Why Are Black & White Funeral Homes STILL Separate?

"Black people used death to claim humanity." The Collective for Radical Death Studies (Dr. Kami Fletcher, President): https://radicaldeathstudies.com/ Dr. Fletcher's book: Till Death Do Us Part: American Ethnic Cemeteries as Borders Uncrossed https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/Till-Death-Do-Us-Part Thank you Patron deathlings, who make this all possible! http://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath The Co-op Funeral Home of People’s Memorial https://funerals.coop/ ***WAYS TO SUPPORT AND GROW OUR MOVEMENT*** Join our community of deathlings and support Ask a Mortician: https://www.patreon.com/thegooddeath Support the education and advocacy efforts of The Order of the Good Death: https://bit.ly/3iaz9jN Shop our advocacy wear: https://the-order-of-the-good-death.myshopify.com/ ***MORE DEATH CONTENT & RESOURCES*** Books: http://caitlindoughty.com/books MORTAL course: https://www.mortalcourse.com/ Our podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2yK6c6G Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2QZEVEM Google Play: https://bit.ly/2AdEvoj The Order of the Good Death – articles, resources, updates, and more: http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/ ***SOCIALS*** Order Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordergooddeath/ Caitlin Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/thegooddeath Order Twitter: https://twitter.com/OrderGoodDeath ***CREDITS*** Mortician: Caitlin Doughty Producer & Writer: Louise Hung (@LouiseHung1) Editor & Graphics: Landis Blair (@landisblair) The books "To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death" by Suzanne E. Smith and "Passed on: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial" by Karla FC Holloway largely informed the research for this video. Thank you Dr. Smith and Dr. Holloway for your thought-provoking work. ***MUSIC*** Greta Sting by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100530 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Danse Macabre - Busy Strings by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1100556 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ Opheliea's Blues by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/ ***SELECTED SOURCES/ADDITIONAL READING*** To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death Smith, Suzanne E. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts. London, England. 2010. https://www.dukeupress.edu/passed-on Passed on: African American Mourning Stories: A Memorial Holoway, Karla FC. Duke University Press. Durham & London. 2002. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674036215 "THE CITY OF THE DEAD FOR COLORED PEOPLE: BALTIMORE’S MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY, 1807– 2012" Dr. Kami Fletcher, 2013 https://search.proquest.com/openview/19b5e06ad67f0b057fd902de5abb03d3/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y "BALTIMORE’S MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY: AUTONOMOUSLY AFRICAN & FREE FROM WHITE CONTROL" http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/baltimores-mount-auburn-cemetery-autonomously-african-free-white-control "The City of the Dead: The Place of Cultural Identity and Environmental Sustainability in the African-American Cemetery" Jones, Diane. Landscape Journal: design, planning, and management of the land, Volume 30 (2) – Oct 20, 2011 https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-wisconsin-press/the-city-of-the-dead-the-place-of-cultural-identity-and-environmental-k7SPQ3gXKr?articleList=%2Fsearch%3Fquery%3DThe%2BCity%2Bof%2Bthe%2BDead%253A%2BThe%2BPlace%2Bof%2BCultural%2BIdentity%2Band%2BEnvironmental%2BSustainability%2Bin%2Bthe%2BAfrican-American%2BCemetery "The Persistent Racism of America’s Cemeteries" https://slate.com/human-interest/2017/01/america-s-segregated-cemeteries-are-important-troves-of-forgotten-black-history.html "Hidden in Plain Sight: Cemeteries and Civil Rights" https://www.civilrightsafterlife.com/ "Black Female Undertakers in 20th-Century Baltimore" https://www.aaihs.org/black-female-undertakers-in-20th-century-baltimore/