The Nation - News from Feb. 7, 1985
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Demonstrators opposed to construction of a parkway to the planned Jimmy Carter library in Atlanta put up tents at a small city park lying in the road’s path. “The tent city symbolizes that this is our land. We are not trespassing; we are not violating the law,” said John Michael, a member of a protest group known as Road Busters. “We want to symbolize that this is one of the few Olmsted parks,” Michael said, referring to Frederick Law Olmsted, a 19th Century landscape architect.
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