Them season 1, episode 1 highlights how immediately difficult it is for the Emory family to go about their daily routine. Lucky readies her gun and tells Henry that none of these people will get a warning if they cross them. She’s angry at Henry for not telling her about the “Negro Blood” rule. As Lucky looks outside, plenty of white people are waiting outside. As Lucky looks at the purchase agreement, it says “No Negro Blood”, but the estate agent tells her that it’s not legal to prevent them from having this house. “No Negro Blood”Īnd the circumstances involving their house purchase is revealed…ĭaughter Grace Emory finds the basement, and there’s an eeriness to it as her mother tells her to move away from it.
Henry diffuses the tension by waving at them. Lucky looks across the street, and Betty and her friends look right at her. Betty is alerted that the family has arrived, and she and her friends are in complete shock. The expressions of Henry and Lucky is obvious it’s going to be a difficult settling-in period. The Emory family drive into the suburban community, and there’s instantly a weird tension as white people look at them. Welcome to the neighbourhoodĪnd that strange, awful tension can be felt immediately as the Emory family arrive at their new home.īetty Wendell is curious about who has moved in across the road, and she wants to look for clues.
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The series then warns the viewers that it will present the events that followed the next 10 days in the family’s new home at 3011 Palmer Drive. On September 14, 1953, Henry and Livia ‘Lucky’ Emory moved their family from Chatham County, North Carolina to Compton, California”. Widely known as the great migration, many black families were drawn to California by the promise of industrial jobs and a chance to leave the Jim Crow South behind. Text pops up that says, “Between 19, roughly 6 million African-Americans relocated from rural Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest and West.
Road trip to a new homeĪnd then “Day 1” momentarily calms the nerves.Įpisode 1 flits to a young black family on the road with their children they are heading to Los Angeles. The white woman asks if she can have her boy.
The black woman asks her to leave as her husband will be back soon. The longer she sings, the more the black woman is irked. The white woman starts singing about cotton fields and “Black Joe”, stating her father used to sing it to her. To begin proceedings, episode 1 starts on a hot day - a black woman sees a white woman outside her house who has taken an interest in her home.
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