S7 E7: From Emancipation to the Great Migration: A Family Journey

Born just after Emancipation, Anna Maria Threewitts and CG Garrett grow up to become pillars of their Black community. Their ten children must decide if they'll embrace their parents' high expectations for achievement in the Jim Crow South, or head north as part of the Great Migration that forever changed the face of America.

Guest: David Nicholson, author of "The Garretts of Columbia: A Black South Carolina Family from Slavery to the Dawn of Integration"
Readers: Othello Richards, John Pilmer, and Peachie Jones

"A Charge to Keep I Have" written by Charles Wesley, sung by Hasan Green, accessed at TheHasanGreen YouTube channel
"Manual Typewriter Sound Effect" accessed at Sound Effects YouTube channel