Racial Rewind Film Series presents:
BANISHED

Thursday, October 16, 7:30pm
Friday, October 17, 7:30pm
Saturday, October 18, 7:30pm

Free Admission!

American Ethnic Cleansings (2006). Racism in America has manifested itself in a grim variety of ways, and throughout the 19th and 20th centuries it was hardly uncommon for communities to make African-Americans feel unwelcome outside of ghettos in the poorest side of town. However, some cities took a more aggressive stance against citizens of color, and a number went so far as to stage vigilante pogroms in which the entire black population would be forcibly
expelled under threat of violence. Documentary filmmaker Marco Williams examines this hidden side of America's racial history in Banished, which focuses on four examples of primarily white communities rising up to force their African-American neighbors to flee, in incidents which took place in Texas, Missouri, Georgia and Indiana between 1886 and 1923. Banished was screened in competition at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. (www.moviefone.com)

The Racial Rewind Film Series is presented by the Cucalorus Film Foundation and the YWCA Lower Cape Fear and is funded in part by a grant from the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation. Following each screening filmmakers and guest speakers will lead discussions exploring racial concerns in the context of each film.

All screenings at Jengo's Playhouse
815 Princess Street
Wilmington, NC 28401
Call 910-343-5995 for more info.