
Historic African American cemeteries

Grave of William "Willie" Alpheus Price (b. 1912; d, 1915) at Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2025

Toppled headstone for Edward Carter at Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2025

Toy found in a pile of illegally dumped garbage at Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2025


Rinsing Sadie W. Christian's marker at Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2024

Grave marker for Mrs. Annie Carter Pickles (b. unknown; d. 1922) at Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2024

Rusted temporary markers at East End Cemetery, Henrico Co./Richmond, VA, 2023

Jasper family plot, Evergreen Cemetery, 2025

Soldiers from Ft. Gregg-Adams—formerly Ft. Lee, for Robert E.—search for headstones that mark the graves of veterans where they will plant US flags to honor their service. Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond VA. Veterans Day, 2023.

Morning at East End Cemetery, Henrico Co., VA, 2016


Self-portrait in western section of Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2023

The Bolling family plot at Evergreen Cemetery, a historic African American burial ground in Richmond, VA. 2024

Mt. Zion–Female Union Band cemeteries, two long-abused African American burial grounds in the middle of the famously affluent Georgetown neighborhood. Washington, DC, 2023

Members of the Knight family tend to the family plot at East End Cemetery on Memorial Day weekend, Henrico County, VA, 2018

Longview Cemetery, Knoxville, TN. 2017

Mr. Artie Jefferson tends to the burial plot of his life partner, Patricia Ann Hardy, Evergreen Cemetery, 2016.

Sam Coleman visits the grave of his great-grandparents, Hannah Hardaway Johnson and William I. Johnson, a Civil War veteran, for the first time, East End Cemetery, Henrico Co., VA, 2023

Cowan family burial plot, Evergreen Cemetery, Richmond, VA, 2023

Volunteers clear a section of the historic East End Cemetery, in Henrico County/Richmond, VA, 2016

Elmerton Cemetery, Hampton VA. 2019




















