List of African American cemeteries

The list of African American cemeteries includes both active and historic sites. The list is for notable African American cemeteries, and is not an attempt to list all the African American cemeteries in the United States. The listed may include large cemeteries that contain only portions of an African American burials, and former plantations and/or houses with African American cemeteries.


Alabama

Isaac Nettles Gravemarkers
Mount Nebo Cemetery near Carlton, Alabama, one example of the Isaac Nettles Gravestones

Arkansas

Connecticut

Old Center Burying Yard in West Hartford, Connecticut, image of the Connecticut Freedom Trail Monument and assemblage of memorial plaques for the enslaved, and a grave marker for Bristol

Delaware

Florida

African Cemetery at Higgs Beach in Key West, Florida

Georgia (state)

Basket Creek Cemetery near Douglasville, Georgia
South-View Cemetery (2010) in Atlanta, Georgia, grave of Walter Drake Westmoreland

Illinois

Lincoln Cemetery in Blue Island, Illinois

Iowa

Kentucky

African Cemetery No. 2 in Lexington, Kentucky

Louisiana

Girod Street Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana

Maryland

Massachusetts

Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston, Massachusetts

Michigan

Mississippi

Beulah Cemetery in Vicksburg, Mississippi

Missouri

New Hampshire

Portsmouth African Burying Ground Memorial Park in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

New Jersey

New York (state)

Main article: List of African-American cemeteries in New York

North Carolina

See also: Category: African-American cemeteries in North Carolina and African American cemeteries in North Carolina

Ohio

Union Baptist Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

Remley Point Cemetery in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

Tennessee

Toussaint L'Ouverture County Cemetery in Franklin, Tennessee

Texas

Olivewood Cemetery in Houston, Texas

Virginia

See also: Category:African-American cemeteries in Virginia and African burial grounds and historic African American cemeteries of Richmond, Virginia
Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia
Shockoe Hill African Burying Ground in Richmond, Virginia

Washington, D.C.

Mount Zion Cemetery in Washington, D.C.

West Virginia

See also

References

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