Banished: American Ethnic Cleansing @ History Museum

Group reservations are encouraged; please call (314) 361-9017

6 p.m.: Attend a free reception for our panelists, including:
• Murray Bishoff, Managing Editor, The Monett Times
• Charles Brown, descendant of landowner from Pierce City, Missouri
• Denise DeCou, ADL’s A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Institute®
• Redditt Hudson, American Civil Liberties Union
• Gary R. Kremer, State Historical Society of Missouri

7 p.m.:
Leave or die: This was the choice white majority residents in a
dismaying number of cities gave African Americans between the end of
the Civil War and the Great Depression. From the 1860s to the 1920s,
dozens of towns and counties across America — including Pierce City,
Missouri — violently expelled entire African American communites,
forcing thousands of black families to flee their homes. The echoes of
racial injustice during the past century still reverberate in these
communities, which remain all white to this day. Banished reveals a
shameful, hidden chapter in American history.