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For decades, prisoners were forced into unpaid labor at a brickyard along the Chattahoochee River How will we remember them?

For decades, prisoners were forced into unpaid labor at a brickyard along the Chattahoochee River How will we remember them?
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Seeking A Proper Memorial : Community Members Stake Claim To Site Of Former Atlanta Forced Labor Camp

Share A consecration ceremony was held over the weekend at the site of the old Chattahoochee Brick Co., where many Black people are believed to have died without proper burials. The brick company was one of many convict labor camps in the post-Civil War South, where Black men, women and children were sold into captivity, many after being arrested on made-up charges. Credit Christopher Alston / WABE Black community leaders are hopeful they may be making progress in a fight to reclaim land in northwest Atlanta that they say is sacred. Clergy, activists, lawmakers and members of the community held a consecration ceremony at the site of the old Chattahoochee Brick Co. this past weekend to memorialize the victims of the atrocity that took place there.

Protect The Vote Daily Protest with Hannah Joy

March 10, 2021 03/10/2021 11:01 pm Activist Hannah Joy called into Too Much Truth with Derrick Boazman to discuss her fight at the GA State Capitol against #HB531 & #SB241. Joy discusses what it means to be a young activist, and where it all began for her and the fight for voter suppression with the Protect The Vote GA campaign. If you would like to help out and be apart of what Hannah is doing here s a few events she will be apart of. Check Out Interview here. The political education training hosted by ATL Social Change (Protect The Vote GA coalition partner) is happening tonight from 7-8pm ET to help the community better understand the political process and what’s going on with the bills.

Activists demand documents, land donation from Norfolk Southern

Activists demand documents, land donation from Norfolk Southern Chattahoochee Brick Company site center of protest Several activists came together Thursday to call on Northfolk Southern to release the archeological study of the site of the Chattahoochee Brick Company, where slaves were used as manual labor. ATLANTA - Historians who ve studied what happened on the grounds of the industrial site along Bolton Road and Interstate 285 said Black teenagers and young adult prison inmates were forced to build bricks for the Chattahoochee Brick Company a century ago. Thursday, community activists called the names of some of the teens in front of the midtown headquarters of Norfolk Southern Thursday including males as young as 16 years old.

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