The Avondale Burial Place and the African American Burial Grounds Network

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Dr. Joe Joseph discussing the African Burial Ground Network Bill in Congress, and efforts to preserve Black history.

Undocumented African American burials are threatened, and unfortunately sometimes developed and lost, because our nation has failed to recognize these spaces. Living in impoverished conditions, facing legal and financial restrictions from purchasing lands for burial as well as burial markers, African American burial grounds were frequently placed on lands belonging to others and impermenently marked. In the South, the Great Migration led many African Americans to relocate to northern and Midwestern industrial cities, severing the links between social memory and burial spaces. This presentation will include viewing of a video documentary on the Avondale Burial Place in Georgia, followed by a discussion of efforts to create an African American Burial Grounds Network Act in the U.S. Congress to provide descendants with the resources needed to recognize, protect, restore and maintain these lost landmarks of the African American past. 



Bio

Dr. J.W. Joseph holds a PhD in Historical Archaeology and is a Registered Professional Archaeologist. He has worked with African American sites across the southern U.S. including cemeteries. As the former President of the Society for Historical Archaeology, he led a burial grounds working group that developed guidance on treating abandoned cemeteries and he worked with the SHA’s Government Affairs Representative to discuss the needs of the African American Burial Grounds. He is a Principal with the cultural resource management consultant New South Associates, based in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

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