Residents of Sparta, Georgia, Push Back Against Railway Plans That Would Divide Properties and Increase Pollution

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By Olivia RosaneApr 4, 2023, 8:09 pm228 pts
In 1926, in the heart of the Jim Crow South, a Black man named James Blaine Smith succeeded in buying 600 acres of land near Sparta, Georgia, and launched a successful farming business. Nearly 100 years later, his grandson and his family and neighbors are fighting to protect that land from the encroachment of…

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