Radar reveals 4,224 unmarked African-American graves in city-owned cemetery, more than 3 times the previous estimate. Grave markers were removed in 1994 and have been lost.

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Vick Cemetery may hold nearly three times as many unmarked African American graves as previously thought. “One was a sense of gratitude that we now have this information, that we now have a better sense of what Vick Cemetery was at one point and how large an institution it would have been in the community, but at the same time, there was anger and sadness that the resting places of more than 4,000 people, including people who were directly related to me, have been neglected,” Henderson said. ”Stevens said a forum on the cemetery’s future would be well attended

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