Place for Memory - Baltimore''s Historic Laurel Cemetery

This book highlights and historicizes underexplored and forgotten people and events associated with Laurel Cemetery (1852-1957), the first non-denominational African American Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland, stressing the importance of their work in laying the social, economic, and political foundation for Baltimore's African American community.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Story of Laurel Cemetery
Authors: Elgin Klugh and Isaac Shearn
PART ONE
Chapter 2:"Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Resurrecting Baltimore's Laurel Cemetery
Author: Edward C. Papenfuse
Chapter 3: Laurel Cemetery: Key to Unlocking Baltimore's African American History
Author: Donna Tyler Hollie
Chapter 4:Creating a Legacy of Activism
Author: Beverly B. Carter
Chapter 5:"Gather around their sacred remains": An Overview of the Laurel National Cemetery
Author: Robert W. Schoeberlein
Chapter 6:Not Without a Fight: The Decline and Closure of Laurel Cemetery
Author: Isaac Shearn
PART TWO
Chapter 7:Public Archaeology at Laurel Cemetery
Author: Ronald A. Castanzo
Chapter 8:Archival Research: Reconstructing the burial population of Laurel Cemetery
Author: Glenn A. Blackwell
Chapter 9:Reconciling the Landscape: Public Engagement and Placemaking at the site of
Laurel Cemetery
Author: Elgin Klugh
Chapter 10:Afterword
Author: Elgin Klugh
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
About the Editors

About the author

Edited by Isaac Shearn and Elgin Klugh

Product details

• Authors: Isaac Klugh Shearn
• Assisted by: Elgin Klugh (Editor), Isaac Shearn (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.02.2023
• EAN: 9781538156131
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-5613-1
• No. of pages: 220
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, Local History, Relating to African American people, History of the Americas, Black & Asian Studies, Northeastern & North Atlantic States, US Northeast: Mid-Atlantic States