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The board of the Oaklin Springs Cemetery has since repealed the clause. By Story at a glance Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Oberlin, southwest Louisiana, declined to bury Officer Darrell Semien due to his race. The issue of racism and segregation has appeared in U.S. cemeteries for centuries. The board of a cemetery in Oberlin, La., has issued an apology after it denied to bury a Black sheriff’s deputy in light of an arcane rule only allowing white persons to be buried within the cemetery. The Associated Press reports that on Thursday, the board of the Oaklin Springs Cemeter...

By Cherranda Smith Jan 29, 2021 Last week, the widow of a Black sheriff’s deputy was denied the sale of a plot for her husband because of a “whites-only” sales policy.  Karla Semien, whose husband, Darrell Semien, died Sunday (January 24), said the Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Allen Parish, Louisiana refused to sell her a plot to bury her husband. Darrell Semien died of cancer and had previously requested to be buried at Oaklin Springs because it was near his home, his family told news outlets. The cemetery’s refusal was a “slap in the face,” Karla Semien wrote on Facebook. Karla...

Widow Says She Was Prevented From Burying Husband at 'Whites Only' Cemetery Newsweek 1/29/2021 Tom Batchelor © Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images File photo of graves and tombstones. Board members at the cemetery said they would make a decision on Thursday to resolve the issue. A grieving Louisiana woman has said she was told she could not bury her husband at a cemetery near his home because it was for "whites only." Karla Semien, whose husband Darrell Semien died on Sunday after being diagnosed with cancer last month, said that when she tried to organise a burial at the Oaklin S...

Deputy Darrell Semien (Allen Parish Sheriff's Facebook) (Allen Parish Sheriff's Facebook) "She had this paperwork in her hand that she said was drawn up 70-plus years ago," Shayla told news station KATC. "If we really wanted to have him buried here, we would have to get board approval because he was a colored man." His family said they were shocked not only that the discriminatory rule was part of the cemetery’s contract, but also by how the woman handled the situation. "[She said] just blatantly, with no remorse, ‘I can’t sell you a plot for your husband,’" another one o...

Louisiana family denied burial plot in ‘whites only’ cemetery The graveyard has since changed its by-laws Oberlin cemetery is 'whites only' By Jennifer Lott | January 27, 2021 at 9:15 PM CST - Updated January 31 at 4:02 PM OBERLIN, La. (KPLC) - When the wife of a deceased Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office deputy went to meet with a representative of a cemetery, she was shocked to hear they wouldn’t let her husband be buried there. As it turns out, Oaklin Springs Cemetery in Oberlin only allowed certain races to be buried there. Since then, the cemetery board has changed t...