Episode 16: Cemeteries in the News, The Forgotten Stories

01/03/20 • 64 min

Today we discuss two cemeteries that have recently been in the news, the mass grave from the 1921 Tulsa Race Riots and the Buena Vista and Acadia slave cemeteries in Louisiana.

Read both articles for yourself below:

Louisiana Slave Cemeteries:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/18/louisiana-pollution-petrochemical-site-sunshine-project

Tulsa Race Riot Mass Grave:

https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/789015343/new-research-identifies-possible-mass-graves-from1921-tulsa-race-massacre

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Louisiana Slave Cemeteries:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/18/louisiana-pollution-petrochemical-site-sunshine-project

Tulsa Race Riot Mass Grave:

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