20 Things Black Men Did Automatically in the 1960s That Made People Trust Them Completely

In every Black neighborhood with a barbershop and a deacon's porch, there were men who carried themselves with a quiet discipline that made people trust them before they ever said a word. This video counts down twenty of those unwritten rules, from how a man pressed his clothes before dawn to the simplest, plainest rule that held all the others together. None of it required money, none of it required smooth talk, it only required a decision that is still available to any man willing to make it. Sources: Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University, "What Was Jim Crow" https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/what... National Park Service, "Sweet Auburn National Historic Landmark District" https://parkplanning.nps.gov/projectH... JSTOR Daily, "Etiquette and Desegregation" https://daily.jstor.org/etiquette-des...