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DESCRIPTION:Daily changes in the progress to restore "Dignity and Respect" for early 
 California Pioneers of African descent continues...\n\nMedia update to 
 report progress on the many challenges and opportunities toward providing 
 “Dignity and Respect” for the 36 California pioneers buried within the 
 Negro Hill Section, Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery, El Dorado County, 
 California\n\nWHAT:  	News Conference ~ Negro Hill Cemetery ~ Removal of 36 
 Grave Markers\n\nWHEN:	Thursday, June 9, 2011, 11:00 a.m. PST\n\nWHERE:  
 	West Sacramento River Walk, Waterfront Place, near NE corner Ziggurat 
 Building \n\nWHO:  	Michael Harris, Project Director, Negro Hill Burial 
 Ground and Supporters\n \nSACRAMENTO ~ International, Federal, State and 
 Regional government officials are prepared to acknowledge the extraordinary 
 contributions of early pioneers of African descent who in 1848 established 
 Negro Hill, CA to include:  ministers, scientists, miners, farmers and 
 policy-makers.  \n\nMany early California pioneer ethnic communities openly 
 challenged systemic institutional racism during the California Gold Rush.  
 Negro Hill, CA pioneers successfully challenged the legal 
 disenfranchisement within the 1850 California State Constitution.  Along 
 the way many paid the ultimate sacrifice by openly and through civic 
 discourse challenged the Fugitive Slave Laws and Chattel Slavery throughout 
 Gold Rush California. \n\nMichael Harris, Project Director, Negro Hill 
 Burial Project and supporters will speak at the West Sacramento River Walk, 
 Waterfront Place, NE Corner near the Ziggurat Pyramid on rapidly changing 
 news.\n\nHarris will discuss the continuing challenges and layers of 
 governmental bureaucracy that continues to shroud the authentic golden 
 historic legacy of the early California pioneers of African descent.  
 \n\nThe Project Director will also address the importance creating open, 
 transparent communication toward a positive resolution within Negro Hill 
 Cemetery that can begin a healing process after eliminating the egregious 
 civil and human rights violations that continue to occur.\n\nThe Negro Hill 
 Burial Ground Project remains focused upon establishing an open public 
 process where all community stakeholders, regional residents and impacted 
 communities of interest can participate in a fair and equitable process 
 toward a positive resolution to 36 grave markers that read… \n\nUnknown, 
 Moved from Nigger Hill Cemetery, by U.S. Government in 1954.  \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/08/18681386.php
SUMMARY:Stolen Legacy ~ Restoring "Dignity and Respect" for Negro Hill Pioneers of African Descent
LOCATION:West Sacramento River Walk, Waterfront Place, near NE corner Ziggurat 
 Building 
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/06/08/18681386.php
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