Stay updated with breaking news from Rhondda thomas. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
At Clemson, unmarked slave graves highlight plantation past MICHELLE LIU, Associated Press/Report for America April 6, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 14 1of14Flowers adorn a fence marking an African American cemetery site at Woodland Cemetery in Clemson, South Carolina on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2021. Students at Clemson University who found an unkempt graveyard on campus last year sparked the discovery of more than 600 unmarked graves most likely belonging to enslaved Black people, sharecroppers and convicted laborers. The revelation has Clemson working to identify the dead and properly honor them amid a national reckoning by universities about their legacies of racial injustice.Michelle Liu/APShow MoreShow Less ....
Unmarked slave graves at Clemson highlight plantation past dailypress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from dailypress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Clemson, South Carolina On the sloping side of a cemetery on the campus of Clemson University, dozens of small white flags with pink ribbons have replaced the beer cans that once littered a hill where football fans held tailgate parties outside Memorial Stadium. The flags are a recent addition, marking the final resting places of the enslaved and convicted African American laborers who built the school, and before that, the plantation on which it sits. Hundreds more of the flags are dotted among existing gravestones, and until lately, most visitors stepped unknowingly over their remains. “Cemetery Hill” has served as the final resting place for some of Clemson’s faculty and trustees for nearly a century. Now, researchers have identified more than 600 previously unmarked African American graves, some overbuilt by the marked graves of white people, dating back to the early 1800s. ....
April 7, 2021 Share On the sloping side of a cemetery on the campus of Clemson University, dozens of small white flags with pink ribbons have replaced the beer cans that once littered a hill where football fans held tailgate parties outside Memorial Stadium. The flags are a recent addition, marking the final resting places of the enslaved and convicted African American laborers who built the school, and before that, the plantation on which it sits. Hundreds more of the flags are dotted among existing gravestones, and until lately, most visitors stepped unknowingly over their remains. “Cemetery Hill” has served as the final resting place for some of Clemson’s faculty and trustees for nearly a century. Now, researchers have identified more than 600 previously unmarked African American graves, some overbuilt by the marked graves of white people, dating back to the early 1800s. ....
At Clemson, unmarked slave graves highlight plantation past rep-am.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rep-am.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.