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With the help of a $3 ,000 Scholar-in-Residence grant from Mass Humanities, the Trust has launched a project, "Finding Voices in the Silence," to research black history at Forest Hills. The new scholar-in-residence is Sylvia McDowell, a retired librarian and the former board president of the Boston Women's Heritage Trail.
[Cecily Miller] said that while some prom- inent African Americans who died in recent years are known to be there - including activist Elma Lewis, Joseph "Wally" Walcott, founder of Wally 's Café Jazz Club, and Boston Celtics captain Reggie Lewis - no comprehensive list exists of African Americans buried over the ceme- tery's history. The cemetery's re- cords do not specify race or ethnicity, she said."Headstones have only names and dates," Miller said. "To be effective as a memorial, you have to have the 'stories behind the stones.'"See the full content of this document
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Cemetery Project Seeks Unheard Black Voices
The voices of those buried at Forest Hills Cemetery speak volumes about New England's history and culture over the past 1 60 years.
Visitor guides to the 275-acre cemetery highlight the stories of famous white pe...See the full content of this document
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