Ellis Island sheds light on untold stories of Caribbean immigrants

Name: Ellis Island sheds light on untold stories of Caribbean immigrants
Uploaded: 2023-02-24T23:23:00-0500
Duration: 5 min 43 s
Description: Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States, but less known is that it's also where hundreds of thousands of Black people entered from the Caribbean. CBS2's Maurice DuBois spoke to a family in Queens about their American journey of discovery.

Ellis Island is best known as the location where millions of immigrants from Europe and Asia arrived in the United States, but less known is that it's also where hundreds of thousands of Black people entered from the Caribbean. CBS2's Maurice DuBois spoke to a family in Queens about their American journey of discovery.