About 500 people, including U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, Deputy Consul General of Israel Anna Shteingart, a handful of state and local politicians, and dozens of Jewish community leaders gathered at Greenwood Cemetery in Southwest Atlanta today to mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The Odd Fellows Building was suggested by Black newspaper editor Benjamin J. Davis (1870-1945), designed by white Atlanta architect William A. Edwards (1866-1939) and built by Robert E. Pharrow, owner of an African-American construction company. Despite the Jim Crow era, the two men, Black and white, worked side by side toward completing the structure.
At one time, during segregation, the McLendon Hospital was one of just two places in Atlanta where African Americans could get medical care. The hospital has been gone for many years, and now there's concern the hospital is at risk of being forgotten forever.
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