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Title: Highland Cemetery
Description: View of grave markers in Highland Cemetery. Cemetery is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Highland Cemetery
Description: View of the Highland Cemetery sign. Cemetery is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Highland Cemetery
Description: View of grave marker in Highland Cemetery for the Unthank family. Cemetery is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Dr. Thomas Unthank (1866-1932) was a noted African American physician.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Highland Cemetery
Description: View of grave marker in Highland Cemetery for Dr. Thomas Unthank (1866-1932). Cemetery is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Dr. Unthank opened Lange Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, and co-founded, with Dr. S. H. Thompson, Douglass Hospital in Kansas City, Kansas. Both were African American hospitals.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Highland Cemetery, Gravestone for Lafayette A. Tillman
Description: View of grave marker for Lafayette A. Tillman in Highland Cemetery which is located on the west side of Blue Ridge Boulevard between 19th to 21st streets in Independence, Missouri, just east of Kansas City, Missouri. Several noted African Americans are buried here. Lafayette Tillman was a soldier, a scholar, and one of Kansas City’s first African American citizens to be appointed to the police force.
Date: 2007-04-04
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Coda Jazz Fund to Place Marker on Jazz Legend Moten's Grave
Description: Article announces that an engraved marble marker placed at the grave site of Bennie Moten in Highland Cemetery will be unveiled during a ceremony on April 2, 2014. CODA Jazz Fund committee chairperson, Steve Penn is interviewed and explains plans for the ceremony as well as the group's decision to place the marker.
Date: 2014-03-28
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Cemetery Born of Segregation Survives in Limbo
Description: Article documents the current state of Highland Cemetery, located on Blue Ridge Boulevard just outside of Kansas City city limits. A brief history of the cemetery and bios of some of the noteworthy individuals buried there are provided. The author states that Highland Cemetery is in a state of disrepair and that the property is currently owned by the Land Trust of Jackson County, which acquired the property in 2010 because of a tax foreclosure.
Date: 2014-11-23
Object Type: Newspaper Article

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