Adam Raney's Tale of Two Migrations: Chasing the American Dream
Al Jazeera
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December 21, 2014
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When Al Jazeera correspondent Adam Raney's great-great grandfather left his German village in the 1870s, it was with the dream of making his fortune in America. He headed to a small, dusty cotton town in the Mississippi Delta - a young Jewish man in a post-Civil War South where freed slaves lived little better than they had for centuries before.

By following three generations of Adam's family, A tale of two migrations: Chasing the American dream examines how policies and attitudes towards migrants and minorities have evolved in the decades since.

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