East Texas Town Removes Fence Between White, Black Cemeteries

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/texas-news/east-texas-town-removes-fence-between-white-black-cemeteries/2408214/


Another lingering relic of the Jim Crow era was being ripped from the ground this week in a small East Texas town.

Municipal crews were digging up a fence between two adjacent but separate historically Black and historically white cemeteries in Mineola, about 75 miles east of Dallas.

The removal project began with a Wednesday morning ceremony and is expected to take four days, said David Collett, president of Cedars Memorial Garden, the cemetery historically reserved for the graves of white people.

"It was a very emotional moment," he said.

Pastor Demetrius Boyd of the predominantly Black St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church in Mineola said that although removing the fence was the Black community's desire for decades, he began working toward it since arriving in 2007.

Boyd said he persuaded the Cedars board to allow an easement from its U.S. 69 front gate to the City Cemetery, which had been accessed only from an obscure entrance from a back road.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. Old timey gospel - 'We'll all be white in the heavenly light.'

Old timey gospel -

'We'll all be white in the heavenly light.'

Newer playings have changed that phrase.

[GulfCoast66]

2. East Texas, West Louisiana and Southwest Arkansas are the most racist part of the nation

Read it in a study on racism in America. I was not surprised. That where my family is from.

Until the ACLU got involved a few year ago Webster Parish Louisiana still had overtly Christian teaching in their High School's agenda.

Funny how white evangelist Christians and racist have such overlapping Venn diagrams.

But there a good democrats even there. I am kin to some.