I guess her thoughts are that they wouldn't be moving it if white
folks were buried there, but she's wrong.  In fact, I'm fairly certain
they moved several white cemeteries when building the airport
originally.

The Delta Airlines maintenance hanger sits in what was once my
granddaddy's corn field.  He sold the entire farm to the Woodruff
family for 300 dollars, and relocated the graves of a couple of his
coon hounds that he had buried there.  No ancestors there, as far as I
know, although at least one ancestor is buried under the current
Federal courthouse in downtown Atlanta, where the family lived when
Atlanta was still Marthasville.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Interesting information....  But I don't get the woman's beef about
> the graveyard:
>
> "Atlanta woman, with 75 relatives buried at site, charges plan based on 
> racism"
>
> Yes mam - the built the fifth runway for the busiest airport in the
> world (which BTW is named in honor of former mayor Maynard Jackson,
> the first African-American mayor of Atlanta) right there on next to
> your ancestors graves based on their race.

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