California Yanks Racist Tombstones

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After more than 50 years, California is replacing 36 tombstones in an El Droado Hills cemetery inscribed with a racial epithet—and the words “US Government.” When the US Army Corps of Engineers relocated the cemetery from the Gold Rush-era settlement of Negro Hill to make way for a dam…

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