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This collection contains Green-Wood Cemetery maps depicting the cemetery, and its maintenance, in 1876, 1911 and the 1960s and 1970s. Series 1 represents the majority of the maps, an 1876 edition, mounted on rollers, used by the cemetery office and undertakers.
- A Culture of Silence
- Digging in
- Breaking Ground
- The Original 18
- DNA Insights and Limits
- Greenwood Rising
As the smoke cleared on June 1, 1921, Greenwood’s surviving Black residents were arrested and taken to internment sites. When they were released days later, many found themselves homeless and their neighborhood unrecognizable. No one was prosecuted for crimes committed during the massacre. Months later, Sarah Page told her lawyer she didn’t wish to...
By the spring of 2019, historians began sifting through tips and interviews with more than 300 people. Investigators winnowed down the information from witnesses to the most promising prospects for finding mass graves: Oaklawn Cemetery just east of downtown, Newblock Park and the Canes area just west of downtown along the Arkansas River, and Rollin...
In July 2020, after a slight delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team began test excavations at Oaklawn. A backhoe removed soil layer by layer, inches at a time, as archaeologists watched carefully for subtle changes in soil color and texture, and for any hint of a burial. Gravedigging involves removing soil to the depth of several feet, then r...
The team then tried to locate the burials that Clyde Eddy saw, with no luck. Finally, the investigators turned their attention to the area of the Black potter’s field and the two marked graves, a site they dubbed the Original 18, for those 18 Black men mentioned in the funeral home records. Based on newspaper accounts and funeral home records, the ...
Putting names to the deceased will be hard, and could take years. Because the death certificates of the Original 18 had scant details and listed most individuals as having died from gunshot wounds, no document has enough unique information to aid identification efforts. DNA would give the team its best chance at an ID, but after a century, any DNA ...
Reckoning with what happened in 1921 means looking at the victims as people, not just death statistics, Odewale says. “We need to talk about how they lived, not just how they died.” Odewale leads an effort to understand the aftermath of the massacre. The goal of this work, which is happening at the same time as the mass graves project, is to search...
West Street at Lamar Street. Jackson, Mississippi 39201. Phone: (601) 960-1891. Website. Jackson's original, historic burial grounds, the burial site of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty, six Confederate brigadier generals, over 100 soldiers and past governors of Mississippi.
Greenwood Cemetery is a cemetery located in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. Mapcarta, the open map.
Greenwood Cemetery (Google Maps). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Greenwood Cemetery. Greenwood Cemetery, located in downtown Jackson, was established by a federal land grant on November 21, 1821. It is the final resting place of Confederate generals, former governors of Mississippi, mayors of Jackson, as well as other notable figures, including the acclaimed Mississippi author Eudora Welty.
