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We Stand at the Crossroads
Title
We Stand at the Crossroads / BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : BBC Worldwide Ltd, [1996]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©1996
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (49 min., 42 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally released by BBC Worldwide Ltd, 1996.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on May 16, 2016.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description (Infobase, July 16, 2016)
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Alive with the music of Mahalia Jackson and Muddy Waters, this episode describes how rural people blended into Chicago's urban culture. In the 1950s, there were abundant jobs in the stockyards and steel mills and they adapted easily to life on the assembly line. But the dream of the promised land was turning sour. The South Side of Chicago - home for most of the black Americans - had turned into notorious ghetto and was now a ticking time bomb with teenagers forming gangs, while Mayor Daley buried his head in the sand.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Promised land (Television program)
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
The Promised Land
System details note
Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Contents
The Great Migration (2:11)
A New World (2:40)
Epicenter of Black Entertainment (3:26)
Chicago Defender (2:27)
Working in the Stockyards (2:20)
Joining the Union (2:23)
Receiving the Spirit of God (3:19)
Great Migration Continues (2:14)
Segregated Housing (3:08)
Riots (2:51)
Political Bosses (2:38)
Plantation Politics (2:10)
Influx of Musicians (2:03)
Protests (2:59)
Ghetto Burns (2:04)
Rebuilding South Side (2:23)
Screening Tenants (3:54)
Chicago Not the Promised Land (2:40)
Credits: We Stand at the Crossroads: The Promised Land (1:13)
Videorecording number
115696s Infobase
115699 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Also listed under
BBC Worldwide Ltd.
Infobase, film distributor.
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