Black cemeteries

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Frank Wooden, dressed in black, paints a grave white at the Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery in Miami
March 14, 2024
Jessie and Frank Wooden have a powerful motive to restore a segregated Miami cemetery: It houses their mother's gravesite.
December 9, 2022
Caretakers of the Olivewood Cemetery in Houston have been left outraged after construction workers ripped out a newly installed fence.
November 7, 2022
A growing movement based out of York, Pennsylvania is dedicated to helping preserve the city’s historic Black cemetery.  
April 30, 2022
Groveland, Florida has received nearly $500,000 to help restore one of several abandoned Black cemeteries recently discovered statewide.
April 19, 2022
An abandoned, historic Black cemetery in Central Florida will be restored thanks to a half-million-dollar grant from state officials. 
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September 26, 2021
The graves of more than 500 African Americans were discovered at an AME church in Delaware. The bodies were buried…
August 1, 2021
Protests took place on Friday outside of Oaklawn Cemetery, the Tulsa, Oklahoma site where bodies were exhumed last year.
May 1, 2021
Many Black Americans excluded from white-owned cemeteries built their own burial spaces, and their descendants are working to preserve them.
January 2, 2021
Rodney Hawkins has taken on the task of preserving his family history after finding the Hawkins' family cemetery in disarray.
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March 11, 2020
The Florida Senate unanimously voted to create a task force that identifies and preserves Black cemeteries across the state.
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May 7, 2019
Activists in West Virginia are fighting to save the historic Boyd Carter cemetery, a burial ground that stands in the…