A Black town was flooded to create Lake Lanier.
that a longtime diver, Buck Buchannon, claimed “he sometimes felt body parts in the lake” while underwater. “You reach out into the dark and you feel an arm or a leg and it doesn’t move,” he said.that one of the lake’s rescue teams would no longer be using divers for underwater rescues; instead, to decrease risks to divers, they would use robots for underwater rescues.
The horrific history of wiping out Black communities — and often, simultaneously stripping Black folks of their wealth — is not unique to Lake Lanier. Alabama’s Lake Martin, also man-made,
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