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Community Engagement Insights

This spring, the Truth + Transformation program is hosting community engagement and listening sessions with Atlanta residents to gather feedback and share insights on the upcoming forced labor memorials at the Chattahoochee Brick Company and Bellwood Quarry. Our work uncovers Atlanta’s suppressed history of racial terror, forced labor, and systemic injustice, centering the voices of those most affected.

Through these conversations, we aim to foster understanding, spark social change, and ensure the memorials reflect the community’s vision. The feedback gathered will be shared with key stakeholders, public officials, and the broader community to inform the design and development of the memorials, ensuring they honor this history in a way that is meaningful and impactful.

Thank you in advance for taking a few minutes to answer the following 10 questions. In doing so you join us in shaping how we remember the past and build a future in truth and transformation. If you'd like to contact us - please reach out via email: truth@civilandhumanrights.org.
1.How much do you know about the history of convict labor and its connection to our current day mass incarceration system?
2.What is the number one issue you’re working on to help change Georgia’s criminal legal system?
3.What support do you need to continue to do your work around this issue?
4.What's one way you'd like to see the general public get involved in helping to reform our criminal legal system and end mass incarceration?
5.What trends or consistent themes or issues are you seeing in your work?
6.How should the City of Atlanta acknowledge its history related to forced labor and convict leasing and how that history is connected to today's criminal justice and penal systems?
7.Can we follow up with you to share more about the National Center for Civil and Human Rights’ Truth and Transformation work around forced labor sites in Atlanta?
8.Name
9.Email
10.Website