Sometimes, a single decision can change the course of history. Join journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson as she tells the story of the Great Migration, the outpouring of six million African Americans from the Jim Crow South to cities in the North and West between World War I and the 1970s. This was the first time in American history that the lowest caste people signaled they had options and were willing to take them — and the first time they had a chance to choose for themselves what they would do with their innate talents, Wilkerson explains. "These people, by their actions, were able to do what the powers that be, North and South, could not or would not do," she says. "They freed themselves."
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Good one
Pass this is just a useless comment
Loved her book. Classic.
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Democrats and their Jim Crow. Glad it’s gone.
Fancy way to say that significantly less Democrats supported it.
Brenda Rua could care less. Those numbers are old and dead. Our current system is fucked. So keep arguing with 8bit ideas.
Republicans, I know.
“Without slaves, who will farm our cotton?” – Democrats in the 1800s.
“Without legal and illegal Hispanic immigrants, who will farm our crops and do jobs no American allegedly doesn’t want to do?” – Democrats now.
It’s almost as if nothing changes.
the republicans use to be the progressives and democrats the regressives. this changed around the time of fdr. i guaranty the vast majority of current democrats if living 100 years ago would be republicans because its not about the party its about the policy.
We are still in time, same place. BELIEVE AND ACHEVE YOUR GOALS.
Beautiful!
I started the vid skeptical of a political agenda, and found an important history lesson we should all remember. Thank you.
And then the KKK democrats, needing a permanent class of leftist voters, and needing to suppress the inevitable black advancement, prosperity and their inevitable and corresponding right-leaning voting patterns, paid the female to qualify to collect welfare, for each child, by kicking the man out of the house. And the once glorious, cohesive black family went into extinction. As a result we have the permanent welfare queen, and her sons in prison, and dumb people continuing to vote left, to their own detriment. And now the same formula is being applied to Whites, but their sons instead end up on opiods, and ultimately dead.
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A wrong person walking into UC Berkeley campus can get lynched, or at least cause the city $600,000 damage for security measures. Safe space is the new Jim Crow law.
That’s just stupid
Triggered by facts? Many colleges are now offering race-based dormitories (except for white), such as UC Berkeley, Stanford, Cal State LA, etc. after repeated requests for safe space from the “oppressed” students. I wouldn’t call diversity a failure, but great fences make great neighbors. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-housing-cal-state-la–20160906-snap-story.html
black woman talking about black history in a meaningful way.., huh..
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It would help her to get a history book.
These leftist no longer even try for truth over their narrative. The fact that the northern Democrats created, propogated and Maintained the Jim crow laws is just totally forgotten I guess.
Common cents <3
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Racism in everything
Austin Bortmas u r hypocritics
This is a very important part of American history. Thanks for sharing!
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