Banished (film)
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| Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America | |
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| Directed by | Marco Williams |
| Produced by | Marco Williams Maia Harris |
| Music by | David Murray |
| Running time | USA:87 min |
| Language | English |
Banished is a 2007 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.
[edit] See also
- Tulsa Race Riot
- Rosewood massacre
- Rosewood (film)
- Mass racial violence in the United States
- Nadir of American race relations
- Sundown town
[edit] External links
- Official Site
- Banished at Working Films
- BANISHED site for Independent Lens on PBS
- Marco Williams interview at Urbanworld Film Festival
- Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America at the Internet Movie Database
- Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America at AllRovi
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- English-language films
- American documentary films
- Racially motivated violence against African Americans
- Riots and civil disorder in the United States
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- African American documentaries
- 2000s documentary films
- Historical documentary film stubs
