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.
Sometimes places with a powerful and important history can go unnoticed by many of us. That's changing for a cemetery that's the final resting place for generations of Black families.
Black History Month will take place in February and a special discussion will be held along with the presentation of two different documentaries in Murfreesboro. One of the documentary films will focus on what was called the Green Book.Margaret McKinley explains what the Green Book meant to African Americans in the 1930's and into the 1960's…The Green Book was published from 1936 to 1966 by an African-American New York City mailman by the name of Victor Hugo Green.Leroy Cunningham will fu .