>> they were forced to leave. their homes were burned. everything they weren't able to gaer on a wagon and save was lost. >> reporter: denise boyd's great-grandfather owned 200 acres. the family tried to hold on but sold up and left after two years. >> he had the only working sawmill in forsythe county. eventually they got to joseph and that's when he just packed up my mother and they left. >> reporter: forsythe county was not an anomaly. hundreds expelled their black communities. right rioters lynched three black men over the murder of a white woman in 1901. in 1909 white residents in anna, illinois, drove out an entire black community after a black man was accused of range a white woman. and in tulsa, oklahoma, a black
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