Across the United States, the fate of countless segregated cemeteries, where African Americans were laid to rest over the years, has been one of neglect, abandonment, and destruction.
In recent times, heightened awareness and the discovery of graves beneath parking lots, schools, and even military bases have sparked preservation efforts among local and state governments, as well as within communities determined to restore vital ancestral connections.
In Washington, D.C., members of a historically Black sorority engaged an expert who successfully located the 1919 burial site of one of the sorority’s founders, hidden in an overgrown, neglected section of Woodlawn Cemetery.
