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Emma Camp

An Alabama Family Is Fighting a Losing Battle Against Eminent Domain

The Moore family has lived on 120 acres in rural Dixon Mills, Alabama, for over 100 years. Generations of the family, descendants of black, Native American, and Irish sharecroppers, worked the land in Alabama's economically depressed Black Belt region and eventually built a considerable homestead.

Now, much of that land will likely be cleared to make way for the West Alabama Corridor. 

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