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How the Housing Crisis Impacted the Great Migration

Housing had always been inadequate in the Northern Black neighborhoods of the Great Migration but there were even more sinister forces at work: government policies that sought to keep neighborhoods segregated by race – or destroy Black neighborhoods altogether.
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Clip Season 1 Episode 3 Length 04:29 Premiere: 02/11/25

Great Migrations: A People on The Move

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Coming to America
S1 E4 Length 52:55 Premiere Date 02/18/25

One Way Ticket Back
S1 E3 Length 52:25 Premiere Date 02/11/25

Streets Paved with Gold
S1 E2 Length 52:25 Premiere Date 02/04/25

Exodus
S1 E1 Length 52:25 Premiere Date 01/28/25

The 1967 Detroit Uprising
Clip Length 02:38 Premiere Date 02/11/25

How the Housing Crisis Impacted the Great Migration
Clip Length 04:29 Premiere Date 02/11/25

Great Migrations Extended Trailer
Preview Length 02:57 Premiere Date 01/28/25

Great Migrations Inside Look
Preview Length 00:30 Premiere Date 12/10/24

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Exodus - S1 E1

Explore the first wave of the Great Migration (1910-1940) when more than one million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North.

  • Thursday February 26, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
  • Thursday February 26, 2026 8:00 pm CT on KET2
  • Saturday February 28, 2026 2:00 am ET on KET2
  • Saturday February 28, 2026 1:00 am CT on KET2

Streets Paved with Gold - S1 E2

The second wave of the Great Migration - 1940-1970, when Northern and Western Black communities matured through migration and transformed the cultural and political power of Black America.

  • Thursday February 26, 2026 10:00 pm ET on KET2
  • Thursday February 26, 2026 9:00 pm CT on KET2
  • Saturday February 28, 2026 3:00 am ET on KET2
  • Saturday February 28, 2026 2:00 am CT on KET2

One Way Ticket Back - S1 E3

Explore how reverse migration of Black Americans to the South continued to reshape the country.

  • Thursday March 5, 2026 9:00 pm ET on KET2
  • Thursday March 5, 2026 8:00 pm CT on KET2

Coming to America - S1 E4

The impact of African and Caribbean immigrants on American culture and what it means to be Black in America.

  • Thursday March 5, 2026 10:00 pm ET on KET2
  • Thursday March 5, 2026 9:00 pm CT on KET2

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