White 👿 Developers found graves in the Virginia woods. White Authorities then helped erase the historic #BlackAmerican cemetery. - ProPublica apple.news/AYhJaGmR_THahv…
After the discovery of the cemetery, the county and its consultants turned to archaeologists, which federal law required they retain. But that didn’t go as they hoped. In a detailed report, the archaeologists determined that the cemetery “is eligible for inclusion” on the…
historic registry. The report stressed the cemetery’s significance to African American life and death in Southside Virginia, citing the fact that Stephen Moseley and his relatives were Black. “It is recommended that the area be avoided,” the report said.”
To the county and its consultants, whose costs @Microsoft covered, this was unacceptable.
“We will challenge his recommendation,” wrote Alexis Jones, a consultant with a firm called Enviro-Utilities.
“We will challenge his recommendation,” wrote Alexis Jones, a consultant with a firm called Enviro-Utilities.
“The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.”
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