Blurring the Color Line | A Community Together
Clip: Season 11 Episode 4 | 1m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Residents relive the aftermath of the three days of the 1970 Augusta Riot.
Residents relive the aftermath of the Augusta Riot, talking about what they had experienced over three days in 1970. Many of the Georgia city's businesses were vandalized but not the Chinese-owned grocery stores that had openly welcomed and served the Black community - over the years, some Black and Chinese residents had built close and trusting relationships.
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Blurring the Color Line | A Community Together
Clip: Season 11 Episode 4 | 1m 7sVideo has Closed Captions
Residents relive the aftermath of the Augusta Riot, talking about what they had experienced over three days in 1970. Many of the Georgia city's businesses were vandalized but not the Chinese-owned grocery stores that had openly welcomed and served the Black community - over the years, some Black and Chinese residents had built close and trusting relationships.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship- Some Chinese though, they didn't, they didn't bother.
Some of 'em, they born.
- Because the rioters were- - Because of the relationship.
- Told, these are good people.
Don't bother them.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- So there was a relationship.
- Well, you know during the riot, those that they got burned down are the ones that didn't treat the blacks good.
- And the African Americans, they have a sign on the store, "Me Soul Brother."
That way, you would know that they were not a white store owner.
- Hm.
- To tear up their business.
So "Me Soul Brother," I would never forget that.
- Bot Lee put a sign in his store.
- His "Soul Brother."
- Called "Me Soul Brother."
(group laughing) - Everybody loved him.
- So that store didn't get burnt down?
- Oh no, no, no.
- No, no, no.
- Daddy was thinking about closing.
Mama said, no, don't close.
Just leave it open.
- Why?
- Well, the part about it is that we weren't afraid, because our neighbors, we all were like one big family, and they vouched for us and nothing happened.
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Major funding for America ReFramed provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Wyncote Foundation, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Additional funding provided by Open Society Foundations,...