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City of New York: Harlem African Burial Ground: New York (Manhattan) City of New York: Frederick Douglass Memorial Park: Richmond (Staten Island) City of New York: Mount Moor African-American Cemetery: Rockland: West Nyack: Rye African American Cemetery: Westchester: Rye: New Paltz Rural Cemetery (segregated section) [2] Ulster: New Paltz ...
The Flatbush African Burial Ground or FABG is the site of a historic African-American cemetery dating to the 17th century at Church and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, on land formerly owned by the adjacent Flatbush Reformed Dutch Church. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The Harlem African Burial Ground was a segregated cemetery created in 1668 for the burial of enslaved and freed Africans in the Dutch colony of Harlem. It is located at what is presently 2460 Second Avenue in the East Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City .
African Burial Ground National Monument, Civic Center [1] First Shearith Israel Graveyard (Chatham Square Cemetery), Chinatown [2] New York Marble Cemetery, [3] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City; New York City Marble Cemetery, [4] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City.
The Rye African-American Cemetery, also known as the African Cemetery in Rye, is a historic 1.4 acre cemetery [2] on North Street in Rye, New York.It was established as a burying ground for local African-Americans in 1860 [3] through a donation of land by the Underhill family with the intent that it “shall forever hereafter kept, held and used for the purpose of a cemetery or burial place ...
Across Hampton Roads, historic Black cemeteries are filled with some of the most important members of the region’s history. But how well their graves are treated depends on what jurisdiction ...
New York had the second-largest number of enslaved Africans in the nation after Charleston, South Carolina. Scholars and African-American civic activists joined to publicize the importance of the site and lobby for its preservation. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 and a national monument in 2006 by President George ...
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