America's Racial Cleansings

From the 1860s to the 1920s, small town residents violently expelled their African American neighbors. Many of these communities remain all-white today. Banished tells the story of three counties struggling with the question: What can be done to repair past racial injustice?
This NPR radio documentary on the lingering effects of the racial expulsion that took place in Corbin, Kentucky, was produced by John Biewen of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University in association with CIR.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Elliot Jaspin spent more than five years researching racial cleansings in America. The resulting book was published in March 2007; the newspaper series "Leave or Die" appeared in July 2006.