Migration And Arrival Episode #3

Shelf Life Podcast

This week's episode is about Migration and Arrival. Many of the people we interview describe the Central District as the neighborhood where all the people of color lived. This is where African Americans, Filipinos, Japanese, and others raised their families and made a living. But in this episode, we ask - where did people live before they came to Seattle, why did they come here, and did this city even welcome them? One common thread in everyone’s stories is that people often came here to leave injustice behind, whether they were moving their families out of the Jim Crow South, starting over after Japanese Internment, or putting their lives back together after WWII. Today, those same families, that worked so hard to get here and worked so hard to build a community, are being displaced. Which is why it’s so important for us to learn all we can about how and why people came to the CD and what they experienced when they arrived. Find the podcast on iTunes and Soundcloud. More information on Twitter @ShelfLifeStory, on Instagram at shelf_life_stories, on Facebook at Shelf Life Community Story Booth, and on our website at shelflifestories.com!