These May 2016 photos show the impact of cleanup efforts at historic Evergreen Cemetery. The above photo shows one plot before volunteers with the Maggie Walker High School Class of 1967 led by Marvin Harris went to work.
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Righting grave wrongs
Virginia General Assembly approves funds for 2 area historic African-American cemeteries; state has been paying for upkeep of Confederate graves for 100 years
Two historic, but largely abandoned and bedraggled African-American cemeteries on Richmond’s eastern border with Henrico County are about to get state support.
