That World Is Gone

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.

21 min None+

Genres: Documentary, History, Short

Keywords: tmdb.gentrification, tmdb.social-justice, tmdb.charlottesville, tmdb.vinegar-hill, mdblist.imdb-short, aspectratio.4-3

Country: United States
Languages: English