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Widow Says She Was Prevented From Burying Husband at Whites Only Cemetery
Newsweek
1/29/2021
Tom Batchelor
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File photo of graves and tombstones. Board members at the cemetery said they would make a decision on Thursday to resolve the issue.
A grieving Louisiana woman has said she was told she could not bury her husband at a cemetery near his home because it was for whites only.
Karla Semien, whose husband Darrell Semien died on Sunday after being diagnosed with cancer last month, said that when she tried to organise a burial at the Oaklin Springs cemetery in the city of Oberlin she was told it would not be possible. ....

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