The Dignity Of Black Cemeteries: How Historic Burial Grounds Weathered Dehumanizing Effects Of Racism
A cemetery at New Roads, Louisiana, 1940. | Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently published a story 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;…
