South of Main

More than 1,400 neighborhoods in the United States, most of them African American, were leveled in the name of urban renewal during the mid-twentieth century. "South of Main" recreates the culture and history of just one of those, the Southside of Spartanburg, South Carolina, founded in the 1860s by a group of ex-slaves who lived together at the end of a dusty road called Liberty Street. This poignant and sometimes painful history examines the experiences of the people who called the Southside home and whose lives were affected by the bulldozers of urban renewal. Through oral histories, photographs and maps, their memories survive through this rich collection of stories called "South of Main."