Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here is the full, 1-minute version of a haunting and memorable public service announcement from the United Negro College Fund showing how a symbol of slavery was turned into something positive (namely the Boddie Plantation became Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi).
Note: This is to replace an earlier, now broken (unplayable) video posting, preserved as an unlisted video here to save the original comments: youtu.be/ARmw4D4pzIw.
A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
"C'mon boy, put your back into it!"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, September 22nd 1981 during the 7:00am to 8:30am timeframe. (I believe this was originally filmed in 1979) (and yes, this aired during Bozo!) ๐ฎ
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
Here is the full, 1-minute version of a haunting and memorable public service announcement from the United Negro College Fund showing how a symbol of slavery was turned into something positive (namely the Boddie Plantation became Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi).
Note: This is to replace an earlier, now broken (unplayable) video posting, preserved as an unlisted video here to save the original comments: youtu.be/ARmw4D4pzIw.
A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste
"C'mon boy, put your back into it!"
This aired on local Chicago TV on Tuesday, September 22nd 1981 during the 7:00am to 8:30am timeframe. (I believe this was originally filmed in 1979) (and yes, this aired during Bozo!) ๐ฎ
About The Museum of Classic Chicago Television:
The MCCTv (FuzzyMemoriesTV) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose primary mission is the preservation and display of off-air, early home videotape recordings (70s to early 80s, mostly) recorded off of TV (in Chicago or other cities now too); things which would likely be lost if not sought out and preserved digitally. If you have any old 1970s videotapes recorded off of TV please email: tapes@fuzzy.tv Even though (mostly) short clips are displayed here, we preserve the entire broadcasts in our archives - the complete programs with breaks (or however much is present on the tape), for historical preservation. For information on how to help in our mission, to donate or lend tapes to be converted to digital, please e-mail tapes@fuzzy.tv Thank you for your help!
