There are 3 article(s) tagged Zion Christian Cemetery:

• March 2024

  • Cemetery cleanup can’t wash away painful past

    The Zion Community Project’s annual cleanup and wreath-laying ceremony at Memphis’ oldest Black graveyard memorializes victims of the 1892 People’s Grocery Lynching. 

    By Kambui Bomani March 10, 2024

• September 2022

  • The To-Do List: Beer, fit, film and fall fests galore

    This week, hot air balloons ascend over Collierville, dragons dance at Crosstown Concourse and stars are inducted into the Memphis Music Hall of Fame.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry, Chris Herrington September 16, 2022

• March 2021

  • Fundraising for Zion Christian Cemetery will help continue preservation work

    Long-term plans for the cemetery would make it a tourist stop highlighting the accomplishments of the African Americans who are buried there.

    By Linda A. Moore March 17, 2021