This four-part series, hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., chronicles the vast social networks and organizations created by and for Black people that transformed our country. Gates recounts the establishment of the Prince Hall Masons in 1775 through the formation of all-Black towns and business districts, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and the power of social media.
Major support for the WTTW presentation of MAKING BLACK AMERICA: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE is provided, in part, by Philip and Rene Alphonse, Nicholas Antoine, Gwen Cohen, The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation, and Walter and Shirley Massey.
