An effort to memorialize a historic Atlanta factory and mark its brutal Jim Crow past

17/12/2021 22 min
An effort to memorialize a historic Atlanta factory and mark its brutal Jim Crow past

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Episode Synopsis

A Northwest Atlanta brick factory that helped rebuild the city after the Civil War — using the free labor of mostly Black prison convicts — will be reborn as a park and memorial, supporters hope. This episode of Georgia Today examines the history of the Chattahoochee Brick Co. 

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