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A Racial Cleansing in America (Seeing White Part 9)

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The History of Corbin, Kentucky

For decades after the race riot, Corbin was known as a white man's town with a visible clan presence. Journalist Elliot Jaspins says most people in Corbin and the other towns where racial expulsions took place don't know this part of their history either. Silas House: By failing to publicly own up to the 1919 expulsion, Corbin has missed the chance to move past it.

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