Multimedia Collection

Take Me to Chicago
(The Promised Land series)

VHS
90 minutes
E185.6 .L3621 1995 v.1

From Jim Crow laws to the advent of the mechanical cotton picker - rural Southern blacks had plenty of reasons to listen to the traveling blues musicians with their siren songs of far-off Chicago and the promise of a better, freer life. Here is the greatest peace-time migration in history, seen through the eyes of those who lived it.

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