Draft:African American cemeteries
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History
[edit]The 1788 doctors' riot occurred in New York City after the digging up of African American burials for dissection of the bodies by medical students.
Cemeteries were developed and in use before and during Jim Crow in the American South.[1]
While efforts were introduced as early as 1870 to desegregate cemeteries, they were unsuccessful.[2]
These cemeteries, located throughout the United States, have faced decades of neglect as the descendants who originally cared for them have died and the property has been used for development or lost to climate change. Some have further been lost to poor record keeping.[3][4][5]
A further symptom of the structural racism is that some of these cemeteries which had been mapped no longer appear on maps in places such as Texas along the Mexico and Louisiana borders, further contributing to their disappearance.[5]
The Black Cemetery Network was established in 2021 to provide an archive and map of black cemeteries .[6]
The African-American Burial Grounds Preservation Act was signed into law in 2023.
Cemeteries
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Florida
[edit]- African Cemetery at Higgs Beach in Fort Myers, Florida
- Lincoln Memorial Park in unincorporated Miami-Dade
- Westview Community Cemetery in Pompano Beach, Florida
Georgia
[edit]- South-View Cemetery in Atlanta
Illinois
[edit]- Burr Oak Cemetery in Chicago
- African American cemetery in New Philadelphia, Illinois[7]
Louisiana
[edit]- Saint Louis Cemetery in New Orleans
Missouri
[edit]Maryland
[edit]- Lincoln Memorial Cemetery (Suitland, Maryland)
- Mount Auburn Cemetery (Baltimore, Maryland)
- Watkins Slave Cemetery in Davidsonville, Maryland
Mississippi
[edit]Missouri
[edit]- Greenwood Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri was created to serve the city's growing Black population following the Civil War.[4]
- Greenwood Cemetery (Hillsdale, Missouri) in St. Louis
New York
[edit]- List of African-American cemeteries in New York
- Rye African-American Cemetery in Rye, New York
- African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City
- African-American Cemetery (Montgomery, New York)
- Mount Moor African-American Cemetery
- Mount Zion Cemetery (Kingston, New York)
North Carolina
[edit]Pennsylvania
[edit]Ohio
[edit]- United American Cemetery
- African Jackson Cemetery in western Ohio
Virginia
[edit]- Blandford Cemetery
- Evergreen Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia)
- Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia
Washington D.C.
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ West, Carroll (2015). Brunn, Stanley D. (ed.). "Sacred, Separate Places: African American Cemeteries in the Jim Crow South". Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands: 669–685. doi:10.1007/978-94-017-9376-6_33. ISBN 978-94-017-9376-6.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Fletcher, Kami; Towle, Ashley (2023-12-15). Grave History: Death, Race, and Gender in Southern Cemeteries. University of Georgia Press. pp. 1–3. ISBN 978-0-8203-6582-4.
- ^ "Meet the people working to preserve Black cemeteries". www.getty.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
- ^ a b Adams, Char (2022-02-16). "Black cemeteries are bulldozed and vandalized. Descendants are cleaning up alone". NBC News. Retrieved 2024-10-03.
- ^ a b Lemke, Ashley (2020-09-01). ""Missing Cemeteries" and Structural Racism: Historical Maps and Endangered African/African American and Hispanic Mortuary Customs in Texas". Historical Archaeology. 54 (3): 605–623. doi:10.1007/s41636-020-00258-0. ISSN 2328-1103. Cite error: The named reference "lemke" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ https://www.usf.edu/news/2021/national-network-to-connect-researchers-and-concerned-citizens-working-to-preserve-historical-black-cemeteries.aspx
- ^ King, Charlotte (2010-03-01). "Separated by Death and Color: The African American Cemetery of New Philadelphia, Illinois". Historical Archaeology. 44 (1): 125–137. doi:10.1007/BF03376787. ISSN 2328-1103.
- ^ https://pahallowedgrounds.org/list-of-african-american-cemeteries-in-pa/