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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.