Brick by Brick (1982)

  • NR
  • 01/01/1982 (US)
  • Documentary
  • 33m

Overview

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black residents, and the community response in the form of the Seaton Street Project, in which tenants banded together to purchase buildings.

Shirikiana Aina

Director, Writer

Cast

Lester Wakefield's headshot

Lester Wakefield

Narrator

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