OPINION | For decades, the white residents of the area were largely unaware of the cemetery. Yet despite its existence being known today, city government seems to prefer the truth to remain buried so that it can sell the land for more than $50 million.
, and then as the foundation for the apartment complex was being dug, body parts were discovered.
Additionally, his clients have also created a nonprofit called the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition that has been raising awareness of this American atrocity and fighting to preserve the bodies of their ancestors....after the intimidation from the KKK, various government policies that priced out Black residents, and unscrupulous developers that tricked Black people into giving up their land, the Black community on River Road had disappeared.
In her 2021 decision, Judge Smith stated that “The Court cannot ignore that the Plaintiffs, African Americans, are seeking to preserve the memory of their relatives and those with whom they share a cultural affiliation. Nor can the Court ignore that as early as the 1930s when construction began in the River Road community, the deceased have been forgotten, forsaken, and their final resting places destroyed or, at a minimum, desecrated.
In essence, the HOC is attempting to use the desecration of Black bodies and graves from the past, as a justification for desecrating them in the present.
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