A Community Activist, a Cultural Anthropologist, and an Archaeologist Walk into a Cemetery

Re-establishing Community Pride After a Jim Crow Atrocity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID18968396
AutoresE Bailey (0000-0002-5877-4370, East Carolina University), Charles Ewen, Charles R Ewen (East Carolina University, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume9
Fascículo3
Páginas239-254
Data de publicação2020-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2161-9441 • E-ISSN: 2161-9468
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21619441.2021.1902185
OpenAlexW3153894567
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas12

In 1914, following the passage of Jim Crow segregation laws, over a dozen African American graves were exhumed from the primarily White Cedar Grove Cemetery in New Bern, North Carolina and reburied in the nearby Black Greenwood Cemetery. A century later, local community activists contacted anthropologists at East Carolina University to investigate the site of this atrocity. Archaeological work relocated the reburied remains and found them to be in such poor condition that the city elected to post signage commemorating this history rather than moving the graves yet again. The collaboration between the city and the university was able to produce an acceptable, if not perfect, solution to a potentially volatile problem

Archaeology · Art · Dozen · Political science · Pride · Signage · Sociology · Visual arts · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis