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Great Migrations: A People on The Move
How the Housing Crisis Impacted the Great Migration
Housing had always been inadequate in the Northern Black neighborhoods of the Great Migration but there were even more sinister forces at work: government policies that sought to keep neighborhoods segregated by race – or destroy Black neighborhoods altogether.
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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).