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Laurel Cemetery
Laurel Cemetery was a former African Americans, African-American cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. For over one hundred years, the cemetery became the final resting place of thousands of citizens from Maryland's African-American community. After falling into disrepair, the cemetery land was purchased by developers and a shopping center was built overtop. History In 1851, land was purchased from Thomas Burgan Jr. for use as a cemetery. Laurel Cemetery was incorporated shortly thereafter as the first Non-denominational, nondenominational cemetery for African-Americans in Baltimore. By 1881, the cemetery covered 28 acres. That year, the cemetery was badly damaged when a cyclone hit Baltimore during the 1881 Atlantic hurricane season. Throughout the 1880s, the cemetery was the site of a series of notable Grave robbery, grave-robbing incidents conducted by several of the cemetery's grave diggers. By the 1920s, the cemetery began to fall into disrepair. In 1958, the site was purchas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African-American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. African Americans constitute the second largest ethno-racial group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of Africans enslaved in the United States. In 2023, an estimated 48.3 million people self-identified as Black, making up 14.4% of the country’s population. This marks a 33% increase since 2000, when there were 36.2 million Black people living in the U.S. African-American history began in the 16th century, with Africans being sold to European slave traders and transported across the Atlantic to the Western Hemisphere. They were sold as slaves to European colonists and put to work on plantations, particularly in the southern colonies. A few were able to achieve freedom through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
