My grandmother was born and raised in a little place called Lumpkin Georgia. When my grandmother was 9, her mom died and my grandmother was taken out of school to replace her mom in the fields picking cotton. She eventually got married and she and her husband moved to Pittsburgh PA. My mom was born in 1950 and Pittsburgh. They are all gone now and I live in San Diego. I’ve been here since 1994. Just wanted to share what I know about my family’s migration journey🥰 Blessings🙏🏽💞💝
I'm so thankful that my father took a chance and left South Carolina by himself at 11 years old. Sharecropping was terrible, and he wasn't allowed to pursue an education.
looking forward to this!! my maternal great-grandma Irene Baldwin left rural GA to move to Detroit. My paternal 2nd great-grandma left Norfolk, VA to move to NY. The women on my paternal side were super interesting bc since Emancipation each generation moved further north from South Carolina, to North Carolina to Virginia, and finally NY. All my ancestors owned land in each state.
Can’t wait for this special! As an educator and a child of South Carolina whose grandparents moved to NYC and returned only a year later, I’m excited for what’s in store in this. I grew up on Dr. Gates’ work and know that this will be good. Thank you for what you’ve done and will do.
So thankful that my grandmother left Kentucky tobacco fields and moved to Indiana and my mother family left Mississippi not long after her brother was lynched. The courage they exhibited to start all over and also show just how much oppression they were under at the time, many were living just a step if you can call it that above enslavement.
As a black-Brazilian American I can confirm this is true because my great-grandparents did the same but in Brazil. So my great- grandparents migrated from Northern Brazil to Rio de Janeiro
Most of the West Coast Great Migration of Foundational Black Americans (FBA) occurred during the World War II/Postwar era (1945-1970). The primary Southern states involved in the flow to Seattle and Portland were Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Blacks were primarily seeking work in shipyards and airplane manufacturers due to EEOC 8802 that opened up federal employment for African Americans, as well as other kinds of work. There's a lot more information out there on Google.
My dad moved from Selma AL to Los Angeles in 1954 because of job availability. He got a job working for the city of L.A. and worked for 30 years until he retired. He and my mom bought a house and raised a family in comfort. He could have never accomplished all that he achieved as a black man if he stayed in Selma
One branch of my family migrated to Califirnia in the early 1900s another in the late 1930s and early 1940s. All of them had Texas and Louisiana roots.
After WWII my veteran father along with 7 brothers and sisters, cousins, and friends left tobacco country in Eastern North Carolina. One by one they all moved first to South Philly. My daddy and uncles never went back to visit, ever.
Yep, my mothers side moved from Arkansas, and some went to Illinois. Some went to Arizona, and some split off and moved to California. No one is even left in Arkansas.
My family migrated from North and South Carolina to find work. Final location Philadelphia Pa , They brought homes and encouraged other family and friends to join them even providing support and tell they could stand on their own.My grandparents helped my parents buy a house the family still has. Great grandchildren are living in it. However the next generation was not helpful to our elderly . That has been a sad mark against our family.
Running from legalized domestic terrorism and sharecropping as the main source of continued economic and physical slavery--IS NOT MIGRATION! We don’t have to conflate our absolutely unique experience as American descendants of chattel slavery and why that caused us to flee with trying to match the intentions of those who moved here to seek economic opportunities (that were actually given to them) based on the wealth generated in this country from centuries of our free violently forced labor. Also if not for American descendants of chattel slavery, black immigrants from the diaspora would never have been allowed in (Immigration Act of 1965 was passed because of the black american civil rights movement who had nothing to benefit from as we are already citizens). But are not the same in our experiences here as them.
Black Americans didn’t flee. The Great Migration was about movement. Movement within their citizenship rights around their country. State to state, city to city, zip to zip. Migrating around the United States, exercising a practice they used as resistance for the southern Jim Crow states. They didn’t abandon their entire country and take up residence or nationalization in another country. They remained in their nation and their action of migrating away from states that continued to practice in oppressing them was an act of permanent boycott and activism.
@@Qu33n….those black people were in essence forced to leave homes, family and friends to travel to strange parts of this country where they’d never been before. It was forced migration and nothing to be proud of. Again, the rewriting of history to cover the lynchings and rapes suffered by a people eternally oppressed due to the color of their skin. These people were Americans not migrants!
I'm 46 years old and my native state is in Queens, New York. My paternal grandparents migrated to New York in the early forties, my Dad was born in 1947 and my own mother who recently passed was born in 1955 and I would consider all years prior to the passing of the 1964 Civil Right apart of the Great Migration because she came to Queens, New York due to the amount of racism occurring in her hometown of Burke County and Jenkins County Georgia. At 46 years I'm now living in my mother's home state after Reverse Migrating here in 1994, The crazy thing is that although we're in 2024, my generation and my daughters generation is still having to fight to be seen in this country.
I would like to know more about the migration that happened before, during, & after the Haitian revolution; of Haitians leaving Haiti for the states and of Americans migrating to Haiti after the Haitian Revolution...
The Great migration north was much deeper than only the surface reasons. Both of my parents at different times and stages in their life migrated north and though born in Ga and SC they met in NYC. I myself had to leave the Deep South after college in 1990 to move north because the jobs I could get with my college degree the white kids who only went to high school already had. My white only high school educated classmates already had these jobs.
@@garyspence2128 because they know immigration is a hot issue right now so they’re trying to conflate immigrants with the black Americans who built this country.
@@garyspence2128 Do you watch any news? Ever? “The migrant crisis” this “migrants coming to the states” that. That has flooded the news all 2024. And they’ve duped the public to start using the term for those abandoning their country as migrants versus immigrants (the appropriate term that should be used). It’s not a coincidence that this series is debuting soon with this influx of immigrants coming to the USA.
@@garyspence2128They are not going to use the suffering of black Americans in an attempt to get us to support immigration. BLACK AMERICANS ARE NOT MULES FOR WHATEVER VOTING BLOCK THE DEMS ARE TRYING TO CATER TO.
@@garyspence2128 if your agenda is to run some arbitrary similarity to illegal immigratnts into the U.S. to the life of Black southerners moving to other parts of the U.S. for sympathy. Yeah, suspicious
What has been overlooked by many is that there were Africans who immigrated to this country of their own free will, true not a lot, but there were some. So I would say that our history is very rich and still to be uncovered
I have ancestry, but I still haven't figured out the connection between my Irish,Scottish and my native family members being with my black family members. I found one connection on how william mcintosh, Scottish, married a creek woman in the 1700s and now that part of his decendants are black. I need an expert to help with mine.
My mothers maternal and paternal family moved from Northampton NC to Jersey and NYC in the early 1900s. Now I have reverse migrated from NYC to Atlanta and I don’t plan on moving back north😂
Much prefer when they are state specific…because saying “the south” and especially “the north” does not mean the same thing. And we are not all from the same place.
@@mstreemoon8117 At 1:38, the term immigration is inserted. Also was mentioned at 2:06. The Great Migration and immigration have nothing to do with each other so it’s highly questionable in this trailer alone why are these two terms even being paralleled.
Facts it's disrespectful to compare the great migration to immigrants. There is no comparison great migration is we stayed in our country and immigrants fled their country. I'll wait and see how this documentary turns out before I pass judgment.
Moving to another state in your OWN country is not the same as an Economic Migrant, who illegally entered a country, and then subsequently syphoned off black America's resources.
It’s going to be interesting to see how this subject is covered. I would hope that THE TRUTH would be unflinchingly told but as we know, when others are funding the telling of the non-white narrative, commentary or criticism can be “sanitized” so as not to offend. I hope that doesn’t happen here!
To be seen... my parents migrated from Virginia and South Carolina. Never spoke about their lives in the Apartheid southern United States. I only have a sense of the migration because I read The Warmth of Other Suns.
We sre still trying to gond our rightful place in America. You give everything you have of yourself and still dont receive respect not even from our own color
@j-short5431 ok... Maybe putting it this way is better... Immigrant doesn't necessarily imply you are going to another country... the term migration doesn't imply movement from one country to another.. they are actually interchangeable. You can totally migrate from one area of a country to another without leaving said country. 🤦🏽♀️ (Is the facepalm better than the lol ?)
@@mstreemoon8117 actually the definition of immigrating is moving from one country to another. That’s Webster’s definition. So you’re just flat out lying for the purpose of conflating to the two. Nothing against immigrants, but just because you immigrated here doesn’t mean everyone did.
@@mstreemoon8117 If both practices mean the same, then it would’ve been called “The Great Immigration” and it was not. It was called “The Great Migration” with purpose and accuracy.
My grandmother was born and raised in a little place called Lumpkin Georgia. When my grandmother was 9, her mom died and my grandmother was taken out of school to replace her mom in the fields picking cotton. She eventually got married and she and her husband moved to Pittsburgh PA.
My mom was born in 1950 and Pittsburgh.
They are all gone now and I live in San Diego. I’ve been here since 1994.
Just wanted to share what I know about my family’s migration journey🥰
Blessings🙏🏽💞💝
Thank you for sharing.
@@ivyw2259 thanks for reading😊
Thanks for sharing
I'm so thankful that my father took a chance and left South Carolina by himself at 11 years old. Sharecropping was terrible, and he wasn't allowed to pursue an education.
looking forward to this!! my maternal great-grandma Irene Baldwin left rural GA to move to Detroit. My paternal 2nd great-grandma left Norfolk, VA to move to NY. The women on my paternal side were super interesting bc since Emancipation each generation moved further north from South Carolina, to North Carolina to Virginia, and finally NY. All my ancestors owned land in each state.
The Great Migration is fascinating, looking forward to it! Another great series with Dr. Gates!
Can’t wait for this special! As an educator and a child of South Carolina whose grandparents moved to NYC and returned only a year later, I’m excited for what’s in store in this. I grew up on Dr. Gates’ work and know that this will be good. Thank you for what you’ve done and will do.
What made your family move back?
@@yasmine181 Family was there and it was home for them.
So thankful that my grandmother left Kentucky tobacco fields and moved to Indiana and my mother family left Mississippi not long after her brother was lynched. The courage they exhibited to start all over and also show just how much oppression they were under at the time, many were living just a step if you can call it that above enslavement.
My family on both sides moved from Georgetown SC to New York. Family has even deeper roots than this. Traces back to early 1800’s. 🙏🏾
Dr Gates has done it again👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 So so excited to watch this! Thank You, PBS & Dr Gates for continuing to teach us about ourselves☺️✨
As a black-Brazilian American I can confirm this is true because my great-grandparents did the same but in Brazil. So my great- grandparents migrated from Northern Brazil to Rio de Janeiro
Interesting
Ooooh. I hope they explain when/why black people went out west to Seattle and Portland. It's fascinating to me.
Ooo good one
Me too! My father settled in Seattle during WW2
Most of the West Coast Great Migration of Foundational Black Americans (FBA) occurred during the World War II/Postwar era (1945-1970). The primary Southern states involved in the flow to Seattle and Portland were Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Blacks were primarily seeking work in shipyards and airplane manufacturers due to EEOC 8802 that opened up federal employment for African Americans, as well as other kinds of work. There's a lot more information out there on Google.
My dad moved from Selma AL to Los Angeles in 1954 because of job availability. He got a job working for the city of L.A. and worked for 30 years until he retired. He and my mom bought a house and raised a family in comfort. He could have never accomplished all that he achieved as a black man if he stayed in Selma
I so love and appreciate this man… what a national treasure Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is. 😊❤
Totally agree. A national treasure for sure.
I love Dr. Henry Louis Gates❤❤❤❤ from West Virginia
Can’t wait!! Thank you Dr. Gates
One branch of my family migrated to Califirnia in the early 1900s another in the late 1930s and early 1940s. All of them had Texas and Louisiana roots.
This is amazing!
Wow, more to learn.
Skip trying to say we immigrants
Right…..I don’t like how they are calling it “Great Migrations” so as to tie in black immigrants
After WWII my veteran father along with 7 brothers and sisters, cousins, and friends left tobacco country in Eastern North Carolina. One by one they all moved first to South Philly. My daddy and uncles never went back to visit, ever.
Strength. Courage. Determination. Long-suffering. God-given freedom. That is Black folks. (Everyone should read the book "Caste" by Isabel Wilkerson).
Caste is very good but I liked her previous book even better-"the warmth of other suns" was SO good!!!!!
I'm looking forward to this
Looking forward to this!!!
Can't wait!!👏🏾🙌🏾
I love this. I hope in the future they include the manh of us who were inspired by our grandparents and have now left the country.
I can’t wait to see it!
Yep, my mothers side moved from Arkansas, and some went to Illinois. Some went to Arizona, and some split off and moved to California. No one is even left in Arkansas.
My dad’s parents came from Arkansas and went to NY, my great uncles and aunts that moved to Illinois and Michigan tho.
My family migrated from North and South Carolina to find work. Final location Philadelphia Pa , They brought homes and encouraged other family and friends to join them even providing support and tell they could stand on their own.My grandparents helped my parents buy a house the family still has. Great grandchildren are living in it. However the next generation was not helpful to our elderly . That has been a sad mark against our family.
I love being Black American 🙏🏾🫶🏾 FBA all day
The warmth of our sons by Elizabeth Wilkerson
Running from legalized domestic terrorism and sharecropping as the main source of continued economic and physical slavery--IS NOT MIGRATION! We don’t have to conflate our absolutely unique experience as American descendants of chattel slavery and why that caused us to flee with trying to match the intentions of those who moved here to seek economic opportunities (that were actually given to them) based on the wealth generated in this country from centuries of our free violently forced labor. Also if not for American descendants of chattel slavery, black immigrants from the diaspora would never have been allowed in (Immigration Act of 1965 was passed because of the black american civil rights movement who had nothing to benefit from as we are already citizens). But are not the same in our experiences here as them.
Some modern asylum-seeking immigrants are also running from legalized domestic terrorism.
Black Americans didn’t flee. The Great Migration was about movement. Movement within their citizenship rights around their country. State to state, city to city, zip to zip.
Migrating around the United States, exercising a practice they used as resistance for the southern Jim Crow states. They didn’t abandon their entire country and take up residence or nationalization in another country. They remained in their nation and their action of migrating away from states that continued to practice in oppressing them was an act of permanent boycott and activism.
Absolutely agree 💯
You're confusing immigration and migration.
@@Qu33n….those black people were in essence forced to leave homes, family and friends to travel to strange parts of this country where they’d never been before. It was forced migration and nothing to be proud of. Again, the rewriting of history to cover the lynchings and rapes suffered by a people eternally oppressed due to the color of their skin. These people were Americans not migrants!
Fleeing a country vs building a country for free is totally different
I'm 46 years old and my native state is in Queens, New York. My paternal grandparents migrated to New York in the early forties, my Dad was born in 1947 and my own mother who recently passed was born in 1955 and I would consider all years prior to the passing of the 1964 Civil Right apart of the Great Migration because she came to Queens, New York due to the amount of racism occurring in her hometown of Burke County and Jenkins County Georgia. At 46 years I'm now living in my mother's home state after Reverse Migrating here in 1994, The crazy thing is that although we're in 2024, my generation and my daughters generation is still having to fight to be seen in this country.
Can’t wait to watch & share❤
I can’t wait!!!
Sounds really good.
I would like to know more about the migration that happened before, during, & after the Haitian revolution; of Haitians leaving Haiti for the states and of Americans migrating to Haiti after the Haitian Revolution...
Yes!
The Great migration north was much deeper than only the surface reasons. Both of my parents at different times and stages in their life migrated north and though born in Ga and SC they met in NYC.
I myself had to leave the Deep South after college in 1990 to move north because the jobs I could get with my college degree the white kids who only went to high school already had. My white only high school educated classmates already had these jobs.
We moved amongst the United States. This seems suspicious by its timing…..
Is there a good time vs. a bad time? And if so, why?
@@garyspence2128 because they know immigration is a hot issue right now so they’re trying to conflate immigrants with the black Americans who built this country.
@@garyspence2128
Do you watch any news? Ever?
“The migrant crisis” this “migrants coming to the states” that.
That has flooded the news all 2024. And they’ve duped the public to start using the term for those abandoning their country as migrants versus immigrants (the appropriate term that should be used).
It’s not a coincidence that this series is debuting soon with this influx of immigrants coming to the USA.
@@garyspence2128They are not going to use the suffering of black Americans in an attempt to get us to support immigration. BLACK AMERICANS ARE NOT MULES FOR WHATEVER VOTING BLOCK THE DEMS ARE TRYING TO CATER TO.
@@garyspence2128 if your agenda is to run some arbitrary similarity to illegal immigratnts into the U.S. to the life of Black southerners moving to other parts of the U.S. for sympathy. Yeah, suspicious
What has been overlooked by many is that there were Africans who immigrated to this country of their own free will, true not a lot, but there were some. So I would say that our history is very rich and still to be uncovered
I can't wait 💕😊
I have ancestry, but I still haven't figured out the connection between my Irish,Scottish and my native family members being with my black family members. I found one connection on how william mcintosh, Scottish, married a creek woman in the 1700s and now that part of his decendants are black. I need an expert to help with mine.
Hurry up!
🎉 👏 💯 exactly
My mothers maternal and paternal family moved from Northampton NC to Jersey and NYC in the early 1900s. Now I have reverse migrated from NYC to Atlanta and I don’t plan on moving back north😂
Much prefer when they are state specific…because saying “the south” and especially “the north” does not mean the same thing. And we are not all from the same place.
I sure hope they're not conflating the great migration with people immigrating to America.
Lol no definitely not .. Where are these comments coming from
@@mstreemoon8117
At 1:38, the term immigration is inserted. Also was mentioned at 2:06.
The Great Migration and immigration have nothing to do with each other so it’s highly questionable in this trailer alone why are these two terms even being paralleled.
Facts it's disrespectful to compare the great migration to immigrants. There is no comparison great migration is we stayed in our country and immigrants fled their country. I'll wait and see how this documentary turns out before I pass judgment.
Deep breaths. It’s called great migrations…plural. The series will cover a spectrum of migrations. Enjoy :)
@@heyerikan we can see why you want two conflated
Wow. I feel like we are here again in 2024.
Moving to another state in your OWN country is not the same as an Economic Migrant, who illegally entered a country, and then subsequently syphoned off black America's resources.
Fleeing vs building a country for free are two different things
Anyone know where to find this full doc? Don’t see it on the PBS app and it’s not in the description.
It won't be shown until the winter time.
@@LSERA13miss that clip this first time I watched it! 🤣🤣 thank you. The exact date is 01/28/25 for anyone else interested.
@@dmarie923 Thank you!
It’s going to be interesting to see how this subject is covered.
I would hope that THE TRUTH would be unflinchingly told but as we know, when others are funding the telling of the non-white narrative, commentary or criticism can be “sanitized” so as not to offend.
I hope that doesn’t happen here!
To be seen... my parents migrated from Virginia and South Carolina. Never spoke about their lives in the Apartheid southern United States. I only have a sense of the migration because I read The Warmth of Other Suns.
They ran us out of the South 😔
Today, the dream is leaving the country entirely.
Thats African American History ! Atlanta is their Capital City and the
South is their Motherland 💯
No it’s not.smh
@@757CitiesReppa oh i may forget you are the real native americans right 💀🤡
@@moreno8383 and you call yaself Moreno but got the nerve to call someone 🤡 talking bout native Americans.😂🤡
@@moreno8383 Are you black American?
@@Texasbelle-qk1ez are u white american ?
Winter 2025???
We sre still trying to gond our rightful place in America. You give everything you have of yourself and still dont receive respect not even from our own color
90th
What does Black Americans have to do with any immigrant ? Our ancestors moved 10 hours away, not to a totally different country. I hope this flops !
Migrating doesn't make you an immigrant? Lol
@@mstreemoon8117 Actually it doesn’t. How can you immigrate to your own country? Adding “lol” doesn’t change that.
@j-short5431 ok... Maybe putting it this way is better... Immigrant doesn't necessarily imply you are going to another country... the term migration doesn't imply movement from one country to another.. they are actually interchangeable. You can totally migrate from one area of a country to another without leaving said country. 🤦🏽♀️ (Is the facepalm better than the lol ?)
@@mstreemoon8117 actually the definition of immigrating is moving from one country to another. That’s Webster’s definition. So you’re just flat out lying for the purpose of conflating to the two. Nothing against immigrants, but just because you immigrated here doesn’t mean everyone did.
@@mstreemoon8117
If both practices mean the same, then it would’ve been called “The Great Immigration” and it was not. It was called “The Great Migration” with purpose and accuracy.
Mr grandmother entered through Ellis Island from ST. Kitts.
🙄🤦🏿♂️🚮
That is not "The Great Migration," but immigration. But God bless your grandmother.
I’m looking forward to this