Laura Shackleford was born a slave on a plantation in Bainbridge, GA, in 1861 and lived to be 100. But she was best known for starting anorganization that arranged funerals for poor, black members of theseveral communities where she lived. The group was called the “BurialAid Benevolence Society,” and it had chapters in Georgia and later inElizabeth, Jersey City and…
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