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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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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.
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An important civil rights era law passed in 1965 prohibited ethnically-biased immigration laws.
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Beginning in the 1970s, South Florida saw a wave of Haitians fleeing political repression.
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In 1924, the U.S. passed its most restrictive and biased immigration laws in history.
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Skip goes to Houston, TX where a large Nigerian Immigrant population resides.
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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.
