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DC’s oldest Black cemeteries commemorate Juneteenth with community education, preservation
By Carly Cavanaugh and Diana Anos,
June 20, 2025
On Juneteenth, the Black Georgetown Foundation gathered visitors at the city’s oldest Black cemeteries to reflect on and preserve the neighborhood’s Black history.
Just beyond Q Street, beside the brick walls of Dumbarton House, lie the Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society Cemeteries —the two oldest Black cemeteries in the District. On Juneteenth, the Foundation held an event at the site, inviting attendees to walk the grounds and offering a window into the cemetery’s history and ongoing preservation efforts. (click here for the full story)
Howard University's WHUT presents The Legacy Series - Living a Legacy. Georgetown resident descendants share family and personal insights into life in historical Georgetown - unique perspectives of living in an integrated yet segregated community.
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Discovery Science Channel's series on The Underground Railroad highlights burial grounds preservation and public education efforts at the Mt Zion Cemetery in Georgetown, Washington, DC. Mt Zion Cemetery is the oldest Black cemetery in Washington, DC, and it served as the final resting place for free and enslaved Black persons beginning in 1808.
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D.C. youth volunteer to preserve long-neglected and historic Black cemeteries
Sep 3, 2024 6:25PM EDT
"Voices of Zion", an Immersive Music-Theater Experience in Observance of the 160th DC Emancipation Day
Giving Voice to the Ancestors in the Oldest Black Cemeteries in Washington, DC
Special Premiere Performance at THEARC, Saturday, April 16th
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Washington Post
While working to restore two historic Black cemeteries, she discovered a construction crew digging on burial grounds
,Theresa Vargas, Columnist, October 9, 2021
NBC News Washington DC
Celebrating Emancipation Day in DC
By Tom Segrave, NBC News, April 16, 2021
The Washington Post
Someone keeps leaving toys and birthday cards at a 7-year-old’s grave in a historic Black cemetery. No one knows who.
By Theresa Vargas, Columnist, , April 16, 2021
HARVARD LAW TODAY
Harvard Law Bulletin - Fall 2020
Hidden History
Teaching a class concentrated on two predominantly African American cemeteries, Tom Duckenfield ’89 helps uncover the stories of people who may have been forgotten but whose lives mattered
By Lewis Rice, October 15, 2020