By Scott Turner

The Jones family wants to be compensated for land they claim was stolen to help build the University of Alabama campus. Oct. 11, 2023. (Scott Turner)

Five siblings of a Huntsville family are still waiting on a discussion with University of Alabama in Huntsville and city officials about land they say was stolen from their parents to help build the college campus.

That’s after their effort was the subject of multiple television reports, a story in the New York Times, the Lede and AL.com.

“We’ve been emailing them to sit down and talk,” Michael Jones said. “They’re saying that right now is not on their agenda to talk to us, nor sit down. The city won’t entertain a conversation as well.”

The Jones siblings have enlisted the services of national grassroots organization Where Is My Land in their effort to reclaim or be paid for the land that belonged to their parents, but that is now part of the UAH campus.

But UAH is disputing claims that the land was obtained illegally.

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