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

Name: That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town
Genre: History, Documentary
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Ann Wicks Carter, Holly Edwards, Ann Wicks Carter, Kathy Johnson Harris, Joy Johnson

Movie

StarringAnn Wicks CarterHolly EdwardsAnn Wicks Carter

DirectorsHannah Brown AyersLance Warren

NR 21 minHistory, Documentary

Plot

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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