The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

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  • PBS
  • Documentary Mini-series

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The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
Episode overview
The earliest Africans, both slave and free; the emergence of plantation slavery in the American South; freedom movements abound in the late 18th-century.
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The Age of Slavery (1800-1860)
Episode overview
Black lives change dramatically following the American Revolution; individuals including Harriet Tubman, Richard Allen and Frederick Douglass push the issue of slavery to the forefront of national politics.
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Into the Fire (1861-1896)
Episode overview
Blacks flee plantations to serve in the United States Colored Troops; after emancipation, blacks seek economic, political and civil rights.
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Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940)
Episode overview
Blacks search for opportunities in the North and the West; black arts and culture grow in spite of Jim Crow.
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Rise! (1940-1968)
Episode overview
Blacks returning from World War II continue to face racial violence on the home front; Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a city bus in 1955; Martin Luther King Jr. promotes a nonviolent approach to integrate blacks and whites.
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A More Perfect Union (1968-2013)
Episode overview
Class disparity threatens to split the black community in the late 1960s; economic and political forces isolate the black urban poor; many issues remain unresolved, despite the election of America's first black president in 2008.