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Atlanta Street celebration set for Saturday
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Civic leaders in Gainesville’s African-American community are inviting residents to share their memories of life along Atlanta Street at 11 a.m. Saturday during a block party commemoration of the public housing complex before it is demolished next month.
Civic leaders in Gainesville’s African-American community are inviting residents to share their memories of life along Atlanta Street at 11 a.m. Saturday during a block party commemoration of the public housing complex before it is demolished next month. Built in the early 1950s, the Green Hunter Homes were long a point of pride for the local black community. Before drugs and violent crime became the prevailing exports of the complex, it was common for lawyers, doctors and educators to rise out of this tight-knit community, and neighbors routinely looked out for another’s best interests.