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Florida lawmakers want to protect abandoned Black cemeteries - South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Forgotten, neglected and abandoned Black cemeteries have begun to receive attention. Across the United States, many unmarked African American graveyards have been rediscovered often hidden under more recently built parking lots, schools and housing complexes. Now, a pair of bills in the Florida Legislature aims to prohibit or limit development on abandoned grave sites.

Prized for its wood, loblolly pine can reach majestic heights

Prized for its wood, loblolly pine can reach majestic heights
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Florida, Leon County taking stock of forgotten cemeteries

Florida, Leon County taking stock of forgotten cemeteries
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Bill To Create Task Force On Abandoned, Neglected African American Cemeteries Is Back Before The Leg

Listen • 4:10 Members of a task force would recommend strategies for identifying, recording, and memorializing neglected and abandoned black cemeteries. Two Florida lawmakers are once again backing a bill to create a task force to study how many abandoned African American cemeteries exist in the state. Members of the task force would recommend strategies for identifying, recording, and memorializing those cemeteries. Gloria Jefferson Anderson is standing in a grassy field near the Testerina Primitive Baptist Church in Tallahassee. The wind whips past her and into the nearby woodlands of Miccosukee Greenway, where she says her ancestors are buried. The elders say they remember when this graveyard was here. But we don t know what happened to the markers, the headstones, Anderson says.

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