After World War II, four million African-Americans left the rural South to create a dynamic urban culture in the North and West. A documentary film tells the story of this great migration through personal accounts of older Chicagoans born in the Mississippi Delta. They share memories of sharecropping, backbreaking labor, and their journeys to Chicago in search of better-paying jobs. In Bronzeville, they built a thriving black community with businesses and institutions, and fought for fair housing opportunities. However, the closure of steel mills and stockyards led to despair and decay in public housing projects.
Goin' to Chicago
After World War II, four million African-Americans left the rural South to seek new opportunities in Northern and Western cities, a pivotal moment in American history known as the Great Migration.
