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The North and the Great Migration
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Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the North's role in the Great Migration.
Great Migration Factors
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Historian Pete Daniel explains factors that led to the Great Migration.
The Danger of Coal Mines
1:05
Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the various dangers in coal mining history.
The Economics of Labor
1:19
Douglas A. Blackmon talks about the reasons behind convict labor practices of the day.
FDR and White Southerners
2:31
Historian Risa Goluboff explains FDR's administration's strategy on Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Emancipation and the Work Force
2:32
Historian James Grossman explains how Emancipation changed the Southern labor.
Booker T. Washington and Teddy Roosevelt
2:37
Historians Risa Goluboff and Harry Lembeck talk about Booker T. Washington.
Prosecuting Peonage Trials Begins
2:36
Historian Harry Lembeck explains progressivism.
The Rise of Progressivism
2:04
Historian Risa Goluboff describes the rise of political progressivism.
Peonage and Pearl Harbor
2:31
Historian Risa Goluboff explains prosecution of peonage cases after Pearl Harbor attacks.
The Evolution of the Chain Gang
2:19
Author Douglas A. Blackmon explains how chain gangs evolved.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments?
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Historian Risa Goluboff explains the thirteenth, fourteenth & fifteenth amendments.
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