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Highland Cemetery
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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.
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2007-04-04
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Photograph
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Highland Cemetery
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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.
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2007-04-04
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Photograph
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Highland Cemetery
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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.
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2007-04-04
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Photograph
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Highland Cemetery
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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.
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2007-04-04
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Photograph
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Highland Cemetery, Gravestone for Lafayette A. Tillman
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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.
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2007-04-04
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Photograph
