Banished (film)

Infobox Film
name = Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America
imdb_id = 0912574
producer = Marco Williams
Maia Harris
caption = American Ethnic Cleansing
director = Marco Williams
editors = Kathryn Barnier
Sandra Christie
music = David Murray
runtime = USA:87 min
amg_id = 1:381457
language = English

Banished is a documentary film about four U.S. cities, which were part of many communities that violently forced African American families to flee in post-reconstruction America. In incidents which took place in Texas, Missouri, Georgia and Indiana between 1886 and 1923. Banished was screened in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

External links

* [http://www.banishedthefilm.com/ Official Site]
* [http://www.workingfilms.org/banished "Banished"] at [http://www.workingfilms.org Working Films]
* [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/banished/ BANISHED] site for Independent Lens on PBS
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=B8l89EsggFU Marco Williams interview at Urbanworld Film Festival]

ee also

*Tulsa Race Riot
*Rosewood massacre
*Rosewood (film)
*Mass racial violence in the United States
*Nadir of American race relations
*Sundown town