Volunteer Brenda Jones plants flowers at Maggie L. Walker’s gravesite in this March 11, 2017, photo of work being done to restore and improve Evergreen Cemetery after decades of neglect.
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Evergreen Cemetery receives international recognition
Evergreen Cemetery, the historic burial ground of such Richmond greats as businesswoman Maggie L. Walker and crusading newspaper editor John Mitchell Jr. as well as thousands of other African-Americans, has just garnered international recognition.
