The study provides a case study of the Richmond African American funeral home industry and its role in the African American community's economic system and power structure in the early 20th century, as well as assessing the history of funeral services in Europe and the US, a discussion of reasons w
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This study uses the personal stories of two prominent individuals to examine African American funeral service in Richmond. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
embalming requirements, white funeral directors, church relief societies, fraternal insurance societies, funeral expenditures, funeral directing, slave funerals, death customs, funeral industry, enclave theory, commercial insurance companies, insurance enterprises, fraternal societies, death payments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, United States, Richmond Planet, Civil War, National Benefit, Virginia Mutual, New York-London, Brother Jesse, South Carolina, True Reformers, Federal Trade Commission, Judge Gunn, Jesse Harding, Metropolitan Life, Cook County, Southern Aid Messenger, Bight of Biafra, New World, North Carolina, British North America, Hot Springs, John Lewis, West African, World War, Burial Survey New!
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This study uses the personal stories of two prominent individuals to examine African American funeral service in Richmond. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
embalming requirements, white funeral directors, church relief societies, fraternal insurance societies, funeral expenditures, funeral directing, slave funerals, death customs, funeral industry, enclave theory, commercial insurance companies, insurance enterprises, fraternal societies, death payments Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
African American, United States, Richmond Planet, Civil War, National Benefit, Virginia Mutual, New York-London, Brother Jesse, South Carolina, True Reformers, Federal Trade Commission, Judge Gunn, Jesse Harding, Metropolitan Life, Cook County, Southern Aid Messenger, Bight of Biafra, New World, North Carolina, British North America, Hot Springs, John Lewis, West African, World War, Burial Survey New!
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