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Uncommon courtesies: How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave

THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION recently published a story about a Black cemetery in Buckhead, a prosperous Atlanta community. The cemetery broke ground almost two centuries ago, in 1826, as the graveyard of Piney Grove Baptist Church. The church has been gone for decades; the cemetery now sits on the property of a townhouse development. It is […]

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