11K views · 207 reactions | “It’s American culture to show black people the way you saw them portrayed in most of the media and we were doing something very counter to that with this film.” Watch the film that contributes to the message of love and solidarity. Whose Streets? is now playing nationwide. | Whose Streets? | Facebook

What did streets in New York look like in the 1950s? In 1955, Brooklyn-born filmmaker Ken Jacobs bought a 16mm camera and began documenting the immigrant streets and tenements of the Lower East Side and the Bowery that reminded him of his childhood in Depression-era Williamsburg. Explore 70 years of Jacob’s work on view now at MoMA. — Ken Jacobs. “Orchard Street” (excerpts). 1955 | MoMA The Museum of Modern Art