That World Is Gone: Race and Displacement in a Southern Town

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.

Cast

Ann Wicks Carter

Holly Edwards Herself

Ann Wicks Carter Herself

Kathy Johnson Harris Herself

Joy Johnson Himself

Teresa Price Jackson Herself

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