This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys(2003)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2003-02-02
Average Runtime: 6h 0m
Rating: 10.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Celebrate the triumph of the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. From the arrival of the early African slaves through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st Century, explore the epic struggle of a people whose faith was continually tested, and how that faith became a force for social change that helped transform America socially, politically and culturally.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
There Is a River
Air Date: 2003-02-02
Explore the evolution of African-American religious thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans brought to America...
E02
God Is a Negro
Air Date: 2003-02-03
After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed black...
E03
Guide My Feet
Air Date: 2003-02-04
Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.
E04
Freedom Faith
Air Date: 2003-02-05
Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.
E05
Inheritors of the Faith
Air Date: 2003-02-06
Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.
E06
Rise Up and Call Their Names
Air Date: 2003-02-07
In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.
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