The WebAtlas of African American Cemeteries in MS
In this blog post, we have embedded our WebAtlas of African American cemeteries in Lowndes, Bolivar, and Carroll Counties. Enjoy!
T. DeWayne Moore
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Memorializing Blind Roosevelt Graves
Since the pandemic derailed our original campaign, the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund has renewed its campaign to mark the grave of Roosevelt Graves in Gulfport, MS
Reconciling the Blues King
Although the Mississippi Blues Trail marker installed in 2009 to purportedly further “racial reconciliation” and rehabilitate the state’s image as an intransigent racist backwater claims that he was buried in Pelahatchie, Mississippi (based on the information written on his death certificate), his remains actually never made it back to the Magnolia State–a fact that Mexican American blues artist, custodian, and Mt. Zion Memorial Fund affiliate Gabriel Soria discovered in the early 1990s, when he raised the funds to mark his actual gravesite. Eschewing the Manifest Destiny-like memorialization process of the Blues Commission, Soria tracked down the descendants of the “Blues King,” learned the actual location of his remains, and worked with them to design and install his headstone in Union Cemetery in Bakersfield, California.
Oxford and Benton County, Mississippi
Oxford, Mississippi Meeting Burns Belfry Museum A very good and productive time indeed for Team Mt. Zion on May 19 […]