Historic African American cemeteries
Grave marker for Mrs. Annie Carter Pickles (b. unknown; d. 1922) at Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2024
Rusted temporary markers at East End Cemetery, Henrico Co./Richmond, VA, 2023
Soldiers from Ft. Gregg-Adams—formerly Ft. Lee, for Robert E.—search for headstones that mark the graves of veterans where they will plant US flags to honor their service. Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond VA. Veterans Day, 2023.
Morning at East End Cemetery, Henrico Co., VA, 2016
Self-portrait in western section of Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2023
The Bolling family plot at Evergreen Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground in Richmond, VA. 2024
Mt. Zion–Female Union Band cemeteries, two long-abused African American burial grounds in the middle of the famously affluent Georgetown neighborhood. Washington, DC, 2023
Workday at Geer Cemetery, Durham NC. 2018
Peterborough Cemetery, burying ground founded in the early 19th century by and for the small African American community of Warren, Maine. Several Civil War veterans, soldiers of the segregated United States Colored Troops, are buried here. 2021
Members of the Knight family tend to the family plot at East End Cemetery on Memorial Day weekend, Henrico County, VA, 2018
Longview Cemetery, Knoxville, TN. 2017
Mr. Artie Jefferson tends to the burial plot of his life partner, Patricia Ann Hardy, Evergreen Cemetery, 2016.
Sam Coleman visits the grave of his great-grandparents, Hannah Hardaway Johnson and William I. Johnson, a Civil War veteran, for the first time, East End Cemetery, Henrico Co., VA, 2023
White’s Grove Cemetery, Norlina NC. 2018
Cowan family burial plot, Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2023
Volunteers clear a section of the historic East End Cemetery, in Henrico County/Richmond, VA, 2016
Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2022
Maggie Lena Walker and family burial plot, Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2022
Elmerton Cemetery, Hampton VA. 2019