Great Migrations: A People on The Move

The Fallout of the Red Summer
S1 Ep1 | 4m 11s

By the summer of 1919, racial tensions in Chicago reached a boiling point.

The Red Summer
S1 Ep1 | 4m 57s

The Red Summer of 1919 was one of the most volatile periods of our nation’s history.

The 1967 Detroit Uprising
S1 Ep3 | 2m 38s

The 1967 Detroit uprising was one of the most violent of the 20th century.

How the Housing Crisis Impacted the Great Migration
S1 Ep3 | 4m 29s

Housing had always been inadequate in the Northern Black neighborhoods of the Great Migration.

New Legislation
S1 Ep4 | 2m 38s

An important civil rights era law passed in 1965 prohibited ethnically-biased immigration laws.

Haitian Migration to the US
S1 Ep4 | 7m 14s

Beginning in the 1970s, South Florida saw a wave of Haitians fleeing political repression.

Immigrant Students at HBCUs
S1 Ep4 | 6m 36s

In 1924, the U.S. passed its most restrictive and biased immigration laws in history.

The Odewales
S1 Ep4 | 2m 35s

Skip goes to Houston, TX where a large Nigerian Immigrant population resides.