Judge: Texas School District Can Exhume Unmarked Graves
SUGAR LAND (AP) — A judge has given a Houston-area school district permission to exhume the remains of what historians believe were nearly 100 imprisoned African-Americans buried in unmarked graves when they died more than a century ago.
The decision Monday means the Fort Bend Independent School District will begin a months-long process to exhume the graves.
Bones were found earlier this year as the ground in Sugar Land was being prepped for a $59 million career and technical center for th
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