Great Migrations: A People on The Move
Great Migrations Inside Look
Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America.
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Great Migrations: A People on The Move
Great Migrations Inside Look
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Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America.
Great Migrations: A People on the Move explores the transformative impact of Black migration on American culture and society. From the waves of Black Americans to the North—and back South—over the last century to the growing number of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean today, the film shows how movement is a defining feature of the Black experience.
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Corporate support for GREAT MIGRATIONS: A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE is provided by Bank of America, Ford Motor Company and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation...
Great Migrations: A People on The Move
Great Migrations Inside Look
Preview: Season 1 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
Great Migrations: A People on the Move explores the transformative impact of Black migration on American culture and society. From the waves of Black Americans to the North—and back South—over the last century to the growing number of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean today, the film shows how movement is a defining feature of the Black experience.
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- African American migration was one of the most significant demographic transformations in the history of the United States.
- If there's a Black American Dream, it's to have the freedom to dream.
- That decision to migrate, if that's not transformative, I don't know what is.
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Preview: S1 | 30s | Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America. (30s)
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Clip: Ep4 | 2m 35s | Skip goes to Houston, TX where a large Nigerian Immigrant population resides. (2m 35s)
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Clip: Ep4 | 6m 36s | In 1924, the U.S. passed its most restrictive and biased immigration laws in history. (6m 36s)
How the Housing Crisis Impacted the Great Migration
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Clip: Ep3 | 4m 29s | Housing had always been inadequate in the Northern Black neighborhoods of the Great Migration. (4m 29s)
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Clip: Ep3 | 2m 38s | The 1967 Detroit uprising was one of the most violent of the 20th century. (2m 38s)
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Clip: Ep2 | 2m 13s | The second wave of the great migration saw people traveling to the West, (2m 13s)
How Southern Segregationists Reacted to Freedom Riders
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Clip: Ep2 | 3m 57s | How a southern segregationist group took action to slow the growth of the civil rights movement. (3m 57s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 4m 57s | The Red Summer of 1919 was one of the most volatile periods of our nation’s history. (4m 57s)
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Clip: Ep1 | 4m 11s | By the summer of 1919, racial tensions in Chicago reached a boiling point. (4m 11s)
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