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Season 1 – The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

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Presented and written by Henry Louis Gates Jr., this six-hour series guides viewers on a journey across two continents to explore the transition of African-Americans. The series encompasses five centuries of events, visits key sites, and engages in debates with historians and eyewitnesses like school integration pioneers Ruby Bridges and Charlayne Hunter-Gault, former Black Panther Kathleen Neal Cleaver and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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Henry Louis Gates

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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Oct 22, 2013 The Black Atlantic (1500-1800) The earliest Africans, both slave and free; the emergence of plantation slavery in the American South; freedom movements abound in the late 18th-century. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 29, 2013 The Age of Slavery (1800-1860) 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. Details Episode 3 Aired Nov 5, 2013 Into the Fire (1861-1896) Blacks flee plantations to serve in the United States Colored Troops; after emancipation, blacks seek economic, political and civil rights. Details Episode 4 Aired Nov 12, 2013 Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940) Blacks search for opportunities in the North and the West; black arts and culture grow in spite of Jim Crow. Details Episode 5 Aired Nov 19, 2013 Rise! (1940-1968) Blacks returning from World War II continue to face racial violence on the homefront; 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. Details Episode 6 Aired Nov 26, 2013 A More Perfect Union (1968-2013) 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. Details
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Season Info

Network
PBS
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Documentary, History
Original Language
English
Release Date
Oct 22, 2013