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East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
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East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

2020
Directed byDavid McMahon
1h 44m

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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Henry CisnerosSelfBill ClintonSelf (archive footage)Jelani Cobb
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Eva DavisSelf (archive footage)
Willie HarrisonSelf
Lawrence LightfootSelf
Ronald ReaganSelf (archive footage)
Franklin D. RooseveltSelf (archive footage)
David WilliamsSelf - Sociologist
Chasity DixonSelf
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STATUSReleased
RATING
7.5

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