We have uploaded maps of Gospel Pilgrim Cemetery, including both the gravesites of those interred within cemetery grounds as well as the last known
The Athens Death Project
Viewing the segregated South from its morgue, the Athens Death Project measures racial and socioeconomic disparities in health outcomes and life expectancy during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Legal prohibitions and social inequalities—demanding physical labor, unsanitary working conditions, unequal access to health care, and redlined residential areas—always tell at the morgue. Using Athens-Clarke County death certificates, mortuary records, and cemetery data, this project critically interrogates the lasting effects of racial inequality for Black and white residents. In Athens, Georgia, we have never lived equally and, in turn, we did not and still do not die equally.
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