Cemetery Citizens

Cemetery Citizens
Author: Adam Rosenblatt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1503639126

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how racial disparities shape the fates of the dead, and asks what kinds of repair are still possible. Drawing on interviews, activist anthropology, poems, and drawings, Adam Rosenblatt takes us to gravesite reclamation efforts in three prominent American cities. Cemetery Citizens dives into the ethical quandaries and practical complexities of cemetery reclamation, showing how volunteers build community across social boundaries, craft new ideas about citizenship and ancestry, and expose injustices that would otherwise be suppressed. Ultimately, Rosenblatt argues that an ethic of reclamation must honor the presence of the dead—treating them as fellow cemetery citizens who share our histories, landscapes, and need for care.

Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery

Atlanta's Historic Westview Cemetery
Author: Jeff Clemmons
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018
Genre: ARCHITECTURE
ISBN: 1626199671

In 1884, several leading citizens purchased 577 acres to open Atlanta's Westview Cemetery. The rolling terrain, part of which was a site in the Civil War battle of Ezra Church, became the final resting place for more than 100,000 people. Prominent locals buried here include Grant Park namesake L.P. Grant, author Joel Chandler Harris, High Museum benefactor Harriet High, Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler Sr. and Havertys founder J.J. Haverty. The cemetery's Westview Abbey mausoleum is one of the nation's largest, with more than eleven thousand crypts. Throughout its history, Westview dabbled in other business ventures, including a cafeteria, a funeral home and an ambulance service. And for decades, the cemetery's Westview Floral Company sold flowers to lot owners and local businesses, leading to its own advice column in the Atlanta Constitution. Author Jeff Clemmons traces the complete history of this treasured necropolis.

Digging for the Disappeared

Digging for the Disappeared
Author: Adam Rosenblatt
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 080479488X

The mass graves from our long human history of genocide, massacres, and violent conflict form an underground map of atrocity that stretches across the planet's surface. In the past few decades, due to rapidly developing technologies and a powerful global human rights movement, the scientific study of those graves has become a standard facet of post-conflict international assistance. Digging for the Disappeared provides readers with a window into this growing but little-understood form of human rights work, including the dangers and sometimes unexpected complications that arise as evidence is gathered and the dead are named. Adam Rosenblatt examines the ethical, political, and historical foundations of the rapidly growing field of forensic investigation, from the graves of the "disappeared" in Latin America to genocides in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia to post–Saddam Hussein Iraq. In the process, he illustrates how forensic teams strive to balance the needs of war crimes tribunals, transitional governments, and the families of the missing in post-conflict nations. Digging for the Disappeared draws on interviews with key players in the field to present a new way to analyze and value the work forensic experts do at mass graves, shifting the discussion from an exclusive focus on the rights of the living to a rigorous analysis of the care of the dead. Rosenblatt tackles these heady, hard topics in order to extend human rights scholarship into the realm of the dead and the limited but powerful forms of repair available for victims of atrocity.

Greensboro's First Presbyterian Church Cemetery

Greensboro's First Presbyterian Church Cemetery
Author: Carol Moore
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2006-10-30
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439617414

Historic First Presbyterian Church Cemetery was established in 1831 and over time has survived vandalism, storms, an earthquake, and threats of removal. It is a lasting remembrance to the early citizens of Greensboro who carved a city out of the wilderness. Originally the cemetery was located on the edge of town, but because of Greensboro's growth, it is now nestled in the center of the cultural district behind the Greensboro Historical Museum. Those buried in the cemetery are from all walks of lifefrom wealthy to poor, those with doctorate degrees to the illiterate, the famous to those whose names are lost for all time, the newborn to the centenarian, the saint to the sinner, and the slave owner to the abolitionist. The early builders of the city and state and veterans of four wars now rest in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery.

Journal

Journal
Author: Kentucky. General Assembly. Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1038
Release: 1871
Genre:
ISBN:

Annual Report ...

Annual Report ...
Author: New York (State). Board of Railroad Commissioners
Publisher:
Total Pages: 966
Release: 1893
Genre:
ISBN:

The Laws of Wisconsin

The Laws of Wisconsin
Author: Wisconsin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 842
Release: 1874
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Includes some separate vols. for special sessions.

Annual Report of the Secretary of State ...

Annual Report of the Secretary of State ...
Author: Ohio. Secretary of State
Publisher:
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1907
Genre: Ohio
ISBN:

1868-1909/10, 1915/16- include the Statistical report of the secretary of state in continuation of the Annual report of the commissioner of statistics.