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Coming to America

Season 1 Episode 4 | 52m 55s

Episode 4 of Great Migrations tells the story of African and Caribbean immigrants in the 20th and 21st centuries. It traces their journeys to the United States, the contributions they have made to the nation’s economy and culture, and how they have impacted what it means to be Black in America.

Aired: 02/17/25 | Expires: 03/20/25
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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Beginning in the 1970s, South Florida saw a wave of Haitians fleeing political repression.
An important civil rights era law passed in 1965 prohibited ethnically-biased immigration laws.
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.
Episode 2 of Great Migrations explores the second wave of the Great Migration (1940-1970).
The second wave of the great migration saw people traveling to the West,
How a southern segregationist group took action to slow the growth of the civil rights movement.
Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America.
Episode one of Great Migrations covers the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940).
By the summer of 1919, racial tensions in Chicago reached a boiling point.
Episode 3 of Great Migrations explores impact of Black Americans' reverse migration South.
Episode 2 of Great Migrations explores the second wave of the Great Migration (1940-1970).
Episode one of Great Migrations covers the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940).