That World Is Gone

  • Invalid Date
  • 21mins

  • History
  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Hannah Brown Ayers,

    Lance Warren,

    Starring

    Ann Wicks Carter,

    Holly Edwards,

    Ann Wicks Carter,

    Kathy Johnson Harris

    ...

    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.