Episode 4: This Man Shall be Remembered

The fight over how to memorialize the Sugar Land 95 has taken its toll on activist Reginald Moore. As his health declines, momentum slows. Research on the cemetery is finally made public, and the findings aren’t just surprising — they’re unbelievable.

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Emails between Bill Martin at the Texas Historical Commission and archeologist Reign Clark from Sept 2018 discussing who had authority to grant permission to do destructive analysis on the remains.

Source: Obtained from the Texas Historical Commission under the Texas Public Information Act
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Emails between Bill Martin at the Texas Historical Commission and Fort Bend ISD's attorney in the summer of 2019 about doing destructive analysis on the remains.

Source: Obtained from the Texas Historical Commission under the Texas Public Information Act
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Report and graphic novel depicting the history of convict leasing in Sugar Land written and designed by Hanna Kim under the guidance of Reginald Moore. Published Jun 2020.

Source: Convict Leasing and Labor Project
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"Back to Bondage: Forced Labor in Post-Reconstruction Era Texas," a report prepared by Goshawk Environmental Consulting for Fort Bend ISD, detailing the discovery, exhumation and bioarchaeological analysis of the Sugar Land 95 cemetery. Published Aug 2020.

Source: Fort Bend ISD
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A table from "Back to Bondage" listing 72 convicts who could be among those buried in the Sugar Land 95 cemetery.

Source: Fort Bend ISD
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