Confederate group, activists hold competing ceremonies at Chicago cemetery
by Elvia Malagon, Chicago Tribune
Apr 23, 2018
3 minutes
CHICAGO - The differences start in how the burial markers look at Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side.
One, a Confederate Mound, lists the names of thousands of Confederate soldiers who were captured and died at Camp Douglas in Chicago. It's topped with a bronze statute of a Confederate infantry soldier. Farther north, a simple gravestone marks where famed African-American journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was buried. She shares a gravestone with her husband that states, "Crusaders For Justice," under their
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