Judge: Texas school district can exhume unmarked graves
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June 6, 2018
SUGAR LAND, Texas (AP) — Nearly 100 unmarked graves near Houston believed to contain the century-old remains of imprisoned African-Americans will be exhumed after workers building a school discovered the gravesites.
A judge on Monday gave the Fort Bend Independent School District permission to begin a monthslong process, at a cost of upward of $1 million, to exhume the graves.
Bones were found this year as the ground in Sugar Land was being prepped for a $59 million career and technical center for the district's students.
The area is near the Old Imperial Farm Cemetery, which contains 31 marke...
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