SNEAK PEEK | Great Migrations: A People on the Move
This is a sneak peak of GREAT MIGREATIONS: A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE, a brand new historical past sequence from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The 4-part sequence examines the highly effective affect of Black migration on American tradition and society. Whereas the primary massive migration was a compelled journey from Africa in bondage, voluntary migrations within the twentieth and twenty first centuries have considerably reshaped the nation.
This sequence explores the primary and second waves of the Great Migration from the South to the North in the course of the two World Wars, the “New Great Migration” of African Individuals returning house to the South of their ancestors because the Seventies, and the “Subsequent Great Migration” marked by the historic and rising inflow of African and Caribbean ...