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By Allison Kadlubar, Bailee Hoggatt and Ezekiel Robinson LSU Manship School News Service BATON ROUGE – Jessica Tilson spent many Sunday mornings in the early 1980s playing outside with her white friends under the shady oak trees in front of the fleur-de-lis stained glass windows of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Maringouin. But as soon as the church bells rang, they parted. “When it was time to go into the church, it was time to split up,” Tilson said.   The church has a main en...

Segregated cemeteries still ‘haunt’ Louisiana Segregated cemeteries still haunt Louisiana By Allison Kadlubar, Bailee Hoggatt and Ezekiel Robinson | May 10, 2021 at 10:33 AM CDT - Updated May 11 at 9:25 AM BATON ROUGE (WVUE) - Jessica Tilson spent many Sunday mornings in the early 1980s playing outside with her white friends under the shady oak trees in front of the fleur-de-lis stained glass windows of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Maringouin. But as soon as the church b...

ACLU asks local organizations to review policies after Oaklin Springs Cemetery removes “Whites Only” provision ACLU of Louisiana (Source: ACLU of Louisiana) By Patrick Deaville | February 25, 2021 at 11:39 AM CST - Updated February 25 at 11:43 AM OBERLIN, La. (KPLC) - The ALCU of Louisiana is asking local organizations to join Oaklin Springs Cemetery in reviewing and revising lingering racist policies following the cemetery’s recent decision to remove their “whites on...

Opinion: A cemetery told Darrell Semiens family he couldnt be buried there because he was Black. I wasnt shocked. Bill Janz, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel © Karla Semien The Semien family. You might think that this happened 200 years ago, but it happened just a few days ago. The body of Darrell Semien was rejected for burial in a Louisiana cemetery because he was Black. He had been a deputy sheriff for 15 years, putting his life on the line for his community, and he helped raise...

A Louisiana whites-only cemetery refused to bury a Black sheriff's deputy.

A Louisiana whites-only cemetery refused to bury a Black sheriff's deputy.

Louisiana cemetery changes whites only sales provision after black police officer denied burial Posted FriFriday 29 updated FriFriday 29 JanJanuary 2021 at 11:15pm The Oaklin Springs Cemetery board met on Thursday to change a whites only provision in its sales contracts. ( Share Print text only Cancel The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a black sheriffs deputy has held an emergency meeting and removed a whites only provision from its sales contracts. Key points: The b...

| Credit: ardoin funeral home The family of a Black sheriffs deputy in Louisiana is speaking out after they were denied a burial spot for him at a local cemetery due to its "whites only" policy. Darrell Semien of the Allen Parish Sheriffs Office died on Sunday at the age of 55, according to his online obituary. Get push notifications with news, features a...

Jan 30, 2021 / 04:39 PM EST (CNN) — When Karla Semien went to a cemetery to pick out a plot where her late husband would be buried, it was as if she’d stepped back into the 1950s. Her husband Darrell Semien, a sheriff’s deputy for Allen Parish, Louisiana, died on Jan. 24 after being diagnosed with cancer in December, CNN affiliate KPLC reported. Semien went to Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Oberlin earlier this week to inquire about laying her husband to rest there. But a woman at the cem...