Segregated cemeteries still âhauntâ Louisiana
Segregated cemeteries still haunt Louisiana By Allison Kadlubar, Bailee Hoggatt and Ezekiel Robinson | May 10, 2021 at 10:33 AM CDT - Updated May 11 at 9:25 AM
BATON ROUGE (WVUE) - Jessica Tilson spent many Sunday mornings in the early 1980s playing outside with her white friends under the shady oak trees in front of the fleur-de-lis stained glass windows of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Maringouin. But as soon as the church bells rang, they parted.
âWhen it was time to go into the church, it was time to split up,â Tilson said.
The church has a main entrance with double doors, but members typically enter through separate doors on the sides of the building â to the left for Black members, to the right for white members. Once inside, Black and white members sit on opposite sides of the sanctuary to worship in front of one altar â even though Tilson said the church abandoned formal segregatio
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