Between 1916 and 1970, millions of Black American families moved from the Deep South to cities across the northern and western parts of the United States.
They journeyed hundreds of miles in search of jobs, voting rights and safety from the terror of Jim Crow. "They left as though they were fleeing some curse," wrote Emmett J.
Scott, a Black journalist and scholar, in his 1920 book Negro Migration During the War. But the curse of American racism paid no mind to geography, and for many Black Americans the greener pastures proved to be sinister.
Them, Amazon’s alluring but vexing new anthology series (created by Little Marvin and executive produced by Lena Waithe) exploring — per press notes — "terror in America," uses this unsettling reality.
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