Tony Burroughs, CEO of Chicago’s Center for Black Genealogy, bends to take a photo at the gravesite of his great-grandparents in the Oakridge Cemetery in Hillside. “I realized they were right under my feet,” he says. “I can resurrect my ancestors that are not in history books but they live. They survive….And it’s up to me to tell their stories.”
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As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the graves of their ancestors, letting the flowers in the pots take root.
Decades later, when she returned in 2009 to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens, Georgia, her grandparents’ temporary grave markers had been lost. Shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site.
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