African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross
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After 1968, African Americans set out to build a new future on the foundation of the civil rights movement's victories, but a growing class disparity threatened to split the black community in two. 53:17 Expired
Examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsustainable. 53:17 Expired
At the turn of the 20th century, a steady stream of African Americans left the South, fleeing the threat of racial violence, and searching for better opportunities in the North and the West. 53:15 Expired
Examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African-American history: the Civil War, the end of slavery, and Reconstruction's thrilling but tragically brief moment in the sun. 53:17 Expired
Black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For the free, these years were a time of opportunity. But for most African Americans, this era represented a new nadir. 53:17 Expired
Beginning a full century before the first documented slaves who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, this episode portrays the earliest Africans, both slave and free, who arrived on American shores.