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South-View Cemetery is a historic African-American -founded cemetery located approximately 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta, Georgia. An active operational cemetery on over 100 acres of land, it is the oldest African-American cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia and the oldest African-American “non eleemosynary” corporation in the country. [3] .
Description. Located north of Hartsfield-Jackson Airport and south of downtown Atlanta in the Southeast Atlanta neighborhood of Lakewood Heights, South-View Cemetery is, as D.L. Henderson calls it, “an African American City of the Dead.” It includes over 100 rolling acres and serves as eternal home for more than 80,000 people.
The oldest African-American “non eleemosynary” corporation in the country, South-View Cemetery is the final resting place for over 80,000 African Americans. Many of whom have made significant contributions to American history and the struggle for freedom and peace.
South-View Cemetery is the oldest African-American Not-For Profit Corporation in the country and the final resting place for over 70,000 African Americans. Many well known Atlantans are buried in Historic South-View dating back to 1886. South-View Cemetery is located about 15 minutes from downtown Atlanta.
Southview Cemetery is a cemetery in Augusta, Georgia in an area known as "The Avenues". The area became a 15-acre-wide (6.1 ha) cemetery in the 1910s. [1] History. As other cemeteries were at maximum capacity, and were being closed by the city, [2] the need of more space for burials was desperately needed.
Sunday : 9:00am - 5:00pm. Map View. South-View Cemetery was founded in 1886 by formerly enslaved African Americans who protested the treatment they received at Atlanta's segregated cemeteries. Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. and his wife Alberta Williams King are interred in a marble crypt at South-View.
31 lug 2020 · What is South-View Cemetery? Here’s the history John Lewis’ final resting place – WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta. Channel 2?s Justin Farmer talked to the president of South-View Cemetery in...
