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Lesson Plan: Linnentown

The descendants of residents of Linnentown, a once-thriving historically Black neighborhood in Athens, Ga., come together to preserve the memory of the neighborhood. Their family homes were razed in a 1960s urban renewal project. Now they, along with civic-minded neighbors, unite to try to reclaim forgotten history.

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