Bibliograph

Goin' to Chicago, George King & Associates and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Afro-American Studies Program at The University of Mississippi present ; a film by George King ; produced and directed by George King ; writer, Lou Potter

Type

Label

Goin' to Chicago, George King & Associates and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Afro-American Studies Program at The University of Mississippi present ; a film by George King ; produced and directed by George King ; writer, Lou Potter

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Goin' to Chicago

Oclc number

123185652

Responsibility statement

George King & Associates and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and the Afro-American Studies Program at The University of Mississippi present ; a film by George King ; produced and directed by George King ; writer, Lou Potter

Runtime

Summary

"[The film] chronicles the great migration of African Americans from the rural South to the cities in the North and West during and after World War II ... [and] recounts the development of segregated urban northern neighborhoods through the personal stories of Chicagoans born in the Mississippi Delta. They share their bitter recollections of sharecropping, and their adventure north on Highway 61 to Chicago in search of well-paying factory jobs. On Chicago's South Side they built a thriving city-within-a-city. But just as the American Dream was coming into reach, the steel mills and stockyards closed, leaving the new migrants in public housing projects and inner-city despair."--Container

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Going to Chicago

Contributor