In the shadow of luxury, a cemetery for former slaves, in ruins

Originally Published in The Atlanta Journal Constitution and authored by Ernie Suggs on July 14, 2015

Hidden in a bustling pocket of Buckhead, surrounded by half-million-dollar town homes being built in the Georgia clay, sits a historic black cemetery, unnoticed and untended.

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— Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal Constitution
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Black communities existed in Buckhead long before most came here