To Change: Tour of Oakwood's Historic Colored Grounds with descendant Dennis Jacob Berry

Описание

Dennis Berry, direct descendant of Jacob Fontaine, takes you on a walk thru the "Historic Colored Grounds" of Austin's Oakwood Cemetery and introduces his great-great-great grandfather and other prominent black Austinites of days past who laid the footprints for the communities and generations that came after them.
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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Jacob Fontaine
6:48 T.J. Wells
8:13 Eugene "Gene" Ramey
9:20 Dr. Everett H. Givens
11:06 Edward H. Carrington
11:44 Louis D. Lyon
12:47 Mary Francis Freeman Baylor
16:40 Honoring Those Before

Part of "To Change," a digital history exhibit published by the Oakwood Cemetery Chapel.
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