This bundle includes video guides for all 6 episodes of PBS The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.

The Black Atlantic (1500–1800): Explores the global experiences and transatlantic slave trade that created the African-American people, tracing early arrivals, plantation slavery in the American South, and the impact of the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. 

The Age of Slavery (1800–1860): Examines King Cotton, the Second Middle Passage (forced migration within the U.S.), and the various forms of abolitionist resistance. 

Into the Fire (1861–1896): Covers the Civil War, emancipation, the role of African Americans as agents of their own liberation (including the U.S. Colored Troops), the short-lived triumphs of Reconstruction, and the violent white supremacist backlash. 

Making a Way Out of No Way (1897–1940): Focuses on the Jim Crow segregation era, the Great Migration of Black Americans moving North and West, and the cultural ascendance of the Harlem Renaissance. 

Rise! (1940–1968): Details the modern civil rights movement, grassroots nonviolent resistance, the participation of young people and children, the assassinations of leaders, and the emergence of the Black Power movement.

A More Perfect Union (1968–2013): Chronicles the post-civil rights era, ongoing struggles with urban poverty and systemic issues, and the historic election and presidency of Barack Obama. 

Answer keys are included and all PDFs are print ready or students can access them in Adobe Acrobat Reader!

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