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Linnentown, GA, Invisible Gentrification

Linnentown, Georgia destroyed a Black neighborhood. Now former residents want justice. Many who lived in Linnentown are urging leaders in Athens to pay for destroying their community more than 50 years ago to make way for the University of Georgia. Hattie Thomas Whitehead has fond memories of her childhood in Linnentown, a 22-acre neighborhood in Read More…