JA Guest Writer
Historic Mt. Olive Cemetery was founded over 125 years by a Black cemetery association as a final resting place for African Americans. This site is the oldest space on the historic John R. Lynch Street Corridor and space that should be remembered.
The cemetery represents four distinct eras in history: slavery, reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. This cemetery depicts a point of beginning for this community and served as a final resting place for prominent African Americans, and remains an intact and visible landmark…