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Veterans pay tribute to overlooked cemetery for Black soldiers
NBC Newsยท2025-11-11 21:32

Once located in the countryside, Rose Hill Cemetery is now surrounded by industrial buildings hard to even see or find unless you know where to look. A cemetery that dates back to the mid 1800s, created during segregation, owned and maintained now by the city. >> Growing up, I mean, it was the black cemetery.It's where the African-Americans all came. When a local VFW Post historian, Jerry Martin, recently learned about the cemetery, he says he was struck to find veterans graves like that of Buffalo Soldier ...