Geer Cemetery, at 800 Colonial Street, Durham, is one of Durham’s oldest African American burial grounds. Preservation Durham and Friends of Geer Cemetery are hosting a cemetery tour on November 2, 2024, and a talk about the cemetery on November 14, 2024.
Geer Cemetery Tour
Historic Geer Cemetery Tours
Saturday, November 2, 2024
10 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.
$15
Free for Preservation Durham and Friends of Geer Cemetery Members
Created in 1877, this historically segregated cemetery served as the final resting place of Durham’s early emancipated African-Americans into the early 20th century. Here learn about people who lifted themselves up from slavery and endured Jim Crow. Here are buried Durham’s earliest African-American leaders – businessmen and women, educators, and early civil rights activists. Geer Cemetery is an important artifact of the African-American experience in Durham. In recent years it has been the focus of a significant preservation campaign led by the Friends of Geer Cemetery. Because the site is small and fragile, tours will begin at set times and be limited to a small number of people.
Geer Cemetery Talk
Geer Cemetery Talk
Saturday, November 14, 2024
6 p.m.
Chesterfield Building
701 W Main Street, Durham, NC (Suite 2908, off atrium on the 2nd floor)
Free, but space is limited
At 6 p.m. on November 14th, Duke University Professor Dr. Adam Rosenblatt will talk with Debra Taylor Garcia, President of the Friends of Geer Cemetery, about American cemeteries and his latest book, Cemetery Citizens: Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds. The talk is co-sponsored by Preservation Durham and the Museum of Durham History and will take place at the Chesterfield Building downtown. Professor Rosenblatt’s work focuses on the disparate treatment of White and Black Americans in death and the difficulties attendant to reclaiming African-American cemeteries.
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