Word: shermantown
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Paradox has long been a part of life here, says Georgianne Christian Allen, who is writing a history of Shermantown, an African-American neighborhood in Stone Mountain. According to oral tradition, the neighborhood was created after Union General William Tecumseh Sherman made his fiery path through Georgia and freed slaves, some of whom congregated in the small area between Main Street and the mountain. Elderly blacks remember the injustice of separatism and Shermantown as one of the last areas in DeKalb County to get sewers and paved roads. But even when separatism was perpetuated by law, "Stone Mountain blacks...
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