MILLSTADT, Ill. The winding, narrow road to Booker T. Washington Cemetery off Illinois 163 between Millstadt and Cahokia Heights is ominous. It s inundated with potholes and doesn t give any sign of where it leads. It is mysterious.
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Belleville News-Democrat
Carlos Glenn, president of the Nu Gamma Sigma Alumni Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc. , explains his fraternity’s plans to clean Booker T. Washington Cemetery in Millstadt. Between 1919 and the early 1970s, more than 12,000 Black people mainly from the East St. Louis, Alorton and Centreville areas were buried in the cemetery.
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The winding, narrow road to Booker T. Washington Cemetery off Illinois 136 near Centreville is ominous. It’s inundated with potholes and doesn’t give any sign of where it leads. It is mysterious.