Memories of a Black San Francisco, Pt. 1: Personal Great Migration
A three-part series about my upbringing and growing up...
to see a new version of Black San Francisco
During the great migration, my grandmother and her siblings sojourned with thousands of Black families. In hopes of escaping Jim Crow laws of the South, hundreds of Black folks packed up their lives in search of the promise of a better life in California. The shipyards and factories were full of jobs that could create a new reality for themselves.
During the 70s in the Ingleside neighborhood where my grandparents and their siblings resided, the population was 60% Black. San Francisco used to be bustling with Black-owned businesses in the 70s and 80s according to my mother.
My aunts and cousins living either in my grandmother’s Ingleside home would each know how to clean a kitchen to ...