National Park Service to study ways to identify and preserve unmarked, abandoned or other burial grounds that relate to the historic African American experience.
who became the first African American woman to earn a Doctorate of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati.
“Black history is American history, and we owe it to future generations to preserve that history,” said Brown, describing Ohio as “a place of refuge” for Black Americans who fled slavery in the South.
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