This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the production demands of World War I draw blacks and whites from rural areas to factory jobs in the cities. However, along with that migration came racial tension.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary looks at the different goals of the Colored Farmers' Alliance and the white Farmers' Alliance.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, when Union troops left the South in 1877, most white Southerners believed their economic situation would improve. However, poor whites were not much better off than freed slaves.
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Josh Brown of the American Social History Project explains a cartoon about the fight between pro-slavery Democrats and Free Soilers in the 1850s.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the social situation in the South prior to the Civil War, in which white society was divided between the wealthy class known as the Planter Aristocracy, and the poor yeoman farmers of the backcountry.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the 1831 rebellion started by the slave Nat Turner. The brutal aftermath sent shock waves throughout the South.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the African-American push for workplace equality as the economy changed after World War II. Their efforts in the post-war years would spark the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how both the north and the south had to draft soldiers during the Civil War. Since the wealthy could buy their way out of being drafted, class tension erupted into draft riots.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the religious conviction which drove John Brown to become an abolitionist. He believed slavery was a sin.
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Professor Gerald L. Early discusses cultural observations on Jackie Robinson, a staunch civil rights activist, successful businessman, and the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. Early focuses on the significance of sports as a public arena and form of performance and on African-American perception of baseball.
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