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Ended · 2021–2022

Crash Course Black American History

Over the course of 50 episodes, we're going to learn about Black American History. Clint Smith will to teach you about the experience of Black people in America, from the arrival of the first enslaved Black people who arrived at Jamestown all the way to the Black Lives Matter movement.

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Season 1 · 51 episodes
  1. S01 E01 · The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
  2. S01 E02 · Slavery in the American Colonies
  3. S01 E03 · Elizabeth Key
  4. S01 E04 · Slave codes
  5. S01 E05 · The Germantown Petition Against Slavery
  6. S01 E06 · The Stono Rebellion
  7. S01 E07 · Phillis Wheatley
  8. S01 E08 · The American Revolution
  9. S01 E09 · The US Constitution, 3/5, and the Fugitive Slave Clause
  10. S01 E10 · The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
  11. S01 E11 · Women's Experience Under Slavery
  12. S01 E12 · The Louisiana Rebellion of 1811
  13. S01 E13 · The Rise of Cotton
  14. S01 E14 · Maria Stewart
  15. S01 E15 · The Underground Railroad
  16. S01 E16 · The Dred Scott Decision
  17. S01 E17 · Frederick Douglass
  18. S01 E18 · Black Americans in the Civil War
  19. S01 E19 · Reconstruction
  20. S01 E20 · Ida B. Wells
  21. S01 E21 · Plessy v Ferguson and Segregation
  22. S01 E22 · Booker T. Washington and W.E.B DuBois
  23. S01 E23 · The Black Women's Club Movement
  24. S01 E24 · The Great Migration
  25. S01 E25 · The Red Summer of 1919
  26. S01 E26 · Arts and Letters of the Harlem Renaissance
  27. S01 E27 · Political Thought in the Harlem Renaissance
  28. S01 E28 · The Great Depression
  29. S01 E29 · The Tuskegee Experiment
  30. S01 E30 · Zora Neale Hurston
  31. S01 E31 · World War II
  32. S01 E32 · Randolph, Rustin, and the Origins of the March on Washington
  33. S01 E33 · School Segregation and Brown v Board
  34. S01 E34 · Emmett Till
  35. S01 E35 · The Montgomery Bus Boycott
  36. S01 E36 · Martin Luther King, Jr
  37. S01 E37 · Student Civil Rights Activism
  38. S01 E38 · Malcolm X and the Rise of Black Power
  39. S01 E39 · The Black Panther Party
  40. S01 E40 · Women and the Black Power Movement
  41. S01 E41 · Marsha P. Johnson and the Stonewall Rebellion
  42. S01 E42 · The War on Drugs
  43. S01 E43 · Shirley Chisholm
  44. S01 E44 · Jesse Jackson
  45. S01 E45 · Los Angeles Uprisings
  46. S01 E46 · Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas
  47. S01 E47 · Rap and Hip Hop
  48. S01 E48 · Toni Morrison
  49. S01 E49 · Hurricane Katrina
  50. S01 E50 · Barack Obama
  51. S01 E51 · Black Lives Matter

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