That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town

That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town

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Released:2010-11-04
Duration:21 min
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Director:Hannah Brown Ayers, Lance Warren
Actors:Ann Wicks Carter, Holly Edwards, Ann Wicks Carter, Kathy Johnson Harris, Joy Johnson
Production:Field Studio

Overview:

Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neighborhood, and her block was empty. Federally-funded urban renewal had arrived in Charlottesville, scattering dozens of families like Kathy's. The once-vibrant African American community, built by formerly enslaved men and women who had secured a long-denied piece of the American dream, disappeared.

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