos-G-stateMyLife
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Damn this is heartbreaking 💔

@annaearlplus478
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That is not a picture of Robert Smalls. There are pictures of him online why don’t you use one?

@joeroachex
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Who was enslaved in 1867?

@ryanm5361
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Thanks for teaching what esau never taught in school

@awakeiam1795
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Very educational

@NdeyBabou
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This is the same with the mask over there mouth that is going on today in 2025 project 2025 Donald Trump and his constituents polluting the White House. First J6 was the beginning at the Republican convention. They named them one by one their culture that nationality the immigrants the Negro the Haitian came in the campaign and the debate against Madame vice president Kamala Harris. American citizens are not dumb. We’re not blind. We’re not ignorant. The intelligence of our profession comes from the black jobs. Slavery was only a training camp,when we excel the white man say he’s afraid because his racism was peeped into as he slaughtered, burned lynched raped, and did all kind of evil against a nation of people that God chose. So! continue the fear because without our hands, the race will be eliminated, and there is no way that Moses was a white man.

@rosemedallion2848
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I was not impressed with the presentation. Everything was over repeated and obviously racist.

@jeffbattle9599
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Until someone can prove otherwise, I’ll assume this written by AI, although it’s quite entertaining. However, the photos are too sparsely populated and don’t adequately match the content. Photos from the events referenced are all available from the Library of Congress website. The errors in the narrative delivery are another tell, but sounds enough like a real person as to not be distracting. The dust and scratches and the looping blues backing track are a bit unnecessary.

@macfawlty
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Vengeance is mime says the lord For 70yrs plus the new world order has minded murdered malign m destroy the great first sons of God
Black skinned first class race.
Fight for wat is rightfully your as a black man .

@samdarko9641
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Thank you for this!

@FelixGibson-zz1dr
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Casino bingo that only uses strips not machines

@jessicaokal5626
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This documentary should be used to reteach the truth how our country became a confused very Racists society THE TRUTH WILL MAKE US FREE .

@newjubileechurch6157
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This is very excellent history but if anyone thinks its over now, you're naive or complicit.

@marablakely9277
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I am not surprised about this information. I am always aware that something gone wrong makes black people helpless to help themselves. But I am encourage knowing that the Mighty Greater God through Jesus Christ knows all things. Every one of those evil people that destroy black people's existence will one day face their creator God. Every one of them in their nice churches and their nice lives. What a day that will be. Black people are so infested with the evil that was inflicted on them that now the blacks are doing the same thing to their own people. Even them will face the wrath of God.

@ErrolJones-b4s