Natalie Wallington At the time Highland was founded in 1909, few other cemeteries in the city would allow Black families to purchase a burial plot so loved ones could be interred together.

State officials visited the long-neglected Zion Hill CME Cemetery in Memphis on Tuesday to help identify possible gravesites.

MORE ON CARRIE LOUISE PINSON'S EFFORTS: Unable to find her father's grave, Memphis woman crusades against Black cemeteries ... also was at the graveyard Tuesday, along with the state archeologists ...