During the late 1800s through the mid-1900s, segregated cemeteries sprang up across the United States as emblems of institutional racism. These cemeteries expose an uncomfortable collective history that historian Jane Heffelfinger hopes to shed light on during a presentation at the San Marcos Public Library.
This Wednesday, Sept. 11 historian Heffelfinger will give a presentation on San Marcos’ own African-American segregated cemetery, the San Marcos-Blanco Cemetery, and specifically the soldiers and veterans interred there.
Heffelfinger graduated with her master's from Texas State University in 2018. Now she is working on a series of books that are an extension of her original thesis: "The Continuing Conflict, Resolution, and Compromise Found in African American Burial Sites."
