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From Atlanta Capital B NewsHistory Beneath Our Feet: Atlanta’s Gentrifying Neighborhoods Hold Haunting Stories of 24 Murdered Black Women

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From Atlanta Capital B NewsHistory Beneath Our Feet: Atlanta’s Gentrifying Neighborhoods Hold Haunting Stories of 24 Murdered Black Women

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Atlanta’s Forgotten History: 24 Black Women Murdered, No Justice Served
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A mother. A seamstress. A cook. For two years, women were stalked and killed, while officials dismissed the deaths as the result of "Saturday night violence" in Negro neighborhoods.

On a quiet stretch of White and Lawton streets, in southwest Atlanta, there’s no marker. No sign. Just a patch of sidewalk, cars passing, and weeds curling from a cracked curb that offers no clues to its past.  But in the summer of 1911, this is where Lizzie Watts was found — her throat slashed, […]

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