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Episode 1— Reconstruction: The Vote
Episode 2— Convict Leasing
Episode 3— Madame C.J. Walker: The First Black Millionairess
Episode 4— Maya Angelou: 20th Century Renaissance Woman
Episode 5— Separate But Equal: Homer Plessy and the Case That Upheld the Color Line
Episode 6— The Fisk Jubilee Singers: Perform the Spirituals and Save Their University
Episode 7— The Tulsa Race Riots - Black Wall Street
Episode 8— Ida B. Wells: Fearless Investigative Reporter of Southern Horrors
Episode 9— Harriet Tubman
Episode 10— Sojourner Truth: 'Oprah's No. 1 Black History Heroine'
Episode 11— Freedman's Bank
Episode 12— Robert Smalls: A Slave Who Sailed Himself to Freedom
Episode 13— Shirley Chisholm - The First Black Congresswoman
Episode 14— Booker T. Washington
Episode 15— Malcolm X - How Did He Inspire a Movement?
Episode 16— Martin Luther King Jr. - Was his 'I Have a Dream' speech Improvised?
Episode 17— The L.A. Riots
Episode 18— The Birth of the Black Panthers
Episode 19— Jesse Jackson's Run for the Presidency 1984
Episode 20— The Double V Campaign of World War II
Episode 21— The Birth of Jazz
Episode 22— Affirmative Action
Episode 23— The Harlem Renaissance
Episode 24— The Tuskegee Study
Episode 25— The Civil Rights Movement
Episode 26— Black Power
Episode 27— The Harlem Hellfighters of World War I
Episode 28— Black Feminism
Episode 29— Ella Baker - 'The Mother of the Civil Rights Movement'
Episode 30— Henrietta Lacks: The Woman with the Immortal Cells
Episode 31— Katherine Johnson
Episode 32— Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the 19th Century
Episode 33— Abolition in the North: Elizabeth Freeman Sues for Freedom
Episode 34— African American Higher Education
Episode 35— The Black Church
Episode 36— 19th Century Black Discoveries
Episode 37— Black Explorers
Episode 38— Jack Johnson: Winner of the 1910's " Fight of the Century"
Episode 39— First African American Patent Holders
Episode 40— The Black Press: From Freedom's Journal to The Crisis, Ebony & Jet
Episode 41— John Lewis: The Fight for the Right to Vote
Episode 42— Lynching
Episode 43— The Red Summer
Episode 44— Land: Giving Rise to the Famous Phrase 40 Acres & a Mule
Episode 45— Fort Mose: The First All-Black Settlement in the U.S.
Episode 46— Civil War and Emancipation
Episode 47— Hank Aaron: Breaking the Home Run Record
Episode 48— Soul Train
Episode 49— Jackie Robinson Integrates Baseball
Episode 50— The Beginning of Black History: Juan Garrido
Episode 51— Protesting the Birth of a Nation
Episode 52— Marcus Garvey: Leader of a Revolutionary Global Movement
Episode 53— Barack Obama's 2008 Election
Episode 54— The Birth of Hip Hop
Episode 55— The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Episode 56— The Second Middle Passage
Episode 57— The First Underground Railroad
Episode 58— Migrations: From Exodusters to Great Migrations
Episode 59— School Integration
Episode 60— W.E.B. Du Bois: The New Negro at The 1900 Paris Exposition
Episode 61— Oscar Micheaux: The First Black Indie Filmmaker

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