Great Migrations: A People on the Move
Season 1 • Episode 1: Exodus • Watch with subtitles
Episode 1: Exodus
January 28, 2025 • 52 min
Episode one of Great Migrations explores the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940), a collective leap into the unknown as more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North. In the face of some of the country’s worst racist violence, these migrants established thriving Black neighborhoods, wielded political power, and redefined American culture.
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