Laurel Cemetery Timeline
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Updated: 3 Dec 2019
The timeline for the Laurel Cemetery and the events that surround it
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Created byEfrem Evans Jr
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Laurel Cemetery CreatedRiots over the CemeteryBaltimore ExapndsCemetery parts sold offLaurel Cemetery under new managementReincorporated as New Laurel Cemetery Company.Carl Bacharach and Marvin Mandel propose legislation permitting the sale of cemeteries 75% abandoned.Plessy vs FergusonNAACP FoundedChicago Race RiotsTulsa Race Riots: Destruction of Black Wall StreetStock Market CrashA. Philip Randolph Box Car StrikeMcKamer Reality pays the 100 dollars to buy the cemetery during the bankrupt proceedings.McKamer Reality sells the Laurel Cemetery land for 15,500 dollars to Belair Road Enterprises.Movement of some interred bodies of Laurel Cemetery to Carroll Country MarylandMedger Evers Fights His First CaseBrown vs The Board of EducationRosa Parks Refuses to Move to the Back of the BusMartin Luther King Jr. leads the Bus BoycottBel-Air Edison Crossing Shopping Center Was Built over top of Laurel CemeteryPeriods
African-American Soldiers interred in Laurel Cemetery.Charter of the Cemetery Revoked for non payment of taxesBelair-Edison Improvement Association Lobbies for the demolishing of Laurel CemeteryLawsuits to stop the sale of the cemeteryBankrupt proceedings for Laurel Cemetery.American Civil War
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