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Louisiana cemetery changes whites only sales provision after black police officer denied burial

Louisiana cemetery changes whites only sales provision after black police officer denied burial
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JanJanuary 2021 at 11:15pm
The Oaklin Springs Cemetery board met on Thursday to change a whites only provision in its sales contracts.
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The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a black sheriff s deputy has held an emergency meeting and removed a whites only provision from its sales contracts.
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The board president for Oaklin Springs Cemetery said they were unaware of the horrible policy
He said the board members removed the word white from a contract stipulation that specified white human beings ....

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Widow Says She Was Prevented From Burying Husband at 'Whites Only' Cemetery

Widow Says She Was Prevented From Burying Husband at Whites Only Cemetery
Newsweek
1/29/2021
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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 Springs cemetery in the city of Oberlin she was told it would not be possible. ....

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