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''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 African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. ...
families in post-
Reconstruction Reconstruction may refer to: Politics, history, and sociology *Reconstruction (law), the transfer of a company's (or several companies') business to a new company *''Perestroika'' (Russian for "reconstruction"), a late 20th century Soviet Union ...
America. The film depicts incidents in
Arkansas Arkansas ( ) is a landlocked state in the West South Central region of the Southern United States. It borders Missouri to the north, Tennessee and Mississippi to the east, Louisiana to the south, Texas to the southwest, and Oklahoma ...
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that occurred between 1886 and 1923. ''Banished'' was screened in competition at the
2007 Sundance Film Festival The 2007 Sundance Film Festival ran from January 18 until January 28, 2007, in Park City, Utah with screenings in Salt Lake City, Utah and Ogden, Utah. It was the 23-rd iteration of the Sundance Film Festival. The opening night film was '' Chica ...
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See also

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Mass racial violence in the United States In the broader context of racism in the United States, mass racial violence in the United States consists of ethnic conflicts and race riots, along with such events as: * Racially based targeted attacks against African Americans by White Ameri ...
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Nadir of American race relations The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-bl ...
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Sundown town Sundown towns, also known as sunset towns, gray towns, or sundowner towns, were all-white municipalities or neighborhoods in the United States. They were towns that practiced a form of racial segregation by excluding non-whites via some combinati ...
;Specific events * 1912 racial conflict in Forsyth County, Georgia *
Rosewood massacre The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six black people were kille ...
(1923) / ''Rosewood'' (film) *
Tulsa race massacre The Tulsa race massacre was a two-day-long white supremacist terrorist massacre that took place in the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma, between May 31 and June 1, 1921, when mobs of white residents, some of whom had been appointed as ...
(1921)


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* American documentary films Expulsions of African Americans Riots and civil disorder in the United States History of African-American civil rights Documentary films about racism in the United States Documentary films about African Americans 2007 documentary films Documentary films about United States history 2000s English-language films 2000s American films English-language documentary films {{hist-documentary-film-stub White American riots in the United States