The Eastern Kentucky Social Club

I'll say it again and again: God bless the Black teachers who were greatly responsible for our success in this country 🙏🏾💕

Blessings to everyone, I am a 66yr African American woman who love learning about my people from the south. My mother was born in 1917 my dad 1918 born in the Newark. I always loved meeting people from the south as a child to hear about the lifestyle of African Americans in the south. This is a documentary I truly appreciate and will educate my friends , family and most of all the children. This history is a blessing to learn about. My daughter has her degree in history and is a Newark teacher I know she has no knowledge of this. Thank you for honesty and truth about the black men and women workers and the desent whites that helped them. God created us all. Love to humanity.

I'm from Western Kentucky!! Both of my grandaddys!! Worked the coal mines!! And now my oldest daughter works the Mines in Kentucky!!..She's a bolt setter to hold the ceiling!! Proud of her!!!

As a man from eastern Kentucky I have been lucky to be around some of the GREATEST African Americans God has ever created. Their culture has been something that I value and appreciate.

Proud to be Black, we are people rich in heritage and culture! Thank you for sharing! Watching from Maryland 🇺🇸!

I was born in Harlan, Ky in 1979. Raised in Lynch, Ky for some years. We still have family living in Lynch, Ky to this day. I seen some family in this great documentary. My people 💗

FROM MAYFIELD KENTUCKY. SHOUT OUT TO THE BLACK PPL IN APPALACHIANS

This is a truly masterful and beautiful piece historical journalism. Black history is American 🇺🇸 history in every imaginable way possible. I’m not from Eastern Kentucky or any other part of Appalachia for that matter, but I’m still touched deeply by this story. It makes me very proud to be Black and American. Thank you content creator.

Born and raised in Lexington, KY and still here. I made it a point to interview my aunt, who is 95 years old, about my family's history here in Kentucky. I wished I'd talked to so many more of my elders while they were here. Some much black history/my history that I will never find in a book. Thank you for posting this documentary. It's a gem.

I live in Bell. They had an all black high school back in the 50s in Middlesboro. Every summer the descendants of Lincoln high always comes back to Middlesboro for a reunion.I go every year, and always have a ball. Drinkin, smokin, cookouts, and a lot of dancing! My favorite part? It's listening too the elders talk about their struggles and how they persevered. If the youth only knew their struggles!

My grandfather was a farmer in Pike county @ 1906 - 1960 before he left his farm to my aunt and moved north to Ohio. He told me many stories about running moonshine and told us why half our land he gave to several black families who had been burned out or were threatened. We grew up like family with their families.

These fellow AMERICANS, who choose to be called ‘AFRICAN AMERICANS,’ & rightly so, are the SALT OF THE EARTH. Hard-working, God fearing, Educated, dedicated to their families, wonderful human beings, that more than helped build America!

I am proud to be the daughter of a hazard Kentucky coal miner. Dad and mom had 9 children all educated , I am very proud of the combs family hard working kind but firm.

Historical documents like this should be shown in schools all across the country for Black History Month.. I remember the first time I saw roots in my predominately white school and I was probably 9 or 10 and It was traumatic. When I got married and had children I decided that I would educate them on Black history my way and not leave it up to the schools. Thanks for sharing the documentary it’s a true piece of history.

My profound gratitude to all the folks who have come together to keep these stories alive.

Wow, this so interesting. I never heard of this part of African-American history.

My father graduated Fleming Neon 1959. People left their doors open and unlocked. You hunted for your own food. And people grew Gardens.

I'm proud to say that both of my grandparents on my mothers side are from middlesboro Kentucky which is right there in Bell county. They migrated to Cincinnati after my Pappaw got out of the army in 1956. Then they bought a piece of land about 35 miles east of Cincinnati in brown county and that's where I was raised and now I raise my family on that same piece of land in the same house that my grandparents bought in 1968.

OMG, when I tell you, I've been up since 12:00AM watching this video and I've just finished at 2:51AM. I'm so happy for all the children of the original coal miners who made their way to LYNCH, you have a beautiful history and if you don't do something about it right now to preserve it, you will lose it. People, please understand that your life isn't just yours alone, as long as you know anyone else, your life is affecting someone else's, and you never know who's going to write about you and is documenting everything about you and leaving it behind in a book.

This documentary is a treasure....