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Sun Dec 26, 2021, 08:19 PM Dec 2021

Atlanta owns up to legacy of convict labor that rebuilt city * AP News

The National Center for Civil and Human Rights has launched an initiative to reclaim the largely-ignored history of how Black convict labor was used to rebuild Atlanta after the Civil War

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Atlanta owns up to legacy of convict labor that rebuilt city | AP News
ATLANTA (AP) — The City of Atlanta's official seal shows a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Civil War. What it doesn’t show is that Atlanta was rebuilt with
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