Memphis's Black Cemeteries Are In Disrepair, But There Is A Path Forward
The restoration of Houston's Olivewood Cemetery provides a potential blueprint for Memphis's Black cemeteries.
Source: blackenterprise.com
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America's Black cemeteries and three women trying to save them
The child’s headstone is inscribed simply “Nannie,” marking the grave of a 7-year-old girl who died May 18, 1856. She is buried in one
Source: artdaily.com
America's Black Cemeteries and Three Women Trying to Save Them
In Georgia, Texas and Washington, D.C., three Black women are working to preserve desecrated African American burial grounds and the stories they hold.
Source: nytimes.com
Future of 5-story soccer complex near the Heights in question after cemetery descendants raise issues
Descendants of Olivewood Cemetery are fighting to stop a new development in the Heights area that they said could end up disturbing the unmarked graves of infants.
Source: khou.com
Heights community members worry that new development site may have unmarked children's graves underneath – Houston Public Media
Olivewood is Houston’s oldest incorporated African American cemetery, having been established in 1875, just 10 years after emancipation.
Source: houstonpublicmedia.org