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

23. 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.

Eddie Gentry, assistant pastor at Zion Hill CME Church, which is about two miles northeast of the forlorn graveyard ... Memphis woman crusades against Black cemeteries' neglect Pinson's campaign ...