Name: 【TED】Isabel Wilkerson: The Great Migration and the power of a single decision (The Great Migration and the power of a single decision | Isabel Wilkerson)
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It's a scene that played out in nearly all of our families.

It was a decision to leave all that they had known.

And all of the people that they had loved

Migration is usually a young person's endeavor.

It's the kind of thing that you do when you're on the cusp of life.

And so, there is, in all of our families,

this young person somewhere in our background.

that will cross the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean.

about to board a train that will cross rivers and mountains

to what they hope will be freedom in the North.

their aunt, their uncle, their grandparents,

whoever it might have been who had gotten them to this point.

were not going to be able to make the crossing with them.

And as they looked into the eyes of the people who had raised them,

that they would ever see them alive again.

not even reliable long-distance telephone service.

many of the people that they were leaving did not even have telephones.

that they might hear anything about the people who had raised them

might be a telegram saying, "Your father has passed away."

You must return home quickly if you are to see her alive again."

that had to have happened in nearly all of our families

A single decision that changed the course of families

stands out in ways that we may not realize.

It was the outpouring of six million African Americans

from the time of World War I until the 1970s.

It stands out because this was the first time in American history

that American citizens had to flee the land of their birth

just to be recognized as the citizens that they had always been.

It was actually a seeking of political asylum

They were defecting a caste system known as Jim Crow.

in which everything that you could and could not do

This caste system was so arcane that it was actually against the law

to merely play checkers together in Birmingham.

if you were caught playing checkers with a person of a different race.

Someone must have seen a black person and a white person

playing checkers with someone in some town square.

but whatever it was that this person saw,

with this black person and this white person playing checkers,

they felt the entire foundation of Southern civilization was in peril.

And decided that it was worth taking the time

that in courtrooms throughout the South there was actually a black Bible

in the caste system of the Jim Crow South.

could not be touched by hands of different races.

【TED】Isabel Wilkerson: The Great Migration and the power of a single decision (The Great Migration and the power of a single decision | Isabel Wilkerson)

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