' This is not an isolated story, unfortunately.' 'Not just Clearwater, it's nationally from New York, all the way out toward Texas, and all the way down to South Florida where these cemeteries had been built over- erased, marginalized, underfunded and need support in order to make them whole and have this history known,' Jackson told Pelley. O'Neal Larkin watched the excavation and imagined the groundbreaking at the school construction site in 1961.

'All of the information and the data that we collected does indicate that there are additional burials likely below the footprint of that school building,' McKendry said. Teeth at the office building site and bones at the school, which had closed in 2008, because it was obsolete. Inevitably relics included human remains. It excavated just deep enough to confirm what ground penetrating radar had suggested.Ī prayer was said over the site, then they planed the sand and sieved a century of time in search of grave markers or tributes. 'But the bodies were not removed,' McKendry said.Ĭardno found the proof last year. There, in the 1950s, rather than integrate the White community pool, the city said it would move hundreds of bodies to build a Black swimming pool and a Black school. Not far away, the archeologists probed another former cemetery.

Finding reconciliation for abandoned Black cemeteries.

'So there may be hundreds of bodies still at that site?' Pelley asked.

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