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Directed by | Marco Williams |
Produced by | Marco Williams Maia Harris |
Edited by | Kathryn Barnier Sandra Christie |
Music by | David Murray |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America is a 2007 documentary film about four of the U.S. cities which violently expelled African-American families in post-Reconstruction America. The film depicts incidents in Texas, Missouri, Georgia, and Indiana that occurred between 1886 and 1923. Banished was screened in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
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References
- "'Banished' Recounts History of Forced Segregation". NPR.org.
- Dargis, Manohla (September 26, 2007). "When Jim Crow Came to Town, With Eviction Notices". The New York Times.
External links
- Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings at PopMatters
- Banished at Working Films
- Banished site for Independent Lens on PBS
- Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America at IMDb
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