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Encore: Atlanta aims to turn brick factory with an ugly past into something honorable

In Atlanta, leaders are working to build a memorial at an old brick factory site to honor victims of convict leasing. After the Civil War, thousands of Black men were forced to work at the factory.

[Copyright 2022 NPR]

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