Great Migrations: A People on the Move
TVPG
Documentary
Tells the story of African American movement over the 20th and 21st centuries, and how it has shaped our nation by exploring the meaning behind those movements.
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Matt Roush says...
Not content with just finding our roots, Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. charts the evolution of Black history in America with a four-part docuseries tracing the movement of African Americans across the United States after Reconstruction freed them from the bonds of slavery. Gates describes these migrations as “expressions of hope, leaps of faith, acts of resistance.” The journey begins in the years from 1910 to 1940, the first wave of the Great Migration that brought rural Southerners fleeing the yoke of Jim Crow laws to the North in search of new opportunities, creating new identities and communities.
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