Zion Cemetery

Past.
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Knowledge

Cemeteries & Community

In this lesson plan, students explore the relationship between cemeteries, community identity, and erasure.

Remembrance

Explore the power and place of remembrance through African American burial practices. In this lesson plan,

students will be able to identify and describe the role African American burial traditions play in connecting the present with the past; explore relationships between African American burial traditions and community identity;

and analyze ways material culture associated with burial traditions can inform us about the past.

Urbanization & African American Cemeteries

This lesson plan highlights the relationship between urban growth and forgotten African American cemeteries. Discover the history of Tampa, Florida's old African American Cemetery - Zion Cemetery