Dignity in death: When Black Americans fight against racism from beyond the grave
By David B. Parker, Professor of History, Kennesaw State University A news story was published recently about a Black cemetery in Buckhead, a prosperous Atlanta community. The cemetery broke ground almost two centuries ago, in 1826, as the graveyard of Piney Grove Baptist Church. The church has been gone for decades; the cemetery now sits on the property of a townhouse development. It is overgrown, with most of its 300-plus graves unmarked. The article described how some of the buried’s descendants and family members are trying to get the property owner to clean up and take care of the...
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