September 4, 2024
Douglass cemetery dates back to the 1800s and is the site of more than 2,000 burials of free and enslaved African Americans.
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Michael Johnson is a life-long Alexandrian, born and raised at a time when the city was divided by race. As a kid, he used to play in a field overrun by weeds, not realizing until decades later that it was the Frederick Douglass Memorial Cemetery, a historic African American cemetery where generations of his ancestors are buried.
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