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Exodus

Season 1 Episode 1 | 52m 25s

Episode one of Great Migrations explores the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940), a collective leap into the unknown as more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North. In the face of some of the country’s worst racist violence, these migrants established thriving Black neighborhoods, wielded political power, and redefined American culture.

Aired: 01/27/25 | Expires: 02/27/25
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 for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Inkwell Society together with many of its members, and by public television viewers.
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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.
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,
Premieres Tue, Jan 28 at 9pm on WKAR-TV | Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America.
The Red Summer of 1919 was one of the most volatile periods of our nation’s history.
By the summer of 1919, racial tensions in Chicago reached a boiling point.
Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America.