Louisiana cemetery changes 'whites only' contract after Black sheriff's deputy denied burial

[Northeast Agent]

Louisiana cemetery changes contract after Black deputy denied burial

The board of Oaklin Springs Cemetery held an emergency meeting Thursday to change the provision which had been in the sales contracts since the cemetery was founded in the late 1950s, according to board president H. Creig Vizena. He said the board removed the word “white” from a line in the a contract that previously said “for the burial of the remains of white human beings.”

 

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[Lawsonhj1]

I came to Arizona in 1994 when the big funeral chain purchased two new cemeteries in AZ. Both of them were developed 1940 era were issuing certificates of interment ( deeds) for the interment of Caucasian human remains. That practice was done away with long before I got there but once in a while someone would find and bring in an old deed.