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Season 1 Episode 3 | 52m 25s

Episode 3 of Great Migrations reflects on how the 1970s marked a turning point in American history. For the first time in 60 years, more Black people were moving to the South than leaving it. Driven by mass movements and economic change, the reverse migration shows how Black Americans’ never-ending search for freedom and opportunity continues to shape the country today.

Aired: 02/10/25 | Expires: 03/13/25
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.
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.
The 1967 Detroit uprising was one of the most violent of the 20th century.
Housing had always been inadequate in the Northern Black neighborhoods of the Great Migration.
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).
By the summer of 1919, racial tensions in Chicago reached a boiling point.
The Red Summer of 1919 was one of the most volatile periods of our nation’s history.
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).