The history of African American burial in the United States is a regional history. The plantation South, the free Black communities of the urban Northeast, the homesteading and military settlements of the West, and the industrial Midwest each produced distinct patterns of Black community life and death. Browse the catalog by state below.
South
Alabama 17 cemeteries Arkansas 30 cemeteries Florida 27 cemeteries Georgia 23 cemeteries Kentucky 16 cemeteries Louisiana 18 cemeteries Mississippi 27 cemeteries North Carolina 13 cemeteries South Carolina 44 cemeteries Tennessee 25 cemeteries Texas 46 cemeteries Virginia 36 cemeteries West Virginia 8 cemeteries Maryland 17 cemeteries Delaware 7 cemeteries Oklahoma 16 cemeteries