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Homegoing celebration for Wiliam T. Judge Stone, owner of Whiting’s Funeral Home, Williamsburg, VA, 2018
Visiting pastor Leslie L. Holloway of Oak Grove Baptist Church leads Sunday worship at Mt. Pilgrim Baptist, Williamsburg, VA, 2015
A Bible, torn and torched, lies on the floor of the former Shiloh Baptist Church, now abandoned and derelict, once an African American congregation, Gloucester Point, VA, 2017
Headstone of Mathew (also Matthew) Palmer, my great-grandfather, at Old Orchard Cemetery, an African American burial ground within the confines of Camp Peary–Armed Forces Experimental Training Activity, VA, 2012
Former site of Uniontown, an African American community founded by escaped enslaved people during the Civil War that existed until uprooted in the second half of the 20th century by the National Park Service, Yorktown, VA, 2012
Soldiers of the United States Colored Troops—Civil War reenactors—march through downtown Washington, DC, during an event celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Grand Review of United States forces. African American soldiers were excluded from that parade in 1865, even though roughly 180,000 served with the USCT. Countless other African Americans, men and women, aided the cause of the United States against the Confederacy, 2015
Museum of the Confederacy, now merging of the American Civil War Museum, Richmond, VA, 2017
George, Williamsburg, Virginia, 2012
Ed Palmer, Hampton, VA, circa 2002
Petersburg National Battlefield, VA, 2012