It's disgraceful how black veterans have been treated in the aftermath of all of America's wars. Thank you once again for excellent, if bone-chilling content. I shiver every time I hear Southern Trees play. Billie Holiday's voice perfectly captures the at the time completely mundane and every day horror of lynchings.

Many Aboriginal people of Australia looked to black Americans as a model for gaining self determination. These efforts by American civil rights leaders echoed around the world.

I didn't realize how ancient the "it's the communists!" excuse was in dimissing black anger at white violence, pretty sad that things haven't seemed to progress much since 1918

I keep breathing through my nose like an angry bull, hearing about atrocities that every American should have been taught already. This series is a blessing. We cannot let these crimes recess into the shadows. I can't thank you enough for making this program.

Tough watch, but necessary. I find myself screaming at the screen "This was 100 years ago... why does it sound like TODAY?" Especially when anything relating to black lives is compared to Socialism. History is repeating itself, and I'm grateful that resources like this share important history that hopefully others will watch, learn, and empathize with so we don't do it again

I have said it before, and I will probably say it again. This series is simply the best content yet produced by Crash course.

@NikoTheDoke

2 жыл бұрын

If not the best, then the most important.

@aaronnokaoi

2 жыл бұрын

The best!

@whychoooseausername4763

2 жыл бұрын

I could not agree more

@francis3774

2 жыл бұрын

agreed!!

@autonomic_pilot

2 жыл бұрын

As a voracious consumer of CC content, I echo this resoundingly

I am a descendant of the East St.Louis race war in 1917. My father described it to me in as much detail as he could. Today my family honors that struggle every July 2nd.

I need Black American literature next. I love this series. I am using it with my high school students!

I struggle to articulate the violence that my ancestors lived through. Ancestors is the wrong term because my father and grandfather lived through this. This series is so necessary

I never learned about this in school. This series is so necessary, I’m going to have my son watch it.

My mom read a book called “ the warmth of other suns” about the discrimination black people went through in the north. That might be worth talking about

This series is soo necessary, I’m learning so much!

As soon I read the title, I say to myself, this episode is going to be very difficult to watch but also we have to understand and very important for all of us.

There is a lot of early 20th century black history that a lot of people don’t know about. This is just one of them

Why is this not known better in the international space? It is the first time I heard of those riots. As a German I will not judge because I don't want to be judged by the deeds of my grandparents. But man, at least it should not be forgotten!

I’ve heard that Strange Fruit song sung as part of a TED Talk. It’s eerie as hell.

Many of us older folks had parents who grew up in the old south and heard about alot of this through them...my dads uncle was born in 1905, first free person from his maternal grandmother said of the family, he told my dad about alot of crap...and my father and other family elders passed it on to us in the 1970s.

Thank you Crash Course and PBS for creating a free space of quality education! Sending love from Singapore.

These episodes are always like a punch in the stomach. The more factual detail given, the more you realize that the situation was worse than you thought, and the more difficult it is to watch. It never ceases to amaze me how we continue to underestimate the levels of indignity human beings are able to enthusiastically inflict on each other. It seems to me that this era of institutionalized lynching seems to be a key period in the development of the structural racism in local U.S. law enforcement and the consequent distrust that black communities in the U.S. have for the police. The fact that so much of this persists makes things seem so hopeless. That being said, what I'd find interesting, instructive, and and a morale boost if there are examples of communities in this era that were integrated and managed to consciously diffuse or avoid these pogroms ('race riots' to me implies two equal sides equally to blame) and worked hard to protect their black citizens under trying circumstances. I would say that this is where the most useful lessons of American history may lie.

Truly one of the best if not the best crash course series we’ve had so far. Clint is an incredible host and presents history in such a poignant and truthful manner. Calming and collective

My body trembled during this episode. Loved the quote by James Weldon Johnson before he closed out 👏🏽

Watching and learning from this series is a privilege. Thank you.

Love the last quote!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 It’s still so applicable even in 2021!!!

Wow, I did not know about these moments in history. Black history in the early 1900s before the 30s aren’t usually covered in school, or at least not in my experience.

Thank you for the stories. I am proud of the Black brothers who stood up for their rights.

Was waiting for a video to hear the discussions about violence against black people after WW1. Thank you for sharing for everyone, and having the strength to share it.

I love this series. The amount of truth learned has been astonishing. Some I knew, but not the full picture and a lot I didn’t. Thank you so much.

I didn’t know enough about this. Thank you crash course, for dealing with this subject so appropriately and pushing the story farther into the mainstream.

It is disturbing to hear of the horrible things that people do to each other but this in vital to know. Thank you as always Clint

Yo Harlem Renaissance is getting TWO PARTS THO?? I'm hyped

This series is outstanding! Thank you Clint Smith and thank you Crash Course.

2:45 It’s interesting how this split in views on military service parallels the similar split Indians faced during WWI and WWII when confronted with the idea of fighting for the British.

Extraordinarily powerful quote at the end.

That intro was heartwrenching

that last quote from james weldon johnson is beautiful.

I'm very, very glad you guys covered this. I hope you guys also cover the Hot Summer of 67

Currently reading a book with the same title. I have learned so much from history and also see history repeating itself in some ways.

10:55 When I hear you say that I was literally left speechless. I know that the U.S. is still FAR from having true racial equity (and unfortunately I doubt ever will) but I had thought that there were enough sensible people at some point within the past 102 years to have passed some form of anti-lynching laws. Thank you for being unafraid to tell the harsh truth about just how bad the white people in the U.S. have been towards their fellow humans who just happen to have a different color of skin.

This series is so necessary and amazing. I love John but sometimes he talks so quickly. Clint is a spoken word poet and I hang on everything he says! My American History students love him!

So inspiring and so tough to watch and so necessary to watch. Thank you to teaching us about so many uplifting and inspirational black people.

Thanks for doing the talk at Sam Houston State University. It was awesome to meet you, Clint!

The period following WWI was the most violent period in race relations in US history. Elaine occured that year in Arkansas, and Tulsa was just 2 years away. Black WWI veterans were prime targets for lynching.

Such an important series! It's truly painful to hear what our ancestors had to go through, but at the same time it's empowering and also necessary!

Thank you for this excellent series, Dr. Smith.

Great series. Timely, informative, and well done. Thank you.

Please continue to share these videos!!.

I live in Chicago and never knew about the massacres and bombings.

This content adds such great understanding and depth to my life.

So important. This series is fantastic. 🙏🏿

Thank you for this information, I also wish I learned stuff like this in school but it's better late than never and I will share these with everybody I can

Thus is difficult to grasp but it is our history we must never forget

This is so well done! I wish the schools would use them as teaching supplements!

I knew most of this from a community college black history class, but this was presented better! I'll share this in light of how 2023 has been going...

Thank you for this amazing series

This series is great.

Just watched the entirety of this series today. Such a great presentation of such important history. Looking forward to the rest!

Yet again CCBAH is superb, informative, fair, and brilliant. This series is a triumph of education

Is this the same time the Rosewood massacre happened??

This episode was intense. Unrelated… I wonder if anyone has written a what if alternate history where Tulsa wasn't fire bombed in the Tulsa Race Massacre. What would the economic status of 20th century black Americans have been in that world?

l have always loved history. In the last 5 or so years it has become increasingly apparent to me that any adequate study of American history must start and be grounded in Black American history, as well as the history of American indigenous peoples. This may seem relatively obvious now, but this was not at all obvious or commonly taught to those who went to public school in the south in the early 2000s like I did. And I’d be surprised if it’s taught near enough or at all in public schools to this day. It’s a painful look out ourselves that can definitely be uncomfortable, but I it’s think necessary to understand the world today and hopefully make it a better one both for ourselves and future generations. I appreciate the quality content!

Thank you for making this!

Thanks for your enthusiastic recommendation of the writings of Frederick Douglass. I have finished the first volume of his biography, and it is riveting. Thanks, also, for your excellent, informative and much needed course.

You've made my day. Thank for the history lesson.

I'm learning a lot here, thanks 🥰

Glad you're here.

Thanks!

Well Done.👍 Excellence. Keep going!

This was such an excellent sampling of American history. I so appreciate your work. I know a lot goes into such an important presentation. Thank all of you for your commitment. ❤

Thanks. Yeah we're not taught a lot about U.S. history. I wonder why. Note the dripping sarcasm when I say that.

I have the book on the root that happened here in Chicago that year. And did my black history report in high school about 23 years ago

Thank you.

Thanks for all these videos. Blessings

Is it worth noting that the 1918 influenza pandemic was happening simultaneously as the red summer?

Thank you, I’m a mixed male and never got to educate myself on my brother and sisters history. For that I apologize

thank you

I wonder what it was like in Canada after the war for similar communities here....

This is my first time learning this

I would love an African history series. Mainly to fill the gaps in our world historical knowledge. But also to show black people living in the Americas or Europe that there’s more to their history than oppression and slavery.

This is great... Thank you for information..

Thank-you!!

Question, because so much emphasis was put on the subject: Now, in 2023, what would Anti-lynching legislation actually accomplish?

Why does this series not touch on the Tulsa Massacre? Its a phenomenal series. No criticism. I was just looking forward to the break down and contextualizing the horrors.

I'm having my granddaughters watch your history shorts. They will be tested. Keep them coming

What's the name of that Billie Holiday song?

Wow! 😢

Pls post all the episodes at once 😩. I hate waiting a week to see an episode 😭

The most scary part is realizing there are people today with that racist mentality and the same thoughts this people had 100 years ago...

Never forget ✊🏾

“How the Word is Passed” should be mandatory reading in every high school and college basic civics class.

I dont get how such an evil mindset can arise.

I learnt about the Red Summer in high school and I went to a public school in Puerto Rico. They might not teach that in the US-I can’t tell, but they do in other parts where it might not be even relevant (no offense coming from a Latino).

So same old song

The things that we don't talk about in school series

Do a video about the Black Arts Movement!!!

nice video

12:14 The perseverance of our ancestors in a country that at every stop was against them prospering makes all the challenges that I've ever faced seem inconsequential. These were truly a caliber of people to look up to. Able to endure hardships that would crush the average person three times over. They looked evil square in the face and refused to run from it.

And 2024 anti lynching bill isn’t federal

Reading cadence is a little slow. Great sound to his voice tho.

as of 3/29/22 there is an anti lynching law- The Emmitt Till Antilynching Act of 2022

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