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irisblue

(32,829 posts)
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 11:41 AM Aug 2019

The Decatur Georgia AA Cemetery

Source-https://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/resurrecting-the-past/D57eRvgBN7SeGvcXiipTeK/


Lots more at article. Worth the read IMO.


Snip-"Laurel Wilson, 41, is a California transplant with a master’s degree in heritage preservation from Georgia State University and a fascination with untold histories. She has traced her own lineage back to a woman tried as a witch in Salem.

For the past five years, she has been carefully examining the headstones and cemetery records in Section 6 of the Decatur Cemetery, the area available to African Americans during the graveyard’s segregated history."


She’s found more than 900 names. With the help of other documents, she’s been able to get a peek into turn-of-the-century black Decatur."


Snip-"For me, the headstones are the only physical reminder of the fact that these black people ever existed,” said Wilson. “Beacon Hill is gone; The Bottom (which predated Beacon) is gone. All the buildings are gone. African Americans had a community here for 140 years. It’s gone, but these headstones still remain.”

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The Decatur Georgia AA Cemetery (Original Post) irisblue Aug 2019 OP
Thanks for posting this. This genealogy searching is better because of its historical in2herbs Aug 2019 #1
Saw the article in passing. irisblue Aug 2019 #2

in2herbs

(2,942 posts)
1. Thanks for posting this. This genealogy searching is better because of its historical
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 12:01 PM
Aug 2019

emphasis. I've marked it for extensive reading later. Does it say she intends to write a book?

irisblue

(32,829 posts)
2. Saw the article in passing.
Sat Aug 3, 2019, 01:00 PM
Aug 2019

Had to go do other stuff & haven't looked her up.

Surely her work & this article will catch some AA Historians' eyes.

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