Extras
An important civil rights era law passed in 1965 prohibited ethnically-biased immigration laws.
Beginning in the 1970s, South Florida saw a wave of Haitians fleeing political repression.
Skip goes to Houston, TX where a large Nigerian Immigrant population resides.
In 1924, the U.S. passed its most restrictive and biased immigration laws in history.
Housing had always been inadequate in the Northern Black neighborhoods of the Great Migration.
The 1967 Detroit uprising was one of the most violent of the 20th century.
How a southern segregationist group took action to slow the growth of the civil rights movement.
The second wave of the great migration saw people traveling to the West,
By the summer of 1919, racial tensions in Chicago reached a boiling point.
Premieres Tue, Jan 28 at 9pm on WKAR-TV | Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America.