East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

Directed by Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Not Rated
2020    1h 44mDocumentary
7.1
The history of the East Lake Meadows public housing project in Atlanta and the people who lived there from 1970 to its demolition in 2000, with special emphasis on the activism of Eva Davis asserting the rights of the tenants.

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Cast of East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

  • Henry CisnerosSelf
  • Bill ClintonSelf (archive footage)
  • Jelani CobbSelf
  • Eva DavisSelf (archive footage)
  • Willie HarrisonSelf
  • Lawrence LightfootSelf
  • Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
  • Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
  • David WilliamsSelf - Sociologist
  • Chasity DixonSelf
  • Rilene DixonSelf
  • Nikole Hannah-JonesSelf
  • Sarah BurnsDirector / Writer / Producer
  • David McMahonDirector / Writer / Producer
  • Ken BurnsProducer

 

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