"BANISHED: AMERICAN ETHNIC CLEANSINGS"

Our monthly series of films and community discussion returns with a look at the history of racial cleansing in the U.S.

Between 1860 and 1920 hundreds of U.S. counties expelled their black residents. African Americans not only lost their hard-won homes, farms and businesses, but saw their communities and families dispersed and their very right to exist violated.

"Banished" traces three of these counties. The film reveals that even one hundred years later, these racially cleansed communities tend to remain all-white bastions of separatism, sometimes harboring active klaverns of the Ku Klux Klan.

Winner of the Organization of American Historian's Erik Barnouw Award, Award of Commendation from the Society for Visual Anthropology, and the Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film & Digital Media from the Council on Foundations and Grantmakers in Film & Electronic Media; "Banished" is both a scrupulously researched history film and a probing study of the process of racial reconciliation.

Immediately following the film, join the discussion with Dr. Darryl Heller and a panel discussion of local organizers working to share the history of reparations throughout the city.

Public participation is free and highly encouraged.

"Banished" is the first in the fall 2019 crhc:film series, made possible through a grant from Indiana Humanities in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Humanities.