PBS documentary 'Banished' recounts history of forced segregation [audio 14min]

Many stories have been left out of the history books. A new documentary seeks to tell these stories. Nearly a century ago, from the 1860s to the 1870s, thousands of African-Americans were forced by white people to flee their homes and neighborhoods in communities across America. Their stories of this forced segregation are told in Banished, a new documentary airing on February 19th 2008 on the PBS program Independent Lens. The film's director, Marco Williams, explains the project, explaining that these stories are evidence of a form of ethnic cleansing in American history.