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Where The Pavement Ends
The death of Michael Brown, shot by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer in 2014, was national news after protests erupted there. But the history of Ferguson, a formerly whites-only 'sundown town,' and the neighboring black town of Kinloch, now semiabandoned, is not well known. Incorporating audio archives and reflections of residents of Kinloch and Ferguson (including Gillooly, who grew up in Ferguson), this film explores the relationship between these two towns. Beginning with a 1960s roadblock that divided then-white Ferguson from black Kinloch, the film depicts a micro-history of race relations in America. Examining how past injustices prefigure those of today.
