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Soul of Thoroughbred Racing
This Mini Series Documentary Film With Negro Slave Familes Developing Expertise in The Craft As A Family Efforts To Bye Freedom From Sucess On The Racing Track And The Breeding Training Barn Talents Crafted The 1800S Racing Sports NegroS Pressence Was Almost Complely Maequeed With A Negro Labor Force & Skill Set Of Negro Jockey Riders In 1875 for the first running of the Derby African Americans dominated the race track 13 of the 15 jockeys were black including the winning Jockey Oliver Lewis Who At His Height Was Even Posioned this is part of the history you can learn about . Into The 20th century African American jockeys and trainers start to disappear due to segregation and Jim Crow laws Along With The War On The Negro Jockey preventing black jockeys even world class champions from getting access to license to ride While Brutal Attacks on them both on the track and off the track and the deliberate corraling of white jockeys endangering the black jockeys and the horses they mounted By Smashing Them Against The Wall In Races So They Could Not Pass With Horse Owners Making The Ultimate Decessions To Not Use Black Jockeys Mounted On Their Prize Horses In Fear For Danger Of Harm To The Exspensive Horses N The Jockey World Famous Champion Jockey JIMMY WINFIELD Had To Leave The Country In The Middle Of A Winning Streak That Consistented Even In Europe
March on The Capital
MLK Documentary On The Life & Thought Of MLK Jr . Inspired by his witness and activism in Ky . This Film chronicles the journey for Black Liberation in the US. And the fight to build democracy for all.
Stone Soul Derby
A Channeled Birdseye Veiw Of The History Of The Mammoth Black Sports Gaints Winning History Of Celebrated Champion Jockeys And Right From Derby Thousands inside placing their Bets Blacks Created Backyard Parties Around The Region To Celebrate The Men Who Championed The Sport Of Thoroughbred Racing In The Kentucky Derby in 1875 through 1903 until The Jim Crow Era pushed them Out Of The Sport & It's Social Pressence Now Some Of World's Biggest Parties And Fashions N Style & Black Horse Owners On Millionaires Row And Hollywood Guest & Black Sports Star Guest To Screen In Documentary
Freedom Land
ECHOES OF OUR ANCESTORS Series: The Documentary Explores The History Of Central Kentucky Negros In The 1870s Exdous That Saw Areas Negros Leave Over 75% Of Negros Migrated Out Of Central Kentucky For Opportunity To Run From KKK Jim Crowe Laws To Land Seeking Land-House Ownership And A Future For Thier Familes With Indepth Footage From A Summitt Of Academics Professors Historians And Native Ancestors In Central Kentucky and Nicodemus Kansas. Conversations On The Power Wealth Of Even Plantation Vice President Owners Of Slaves Who Left To Follow The Exodus To The Local Ancestors Whoes Familes Stayed The Documentary NICODEMUS $5 FIVE DOLLAR EXODUS Will Amaze Your Prospective On The Black Population That Vanished From Central Kentucky
Black Sports Hall of Fame
The Documentary Uncover The Fogotten Pioneering Negros Mainly as integration open the door for the back black athlete to burst on the scene with record-breaking Trend setting abilities The black Sports Hall of Fame Marquee the greatest sports talents and innovators in the United States in categories that stretch from the Negro Baseball League up to modern day major league baseball MLB Blacks in horse racing trainers and the world famous black jockeys Amature Sports Olympians greats men and women And Black Colleges NCAA Championship Post Jim Crowe changing the landscape of sports forever NBA ABA WNBA NFL AFL Tennis gymnastics soccer Ice skating And hockey And Professional Boxing From Post World War Up Until Today