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Florida city reckoning with its past as paved over Black cemeteries uncovered

Por: CBS News Politics November 28, 2022

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In the first half of the 20th century, Clearwater Heights, Florida, was a Black neighborhood — thriving, proud and anchored by faith. But being in the segregated south, African Americans couldn't stay at the White hotel, walk on the beach or swim in the bay. In death, they were laid to rest in segregated graveyards. Those cemeteries were sacred ground until the ground became valuable. In the 1950s, headlines announced that the city of... + full article



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