KAMI FLETCHER AND ASHLEY TOWLE
CHAPTER 1
The Status Quo Made Picturesque
Nineteenth-Century Macon, Georgia, and Its Garden of the Dead
SCARLET JERNIGAN
CHAPTER 2
The Crown Jewel of Kentucky
Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery
JOY M. GIGUERE
CHAPTER 3
Sacred Ground
How a Segregated Graveyard Preserves the Struggles and Successes of an African American Community in Virginia
LYNN RAINVILLE
CHAPTER 4
Death Can Not Make Our Souls Afraid
Mosaic Templars of America Zephroes in Macon County, Alabama, 1887–1931
SHARI L. WILLIAMS
CHAPTER 5
Jim Crowing the Dead
A Fight for African American Burial Rights and Dismantling Racial Burial Covenants
KAMI FLETCHER
CHAPTER 6
“We Have No Further Interest in These Patients until They Die”
The U.S. Public Health Service’s Syphilis Study and African American Cemeteries in Macon County, Alabama
CARROLL VAN WEST
CHAPTER 7
Profane Memorials
Burying the Martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement
ADRIENNE CHUDZINSKI
CHAPTER 8
Cemeteries and Community
Foregrounding Black Women’s Labor and Leadership in Sacred Site Remembrance Practices
KANIQUA L. ROBINSON AND ANTOINETTE T. JACKSON
CHAPTER 9
Permanent Reconstruction in Richmond’s Black Cemeteries
ADAM ROSENBLATT, ERIN HOLLAWAY PALMER, AND BRIAN PALMER