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Series Details & Credits
| PBS | Release Date: April 9, 2019 |
Summary:
The four-hour documentary about Reconstruction after the Civil War hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Genre(s):
News/Documentary, Documentary, Educational
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Recent Episodes
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S1:E2. Part 2
Air Date: April 16, 2019
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S1:E1. Part 1
Air Date: April 9, 2019
Positive:
4
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
Apr 12, 2019
Apr 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The series traces, in vivid detail, the struggle to aid black progress in this period and its powerful opposition. ... A rich four hours, including the birth and purpose of the Ku Klux Klan, the way in which black Americans responded, and without anything resembling a dull moment.
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Apr 9, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Gates’s series is a great service, especially in its first two hours. ... The series’s second two hours — which cover subjects like the Jim Crow system, the Ku Klux Klan, W.E.B. DuBois, the creation of the N.A.A.C.P. and the ascendance of black popular culture — are engrossing but less urgent.
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: April 9, 2019
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S1:E2. Part 2
Air Date: April 16, 2019
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S1:E1. Part 1
Air Date: April 9, 2019
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Season 1 Overview