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Resident of a town founded by formerly enslaved people fights to keep its history alive

Marla Dickerson is fighting to keep her community’s history alive. Revilletown, Louisiana, was founded by formerly enslaved people in 1881, after the Emancipation Proclamation. In the 1970s, a chemical plant moved in and soon the two-street Louisiana town all but…