An Atlanta property with a horrific past is on its way to being protected from industrial development.
The city is moving to buy the former site of the Chattahoochee Brick Company, which used forced prison labor around the turn of the 20th century.
Proposals to build a fuel shipping terminal on the property in the past few years have failed as activists have advocated to instead put a memorial there to the people who suffered under the convict leasing system. But the future of the site has still been up in the air.
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