Read something that was a shock for me today.

[doc03]

My mother is in very bad health so today I pre-arranged for her funeral. Looking over the cemetery certificate of interment rights I come across the following condition. (No internment shall ever be made except for the remains of members of the white Caucasian race.) I was really suprised at that until I read the date on it 1962. I wonder can they still abide by that clause today?

[Ptah]

1. I was surprised to find that the home my parents purchased in 1967

had a deed restriction that purported to prohibit sale to non-whites.

[doc03]

2. You know it never even occurred to me that cemeteries would be segregated

here, this is Ohio not Alabama. But after thinking about some of the prejudiced a---holes that live around me
I guess I shouldn't be suprised at all.

[Ptah]

3. My experience was in Arizona.

[doc03]

4. Apparently they were permitted to sell whites though n/t

[elleng]

5. May be legal.

http://gehio.blogspot.com/2012/02/segregated-soldiers-in-hillcrest.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/05/us/05race.html



Looking further.

[Zoigal]

6. Many older cemeteries that i've visited have had definite sections

for Jews, too. Blacks normally had their own cemeteries in the Missouri
area that i grew up in. Also different religious groups had their own.
Many families each had their own cemetery (including mine.)
Of course, there were non denominational ones as well.......z