Officials in Atlanta are looking for an artist to create drawings and paintings honoring the nearly 30 children who were killed during a string of crime in the 1970s and 1980s, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
The paintings honoring the Black boys and girls will be displayed in an exhibit at the Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
Tayari Jones, the author of New York Times bestseller Leaving Atlanta, described the deaths in her novel.
Toni Cade Bambara’s novel Those Bones Are Not My Child, which also details the children’s deaths, was reportedly edited by the late Toni Morrison.
Although many of the cases remain unsolved, Wayne Williams has been accused of committing the murders. He is serving a life sentence for killing two adults, although he was never tried for the deaths of the children.
