Concrete grave marker in an abandoned African American cemetery, Montgomery County, Maryland.
My latest article for The Activist History Review explores more than a century of serial displacement in two Washington area neighborhoods with a common connection: Bethesda’a Moses Cemetery.
People who lived in communities destroyed by urban renewal and gentrification frequently frame their narratives about displacement as theft. Their homes, businesses, and churches, they believe are stolen by capitalism. Spaces for the dead are among those stolen and erased.
For the rest of the story, read The Moses Cemetery: Where Serial Displacement Meets History.
© 2017 D.S. Rotenstein
