In the 1800s, segregated Dallas wouldn’t allow its Black residents to be buried next to their white neighbors, so the city ...
Toya Williams, a descendant of Pleasant Litchford, lives in Gahanna, Ohio, and continues to shed light on this legacy. For decades, students at Upper Arlington High School walked across their campus, ...
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A forgotten cemetery with burials from the 1800s hidden in plain sight
What started as a hot walk through the woods turned into a shocking discovery: a forgotten extension of an old African ...
Newark's City Cemetery is the final resting place for 18,000 people – including the poor, unknown or unclaimed – but it looks like an abandoned lot. A family member says the cemetery's been forgotten, ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A long-forgotten African American cemetery in Jacksonville, where World War II veterans and descendants of slave families are buried, is finally receiving the honor and ...
In Jacksonville, Florida, a community is uncovering a hidden chapter of its past. Beneath the Emmett Reed Community Center, a park frequented by locals, lies the site of Mount Herman Cemetery, a ...
The cemetery housed boys who were detained at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children. Deep in Prince George’s County, Maryland, lies a wooded area that holds a forgotten history ...
The Rattlesnake area of Missoula may seem like the ideal Montana neighborhood, but beneath its soil is a buried history of the city. Three young residents of the city have chosen to unearth the ...
Paterson resident David Benjamin wanted to know more about his African American ancestors who once lived across North Jersey. After doing some research, he found that some were buried in what's now ...
LUCAS VALLEY, Calif. (KGO) -- A long-forgotten cemetery is becoming a popular cause in Marin County, thanks to a couple of teenage filmmakers who have made it relevant again. Every so often, we ...
Marc Schindler, former assistant secretary and chief of staff with Maryland Department of Juvenile Services, summarizes to members of the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland the marked gravestones at ...
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