HISTORIC UNITED COLORED AMERICAN CEMETERY

Date: Monday, May 27, 2024.

Time: 12:00 pm

Location: Duck Creek Road. Cincinnati, Ohio, 45227

Historic United Colored American Cemetery was founded in 1883 and includes many graves moved from an earlier cemetery in Avondale (with an earliest legible tombstone from 1832). It is the resting place of Underground Railroad figures as well as writers, politicians, business people, artists, Civil Rights leaders, and many military veterans, including at least 55 African American veterans of the Civil War. Historic United Colored American Cemetery is listed in March 2022 in the National Register of Historic Places in the United States. The Memorial Day Service at Historic United Colored American Cemetery will be conducted by Reverend Alvin L. Wyatt, Associate Minister of Union Baptist Church and feature Keynote Speaker: Dr. Holly Y. McGee, Associate Professor of U.S. History and African American History (University of Cincinnati); and other special invited guests.