Metro Atlanta
Tracing the Woods family history
Photos: Former Lithonia mayor Marcia Glenn Hunter gathers with her sibling to look over family albums. They have traced their ancestry back to Sierra Leone and a captive who was sold into slavery in Newtown County, Georgia. Mother Maggie Woods was the first black City Council member in Lithonia.
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Marcia Glenn Hunter, the former mayor of Lithonia, holds one of the sculptures she brought back from Nigeria. She has traced her family's roots back to Sierra Leone. Their ancestors were sold into slavery in Walton County and then moved to Lithonia.
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