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Great Migrations: A People on the Move
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Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped the U.S. From waves of Black Americans to the North-and back South-to immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, movement is a defining feature of the Black experience.
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Coming to America
Hear the story of African and Caribbean immigrants in the United States and examine their profound impact on American culture and what it means to be Black in America.
Length: 00:56:30 Usage rights: 1/28/2025 to 1/27/2031 -
Exodus
Episode one of Great Migrations explores the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940), when more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North, forever changing the country and themselves.
Length: 00:56:30 Usage rights: 1/28/2025 to 1/27/2031 -
One Way Ticket Back
Explore how the reverse migration of Black Americans to the South-driven by mass movements, economic change, and an ongoing struggle for freedom-continued to reshape the country.
Length: 00:56:30 Usage rights: 1/28/2025 to 1/27/2031 -
Streets Paved with Gold
Learn about the second wave of the Great Migration when Northern and Western Black communities matured through migration and transformed the cultural and political power of Black America.
Length: 00:56:30 Usage rights: 1/28/2025 to 1/27/2031