“In the coming days, attorney Areva Martin told ABC News will be formally filing claims for restitution for these families, which she said still live with the trauma from being evicted… The city proposed that landowners terminate the leases of renters and give their tenants 30-day eviction notices, however, according to a 1968 report from the state Attorney General, homes were burned and bulldozed before eviction notices were formally issued… Martin said the survivors not only dealt with emotional trauma but were also prevented from building the kind of generational wealth those demolished homes and businesses could have provided.”

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