This is the grave of Mary Phagan, plus the pro-lynching propaganda placed there. The story of Mary Phagan is a sad one and also an infuriating one in terms of what happened after her death. The South was changing rapidly in the early 20th century...
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This is the grave of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Born in 1960 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, Basquiat was half-Haitian and half-Puerto Rican. His mother was a big art fan and she took.
This is the grave of David Patterson. Born in 1818 on Cedar Creek, outside of Greeneville, Tennessee, Patterson was the kind of early 19th century riser that personified many of.
This is the grave of John Kemeny. Born in Budapest, Hungary in 1926, Kemeny grew up in a wealthy Jewish family. Obviously, the family was highly concerned with what was going on in Europe and luckily had enough money that an anti-Semitic United States would...
This is the grave of Henry Demarest Lloyd. Born in 1847 in New York City, Lloyd grew up in a middle class family. It was a religious family and they.
This is the grave of Eleazar Wheelock. Born in Windham, Connecticut in 1711, Wheelock grew up in what passed for the elite of the early 18th century, which wasn't really.
This is the grave of James Merrill. Born in 1926 in New York City, Merill grew up extremely wealthy. Like his father is the Merrill of Merrill Lynch levels of wealthy. They had it all--huge apartments in Greenwich Village, a 30 acre farm upstate originally...
This is the grave of Charles Comiskey. Born in 1859 in Chicago, Comiskey grew up in the early Illinois elite. His dad was a long time Irish-American city councilperson, though.
This is the grave of Joe Simon. Born in 1913 in Rochester, New York, Hymie Simon grew up in a Jewish immigrant family, though not from where most Jews were.
This is the grave of Emmett Till. You know, I don't really have anything to say here. We all the know the story of Emmett Till. We all know the horrors of lynching and the terribleness of a murderous Jim Crow society that allowed and...
Even though it wasn't that long ago, we've almost forgotten how pretty progressive policymakers could come from the Rocky Mountain states. As Colorado, New Mexico ,and to a lesser extent.
This is the grave of Alexander Crummell. Born in 1819 in New York City, Crummell grew up in the free Black world there. Remember though that New York was the.