Mansfield Community Cemetery

Mansfield Community Cemetery

The photo illustrates the physical legacy of segregation in Mansfield, Texas.

There was a time that even the cemetery in Mansfield, Texas was divided by race. The fence and sign dividing the “Whites Only” cemetery from “The Old Negro Graveyard” still remains. At some point “Negro” was erased and replaced with “Colored,” a sign of changing times. This, one of the last physical signs of Jim Crow in Mansfield, still stands in the Mansfield Cemetery.

Megan Middleton

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2015-03-04