April 15, 2016 5:00-9:00 PM The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-1930) at Scribe Video Center

The Great Migration: A City Transformed (1916-1930)

Photographs and Artifacts from the Charles L. Blockson Collection & Audio Oral Histories from Goin’ North: Tales of the Great Migration

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Gallery Reception

Join us for an exhibition of photos and documents on loan from the Charles L. Blockson Collection that explore Philadelphia during the early decades of the 20th century. Also, listen to oral histories recorded in the 1970s and 1980s by men and women who made the Great Migration. These oral histories were recorded by Charles Hardy, Diane Turner, Donna DeVore, Jacquie Carlisle and H. Garrett. They are part of Goin’ North: Tales of the Great Migration, edited by Charles Hardy and Jannekan Smucker.

The Great Migration exhibit at Scribe is curated by Gary Smalls.

7:00 PM

Live Performance “The Upsouth Experiment” with Larry Price and Nimrod Speaks. Saxophonist/composer Larry Price is joined by bassist Nimrod Speaks in a musical exploration of the Great Migration. Co-presented with the Philadelphia Jazz Project.

7:30-8:30 PM

The Great Migration: A City Transformed a discussion with historian Dr. Diane Turner, Executive Director of the Charles L. Blockson Collection at Temple University; Dr. Charles Hardy, historian and professor at West Chester University; Louis Massiah, director of Scribe Video Center; and Lonnie Graham, commissioned artist for The Great Migration: A City Transformed.
Scribe Video Center
4212 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA