Last year workers in Sugar Land found remains believed to be black convict laborers. Now activists aim to give these men and women a final resting place
I am driving down Highway 90 to Richmond, Texas, to a meeting of the utmost importance, the latest in a series of events that began in March of last year. In that month, workers found human bones in decaying caskets beneath a construction site in the Texan town of Sugar Land, where the Fort Bend independent school district (FBISD) was building a career and technical center. In June, Associate Judge John Hawkins ordered that the remains be exhumed; a team of archaeologists carried out the demands over a four-month period, concluding that the bones belonged to 94 men and one woman. A Fort Bend district judge ruled to halt the progression of the James Reese Career and Technical Center in November. But a question, and a conflict, remained: would the bones, now unearthed, be reinterred where they were found, or moved elsewhere?
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