The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.(2013)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2013-10-22
Average Runtime: N/A
Rating: 10.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Professor Gates describes the history of the African American people by talking to historians, authors, and the people who made history.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
The Black Atlantic (1500-1800)
Air Date: 2013-10-22
From PBS: "The Black Atlantic" explores the global experiences that created the African-American people. Beginning a ...
E02
The Age of Slavery (1800-1860)
Air Date: 2013-10-29
"The Age of Slavery" illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. Fo...
E03
Into the Fire (1861-1890)
Air Date: 2013-11-05
"Into the Fire" examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African-American history: the Civil War and ...
E04
Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940)
Air Date: 2013-11-12
"Making a Way Out of No Way" portrays the Jim Crow era, when African Americans struggled to build their own worlds wi...
E05
Rise! (1940-1968)
Air Date: 2013-11-19
"Rise!" examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsus...
E06
A More Perfect Union
Air Date: 2013-11-26
After 1968, African Americans set out to build a bright future on the foundation of the civil rights movement's victo...
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