- Additional Authors
- Description
- xvi, 204 pages illustrations (black and white); 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Alternative Title
- Baltimore's historic Laurel Cemetery
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Story of Laurel Cemetery / Elgin Klugh and Isaac Shearn -- "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" Resurrecting Baltimore's Laurel Cemetery / Edward C. Papenfuse -- Laurel Cemetery : Key to Unlocking Baltimore's African American History / Donna Tyler Hollie -- Creating a Legacy of Activism / Beverly B. Carter -- "Gather around their sacred remains" : An Overview of the Laurel National Cemetery / Robert W. Schoeberlein -- Not Without a Fight : The Decline and Closure of Laurel Cemetery / Isaac Shearn -- Public Archaeology at Laurel Cemetery / Ronald A. Castanzo -- Archival Research : Reconstructing the burial population of Laurel Cemetery / Glenn A. Blackwell -- Reconciling the Landscape : Public Engagement and Placemaking at the site of Laurel Cemetery / Elgin Klugh.
- ISBN
- 9781538156131
- 153815613X
- 9781538156148 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022046318
- OCLC
- YBP 2022046318
- Title
A place for memory : Baltimore's historic Laurel Cemetery / edited by Isaac Shearn and Elgin Klugh.
- Publisher
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
unmediated
- Type of Carrier
volume
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
Shearn, Isaac, 1982- editor.
Klugh, Elgin, 1973- editor.
- Other Form:
Online version: Place for memory Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023] 9781538156148 (DLC) 2022046319