Drama about the hiring of the first white-collar African American worker at a manufacturing plant. Produced by President's Committee on Government Contracts. Featuring Ed Asner, Lou Gossett, Clarice Taylor and Gail Fisher as The New Girl.
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This was literally my mother's experience. A black woman born in 1919 in Arkansas who managed to get a two-year associates degree in secretarial science. She excelled at her craft, had top grades, impeccable skills, and exceeded the typing requirement, but every employer turned her away at the door on sight. Mandated equal opportunity was not a thing when she was in her prime work life so she ended up cleaning white people's homes. She was crushed. By the time the doors opened she was married and raising 3 kids and never achieved her goal. Her stolen opportunity was my motivation to push open doors that were still slow at opening when I graduated from college and demand a seat at the table. She was my strength, the wind beneath my wings.
This was beautiful. You are her legacy.
Amen ❤
God bless your mother ❤
Amen God bless you too. I admire your courage! I grew up under economic academic social white stalking. I graduated as a pre med major and scientist but was denied positions. It taught me the importance of ecology and a understanding team and tribe.
The first trailblazers face the worst of it.
As a black man I don't get how can you have hatred for someone just because they have dark skin or light skin for that matter. It's just pure evil if you ask me, because nobody chose their colour, they were born with it.
That’s deep. Very true sir.
Fear of bottom. Superiority challenged and told all are equal.
True, and even if it was chosen it would still be senseless
We were blessed with dark skin kiss by the sun we are condense sun light people of the sun furnished with the melanin coat to absorb the sun light everyone wasn't so lucky lololol.
Most people are robots who follow the lead of a few. Only ten percent of American fought to push the British out of America while ninety percent would go either way. The problem of racism was that the most militant racists are who everyone else followed and mimicked. Like in Jr. High, if you don't hate the school outcast, then you will get beat up after school for not conforming to the pack. "Cancel Culture", basically. Zeitgeist. Like today if everyone follows the lead of the five percent Bolshevik ANTIFA who set forest fires and kill cops, then that five percent becomes 95 percent, even though most are just like parroting zombies, leading to Russian style Communism here.
This brought back memories of me at a job more than 40 years ago. They tried to hurt my feelings to make me quit. My mother told me whatever you do, do not cry or reveal they are getting to you. Excellent advice.
But that mentality leads to horrible mental health, depression, low self worth, etc...
@@Semifinished it hurt for a minute. I got over it, moved on and flourished.
Wow, you must have made your mother so proud and you didn't let her or yourself down.
I am sure that you made your mom really happy, but as I find older in reading your comment and hearing my mom say some of the same things, it almost made me feel like I am I weak or inferior, but no, it just was not working for me and I didn’t feel good so I chose to leave it alone and I’m better at feel better, and I think it was a better decision opposed to me staying somewhere and pushing through and fighting through and making it. Just like my mother & Aunts, cousins…. But, there all alone, single,tired and means sometimes🤷🏾♀️ doin everything, even when they ask for help I’ll turn around and it will be done cause they did it cause I wasn’t moving fast enough or didn’t stir and whip the bowl their way 😆 very independent and self sufficient. Great qualities. But, therapy showed me that I do want help, I don’t want to do it all by myself . I’m not being lazy. I am smart. When it doesn’t feel good anymore. Not servicing me , I stop. Rethink, then begin anew again. I spent way too much time in action, very manly, & masculine. Now, I’m listening to my feelings more, & making sure I’m good first. I’m trying 🤭 Everyone always said your so persistent, teachers & all & when I do it hunty it’s done. In the thesaurus, persistence & stubborn are similar -changed my life ❤️
Sadly I have been at a job for 16 years . And the first few years I worked there I went through this five years actually. I listened to the program Simone on MSNBC the other night and the journalist Simone said she went through the same thing in the press pool when she worked as a journalist. She was told by one reporter that the only reason she was there was because of her skin color. Sadly we are still there folks. Hopefully it will change one day. And I live an hour south from Princeton where this film was produced.
Thank you, Ancestors. 💔❤💪🏽
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All black men and women should call on their ancestors, to bring these white racist people to their knees.
Oh yes all ought to be proud of African American ancestors. You are because they were strong!
@@kunalmore5212 True, way more than the Presidency running Africa that are getting bullied by China, France and the USA!!
this is actually superbly acted and written/directed. i was in shock something from 1960 was so on point. great cast to say the least.
Indeed. A very courageous production.
the acting was off the chain. so very good.
Anytime I hear someone refer to 'the good ol' days' I say, 'good for whom?' We've come a long way, but not long enough. Thanks for posting.
Amen!
Exactly. The only thing good about them days was the music
I can and often do pass for black and encourage others to do the same. That way you get treated BETTER by everyone because they're afraid I'll go all cry-baby and say they're racist. PLUS you get all that FREE pity pu$$y from white and black girls, because they are programmed to feel sorry for us!!!
Donald Trump would have love to be president here. That’s why he wants to make America the way it was in the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
Yes so he (Trump) could raise the standard of living and wages for blacks and Latinos like he is doing now while betraying white people.
"I'm not prejudice, but...!" "I'm not discriminating, but...!" "I'm not a bigot, but..!" But. But but but. But But But But But !!!!!!
Exactly
i hear this all the time from white people ....
"I'm not, some of my friends are...!"
is this Donald Trump?
I like big BUT
I have so much respect for those who paved the way and had to go through painful "firsts" like this. And even though things are still no where near perfect, as least they're better.
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Um... no they're not better at all. This scenario is alive and well in South Carolina. I've had several jobs where the microaggressions and occult racism from white women were damaging and this is in last 10 years...
There's no such thing as perfection.
I agree some people didn't know what other went through
@@HypnoticHollywood Exactly!
Gail Fisher was the first African American to do a national commercial
And to win the Emmy and Golden Globe.
@carol mitchell Love her as Peggy..secretary to Mannix too.💖💐
@@kidmack1121 Richly deserved..🏆🏆💯💞💐
Beautiful woman and wonderful actress
@@SuperSwifty59 Yes..very much so.🤗
I know that feeling of walking into a room and everyone stops doing what they were doing and focuses in on you. Never a comfortable feeling but after awhile you get use to it. You learn to walk through it with grace and dignity and think "What fools these mortals be."
Believe me that works both ways, and yes you hit the nail on the head.
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It always amazed me when I take my two four-year-old grandchildren to the mall to let them play in the play area for kids how everybody gets along so well it's not until the parents that are teaching them to be prejudiced!
Racism is taught. A learned behaviour but it can be unlearned. No excuses.
💯 Agreed!!! You can put children, of all races in a sand box 📦 and they'll play just fine, they don't see or care about color
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Yeah. Reacting and Identifying unique human races is a defense mechanism built into our psyche from birth and natural. Acting piss poor because of it is not.
I was once the new girl. At the end I proved myself and my jobs increased. I was respected by the biggest financial institutions. My resume still looks good.This was our reparations. That's a trip right. That old typewriter bought back some memories. I typed 60 words a minute. Now I am beast on the computer. Retired of course, but do part time. Still doing my thing. I hope one day the young one's understand how good they have it.💛
Everyday we experience the same thing nothing is changed. The workforce is the same they try to subtle about it. To believe things have changed shows how blind & immune Blks have become to it
So because you had a "good" while the research suggests that so many of us have been underemployed since the 1980's, you believe black people received reparations! No wonder we never overcame!
@@the4thday876 a lot has changed don't bullshit 🙄
@@shanesmith-vn1ri the formality has change and if you can’t see that I hope one day you do. No bullshit I study not just look at a video
@@shanesmith-vn1ri what change you can drink out the same water fountain that not relevant in todays time. Not it has you should start with the book. Color of Law
I admire her strength to come into such a tough situation at her new job. I almost started crying with her when she went to sit down to eat, but was happy at least one of the ladies stepped up to greet her. I'm just upset it took at that time for them to do so. I think that we as a people must still be mindful in this world today since racism still exist, even in people's private thoughts.
If this were true about behavior then no one would like people of European descent. Your behavior has far out weighs anything people of color have ever done . Your arrogance is astonishing...
Did you know the reason for this is in so called old Testament, the very book that we told we no longer need, when you have time please read Gen 15:13,14, Deut 28 & Lev 26, these same scriptures identify the real descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the real Jews, the lost tribes of Israel and the one and only nation of people that YHWH made a covernant with. We have been lied to, it's time for my people to wake up!
@@keithearl7879 I totally agree with every word you said 💯
remember, we are operating under a global system of racism white inferiority or fragility and those that have melanin that thinks racism don't exist is considered white. Eye had a so called friend that had a white boy coming to fix his electrical problem. So he went into a room that he thinks eye didn't hear him say to that white boy that racism don't exist. One day eye asked him do racism exist, he couldn't answer the question. For he knew if would have said yes eye would have checked him on that. One day in due time that white racism will punch him in his face.
I think i would've sat with the men..that would've drove them crazy..lol
All this outrage.. for a SECRETARY!! Imagine if she went for an executive job 😂😂
We're talkin Gun Play in the office in the 50s!!!
The film shows racism and also sexism.
They would probably burn crosses and bomb her house.
I'd rather not work than to work next to a black woman. No I want to stay home and collect welfare and food stamps and pay section 8 rent. But then have that same black woman be stereotyped as doing the exact same thing even though she's gainfully employed. LMAO!
@Blue Rose Ya and she was the top cop in a state with mass incarceration and the death penalty. How different is she from say Sheriff Clarke of the Milwaukee Bastille?
5 minutes in and there it is: “She has to be so likable”. “She has to be so efficient”. “She’s got to be tough”. “She has to be hand-picked”. That’s why it’s believed that we have to work twice as hard to get half as far today. No one is perfect but because you’re “Negro” you better be perfect, just so that no one has an excuse to dismiss you. You can’t have missteps, you can’t make mistakes, you can’t miscommunicate, you can’t misunderstand, so basically you can’t be human. You need to be above human failings in order to exist in the same space with someone who is white. I can’t quite understand why some white people are so damaged in this way.
I agree as well, it turns my stomach, I'm sick of it.
The messed up part about it is that some of them are praised for being mediocre but yet we have to be flawless and even then it still doesn’t matter it does not change the color of our skin, and the hatred that is in their hearts.
Last part of your statement concerns upbringing. Old computer data entry saying: garbage in, garbage out!!!
It's called a rigged system!
Such an accurate description of what so many black women are forced to deal with on a regular basis in white work environments.
I wonder why these movies aren't on tv. They show so many repeats of old westerns and other old movies. These PSA's could be helpful in today's society. I also like seeing the actors from back in the day. They've had long career's.
This "short" was really just a pro-integration propaganda piece. It came out in 1960, just when the civil rights movement was becoming en vogue.
You're right Michele. I think this relates to today in many ways. This movie is important for all races, and young people could take something from movies like this. Those that are in Corporate America can connect with this in many way as well.
@@lwmson Propaganda how?
This movie would not appeal to this generation.
When that white woman sat down in the end.. when she noticed the other girls were not on her team... was epic!
J aime les belles sex noires et sex blan hes etes autres couleurs mumit avec droits divin
My friend's mom, who was a young woman in the early 1950's and 60's, said that the real problem came from the attitudes of WHITE WOMEN. She said in the movies, when images of Lena Horne and Dorothy Dandridge started appearing, white men were attracted, and the white women became furiously jealous at Black women looking so beautiful and glamorous, with white men being turned on by them. She said they hurried up and pulled those beautiful Black women off the big screen, because it was destroying the myth that only white women are pretty...WHICH IS TRULY, ONLY, A MYTH! They wanted to perpetuate the "mammy" stereotype for Black women. Even today, I notice how white women react when there are a group of them and one Black woman, then a white man enters, and can't stop checking out the sista! Those white women get moldy! Women should all stick together, regardless of race, but white women have been entitled too long to fully comprehend that, and will never fully be able to accept that they are NOT the beauties that they have been led, particularly by the media, to believe they are.
Especially when they have to tan their skin, blow up their lips, and their asses. But still think they're prettier than us.
Ha ha ha
Moldy 😂😂
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I like to watch classic movies and you have alot of sense on how movies affect society.
Moldy😭😭😭😭
People like these make me proud of my family. It was August 1960, a couple of weeks before the release of this movie. I was entering into 4th grade at formerly all white Lincoln grade school. The segregated school in town Booker T Washington had been phased out over the summer. So my mom gave me a talking to. She told me I had better treat the colored kids right and that I was not to call them the N word, because they are just as good as I am. I took my mom's words to heart. It paid off. God gave me a beautiful black wife. We were together 26 years. I miss Vanessa. She died on Thanksgiving morning 3 years ago. My wife's two oldest daughters were opposed to their mom having a white boyfriend. But when they arrived at the hospital, Minyon and Samarian thanked me for loving their mom. Love comes from God and doesn't have a color. I even got respect from her baby daddies. 😭
I'm glad to know there are good people like you in the World. God bless and trust in Jesus.
I love your statement: "Love comes from God and doesn't have a color". How very true.
04:51-05:09 In other words, she has to perfect. She has to be perfectly nice, perfectly groomed, perfectly efficient. Do you think she can ever get away with being a few minutes late like that other secretary? Not on your life. She has to be ten times as good as the others just to get half of what they are privileged to so effortlessly have.
This is awesome! I love it. Thank you for posting
Yessss
That's what I think about immigrants. Seems they have to be perfect! They cannot make mistakes and even when nationalized cannot speak out against the Govt without being criticized.
@klc ... and is that not what we were reared on .... that very notion of "you must be better than anyone else in the room to be considered at all". All the while we are surrounded by "less than perfection" and its all OK. Sick and shameful if you ask me.
I was thinking the same exact thing. sadly it's still the same
The Sophisticated,Graceful,Elegant & Beautiful RIP Ms. Gail Fisher.
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I have experienced this at work . You can tell who resents you and when they find out that I am 46 . Oh the disdain shows it's face. Oh well not my problem you fear me .
LaMia Bentley I know your old wrinkly ass isn't doing as much work as those young girls. They just scared to fire your prune faced, raisin looking ass because they don't want to get sued.
LaMia Bentley , what about your age? Why?
This thing that you wrote will haunt you one day, no matter if you said that jokingly or not. It's just a rule of life...
LaMia Bentley you're a really beautiful lady god bless you
Or maybe they just thought you were a giant tool.Why is it if people don't like you it's because of your race??So everyone you dislike at work is because of there race??
Honestly, I think that we are better off working for ourselves by owning our own businesses. You will never be able to move around the furniture in someone else’s house.
We need to OWN OUR OWN EVERYTHING, so we dont need to ask permission.
Yeah that's not going to happen. It would have happened already in my opinion. I may be wrong.
I'm Adorable Most Times not with that attitude if this day we have more opportunities and ways to make money than our ancestors did we can make money and pass things down to our children and buy land and create things for our benefit if we focus on monetizing our gifts and looking out for our own like the Caucasian does
@@saltoftheearth8533 It has happenend back in the 1920's in Tulsa. The Greenwood street was called the Black Wall Street. Black millionaires lived there. But then the white people bombed en burned the whole place down. The black people lost everything and never got compensated. kzhead.info/sun/h8upfNmGoox7p6M/bejne.html
easier said than done. also easier to start than sustain. but, possible.
@@saltoftheearth8533 it's the same thing i said about this suggestion about all the student athletes who are black should go to and transfer to hbcus. Ambitious and ideal? Sure. Likely? Nope.
LYNN HAMILTON the black secretary played "Donna", on FRED SANFORDS GIRLFRIEND, on SANFORD AND SON. SHE IS STILL AMONG US AT 87.
Yes, she also played Verdie on The Waltons who John Boy taught to Read & Write, she also was on a Short Lived Prison Drama and she played Mama Viv on Generations which was the First and only Integrated Soap Opera on TV.
The lady that played the New girl mother also did a guess appearance on Sanford and son as Grady's cousin who came to visit,
Cynthia Lowery YES!!! That’s a good catch!!!
And LOU GOSSET, JR. played her brother during the kitchen table discussion scene.
The young secretary is Gail Fisher, according to the write-up and credits. Gail Fisher played Peggy Fair on the detective show, Mannix, his secretary.
The FEAR is still REAL in 2019 at the GM Corporation
Yes I saw an article I believe not barely a month ago, particularly about a Blackmale who was threatened when he got a management position with nooses and such. He complained many times but finally quit the job. I wouldn't have. I went through this when I was hired in 1973 at a Bank in the trust department here in Memphis, some of the white employees did quit and some of the white customers would not allow me to wait on them.
@@modearerhenry3632 thank you for your comment People can be very stupid . I try to hope for the betterment of the white values. I remember walking with the new girl in my class. She was a good foot and a quarter taller than I and very dark in complexion. I don't remember seeing her after that year 1969. Someone threw a snowball at her I' m sure I thought nothing of it.
@Robinson Pittman @Robinson Pittman Hey everybody!...Look over here! This Robinson guy sounds like a racist lunatic! 2019 and people like him still only attempt to keep others in the dark ages. This is TRUE hateful and dark racism which is a cancer!
Having been raised in San Francisco, in the mid 50's we went to school and w/blacks and I can't remember any problems until high school. Not between blacks and whites, but with pachucas girls. They hated whites and blacks.
However in the social work and similar fields you have black privilege, and often other qualified people are pushed out to bring in unqualified minorities. Evil comes in all colors and the devil can live in anyone who invites him in funny thing about this movie is the white girls didn't realize they were the victims of sexism. LOL!
This is my mother's story. Back in the 1940s, when she was a student putting herself through college, she had to sue a large corporation for a clerk typist position. She submitted her resume, was interviewed and hired over the phone and when she went in to complete the paper work she was told they didn't hire "coloreds for that kind of position." The problem wasn't management -- they were afraid her co-workers would protest. It was one of the first cases of the Fair Employment Act and she won. Racism is a mental illness and unbelievably these attitudes persist. We're still waiting on a bunch of folks to let go of the lies and their addiction to being superior and get their minds and hearts together. What is the hold up? Come on humans...
We have to live in their world but they don't have to live in ours.
Racism isn’t a mental illness it’s a choice to be evil.
Disagree. It is not a mental illness: it is a cultural difference.
@@milliemitchell3782 It's hate..but we were taught that..I try to only judge by character..not skin color .
Totally agree ❤
The mom's speech was amazing. Moved me to tears.
I am so glad I found this movie. This situation still goes on in the government today. The personnel officer is correct. It will never be equal.
When I worked for the department of commerce in the administration pool the other ladies didn’t speak to me for the first year I was there.
@Derek Lowe Hmm? Please elaborate.
@Derek Lowe ok, I understand now. Take care. 😏
@Derek Lowe Educate yourself on Colonialism. You´ll find the answer there if you really are looking for an answer.
Yes, because African-American people live with heritage of hundreds of years of slavery and opression.
"The labor force of the AA hasn't even begun to be tapped" The irony. lol
Utada379 IKR! Lol
Wow. Value someone or something only inasmuch as it benefits self. Kids taught that 'trees are good! because they give us shade, things to eat, air to breathe' in other words, taught to value them only as useful to humans and not for their own sake, own sacred existence no less than humans... Thank you for noticing this subtle phrase in the dialogue, so easy for it to slip by.
Right!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 the jokes write themselves
Utada379 Right
not sure but pretty sure they said negro not AA...but yes,that part was strong and moving
"So we all settled down again to the difficult business of making a living." Love that statement because that is so true for all of us regardless of race.
In 1980 I was the new girl at Stevens Industries/Cargill in Dawson Ga. As in this video the company had government contracts and they had to put some black people in their main office. I was coming out of a black high school and a black college so I was nervous and uncomfortable. The thing is people are people and underneath the skin we are all the same. Through the years I have held many positions and there have been several ownership changes. I will retire this year after 40 years.
Thank you for telling us about your experience.
Congratulations 🌷🎉 Wish You All The Best in Your Retirement
@@TSC-hr7ir thank you. I retired in October at 62 and I’m so glad I did. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone.
Kudos to you! I'm happy you stayed!
Please show more of these films.
You need to share this with your sistas who think they are so independent.
Dumb hoes it was BROTHAS in the 60's who made your land of milk and honey possible.
My big brotha was a freedom fighter bitch I know 1st hand who put the work in; don't recognize LMAO we'll be just fine without you.
Yah, it sure goes down today in 21st century, go thru it myself. Staff turning all members against u, even new staff that aint met you yet r trainef to despise you. Had water poured over my hair, been pushed flying across a room, staff members stepping the line and talk personal direspect of yr baby mother, yr mothers, the way you talk, I couldnt tell my boss as hes vile n unprofessional just like the staff, 3 years with the company and you had to keep thinking and blocking these weirdos out. In staff food n meals gatherings, they wld even be upset n angry with you if you dnt eat what they eat and make a big joke of it to humiliate u every single week and day, then they pass it on to new members who just walked in to do the same. Had know freinds there at all. New members do talk to me at first as im very approachable and they always ask who I am and my name. Then after a week, they change as I know somebody had trained them not to engage with myself. I never caused any trouble, never rude, my problem was I was too polite maybe. My wrk was good, and i could understand if mybwrk ethic was bad then they can give all the bad mouthing all they want, but it seemed to do with personal issues. I could not understand what these ppl got out of bitching n arguing over absolutely nothing every single day towards me. Everybody else got some kind of respect in the firm and spoken to like human beings, but something personal against myself. Well im just sharing my views, gd day all.
gee god You've been heard! I believe you because well..Anyway it comes down to culture for me. Difficult to find a welcoming culture although I have had decent jobs and got plenty respect. City, County and State jobs will give you less of that. Funny thing is that black women have consistently been the worst to work with and are routinely spies to get props from the whites. That corporate door is wide open for sistas; just stay true to yourself and maybe be open to becoming an entrepreneur. TC
This genre qualifies as horror. These scenes were intense. True Evil.
that's why it was done in film noir. it's the horror/suspense genre from the 50s. they knew what they were doing. and it elicited such feelings....camera angles/lighting etc...
It qualifies as real life, and historically accurate. So many comments here ignoring the fact this film was made SIXTY YEARS AGO to show that things were changing, and to express optimism that they would continue to change and get better. It has no connection to horror/suspense. It was 60 years ago. The title says so much. And "Mary" was the new GIRL, but all the women were called GIRLS then. It would be another 10 years before that began to change. Those who believe things are no better now, weren't around then to see how much HAS changed. When was the last time you saw a water fountain marked "White" or "Colored"? Never? When I started school, there was not one Black person in the entire school; Black children had to walk past several schools to get to one they were allowed to attend. Segregation used to be the rule. And it was ENFORCED, sometimes brutally. Blacks and Whites did not live in the same neighborhoods, and very few had real friends of the other race. Even if a White person had Black friends, he couldn't have him visit him at home, or sit down together at a restaurant. I don't say enough has changed; obviously it hasn't. And the last 4 years have been sickening. But don't say nothing has changed, or nothing is any better than it was in 1960. That is not true. It IS better, and it will keep getting better. And one thing we have learned in the last 4 years is the fight isn't over. We can't win, then go lie down and rest. Pay attention! And VOTE! The fascists may be calling themselves "Republicans" now, but pay attention because they will change their names to trick you. Recognize them, and vote against them.
The film's intention was the opposite of horror or evil- to show that racism had no basis and that there was no reason to resist integration in the workplace.
RIP Ed Asner...who is in this film. I hate spunk! LOL
Wow...and Gail Fisher from Mannix! Awesome!
This was the mentality when I worked with at the Pentagon over 25 years ago. I was a fly-in milk (I was uncomfortable but not afraid. I was qualified, capable, but stayed humble) And to survive i downplayed anything that gave me the spotlight and even shared some Kudos when i really did not have to. I had to be and was exactly what he mentioned in this story. I had to basically think about what was needed before it was needed, and I know I did it with a hula hoop lit with fire 🔥 with gasoline underwear, juggling fine China in ballet slippers on point....I not only needed to be invisible i made myself invisible by walking a fine chalk drawn line and time made me invisible. I do not believe I could be that person again without major modifications. Thank you for this post.
Sounds exhausting 😢I didn't realize being black was such a complicated endeavor we can't simply jus be us we have to put in so many layers . Were afraid to be just us 😭 u see our women with fake hair nails contacts layers ....
25 years ago? That was 1998.
Thanks for sharing! You should write a memoir on your experiences! I can only imagine! But I know it would be a great read.
25 years ago was the late 90s, and the DoD is extremely anti-discriminatory and was even "back then" (which might as well be last month let's be honest). I feel you're exaggerating. Any sort of feeling you had that you personally had to be held to a different and higher standard was certainly just a side effect of working in the Pentagon, and you were feeling no more a fly in milk than any of the other personnel irrespective of their race.
@@johnroscoe2406 How dare you tell her how she felt and what experiences she encountered on the job. Your attitude is very dismissive and patronizing.
I know I’m not alone when I say I love Gail Fischer. There’s such a warmth and quiet inner-strength, but also a bit of melancholy about her, which also made me -as a young kid seeing her on Mannix feel she needed something to make her be truly happy.
I see this and my mind and soul cry out in anger. Then I look around at today's society and realize not much has changed.
This was a movie meant to educate management in the hiring of secretaries the first status white collar group that was not union people in the shop. You will note that the bosses said we already hired Negroes in the shop but they are just people who work with their hands. He also noted that the union held a big meeting, "for once we and the union were on the same side," and they had no trouble. The GM cadillac assembly plant was an all white plant at one time. When the first Black workers were hired at the Cadillac plant a wildcat strike occurred that UAW officials quashed. Things did not always go as peacefully as the movie portrays but it was necessary to make this type of movie to get management to follow the new government policy to end employment discrimination by government contractors. This was made before the 1964 civil rights act.
Yep yep and yep..
RIP JFK.But I know you're not.
Yeah, I thought they "whitewashed" the union's peaceful reaction to integration. Was there any all-white union that didn't put up a fight. I doubt it.
@@pollymorphic500 Most of the all white unions were craft construction unions or in places with very few black people. Segregation was an obstacle to organizing unions in the south. Some almost all Black unions included the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the railroad maintenance of way workers. The Steelworkers Union supported affirmative action in USWA v. Brian Webber. This was a change from a top that had opposed the Consent Decree as a result of Black workers in the Basic Steel industry. The unions also have the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists and the Coalition of Labor Union Women.
It's amazing to see how these black actors/actresses have been doing film/tv for a lifetime! So many familiar faces and it's a joy to see them in their younger years.
Exactly so I don't know what this generation of today's complainting about.
@@1990758 ???
Amazing to see such a young Ed Asner. The mother gave a good performance.
And for him to turn up on The Boondocks years later is the icing on the cake!
Remember when she played Dr Huxtable's mother on The Cosby Show?
Definitely a white production--and I quote the fictitious Mary "It's not that they discriminate, they just don't hire us". Now if that isn't a play on words, I don't know what is. Lol.
I noticed that too. Ridiculous
Lol
I can and often do pass for black and encourage others to do the same. That way you get treated BETTER by everyone because they're afraid I'll go all cry-baby and say they're racist. PLUS you get all that FREE pity pu$$y from white and black girls, because they are programmed to feel sorry for us!!!
@@billsmlth5381 lol yeah right 😂😂😂
@Ed Miller I agree with what you said Ed, up until the point that you mentioned black people do the same thing. I'd bet my dollar that black people wouldn't feel the way they feel towards white people as a whole, had we not been treated and if we still weren't being treated the way that we are. Both ways, in the non sensical sense? Sure. And I'm referring to black people who blatantly hate white people instead of separating exactly what type of white people are the issue. Racism I would say is more of a white people issue than anyone else, and we have history as proof.
Mary's mom is Clarice Taylor BKA Grandma Huxtable, Bill Cosby's mom on the Cosby Show. & The man she was a secretary to is Edward Asner BKA Lou Grant from the Mary Tyler Moore Show🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thanks so much, I was trying to place Mary’s mom. I couldn’t figure out where I’d heard that voice.
ed asner we got....we knew taylor but many of us couldn't quite place her.
And Lou Gossett Jr., uncredited as Mary's brother. Back when he had hair.
I liked granny Huxtable and baby rudy
Gail Fisher played an important part in breaking the color barrier in television when she co-starred in the TV series "Mannix". Along with Diahann Carroll in "Julia" & Nichelle Nichols in "Star Trek".
Lol those bedwench did absolutely nothing
The other lady about 7:30 was Fred Sandford's girlfriend on Sandford and Son.
Who besides me recognized they had a Black woman working there all along but was unaware of it. Beth (22:00) was passing for white. That's why she was the most sympathetic. 😂😂😂
I agree, I thought she looked black. You know that went on back in the day. Blacks who passed for white. I think they did it to survive not necessarily because they were denying their culture. But, either way its just totally messed up!!!
I thought she looked more exotic than the other Caucasian women that worked at the company. 🤔 No wonder. She just had a "different" look about her.
Nah, she ain't Black. Italian possibly, but not Black.
@@dl2310 Exactly
@@dl2310 I see some black in her looks
ugh, I can't be the only one who gets a sick feeling in stomach watching this.
vh9network I think some people feel they are films that are just wonderful. they like the stun.
vh9network listen to the song called dear lie sung by tlc.
yes sick...but "wonderful" in the fact that there is a forum as THIS one HERE that isn't afraid to show us these films who are like the girl at the office but for ALL to view. Even those who are like those in the film..like those who "may" just be a bit "comfy ACTING" in their roles.
Yes sick and angry. Angry that those conversations in the "white" boardroom AND the watering hole existed and I'm angry that we still have to prove ourselves. Homage to those who are strong and courageous enough to endure such stress.
No you're not the only one, my stomach's turning already
did anyone recognize the following actors/actresses.... Clarice Taylor as Mary's mom. Taylor played Anna Huxtable (Bill Cosby's mother) on "the Cosby show". Lou Gossett, Jr. as Mary's brother. Gossett played fiddler in "Roots", among other well-known roles. Ed Asner as Mr. Murray. Asner was later known for his role as "Lou Grant". Lynn Hamilton as the older african-American lady, chatting with Mary while filing papers in Mary's first scene. Hamilton played Donna on "Sanford and Son", and Mad dog's mother on " Good Times".
Yes I noticed all of them.
He also played with Sidney Poitier in A Raisin in the Sun,1961, post the New Girl Movie, with Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, and Ivan Dixon, stellar Black Actors.
Garry Stanford yes i reconize right away
And Mary herself is Gail Fisher from Mannix. She was Peggy his secretary so I guess her skills paid off!
@Uncle Brother Clarice Taylor also was on an episode of "Sanford & Son", as Grady's cousin, "Cousin Emma", and she was a freeloader, Lamont couldn't stand her, lol...
RIP to Ms Gail Fisher 🙏
"Any white girl with a chip on her shoulder". Remains true to this day. 😂
you are stereotyping us the same as people stereotype you.
@Glinkling Smearnops Girl, where do you live? I never worked in a company that treated people like that.
And there are alot of black people with chips on their shoulders
@@blueskys8876 you put them there.
@@blaquefaerie8201 yeah right , hypocritical racist !!!!! Keep the chip on your shoulder I don't give a s*** and I'll keep mine
I had to fight when I got bused to a white school in the seventies. After that, we got along just fine! Some became good friends, others, I continued to fight!
I didn't have to fight when I was bused to white school, but I did have to face awful racist words...
Cassandra, though I am glad that you survived the obvious racism, never forget that racism and it's tactics are "taught." Someone had to teach them this mind-set.
I am white and rode that school bus down to North Little Rock in 71 and 72 to pick up the black students and bring em to Jacksonville High. I praise the accomplishments of the NAACP and appreciate the hardships people endure in our efforts to wipe out racism. We still have a long way to go as a civilization.
Would love to hear more about your experiences
same here
Lord, they were looking at her so vicious and mean...
This is first-class, excellent acting and essentially a theatre piece. The basic sets and under-lit scenes make for powerful drama. This is proper acting, not Hollywood hokum or idiot-level television. The actors were a credit to the profession. Thank you for posting this
Thank you for pointing out the efforts & work actors/actresses who played their parts to bring this film 🎥 🎞 and vision to light
The new secretary is very endearing and adorable. Her facial expressions are so realistic and very cute when she looks worried and about to cry. How can anyone not like her.
She was the secretary in Mannix..Peggy..a very beautiful woman.🤗💞✨💐
@@margueritemazzeo2904-I thought she played Peggy on Mannix.
@@flwrfan1752 Yes..she did..that's what I said too.
All I can say is wow.
everyone should see this
Welfare Dad true dat. maybe they will have a rude awakening themselves. But maybe they see the dear lie video sung by tlc and be led to other videos of remorse.
I had the pleasure of meeting Lou Gossett, here in Atlanta in 2007, he was in town, as he is/was an ambassador for the Dragon Con convention. He is/was a very down to earth Black man, who didn't want to be treated like a celebrity, just as another human being, I have the utmost respect for him...
When my mother had the nerve to become a medic in 1979 and a firefighter in 1983 her “fellow” first responders would refuse to work with her. I still recall their faces when she trained their children to do the same job twenty years later. Knowing that they knew that she knew what they said and did was truly the pinnacle for me. A woman, with dark skin, was in their class pictures. For her, she just wanted to be on the team. She felt that way her whole career.
Lynn Hamilton, Gail Fisher, Edward Asner...class acts all!
black people back then had so much dignity -class - and depth... despite their seemingly overwhelming challenges......thanks for the post reelback
u noticed
+I Am Israel Yup! Just like Cynthia G says...just because time moves on,it doesn't mean people's nature changes....it's no different now than in 1617.
Tahirie Tahirie hahaha.....right?
CitizenOWorld farther than loving the devil,and trying to be equal with someone who's not worth being equal to lol.......... if segregation never ended we would have had powerful black communities and higher tax brackets but you guys would have just bombed us and destroyed us IE Black Wall Street Renaissance Harlem Etc etc etc.ending segregation destroyed the black community fact
LOL!
It took a lot of courage to even be in such a awkward situation. ALWAYS know that there is going to be one caring person in the room to step up. Not everyone has hate in their heart
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Love the early 60s gritty acting.
Mike, this was a great idea of yours to show this short PSA film. These are the Black actors who appear: P. J. Sidney as the Urban League leader; Lynn Hamilton as his secretary; Gail Fisher as the new girl; Lou Gossett as the brother; Robert Earl Jones as the janitor; Clarice Taylor as the new girl's mother. Peace and Blessings!
Thank you for sharing those details. Much appreciated.
charles woods thank you
charles woods Is it Ed Asner at 2:31?
Gillian Landry Yes, with most of his hair still on top of his head. Of course, by the time of "Mary Tyler Moore" ten years later, he lost most of it. A lot of who's who in this. In addition to Asner, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Earl Jones (James' father), Clarice Taylor (Grandma Huxtable), Lynn Hamilton (Fred Sanford's lady) and, eight years before "Mannix," Gail Fisher.
Thanks!
A big thank you from London, UK to the ladies and gentlemen at reelblack for finding such a telling piece of film great performances...keep up the good work and would be fascinated to see more like this if of course they have been preserved and archived correctly....
+askaniuk you're welcome. Yes this is a cool flick. We generally don't post work we didnt create but this is considered public domain. I might post a few more from the internet archive website in the future but Check out our podcast series for reviews and mentions of obscure finds on KZhead and DVD
Please do post more I am very interested
This is besides the point of the video, but I just love how people dressed then. Everyone looked so nice and put together. All the ladies had such nice hair and men in suits.
Thanks for posting, as A Black Nurse I can say not much has changed. They still look at you as if you need to be perfect and prove to them that you are supposed to be in the same spaced as them.
I think a lot is changed it depends what city what state you live in.
This was a brave film back in that time and even more for those acting in the film. I remember well how tense things were.🌹
Sure that movie set was tense to
@@nikradik Like you know this?
This was a really great film. So sad that much hasn't change.
Chef Che and Co lol, you're delusional.
Can any black person apply for any job, eat at any restaurant, attempt to buy a home in any neighborhood? So much has changed I believe. Most blacks today live better than me as far as I know. If anyone doesn't want a good life in this country, it is their own fault.
Chef Che and Co, In order to have change you must set a goal, expect opposition, you must be undaunted, have tunnel vision in pursuit of that destination. Economic immersion through education to ownership to political clout dismiss distractions and nonsense. It has been done before with Black Wall Street in Tulsa, Okla, Hayti Community in Durham, N. C. post the Civil War, Jackson Ward, Richmond, Va, ( Birthplace of Black Capitalism, Harlem of the South ) early part of the 20th century prior Black Wall Street. The Fourth Avenue District: Birmingham, Ala, during the era of Jim Crow in 1950 ((Little Harlem ). Boley, Okla, founded in 1903 in the Creek Nation of Indian Territory, Booker T Washington called it the finest Black town in the world. Don't take my words go and research it for yourself. There are reasons why the aforementioned Black communities died, your assignment if you choose, to find out why remember what I previously stated expect opposition.
Why do u think there's such a slow psychological evolution for so many? I've been studying #Melanin to figure that out.
@@KrisJanJack mostly stupidity. The "gift" that keeps on giving One stupid generation after another passing that #$@%& on, just like the green bean casserole recipe with mushroom soup and potatoes chips,yech.
I went through that in the 80's. Now I just laugh in thier faces because entitlement is thier weakness.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if some of these same conversations took place today in my current place of employment.
Just like Jackie Robinson joining the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947..
Oh my that scene from 18 mins in was so beautiful. The way the mother delivered that monologue was perfection.
The brave and realistic thing to say.
27:07 - every one of us knows this horrible feeling, I’ve had it so much. Her anguished face brought watery tears to my eyes, such needless and calloused hard-heartedness
The actress who played Gail Fisher mother, gave a very impressive speech to her, giving her the backbone she needed to take the job. That speech needs to be printed and given to every mom, to know what to say if a problem like this comes their way. She sounds just like my mother would say it. That's old, old school talk, that had so much wisdom in it. ✌❤
Right ON!! ✊🏾
I think that's Mama Huxtable!!
What a great find! Thank you for your efforts. Good or bad, your curated videos are a piece of history. Unfortunately, I think I will be stuck on your channel for the next few hours, lol.
It was never about color but about fear, low wage and a constant threat you might become a real free thinking individual! Actually a revealing production about the human condition
My goodness, we come from such *strong* people!
My Black People are so beautiful, so beautiful!
Cousin Emma From Sanford & Son!!! She was sure pretty as a young gal! I was still waiting for her to bust out and say "I'm gonna fix you a BIG breakfast! Do you like pancakes and sausages with blueberry syrup" LMAO!!!! I love seeing my faves as they were younger because you can see their evolution in their acting careers.....Long Live Cousin Emma!
Almost 60 years ago since this film was made and this country is still dealing race issues more than ever!
@jorge alberto ospna Your comment is the best I've read on here
Americans don't know how to forgive and forget, thats why its always feel like then. Black people have it better now yet they complain still, some delinquents don't educate themselves and choose to steal and kill. Police kills them and the parents complain, a good student hangs out with a friend who's known to the police may be killed by the police and even though its morally wrong they deserve to die because the saying "You are known by the company you Keep" is so true. You don't need to hold conversation with a known killer or bandit.
@@adamsamuel8593 Adam Samuel "Black people have it better now, yet they still complain". Excuse me? But we still struggle with a lot of shit today. Are you even black?
It's because idiots have access to the internet and they gather together and reinforce racist idiotic ideals within one another. Then they spread and look for videos and topics like this to infect their stupid with and comment on it. Then they show it to their idiotic group. As a result it seems worse than it is.
@@adamsamuel8593 Idiots like this one for example.
these programs are very interesting, i love how they play out all of the different perspectives and rationalisations, it really helps you understand the complexities at play
Such a good social study, really good acting and script it just pulls you in and makes you think.
Good story and acting, and a true mother's love...
A young Ed Asner.
jdubb500 thank you for pointing that out. I loved him in Mary Tyler Moore show.
jdubb500 i thought thats who he was
I’m a black girl and even though African Americans weren’t my ancestors I still love what they did to put an end to racism back then and it makes me cry because of how many of them died for us😭🥺😭😭✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊🏻❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
There will never be a end. Don't ever forget that.
Jesus died for us. That's most important
@@1990758 Don't say never
@@Black_Patriot-Veteran-1970 You can say it under certain situations.
@@1990758 Ok here's one: You'll NEVER have a clue. How is that?
This is what I experienced at my previous jobs. I remember when I worked at the law firm the White women and one Spanish woman had me fired because I was tired of doing their work on top of my work. I was overworked and wasn’t paid enough. This happened in 2018 by the way. Thank God my man showed me how to make money online before I left my last job.
Please tell me how to make money online. I'd like to leave my house as little as possible. The world is crazy.
That was Gail Fisher (secretary of Mannix)?!! Damn, I didn't realize it until someone below mentioned it. I recognized Ed Adder. Anyway, great film. A classic masterpiece.
Charles Lassiter Asner
ed asner
Beautiful Gail Fisher!
WOW IT IS HER
Ed Adner
Black women are still heavily discriminated in the work place, particularly from white women (but men as well). Nothing has changed in 2019.
FACTS AF and they love it when there is friction between black women they feed on it
*That's* what #JadaPinkettSmith told #JordynWoods at her #RTT , Jada quoted #MalcolmX .
@@thinblacknoodles Hence, VS's TSCC group. the late great(s) #NatalieCole in an interview spoke to how [they] pitted her against #ArethaFranklin, legendary rapper #RoxanneShante in interviews spoke to how [they] pitted her against other female rappers. Abiola Abrams wrote in her book about the FEAR some have if Black Women were to Unite! But why? Why do [they] possess that FEAR?? Study.
I think not. I certainly have never seen this kind of discrimination, and the employment statistics certainly don't support your claim. It's sad that people buy into this hyper racist hoax being pushed down our throat every day of the week. Identity politics suck.
"skin so tight, lily white."
I really appreciate this reel (Real). As a young black girl growing up in the 80's and 90's in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas. This was how it was when I transferred to a suburban school being the only black girl in your whole grade there were plenty of whispers, looks! The question the Mom ask "was she imagining things?" you can't imagine silence, the LOOK of being aware your different cause your richer pigment your hair. You have people who raised their children right and you also see who still had that mentality of separate and never equal. I grew up with them from grade school to H.S and lets say their perspective changed.
This is what I feel at work all the time!!!
Here it is 2018 and we have changed very little.
Yep still wanting to touch your hair!
A lot has changed but if people like you being a guilt ridden self-loathing white or a black race card player nothing will ever change
Don Dressel Not much has changed if you think this was 50 years ago! The judgement and the paranoia is pretty similar today for black folks, we have made very little progress in terms of real integration
It is sad that you think very little has changed with all of the success and respect black people receive in corporate America. I see companies being sensitive to religious diversity, lgbt rights, etc. as well. So much has changed and improved. I see black people being leaders and influencers in companies. People lose jobs and are shunned for their prejudices. It is not the same at all.
Bull
Good film and it's amazing seeing all these older actors in their youth. There's Gail Fisher, Louis Gossett Jr., Ed Asner and Mother Huxtable herself, Clarice Taylor!
Great cast, with future stars... Lou Gossett, Ed Asner, Clarice Taylor as the mother, and of course gorgeous eyes Gail Fisher, Mannix's secretary! The Casting Director had a great gift.
It saddens me that this film even had to be made. What is wrong with humans.
Whats worse is that it's still needed, almost now more than ever
They were made, because that was true to life back then #
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wow, they talk about them like they are a sub species!!!!
Choclatcotton like we contagious. SMH
Study what it is to be Melanin-Recessive? You'll know what it is to have a slanted -mind, minus not having been oppressed.
@Aiyaluna Yourke So White Pepole Aren't Part OF Human Race? Can You Show US The Evidence?!
@@airyanawaejah2323 look up a man named Yacob he s the one that invented yall in a lab google it u test tube baby lol
Excellent. and thank you for releasing this on KZhead...Angie
What an incredible movie thanks so much.
LYNN HAMILTON who played as that secretary still here at 89 years old. ❤️
If she was 22 in 1960 as they said in the movie she’d be 78
This shows me there has always been a struggle and the people who came before us may not speak on the difficulty that happen we should never think it was easy
Not to be off topic, but this film also shows that actors we now knew as famous, started at the bottom. Right away I picked up Ed Asner, and later Gail Fisher. You have really done a great service digging up these old films.
What a great little film. Warmed my heart ✊
You tube should post thought provoking short films like this. Very well written film. Thank you.