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Great Migrations: A People on the Move

Next Airing: Sat, Feb 8th, 2025 at 1:00 AM on KUED-HD

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Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped the U.S. From waves of Black Americans to the North-and back South-to immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean, movement is a defining feature of the Black experience.

Episodes:

  • Streets Paved with Gold

    Learn about the second wave of the Great Migration when Northern and Western Black communities matured through migration and transformed the cultural and political power of Black America.

    Next Airing: Sat, Feb 8th, 2025 at 1:00 AM on KUED-HD
    Length: 00:56:30
    Usage rights: 1/28/2025 to 1/27/2031
  • One Way Ticket Back

    Explore how the reverse migration of Black Americans to the South-driven by mass movements, economic change, and an ongoing struggle for freedom-continued to reshape the country.

    Next Airing: Tue, Feb 11th, 2025 at 8:00 PM on KUED-HD
    Length: 00:56:30
    Usage rights: 1/28/2025 to 1/27/2031
  • Coming to America

    Hear the story of African and Caribbean immigrants in the United States and examine their profound impact on American culture and what it means to be Black in America.

    Next Airing: Tue, Feb 18th, 2025 at 8:00 PM on KUED-HD
    Length: 00:56:30
    Usage rights: 1/28/2025 to 1/27/2031
  • Exodus

    Episode one of Great Migrations explores the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940), when more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North, forever changing the country and themselves.

    Length: 00:56:30
    Usage rights: 1/28/2025 to 1/27/2031

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