Feb 25, 2008
Professor locates forgotten graves of black tunnel workers
“Even after their deaths, these men received very little hospitality in West Virginia. The part that makes me ache is that they didn't receive any better treatment in 1972 than they did 40 years earlier.”
Dozens of black workers who died while digging a three-mile tunnel through Gauley Mountain in the 1930s are buried in unmarked graves on land where teens now party and highway crews dump roadkill. via HendersonvilleNews.com
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