A Tennessee Community Is Working Towards Restoring a Neglected Cemetery Full of Black Heroes

The Benevolent Cemetery is an eight-acre plot of land with 320 marked graves. The last burial here took place in 2002, and since then, the grounds have fallen into disrepair.

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