OUDC 30- Africatown/Mobile ,Alabama - Day 2

OUDC Class 30 attended services at the Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Africatown and then took an extensive tour of the community with a local historian, including a visit to the cemetery where Cudjo Lewis, born Oluale Kossola. the last survivor of the Clotilde passage, is buried.

OUDC at Mt. Zion Female Union Band Cemetery

The participants of Operation Understanding DC (OUDC) recently attended a program at Mt. Zion Female Union Band Cemetery in Georgetown, Washington DC. They learned from Lisa Fager of Black Georgetown about the history, abandonment, and process of restoration of this resting place. Once a sheltering stop on the Underground Railroad, it also marks a significant era of Black life in the nation's capitol. 

Thanks to the staff of OUDC and to Ms. Fager.