Standing at the crossroads

Overview

Examines the transition from rural to urban life made by the African-American migrants who came to Chicago from the South. While certain cultural and limited political advancements were realized, ghettoization, in overcrowded tenements and later in high-rise housing projects, lack of economic opportunities, racial hatred and discrimination, and exploitation by white politicians were the common experience of Black Chicagoans. Shows how these conditions led in the 1960s to devastating riots, the intervention of Martin Luther King in Black Chicago's quest for equality and dignity, and the rise of racial consciousness and pride in the Black Power movement

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