The jazz capital America bulldozed into oblivion — and the voices that refuse to be silenced.
From the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning PBS series NEIGHBORHOODS: THE HIDDEN CITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO comes the remarkable story of San Francisco's Fillmore District. Remembered today mainly for its rock & roll auditorium, the Fillmore District is one of the great cautionary tales of American urban life. From the wholesale removal of Japanese Americans during World War II, to the jazz heyday of the 1950s, to the bulldozers of urban renewal, the Fillmore District has seen its share of drama.
Direction
Rick Butler weaves archival gold with survivor testimony
Production
Rare footage of Fillmore's thriving Black business district
Writing
Ossie Davis narration that cuts like a blues record
Director
Rick Butler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Fillmore Auditorium that survives today was originally a roller rink—Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane helped save it from demolition in the 1960s.
The term 'Japantown' still marks San Francisco today, but the Fillmore's thriving 20-block African American commercial district has no equivalent memorial—this film is essentially its headstone.
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