Tales of the Town E1: The Great Migrations

Hella Black Podcast

Hella Black Podcast by Abbas Muntaqim and Delency Parham

Society & Culture

5 • 939 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The first episode of the Tales Of The Town podcast examines the 1st and 2nd Great Migrations that brought Black Southerners in influx to the Bay Area - you get a look at the circumstances that made these people travel across the country in search of “freedom” and opportunities and the struggles they encountered upon arrival Guests: Auntie Anita: Abbas' great Aunt, she passed away last year. Migrated from Louisiana to Oakland. Community organizer and activist. Charlene Thomas: Delency great grandmother. Migrated from Port Aurthor Texas to Oakland Uncle Freddie: Abbas' Uncle. Artist and Fabricator. Oakland Native. Donna Murch: Professor of History at Rutgers University. Author of Living for the City: Migration, Education and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California Clarence Thomas: Author of “Mobilizing in Our Own Name: Million Worker March”. Longtime ILWU organizer and longshoreman. Delency's Uncle.

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0:00.0	Do you ready? Yeah, I'm good.
0:10.0	Hello? How you're doing?
0:10.0	Hello? How Auntie. Hey, son, how you doing?
0:15.0	You at work?
0:16.0	No, I'm just at the house.
0:18.0	Oh, at your house in Oakland.
0:20.0	Yeah.
0:21.0	So, Delentsi is on the other one too. You met Delentsia at Kwanza a few years ago.
0:25.0	Oh, yes. We, uh-huh.
0:27.0	How you doing?
0:28.0	He's great-grandma.
0:29.0	Hello.
0:30.0	Nice to talk to you.
0:32.0	Yeah, you guys, too. This is amazing.
0:35.0	So I'm excited to get some of the family history now and to hear more about your story.
0:42.0	My story, you want family history?
0:45.0	Where do you want me to start?
0:48.0	I'll tell the first question, I'll get up.
0:50.0	I'll help you out.
0:51.0	Okay, you, yeah, ask me a question, then maybe I can make.
0:54.0	This is Tels of the town, a podcast about Black Oakland.
1:05.0	I'm Delency Parham.
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