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This Far by Faith

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Celebrate the triumph of the African-American religious experience through the last three centuries. From the arrival of the early African slaves through the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Era, and into the 21st Century, explore the epic struggle of a people whose faith was continually tested, and how that faith became a force for social change that helped transform America socially, politically and culturally.

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2nd February 2003 - 7th February 2003
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Lorraine Toussaint
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There Is a River Still
There Is a River
2nd February 2003

Episode 1

Explore the evolution of African-American religious thought, from the beliefs and rituals Africans brought to America to the influence of Christian teachings imposed on slaves in the new world.

God Is a Negro Still
God Is a Negro
3rd February 2003

Episode 2

After Emancipation, the minister and journalist Henry McNeal Turner uses the black church to engage newly freed blacks in the political realm.

Guide My Feet Still
Guide My Feet
4th February 2003

Episode 3

Trace African-Americans as they move from the rural South to the promised land of the industrial North.

Freedom Faith Still
Freedom Faith
5th February 2003

Episode 4

Faith sustained black families through the oppression of segregation in the 1940s and 1950s.

Inheritors of the Faith Still
Inheritors of the Faith
6th February 2003

Episode 5

Follow those who seek spiritual fulfillment outside of Christianity. It explores Islam and Yoruba.

Rise Up and Call Their Names Still
Rise Up and Call Their Names
7th February 2003

Episode 6

In 1998, 60 people embarked on an Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage.