7.5

East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
Released
1h 44m
3/24/2020
en - US
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.
Documentary
Actors

Henry Cisneros
Self

Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)

Jelani Cobb
Self

Eva Davis
Self (archive footage)

Willie Harrison
Self

Lawrence Lightfoot
Self

Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)

David Williams
Self - Sociologist

Chasity Dixon
Self

Rilene Dixon
Self

Nikole Hannah-Jones
Self