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Produced & Directed By Marco Williams
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BETWEEN THE CIVIL WAR AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION, DOZENS OF SOUTHERN COUNTIES (AND NOT SO SOUTHERN ONES) BANISHED THRIVING AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITIES. This little-known phenomenon typically began with a criminal accusation of a black man and his lynching, followed by the violent eviction of all the black families living in the county — and the appropriation of their land. Today, these counties remain virtually all white and their victims’ descendants remain uncompensated. African-American filmmaker Marco Williams interviews both groups, traveling to Forsyth County (Georgia), Pierce City (Missouri) and Harrison (Arkansas). Handsome, soft-spoken, articulate and unfailingly polite, he is the perfect foil for drawing out KKK members and guilty liberals alike. He takes an incendiary subject and through force of personality weaves a thoughtful investigation of racism, responsibility and real estate.

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