East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

David McMahon
2020-03-24


7.5
104 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Henry Cisneros Self Unowned
Bill Clinton Self (archive footage) Unowned
Jelani Cobb Self Unowned
Eva Davis Self (archive footage) Unowned
Willie Harrison Self Unowned
Lawrence Lightfoot Self Unowned
Ronald Reagan Self (archive footage) Unowned
Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Unowned
David Williams Self - Sociologist Unowned
Chasity Dixon Self Unowned
Rilene Dixon Self Unowned
Nikole Hannah-Jones Self Unowned