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Great Migrations: A People on The Move

How Southern Segregationists Reacted to Freedom Riders

Season 1 Episode 2 | 3m 57s

How the White Citizen Council, a southern segregationist group, exploited Black Southerners and took action to slow the growth of the civil rights movement.

Corporate support for GREAT MIGRATIONS: A PEOPLE ON THE MOVE is provided by Bank of America, Ford Motor Company and Johnson & Johnson. Major support is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Support is also provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. Additional support was provided by the Inkwell Society together with many of its members, and by public television viewers.
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Haitian Migration to the US
Beginning in the 1970s, South Florida saw a wave of Haitians fleeing political repression.
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New Legislation
An important civil rights era law passed in 1965 prohibited ethnically-biased immigration laws.
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