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Source: NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"

Roundup

12-31-69

Black Burial Site Paved Over in Portsmouth, N.H. [5min]

New Hampshire Public Radio's Amy Quinton reports on the fate of a historic gravesite for black Americans in Portsmouth, N.H. Land developers paved over the burial site to make a parking lot.

Read entire article at NPR "News & Notes with Ed Gordon"