Extras
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.
In 1924, the U.S. passed its most restrictive and biased immigration laws in history.
Skip goes to Houston, TX where a large Nigerian Immigrant population resides.
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.
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.
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).
Episode 4 of Great Migrations tells the story of African and Caribbean immigration to the U.S.
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).