Moorland-Spingarn closure scare

CTL-E-0834 · Event · other · unspecified

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

(2009-11) November 2009 reports of MSRC's ~80% staff reduction - the documented institutional-collapse warning at a major Black repository.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-093; source research type(s): event. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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