- Cemetery
- Segregation
- Jim Crow era burials
- City of Atlanta
- Location approximate
Oakland Cemetery's segregated Black section
Atlanta's city cemetery buried Black Atlantans in a separate section beside Potter's Field. Many of its graves are now unmarked.
The record
The Black section, like the adjoining Potter's Field, has few surviving headstones because many markers were wood or other perishable materials, and a large share of the graves there are now unidentified. Notable burials include Bishop Wesley John Gaines, the Rev. Frank Quarles (an early benefactor of Morehouse College), and Carrie Steele Logan, who founded Georgia's first Black orphanage. Antoine Graves built the only mausoleum in the section. Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, was buried in 2003 in the cemetery's original six acres.
Today: Oakland Cemetery, operated as a historic site.
Where on the map: Inside Oakland Cemetery, beside Potter's Field; see the cemetery's own map for the section.