Hattie Thomas Whitehead

Linnentown Descendants Still Wait for Apology from the University of Georgia

ixty years later, Christine Davis Johnson still remembers how the city would send tractors at 1 a.m. to push dirt into walls encircling her house in Linnentown. A historically Black Athens neighborhood, Linnentown was destroyed by urban renewal in the 1960s to make way for University of Georgia dormitories.  “The…