Chinese settlers' remains to be reburied
China Daily | Updated: 2010-03-10 07:59
Buddhist monk Jangchub Chophel, from Long Beach, Calif., blesses a memorial wall honoring the 174 burial remains at Evergreen Cemetery east of downtown Los Angeles on Monday. The remains of some of the US's earliest Chinese settlers, whose graves were discovered five years ago, will soon be reburied in a cemetery that once denied them entry. Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press |
174 burial sites dating back to the 1880s were lost in an era of racially segregated cemeteries in the American West
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