Great Migrations: A People on The Move

The Fallout of the Red Summer

By the summer of 1919, racial tensions in Chicago reached a boiling point. When white people attacked, Black people fought back.

The Fallout of the Red Summer

4m 11s

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    Exodus

    S1 E1 - 52m 25s

    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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