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America s Black Cemeteries and Three Women Trying to Save Them

America s Black Cemeteries and Three Women Trying to Save Them
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Future of 5-story soccer complex near the Heights in question after cemetery descendants raise issues

Descendants of Olivewood Cemetery are fighting to stop a new development in the Heights area that they said could end up disturbing the unmarked graves of infants.

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Heights community members worry that new development site may have unmarked children s graves underneath – Houston Public Media

Olivewood is Houston’s oldest incorporated African American cemetery, having been established in 1875, just 10 years after emancipation.

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Why Protecting Black Cemeteries Is Integral to American History

These hallowed grounds are in danger of being forgotten, desecrated, and destroyed here are the people trying to save them.

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Historic Olivewood Cemetery in need of drainage improvements

The Descendants of Olivewood received a $50,000 grant earlier this year from the National Trust for Historic Places, which awarded the money so a drainage study could be conducted at

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