The African Americans

From Black Power to Black PresidentBy 1968, the Civil Rights movement had achieved stunning victories, in the courts and in the Congress. But would…

The Road to Civil RightsRise! examines the long road to civil rights, when the deep contradictions in American society finally became unsustainable.…

Episode Four: Making a Way Out of No WayDuring the Jim Crow era, African Americans struggled to build their own worlds within the harsh, narrow confines…

Episode Three: Into the FireInto the Fire examines the most tumultuous and consequential period in African American history: the Civil War and the end of…

The Age of Slavery illustrates how black lives changed dramatically in the aftermath of the American Revolution. For free black people in places like…

Part 1: The Black Atlantic explores the truly global experiences that created the African American people. Beginning a full century before the first…