In the 1800s, segregated Dallas wouldn’t allow its Black residents to be buried next to their white neighbors, so the city was forced to find a final resting place for its formerly enslaved residents.
Newark's City Cemetery is the final resting place for 18,000 people – including the poor, unknown or unclaimed – but it looks like an abandoned lot. A family member says the cemetery's been forgotten, ...
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A forgotten cemetery with burials from the 1800s hidden in plain sight
What started as a hot walk through the woods turned into a shocking discovery: a forgotten extension of an old African ...
Toya Williams, a descendant of Pleasant Litchford, lives in Gahanna, Ohio, and continues to shed light on this legacy. For decades, students at Upper Arlington High School walked across their campus, ...
The cemetery housed boys who were detained at the House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Children. Deep in Prince George’s County, Maryland, lies a wooded area that holds a forgotten history ...
In Jacksonville, Florida, a community is uncovering a hidden chapter of its past. Beneath the Emmett Reed Community Center, a park frequented by locals, lies the site of Mount Herman Cemetery, a ...
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY-TV) — A Wilmington cemetery has been resurrected with the help of one UNCW graduate student. Hidden at the end of a dead-end road near Oleander Drive sits what was once an ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A long-forgotten African American cemetery in Jacksonville, where World War II veterans and descendants of slave families are buried, is finally receiving the honor and ...
Paterson resident David Benjamin wanted to know more about his African American ancestors who once lived across North Jersey. After doing some research, he found that some were buried in what's now ...
The Rattlesnake area of Missoula may seem like the ideal Montana neighborhood, but beneath its soil is a buried history of the city. Three young residents of the city have chosen to unearth the ...
LUCAS VALLEY, Calif. (KGO) -- A long-forgotten cemetery is becoming a popular cause in Marin County, thanks to a couple of teenage filmmakers who have made it relevant again. Every so often, we ...
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