‘You Can Feel the Spirits’: Historic Black Cemetery Rediscovered and Helps Tell the Story of a Georgia Town’s Racist Past
Starting more than 150 years ago, a plot of land began being used as the final resting place for what became some 170 Black people in a Georgia county where they eventually became the only African-Americans allowed to remain within its borders. The Tolbert Street Cemetery is off the beaten path, nestled near a wooded…