[HistoricCemeterieslistserv] A Virginia state senator found headstones on his property. It brought to light a historic injustice in D.C.

[GILL Kuri * OPRD]

A Virginia state senator found headstones on his property. It brought to light a historic injustice in D.C.

The headstones had been ripped up from Columbian Harmony Cemetery, which served thousands of Black families for a century.

By Gregory S. Schneider



https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/headstones-black-cemetery-potomac-river/2020/10/25/3586f0d4-0d7a-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html


[New Picture (1)]

Kuri Gill (she, her, hers) |  Oregon Heritage Grants & Outreach Coordinator
___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Oregon Heritage, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries
Desk:  (503)986-0685 cell: (503)383-6787
725 Summer St NE, Ste C
Salem, Oregon 97301

Visit our website<http://www.oregonheritage.org/>, Like us on Facebook<https://www.facebook.com/OregonHeritage>, Visit our Blog<http://oregonheritage.wordpress.com/>, Join the Oregon Heritage News e-news<https://omls.oregon.gov/mailman/listinfo/Heritage>.

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/historiccemeteries/attachments/20201026/564b151b/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 10888 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <https://omls.oregon.gov/pipermail/historiccemeteries/attachments/20201026/564b151b/attachment.png>