The Oak Cliff Cemetery has been undergoing a transformation with the help of volunteers.
On the morning of Juneteenth , dozens of volunteers gathered at Oak Cliff Cemetery in Dallas .Bolden is President of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Alpha Xi Omega Chapter. The sorority is among the volunteer groups who helped clear brush for the Oak Cliff Cemetery Project to reveal gravesites at the neglected cemetery.
"I grew up in Dallas and did not have the faintest idea that this kind of segregated gravesite...this cemetery existed," Bolden said. "I feel like they're looking over us saying thank you for giving of your time, as we did, and giving of your service, as we did, and loving on us today!""Once upon a time, it was overgrown, the African American side was overgrown," Oak Cliff Cemetery Board of Trustees Member Larry Johnson said."We couldn't see about 90% of the headstones and the family plots that were our section of the cemetery.
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