Making history come alive: Two city cemeteries offering tours in honor of Black History Month

[hrmjustin]

Beth Stebner

Two city cemeteries are doing their part to bring Black History Month to life.

The Bronx’s Woodlawn Cemetery has been offering self-guided tours throughout February, highlighting the final resting places of some of the most notable New Yorkers of African descent.


“We provided people with a self-guided list of our African-American legacy,” said Susan Olsen, a historian at the landmarked burial ground, noting some of notables who were laid to rest here.

Among them: Jazz greats Miles Davis and Duke Ellington; Ralph Bunche, the first black man to win the Nobel Peace Prize; entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker, the country’s first female self-made millionaire, and explorer Matthew Henson, who became the first man to reach the North Pole in 1909.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-bronx-cemeteries-bringing-black-history-life-article-1.1646833#ixzz2u6O1lDdq

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1. Thanks for sharing this!

Very cool! I have a lot of family buried there too (Fiorella LaGuardia is buried next to our family plot), and this is extra incentive to head over there tomorrow! Must bring extra flowers for the Duke.

Thanks very much hrmjustin!

[hrmjustin]

2. I have a lot of family in Greenwood Cemetery.

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3. that would be interesting