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

Georgia Today

English - December 17, 2021 18:00 - 22 minutes - 30.5 MB
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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.