Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
North To New York shares stories of the Great Migration to NY's Capital Region as families moved from the Jim Crow South to the Capitol Region searching for opportunity, freedom and a new home.
Each September, the Capital Region of New York celebrates Mississippi Day, commemorating the roots of a community born from the migration of African Americans from the small town of Shubuta, Mississippi to Albany, NY and surrounding areas.
A companion piece to Henry Louis Gates Jr's PBS original documentary series Great Migrations: A People on the Move, WMHT's North to New York: The Capital Region & the Great Migration is an original documentary about the history and legacy of those that left all they knew behind to make the Capital Region home.
EXPLORE MORE: wmht.org/north-to-new-york
North To New York shares stories of the Great Migration to NY's Capital Region as families moved from the Jim Crow South to the Capitol Region searching for opportunity, freedom and a new home.
Each September, the Capital Region of New York celebrates Mississippi Day, commemorating the roots of a community born from the migration of African Americans from the small town of Shubuta, Mississippi to Albany, NY and surrounding areas.
A companion piece to Henry Louis Gates Jr's PBS original documentary series Great Migrations: A People on the Move, WMHT's North to New York: The Capital Region & the Great Migration is an original documentary about the history and legacy of those that left all they knew behind to make the Capital Region home.
EXPLORE MORE: wmht.org/north-to-new-york
