cemeteries

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/15/2023
  

  Even In Death, Black Americans Denied Dignified Rest

  by Greg Melville

  Lacking legal protection, historic African American cemeteries face serious threats from neglect and redevelopment. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/4/2022
  

  Greg Melville Tells America's History Through its Cemeteries

  "What does the act of memorializing, who is remembered and who is left out, tell us about how people lived, what they valued, and the way we live now?"

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• 9/19/2021
  

  Richmond's Lee Statue Has Come Down. What About Confederate Memorials in Cemeteries?

  by Jeffrey Smith

  The statue of Robert E. Lee on Richmond’s Monument Avenue finally came down, to both fanfare and controversy. But some Confederate monuments are even more politically loaded—the ones where we bury the dead.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  12/17/19
  

  Tulsa Sites May Hold Mass Graves From ‘Black Wall Street’ Massacre

  When white mobs obliterated a thriving black district nearly 100 years ago, as many as 300 people died. Researchers have found clues to where some of those bodies may be.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  9-21-17
  

  Battle Over Confederate Monuments Moves to the Cemeteries

  Calls to remove cemetery monuments are raising questions. Are such monuments really on public display? Should they be treated like the ones in public squares?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12-2-13
  

  In Virginia, protests arise as a forlorn cemetery is dug up to make way for high school football

  The cemetery is in Manassas, VA.

• SOURCE: AP
  5-26-13
  

  DC's Adams Morgan neighborhood hiding graves

  WASHINGTON — On a May afternoon in 2001, a group of volunteers cleaning up trash in Walter C. Pierce Community Park in Adams Morgan found a bone that appeared to be a human femur. The Washington region was enthralled at the time by the search for missing former government intern Chandra Levy, and the bone’s discovery sent murmurs rippling through the cleanup crew. Finally, a nurse in the group examined the bone. It’s not Chandra, she told the group. This bone is very old.Beneath Walter Pierce Park are two adjacent historic cemeteries: the quarter-acre Burying Ground or Place of Interment for the Society of Friends or Quakers, which dates to 1809, and a 6 3/4-acre African-American cemetery, which operated between 1870 and 1890. At the peak of its use, Mount Pleasant Plains Cemetery was the largest African-American burial ground in the District of Columbia....

• SOURCE: Fox 9 (MN)
  5-27-13
  

  MN man replaces worn headstones of Civil War veterans

  Hundreds of Civil War veterans are resting in the St. Paul's historic Oakland Cemetery, but one man says their memory and sacrifice is sometimes overlooked or forgotten -- and he's on a mission to change that.Years ago, Patrick Hill stumbled across a badly weathered grave marker belonging to an Civil War captain. Since then, he's been on a mission to replace other Civil War-era gravestones at the cemetery and remind people about the veterans' sacrifice."There are probably six to 800 Civil War guys in here," Hill estimated.Rows and rows of gravestones in all shapes and sizes bare the names and memories of the past, including the one belonging to Capt. Wilson B. Farrel....

• SOURCE: Fox News
  5-3-13
  

  Ancient Roman cemetery found under parking lot

  Hidden beneath a parking lot in Leicester, England, archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman cemetery that seemed to show no religious bias.The new discovery, found at the junction of Newarke and Oxford Streets, includes numerous burials and skeletal remains from 13 individuals, both male and female of various ages. The cemetery is estimated to date back to around A.D. 300, according to University of Leicester archaeologists who led the dig."We have literally only just finished the excavation and the finds are currently in the process of being cleaned and catalogued so that theycan then be analyzed by the various specialists," John Thomas, archaeological project officer, told LiveScience in an email....