
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



















