The Walls of Jericho / BBC Worldwide Ltd.

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Today more than a third of the population of Chicago is black. It's a direct result of the Great Migration between the 1930s and 1970s when more than five million black Americans left the Deep South for "the promised land." The black tenement blocks of the South and West sides of Chicago are now bat...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Promised Land (New York, N.Y.)
Corporate Authors: BBC Worldwide Ltd
Infobase (Film distributor)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : BBC Worldwide Ltd, [1996]
Series:Films on Demand.
Promised Land (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
African Americans > Migrations > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Migrations.
Rural-urban migration > United States > History > 20th century.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (50 min., 3 sec.)) : sound, color.
Format: Electronic Video
Contents:
  • Searching for the Promised Land (2:46)
  • Migrants Realizing Dreams (4:01)
  • Female Police Officer (3:55)
  • Unafraid Migrants (3:46)
  • Danger in the Projects (3:20)
  • Two Sides of Chicago (3:28)
  • Physical and Financial Segregation (4:13)
  • Work and Destruction (3:43)
  • Death Trap for Black Men (3:25)
  • War on Poverty (3:27)
  • Black Gold Mine (2:26)
  • Hard Work and Endurance (1:57)
  • Returning Home (2:25)
  • Racial Segregation (3:25)
  • Ingredients of Survival (2:07)
  • Credits: The Walls of Jericho: The Promised Land (1:11)