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Episode 4 of Great Migrations tells the story of African and Caribbean immigration to the U.S.

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Episode 3 of Great Migrations explores impact of Black Americans' reverse migration South.

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Episode 2 of Great Migrations explores the second wave of the Great Migration (1940-1970).

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Episode one of Great Migrations covers the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940).

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Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America.

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Great Migrations explores how a series of Black migrations have shaped America.

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By the summer of 1919, racial tensions in Chicago reached a boiling point.

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The Red Summer of 1919 was one of the most volatile periods of our nation’s history.

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How a southern segregationist group took action to slow the growth of the civil rights movement.

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The second wave of the great migration saw people traveling to the West,

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Housing had always been inadequate in the Northern Black neighborhoods of the Great Migration.

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The 1967 Detroit uprising was one of the most violent of the 20th century.