That World Is Gone

Name: That World Is Gone
Director: Hannah Brown Ayers
Duration: 21 min
Cast: Ann Wicks Carter, Holly Edwards, Ann Wicks Carter, Kathy Johnson Harris, Joy Johnson

TBA

21m

History Documentary

"Race and Displacement in a Southern Town"

Overview

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.