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Where To Stream The African Americans Many Rivers to Cross Season 1 Episode 4

Making a Way Out of No Way (1897-1940)

This episode portrays the Jim Crow era when 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 left the South, fleeing the threat of racial violence and searching for opportunities in the North and West. Leaders like Ida B. Wells, W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington, and Marcus Garvey organized, offering different strategies to further black empowerment and equality. The...