Efforts underway across the US to uncover, preserve Black cemeteries
Evelyn Buck, 91, regularly visits what's now called the Cookeville Buck Cemetery outside Nashville, Tennessee. Over the years, the cemetery has been restored through numerous local collaborative efforts. Similar stories are playing out at other Black cemeteries in cities across the country.
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It is a painstaking process to retrace a life. In the beginning, it’s a race against time to avoid relinquishing them to a communal grave for Los Angeles County’s “unclaimed dead.”
Officials said they will continue to work with the community on how to best document the site and pay respect to the people buried there.
The North Carolinian's list of accomplishments spans 60 years and have done much to lift up neighborhoods and a nation while looking to the future but not forgetting the past.
