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For New Life, Blacks in City Head to South

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From the New York Times:

In Deborah Brown's family lore, the American South was a place of whites-only water fountains and lynchings under cover of darkness. It was a place black people like her mother had fled. But for Ms. Brown, 59, a retired civil servant from Queens, the South now promises salvation. Three generations of her family - 10 people in all - are moving to Atlanta from New York, seeking to start fresh economically and, in some sense, to reconnect with a bittersweet past. They include Ms. Brown, her 82-year-old mother and her 26-year-old son, who has already landed a job and settled there.

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