Can We Rest in Peace?

If you think Halloween is scary, listen as Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square tell real horror stories of how African American cemeteries have been desecrated, destroyed, and disrespected through grave robbing and gentrification. Want more like this? Go to https://www.podpage.com/why-are-they-so-angry/ to get the history they didn’t teach you in school.

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Dallas' First Freeway Built Over Freedman's Cemetery

Freedman’s Cemetery Memorial (Dallas, TX)

Freedman's Cemetery Memorial | Texas Time Travel

Grave Robbing, Black Cemeteries, and the American Medical School - JSTOR Daily

How African American Cemeteries Are Lost, Found, and Protected

Historic Black cemetery buried below parking lot at center of legal dispute

Inside the Effort for Black Cemeteries to Gain Historical Status - Texas Highways

'Thank God you found me': Florida officials unearth a fourth forgotten Black cemetery

The Gory New York City Riot that Shaped American Medicine | History| Smithsonian Magazine

The Moses Cemetery: Where Serial Displacement Meets History