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As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. | As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. | ||
When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens Georgia decades later in 2009, her grandparents' temporary grave markers were lost, and shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site. But it still felt like home to Davis, and she knew then it was up to her to restore the cemetery. | When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens Georgia decades later in 2009, her grandparents' temporary grave markers were lost, and shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site. But it still felt like home to Davis, and she knew then it was up to her to restore the cemetery. | ||
=====Federal courthouse renamed after Latino family in segregation fight===== | |||
[https://www.axios.com/2025/01/07/federal-courthouse-renamed-mendez-latino-segregation by Russell Contreras 6/1/25 AXIOS] | |||
President Biden has signed a bill that renames the U.S. Courthouse in Los Angeles after the Latino parents who helped end legal school segregation in California and set up the 1954 landmark Brown vs. Board of Education ruling. | |||
