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The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriff s deputy held an emergency meeting Thursday and removed a whites-only provision from its sales contracts. When that meeting was over it was like a weight lifted off of me, H. Creig Vizena, board president for Oaklin Springs Cemetery in southwest Louisiana, said Thursday night. He said he was stunned and ashamed to learn two days earlier that the family of Allen Parish Sheriff s Deputy Darrell Semien, who died Sunday, had been told that he could not be buried at the cemetery near Oberlin because he was African American.
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The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a Black sheriff s deputy held an emergency meeting Thursday and removed a whites-only provision from its sales contracts.“When t