Flatbush residents fighting to preserve a former burial site for enslaved African people have several concerns, which they voiced in an open letter last week.
A group of African American business leaders established Mount Glenwood cemetery south of Thornton in 1908 and a year later, Olivet Baptist Church created Mount Forest cemetery. In the 1920s, two more traditionally Black cemeteries opened in the Alsip area, Restvale and Burr Oak.