After attending a Death Chat with Cookies event, Mike Ingram was inspired to learn more about his family history and the land his grandfather--an African American living during the Jim Crow era-- bequeathed the family. His journey is a mirror held up to American 20th-century history.

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Correction: The number of acres sold to Insight Homes for Ingram Village is 103 acres. The audio says it is 180.