Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America is a 2008 documentary film about three of the U.S. cities which violently expelled African-American families in post-Reconstruction America. The film depicts incidents in Arkansas, Missouri, and Georgia that occurred between 1886 and 1923. Banished was screened in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.
See also
General Mass racial violence in the United States Nadir of American race relations Sundown town
Specific events 1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia Rosewood massacre (1923) / Rosewood (film) Tulsa race massacre (1921)
References
External links Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings at PopMatters Banished at Working Films Banished site for Independent Lens on PBS