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2007 American film
Banished
Directed byMarco Williams
Produced byMarco Williams
Maia Harris
Edited byKathryn Barnier
Sandra Christie
Music byDavid Murray
Release date
  • 2007 (2007)
Running time87 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

  1. "'Banished' Recounts History of Forced Segregation". NPR.org.
  2. Dargis, Manohla (September 26, 2007). "When Jim Crow Came to Town, With Eviction Notices". The New York Times.

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