Linnentown
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Athens-Clarke County
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…
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Housing
Historic Athens Program Repairs Houses to Make Reparations
Donna Archibald was born and raised in Athens, but when she needed to replace her roof, she found her ability to stay in her home threatened. “I would have had to struggle and pay for it myself because my insurance company turned me down,” Archibald said. “If I had to…
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Athens-Clarke County
Local Group Works On Reparations, Linnentown and How to Move Forward
The nonprofit organization Athens Reparations Action was created in August 2022 in order to bring recognition and awareness to what they see as racist policies used to hurt African Americans at the time, such as the Linnentown incident in Athens. “We currently have $45,000 in the bank,” said Co-President Alys…