Black family works to restore roughly 200-year-old cemetery

Black family works to restore roughly 200-year-old cemetery in Texas to reclaim legacy, honor ancestors
The continuing fight for social justice is giving new life to community efforts to preserve Black cemeteries. Congress is considering legislation that would create a database of burial sites, and provide funding to research and protect them.
This could bolster cemetery restoration projects across the country, including one from CBS News producer Rodney Hawkins, who is embarking on a journey to reclaim his family legacy.
Deep in the piney woods of East Texas, beneath a roughly 200-year-old overgrown cemetery, is Hawkins's family history and a part of America's buried past.

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