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Pages in category "African-American cemeteries in Arkansas" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Forrest City Cemetery, also known as City Colored Cemetery and Purifoy Cemetery, [1] is a historic Black burial ground in Forrest City, Arkansas, United States. [2] It is thought that this burial ground was founded around c. 1880 , by members of the Spring Creek Baptist Church. [ 2 ]
This list of cemeteries in Arkansas includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... African-American cemeteries in Arkansas (11 P) C. ... Black Settlement Burial Ground; F.
Neglect, abandonment and destruction have been the fate of thousands of segregated cemeteries across the country where African Americans – from former slaves to prominent politicians and ...
African-American cemeteries in Arkansas (11 P) C. Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Arkansas (91 P) Confederate cemeteries in Arkansas (3 P)
This story is our second in a series on Black family history to celebrate Black history this February. Once, when Raphael Morris was 10 years old, he and his Black cemeteries are bulldozed and ...
The cemetery occupies a roughly trapezoidal plot of 2.45 acres (0.99 ha). Its oldest dated burial is to 1874, although there may be older unmarked or illegible burials. The cemetery is the best-preserved remnant of 19th-century African-American communities that dotted the region in the post-Civil War