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Up South
- Title
- Up South [videorecording] / American Social History Productions ; directors, Andrea Ades Vasquez, Pennee Bender, Joshua Brown ; script, Andrea Ades Vasquez, James De Jongh ; producer/art, Andrea Ades Vasquez ; executive producer/art, Joshua Brown ; executive producer, Stephen Brier.
- Variant title
- Title from container: Up South : African-American migration in the era of the Great War
- Portion of title
- African-American migration in the era of the Great War
- URL
- - (Click here to read Viewer's guide online.) http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/up-south/ - (Click here for Teaching materials online.) http://herb.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1894
- Format
- DVD, Videodisc
- Uniform series
- Who built America?
- Published/Produced
- [New York, N.Y.] : American Social History Project, c2005.
- Description
- 1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., b&w with col. sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (12 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.)
- Cast
- Dierdre Henderson, Kent Jackman, Donna Bailey, Ellen Bethea, Robert Colston, Arthur French, Stanley Mathis, Lee Moore, Gail Nelson, Bernard Tarver, Glenn Turner.
- Credits
- Co-producer/editor, Pennee Bender ; music composed by Jane Ira Bloom ; historical advisors, Malaika Adero, Spencer Crew, James Grossman, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Roy Rosenzweig.
- System details
- DVD, NTSC.
- Local Notes
- SBEND: disc only, viewer's guide available online.
- Summary
- Tells the story of African-American migration from Mississippi to Chicago during World War I. Between 1916 and 1921, 500,000 African Americans moved from the South to cities in the North and West. Mississippians chose Chicago as their destination in the Great Migration.
- Notes
- Originally produced as a documentary in 1996.
- Awards
- Silver Award, 1997 WorldFest - Houston International Film Festival; Silver Hugo Award, INTERCOM '97 - The International Communications Film and Video Competition, Chicago.
- Subject headings
- African Americans--Mississippi--Migrations--History--20th century. African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--History--20th century. African Americans--Social conditions--History--20th century. Migration, Internal--United States--History--20th century. Chicago (Ill.)--Population--History--20th century. Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Genre heading
- Short films United States. Documentary films. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Short films. History.
- Other contributors
- Vasquez, Andrea Ades. Bender, Pennee. Brown, Joshua, 1949- De Jongh, James. Brier, Stephen, 1946- Bloom, Jane Ira. Adero, Malaika, 1957- Crew, Spencer R., 1949- Grossman, James R. Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks, 1945- Rosenzweig, Roy. American Social History Productions, Inc. American Social History Project.