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Best Funeral Ever is an American reality television series that aired on the TLC cable network, beginning January 6, 2013. [1]The show took place at the Golden Gate Funeral Home in Dallas, Texas, an African-American family-operated business, and centered primarily on over-the-top and extravagant funerals carried out by the families of the recently deceased.
The Freedman's Cemetery, or Freemen's Cemetery, was established in 1861 as a burial ground for the early African American population in Dallas, Texas. [1] [2] It was an active burial site from 1869 until 1907, supported by the historic Black settlement of Freeman's town founded by formerly enslaved people (the town was located roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) from Deep Ellum, Dallas).
They called a black funeral home in the area to pick up the body. En route to the funeral home, the hearse driver noticed Williams had a faint pulse and was barely breathing, but was still alive. There were no hospitals in the area that would serve blacks, even in the case of a medical emergency; the trip to the nearest veterans' hospital was ...
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, there were few, if any black-owned or black-managed funeral homes. Survivors of deceased blacks were forced to depend on white funeral homes for embalming if they would even agree to service them.
A Black urban ownership class in Oak Cliff began with the purchase of lots by Anthony Boswell in January, 1888. Among those who bought lots in Miller's Four Acres before 1890 were trustees of Elizabeth Chapel C.M.E. Church and El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. [10] Black ownership was largely confined to the Four Acres until the Panic of 1893.
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President Obama and former President George W. Bush spoke Tuesday at a funeral service for the five slain Dallas police officers. There were many powerful moments throughout the service, but there ...