Grays Ferry

Rising on the Hill

Posted December 11th, 2007 by Intern
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Producer of the Work / Filmmaker: 

Audenried Beacon Center with Scribe Video Center

Filmmaker Facilitator: 

Videomaking Consultant - Serena Reed; Humanities Consultant - Jacqueline Hart; Post Production - Ellen Reynolds

Year released: 
2005
Length: 
9 min 43 seconds
Price: 

This video is available for purchase as part of a Precious Places Community History Project Vol.1 compilation DVD.

With its run-down housing, neglected infrastructure and isolated location, residents of Grays Ferry say the city paid little attention to their neighborhood before the infamous street confrontations between working class whites and blacks in the 1990s. The media dubbed Audenried High School a "prison on the hill" after a spate of violent incidents between students. A racially diverse but segregated South Philadelphia neighborhood isolated between a highway and a river, the phrase Grays Ferry had become a slur to some Philadelphians.

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