Segregation in the US: Difference between revisions
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=====The segregation-era travel guide that saved black Americans from having to sleep in their cars===== | =====The segregation-era travel guide that saved black Americans from having to sleep in their cars===== | ||
[https://www.vox.com/identities/2015/11/29/9813966/green-book-segregation-history by Dara Lind 22/11/16 Vox] | [https://www.vox.com/identities/2015/11/29/9813966/green-book-segregation-history by Dara Lind 22/11/16 Vox] | ||
=====Black cemeteries are reflection of deep segregation history===== | |||
[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/black-cemeteries-are-reflection-of-deep-segregation-history-black-athens-chicago-davis-georgia-b1839737.html by INDEPENDENT 29/4/21] | |||
As a child, Linda Davis and her mother broke clay pots over the gravesites of their ancestors, allowing the flowers in them to take root. | |||
When she returned to Brooklyn Cemetery in Athens Georgia decades later in 2009, her grandparents' temporary grave markers were lost, and shrubs and overgrowth blanketed the site. But it still felt like home to Davis, and she knew then it was up to her to restore the cemetery. | |||
