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In this Friday, Feb. 12, 2016 photo, Freedmen's Town Preservation Coalition President Dorris Ellis Robinson sits at the intersection of Wilson Street and Andrews Street in Houston. She has been leading the effort to save the brick streets in Freedmen's Town and at one point laid down in the road to prevent crews from removing them. But the battle over the bricks, which has moved to the courts, is just the latest chapter in a long-running conflict over the survival of Houston's oldest African-American community. (Michael Ciaglo/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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