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Photographer: Richard E. Miller
Taken: April 26, 2014
Caption: Chinese Memorial wall, erected in 2010
Additional Description: "... The extension of the [L.A. Metro Rail] Gold Line in 2005 brought Evergreen's ugly past of racial discrimination into the spotlight. A crew digging under a large 1950s retaining wall that bordered the potter's field portion of the cemetery unearthed the remains of more than 100 people, most of them Asian males. Jade bracelets, rice bowls, opium pipes, and a few gravestones were also found. It seems that after the Chinese stopped their burials, the cemetery slowly erased almost all signs that the Chinese had ever been there at all. The remains were reburied with honor at Evergreen, and a 'Memorial Wall' was erected in 2010 next to the restored 1888 ceremonial shrine."
Submitted: May 27, 2014, by Richard E. Miller of Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p274424
File Size: 0.141 Megabytes

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