Episode Four: Making a Way Out of No Way
During the Jim Crow era, African Americans struggled to build their own worlds within the harsh, narrow confines of segregation. At the turn of the 20th century, a steady stream of African Americans migrated away from the South, fleeing racial violence and searching for better opportunities in the North and the West. At the same time, there was an ascendance of black arts and culture, such as The Harlem Renaissance.
Making a Way Out of No Way is episode four of the six-part series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., airing on PBS on November 12, 2013, 8-9 pm ET. Check local listings on the broadcast schedule.
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During the Jim Crow era, African Americans struggled to build their own worlds within the harsh, narrow confines of segregation. At the turn of the 20th century, a steady stream of African Americans migrated away from the South, fleeing racial violence and searching for better opportunities in the North and the West. At the same time, there was an ascendance of black arts and culture, such as The Harlem Renaissance.
Making a Way Out of No Way is episode four of the six-part series, The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., airing on PBS on November 12, 2013, 8-9 pm ET. Check local listings on the broadcast schedule.
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Explore History: The African-American Migration Story
From the transatlantic slave trade to today's New Great Migration, learn about the major African-American migrations and how those movements changed the course of American history.
‘Plessy v. Ferguson’: Who Was Plessy?
Who was the Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court case that established the separate-but-equal policy for separating the races?
Who Led the First Back-to-Africa Effort?
Paul Cuffee, perhaps the wealthiest black American of his time, led a Back-to-Africa effort in the early 1800s.
Zora Neale Hurston
A short biography of writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston and a poster featuring a quotation by the famous Harlem Renaissance author.
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