For Black History Month, reflections on the struggle of the Jackson family in the Town of Hempstead, New York, to make sure a pre-Civil War, slave burial ground, where members of their family are buried, is preserved. The plot is called the Herald Avenue Cemetery in Wantaugh. As of 2007, a recommendation was made to […]
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