Southern Spaces (Dec 2010)

Goin' to Chicago and African American "Great Migrations"

  • George King

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18737/M7Q88V

Abstract

Read online

David Lindsey and friends, Goin' to Chicago, 2000. This multimedia essay presents two excerpts and accompanying commentary from the film Goin' to Chicago, a documentary which takes as its subject the African American migration out of the Jim Crow South during the twentieth century. Director George King describes his approach to the making of this film, offering insights into its editing and construction.

Keywords