Black Georgetown Remembered
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.พ. 2016
- As part of its bicentennial celebration in 1988-89, Georgetown University honors this remarkable community in a documentary video titled "Black Georgetown Remembered." Through the recollections of the members of the Georgetown black community, some of whom still reside in Georgetown, the documentary pays tribute to a community that thrived amidst slavery, Jim Crow laws, and economic inequity to emerge with a rare strength and identity. It features the remembrances of the decades of the 1940s to the 1950s when the population of Georgetown changed markedly.
This video complements the book "Black Georgetown Remembered" first published in 1991 and now available in a 25th anniversary commemorative hardcover edition: press.georgetown.edu/book/geor...
Produced and directed by David W. Powell
Executive Producer Kathleen Menzie Lesko
Producer, Story Conception Valerie Babb
Writer Larry Klein
Producer Lorraine Davis-Dantley
Producer Robin Stevens Payes
Research Historian Carroll R. Gibbs
Educational Consultant Ronald M. Johnson
Educational Consultant Joseph M. Murphy
Produced for Georgetown University by Powell, Kritzer & Associates
© Georgetown University
This is the first time seeking this doc. I know a couple of people in this doc. My mom was introduced to Mt zion church on 29th street by a man she married when I was 12 years old. My mom remarried and my stepfather and my mon went to Mt Zion church for 50 years before they passed. My mom was in the choir until she died and my step dad was on the usher board just as long. I was married at Mt Zion pastor house in 1964 and again in the church in 2000. I m in tears😢. Never throught l would see this documentary about the Black Georgetown and about my beautiful Church,,,Mt zion Methodist Church. My mother, step-dad, sister, and brother was buried from this church.😢. So happy to see people that I know ❤❤❤❤😊 especially Mr Morgan Brown. He had a beautiful bass voice. He also sung in the choir with my mon and encouraged her to get a U.S. Government job. God bless these people for all that they done for the Georgetown Community.
Thank you!! To whoever produced this video!! To Educate the New DC , DMV!!!About the old Black American ( Georgetown) in NW ,Washington DC.
Great work by everyone involved. RIP to many of the older folks that spoke in the vid.
Thank you for preserving our Beautiful Black History ❤
Thank you for this wonderful video/documentary! It brought tears to my eyes hearing all of the beautiful, heartfelt memories of years gone by. I am a member of the Ferguson family. We lived on 25th and M Streets and attended Mount Zion United Methodist Church. Those were the days!!!😊
I’ve been watching this documentary for 10 years ! Often I drive through Georgetown. It once was all black ❤️ and you can tell. The energy is still there !
When I lived in DC for grad school I used to drive through Georgetown almost every Sunday in the summer/fall. I loved every bit of the views, the smell, the atmosphere and now it makes so much sense.
Great documentary , brought back so many MEMORIES, My baptism was by Reverend Washington of Jerusalem Baptist church, I can still hear WAY IN THE WATER, WAY IN THE WATER CHILDREN God Going to TOUBLE THE WATER 🎶
As a native Washingtonian and GULC alum...this fills my heart with joy!
My Mother graduated from Dunbar SHS ( high school)
Precious! Too bad that our black neighborhoods and society are fractured. Notice that there were strong two-parent families, hard workers who guided their children to seek an education, taught their children virtue and morality. Somehow, and I hate to say it, but integration had a lot to do with this. Thanks for this inspiring video, and the others. Should be mandatory for schools in DC to show and have discussions in sociology class....if they even have these classes any longer.
Great doc!
Shabbat Shalom. My Grandmother, great-aunts, and uncle were all born and spent their early days in Georgetown from around 1909 to around 1914 or 1915.
Love y’all man black people we are family
The same history of lake Lanier, used to be an all black community, that still sits under the waters of Lake Lanier! 😢
1989... yawl need to update this now with new archival find ans folks. Great vid!
Most of the people who remember have passed away
My Mother and her sisters and 1 brother liveded in Black ( African American ) Georgetown in Northwest in DC
Great video I wish we whould have stayed segregated we was stronger and had our own towns and culture.
Prince Luke welfare brought us down
I agree with you 💯
Yup
My grandma grew up in G town as well
Yarrow Mammut was an x slave that look so much like my uncle Walter blain ransome and lived in George Town after buying his freedom from slavery. Hi address was 3324 dent place Nw washington dc, and the house is still there today 2022.I also hear the name of blind John ransome Which was the brother of Walter b ransome,but my uncle John (fredy) wasn't blind.Iam going to check deeper into the history.
I remember when my mother telling me about Georgetown being all blacks back in the days so when I came up on this video I wondered if these wonderful people ever knew my family, also I know for a fact the African American family was a family dam ! These days are surely missed.
We got to get that UNITY back in OUR lives...
Weez All Weez Got!!!...
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i really love this documetary,,a great afro historical gem Georgetow
Happy Black History Month 2024! We know where we came from, we know what we had! We are a great people ! Our ancestors are in us ❤