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Great Migrations: A People on the Move.

Great Migrations: A People on the Move

One Way Ticket Back

How reverse migration of Black Americans to the South continued to reshape the country. (90 minutes)

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UPCOMING EPISODES

Tue, 3/4 at 10:00 pm on Austin PBS HDTV

Exodus

Exploring the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940) when more than one million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North. (90 minutes)

Tue, 3/4 at 11:30 pm on Austin PBS HDTV

Streets Paved With Gold

The second wave of the Great Migration -- 1940-1970, when Northern and Western Black communities matured through migration and transformed the cultural and political power of Black America. (90 minutes)