Banished (film)

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Banished: How Whites Drove Blacks Out of Town in America is a 2008 American documentary film directed by Marco Williams. The film looks at how, after the Reconstruction era, Black families in three U.S. towns were violently forced to leave by white residents.

The story focuses on incidents in Arkansas, Missouri, and Georgia that happened between 1886 and 1923. Banished was shown in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

Credits:
- Directed by: Marco Williams
- Produced by: Marco Williams, Maia Harris
- Edited by: Kathryn Barnier, Sandra Christie
- Music by: David Murray
- Running time: 87 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English

See also:
- Mass racial violence in the United States
- Sundown towns
- Nadir of American race relations
- Specific events: 1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia; Rosewood massacre (1923); Tulsa race massacre (1921)

Reception and references:
- NPR covered Banished as recounting the history of forced segregation.
- The New York Times published a review discussing eviction notices tied to Jim Crow.

External links (examples of coverage and related pages): PopMatters, Working Films, PBS Independent Lens, IMDb.