Devil Bones
“Whites only, of course.
No roads connected Elmwood to Pinewood, and the latter could not be accessed via the main entrance to the former. Sixth Street for whites, Ninth Street for blacks.
Sometime in the thirties, a fence was erected to ensure that racialy distinct corpses and their visitors never commingled.
Yessiree. Not only did African-Americans have to work, eat, shop, and ride buses in their own special places, their dead had to lie in barricaded dirt.
Years after Charlotte outlawed discr...imination in the sale of cemetery plots, the fence lingered. Finaly, in 1969, after a public campaign led by Fred Alexander, Charlotte’s first black city councilman, the old chain-linking came down.
Today everyone gets planted together.
Before leaving headquarters, Slidel dialed the number Hewlett had provided for Thomas Redmon. Amazingly, the man picked up.
Have a go, Redmon said. But, if possible, do everything on-site. Redmon was not a fan of rousing dead spirits.
Slidel also phoned the number listed for Alen Burkhead.MoreLess
No roads connected Elmwood to Pinewood, and the latter could not be accessed via the main entrance to the former. Sixth Street for whites, Ninth Street for blacks.
Sometime in the thirties, a fence was erected to ensure that racialy distinct corpses and their visitors never commingled.
Yessiree. Not only did African-Americans have to work, eat, shop, and ride buses in their own special places, their dead had to lie in barricaded dirt.
Years after Charlotte outlawed discr...imination in the sale of cemetery plots, the fence lingered. Finaly, in 1969, after a public campaign led by Fred Alexander, Charlotte’s first black city councilman, the old chain-linking came down.
Today everyone gets planted together.
Before leaving headquarters, Slidel dialed the number Hewlett had provided for Thomas Redmon. Amazingly, the man picked up.
Have a go, Redmon said. But, if possible, do everything on-site. Redmon was not a fan of rousing dead spirits.
Slidel also phoned the number listed for Alen Burkhead.MoreLess
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