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
Released: 2010-11-04
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Ann Wicks Carter, Holly Edwards, Ann Wicks Carter, Kathy Johnson Harris, Joy Johnson

0.0 / 102010-11-0421 minReleasedHistoryDocumentary

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.