Andy (River) Peterson

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Andy (River) Peterson @kansasalps

Anderson and tens of thousands of other, mostly black, bodies were dug up and transplanted to the Maryland suburbs when the cemetery hit financial troubles in the late 1950s. Their tombstones were not. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 19, 2019 Hibernated

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When Anderson died he was buried, along with many other black intellectuals and freedom fighters, in what was then Columbian Harmony Cemetery. It’s now a metro parking lot. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 19, 2019 Hibernated

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Kayakers found some of the gravemarkers along the banks of the Potomac decades later. News reports at the time indicated the memorials were used as rubble. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 19, 2019 Hibernated