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Activists demand documents, land donation from Norfolk Southern
Chattahoochee Brick Company site center of protest
Several activists came together Thursday to call on Northfolk Southern to release the archeological study of the site of the Chattahoochee Brick Company, where slaves were used as manual labor.
ATLANTA - Historians who've studied what happened on the grounds of the industrial site along Bolton Road and Interstate 285 said Black teenagers and young adult prison inmates were forced to build bricks for the Chattahoochee Brick Company a century ago. Thursday, community activists called the names of some of the teens in front of the midtown headquarters of Norfolk Southern Thursday--including males as young as 16 years old.