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Great Migrations: A People on The Move
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A little known, but important civil rights era law passed in 1965, which got rid of the ethnically-biased immigration laws of the 1920s. No one knew how much it would change the demographics of incoming immigrants.
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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).