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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — The Path of Thorns and Roses sculpture by Mario Chiodo stands as the centerpiece of the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, featuring six allegorical bronze figures representing Oppression, Struggle, Sacrifice, Loss, Compassion, and Hope. Created in 2013 and cast by Mussi Artworks Foundry in California, the 18-foot sculpture depicts the Hope figure holding an unbloomed Rose of Freedom while standing on tiptoes to avoid the thorns of oppression below. The memorial, dedicated in September 2014, honors 1,711 documented African Americans who died between 1864-1869 an-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A bronze relief sculpture depicting children learning to read at an Alexandria freedmen's school forms part of the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, dedicated in 2014. The relief, created by local sculptor Joanna Blake, illustrates the educational initiatives that emerged within Alexandria's Civil War-era African American community, where contraband schools achieved remarkable participation rates with 400 children attending daily classes by 1864. The memorial commemorates 1,711 documented African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in the cemet-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — The Path of Thorns and Roses sculpture by Mario Chiodo stands as the centerpiece of the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, featuring six allegorical bronze figures representing Oppression, Struggle, Sacrifice, Loss, Compassion, and Hope. Created in 2013 and cast by Mussi Artworks Foundry in California, the 18-foot sculpture depicts the Hope figure holding an unbloomed Rose of Freedom while standing on tiptoes to avoid the thorns of oppression below. The memorial, dedicated in September 2014, honors 1,711 documented African Americans who died between 1864-1869 an-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A bronze relief sculpture depicting children learning to read at an Alexandria freedmen's school forms part of the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, dedicated in 2014. The relief, created by local sculptor Joanna Blake, illustrates the educational initiatives that emerged within Alexandria's Civil War-era African American community, where contraband schools achieved remarkable participation rates with 400 children attending daily classes by 1864. The memorial commemorates 1,711 documented African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in the cemet-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A bronze relief sculpture depicting children learning to read at an Alexandria freedmen's school forms part of the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, dedicated in 2014. The relief, created by local sculptor Joanna Blake, illustrates the educational initiatives that emerged within Alexandria's Civil War-era African American community, where contraband schools achieved remarkable participation rates with 400 children attending daily classes by 1864. The memorial commemorates 1,711 documented African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in the cemet-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A bronze relief sculpture depicting children learning to read at an Alexandria freedmen's school forms part of the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, dedicated in 2014. The relief, created by local sculptor Joanna Blake, illustrates the educational initiatives that emerged within Alexandria's Civil War-era African American community, where contraband schools achieved remarkable participation rates with 400 children attending daily classes by 1864. The memorial commemorates 1,711 documented African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in the cemet-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A bronze relief sculpture depicts a family fleeing slavery at the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, with the inscription 'Fleeing slavery for sanctuary and freedom in Alexandria.' The artwork by local sculptor Joanna Blake is part of the memorial dedicated in 2014 to honor 1,711 African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in the historic cemetery. The cemetery was established in March 1864 on confiscated Confederate land to serve Alexandria's contraband and freedmen community during the Civil War. The site gained national significance in Decemb-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A bronze relief sculpture depicts a family fleeing slavery at the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, with the inscription 'Fleeing slavery for sanctuary and freedom in Alexandria.' The artwork by local sculptor Joanna Blake is part of the memorial dedicated in 2014 to honor 1,711 African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in the historic cemetery. The cemetery was established in March 1864 on confiscated Confederate land to serve Alexandria's contraband and freedmen community during the Civil War. The site gained national significance in Decemb-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A bronze relief sculpture depicts a family fleeing slavery at the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, with the inscription 'Fleeing slavery for sanctuary and freedom in Alexandria.' The artwork by local sculptor Joanna Blake is part of the memorial dedicated in 2014 to honor 1,711 African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in the historic cemetery. The cemetery was established in March 1864 on confiscated Confederate land to serve Alexandria's contraband and freedmen community during the Civil War. The site gained national significance in Decemb-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Bronze tablets displaying names from the Gladwin Record line the memorial walls at the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, documenting 1,711 African Americans who died between 1864-1869. The memorial honors individuals who fled slavery during the Civil War and found refuge in Union-occupied Alexandria, where they established one of the largest contraband communities in Virginia. Bronze icons next to certain names indicate that living descendants have been identified through ongoing genealogical research led by Char McCargo Bah, who has traced over 1,000 descendan-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A bronze relief sculpture depicts a family fleeing slavery at the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, with the inscription 'Fleeing slavery for sanctuary and freedom in Alexandria.' The artwork by local sculptor Joanna Blake is part of the memorial dedicated in 2014 to honor 1,711 African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in the historic cemetery. The cemetery was established in March 1864 on confiscated Confederate land to serve Alexandria's contraband and freedmen community during the Civil War. The site gained national significance in Decemb-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Bronze inscriptions on the memorial walls display the names of individuals buried in the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery, established in March 1864 as the final resting place for 1,711 African Americans who died between 1864-1869. The cemetery served formerly enslaved people who sought freedom within Union lines during the Civil War, with detailed burial records maintained by Reverend Albert Gladwin documenting names, ages, and death dates of those interred. The site gained national significance in December 1864 when 443 United States Colored Troops soldiers successful-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Bronze inscriptions on the memorial walls display the names of individuals buried in the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery, established in March 1864 as the final resting place for 1,711 African Americans who died between 1864-1869. The cemetery served formerly enslaved people who sought freedom within Union lines during the Civil War, with detailed burial records maintained by Reverend Albert Gladwin documenting names, ages, and death dates of those interred. The site gained national significance in December 1864 when 443 United States Colored Troops soldiers successful-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — The Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial honors 1,711 African Americans who died between 1864-1869 and were buried in this Civil War-era cemetery established by Union military authorities in March 1864. The memorial plaza features 'The Path of Thorns and Roses,' an 18-foot bronze sculpture by Mario Chiodo depicting six allegorical figures representing the journey from oppression to hope, surrounded by stone walls displaying the names of all documented burials from the Gladwin Record. The site protects 631 identified grave locations with flush stone markers while co-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — An inscription in the floor stones at the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial reads '1955 GAS STATION' and explains that the concrete floor of a gas station that desecrated many graves was kept in place to protect remaining burials below. The memorial, dedicated in 2014, preserves the final resting place of 1,711 documented African Americans who died between 1864-1869 after fleeing slavery during the Civil War. The cemetery was established in March 1864 on confiscated Confederate land and became the site of one of the first successful civil rights protests when 44-stock-foto
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ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — Grave markers inscribed with 'Grave of a Child' mark burial sites at the Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery Memorial, where over 50 percent of the 1,711 documented burials were children under age 5. The cemetery served as the final resting place for African Americans who fled slavery and died between 1864-1869 during the Civil War era. Established in March 1864 by Union military authorities on confiscated Confederate land, the cemetery documented extreme childhood mortality rates caused by overcrowding, inadequate sanitation, and epidemic diseases including smallpox, typh-stock-foto
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These African Americans enlisted with Union Forces as United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the US Civil War and are buried at the Cuffeytown His-stock-foto
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Thirteen African Americans enlisted with Union Forces as United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the US Civil War. They became known as the 'Cuffey-stock-foto
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These African Americans enlisted with Union Forces as United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the US Civil War and are buried at the Cuffeytown His-stock-foto
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January 25, 2021, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: Doula MIAJANELL PEAKE (left) walks with her client JASMINE WORLES at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Tennessee on January 24, 2021. As a doula, Miajenell will support Jasmine with many aspects of her pregnancy and after delivery. (Credit Image: © Karen Focht/ZUMA Wire)-stock-foto
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January 25, 2021, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: JASMINE WORLES is pregnant and has hired a doula to assist her during her pregnancy. As a doula, Miajenell Peake will support Jasmine with many aspects of her pregnancy and after delivery. (Credit Image: © Karen Focht/ZUMA Wire)-stock-foto
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January 25, 2021, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: Doula MIAJANELL PEAKE (left) walks with her client JASMINE WORLES at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Tennessee on January 24, 2021. As a doula, Miajenell will support Jasmine with many aspects of her pregnancy and after delivery. (Credit Image: © Karen Focht/ZUMA Wire)-stock-foto
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January 25, 2021, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: Doula MIAJANELL PEAKE at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Tennessee on January 24, 2021. As a doula, Miajenell will support Jasmine with many aspects of her pregnancy and after delivery. (Credit Image: © Karen Focht/ZUMA Wire)-stock-foto
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January 25, 2021, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: Doula MIAJANELL PEAKE (left) walks with her client JASMINE WORLES at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Tennessee on January 24, 2021. As a doula, Miajenell will support Jasmine with many aspects of her pregnancy and after delivery. (Credit Image: © Karen Focht/ZUMA Wire)-stock-foto
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January 24, 2021, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: JASMINE WORLES is pregnant and has hired a doula to assist her during her pregnancy. As a doula, Miajenell Peake will support Jasmine with many aspects of her pregnancy and after delivery. (Credit Image: © Karen Focht/ZUMA Wire)-stock-foto
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January 24, 2021, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: JASMINE WORLES is pregnant and has hired a doula to assist her during her pregnancy. As a doula, Miajenell Peake will support Jasmine with many aspects of her pregnancy and after delivery. (Credit Image: © Karen Focht/ZUMA Wire)-stock-foto
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At a Los Angeles hospice, a volunteer cheers dying AIDS victims by helping them decorate teddy bears for Christmas presents. Note craft kit in foreground.-stock-foto
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At a Los Angeles hospice, a volunteer cheers a dying AIDS victim by helping him decorate teddy bears for Christmas presents. Note craft kit in foreground.-stock-foto
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An affectionate volunteer hugs a dying AIDS patient at a Los Angeles hospice.-stock-foto
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Dry cow skulls as ornament in Old West theme park in Durango Mexico.-stock-foto
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Unconscious girl lying on boat near beach, drowned swimmer, shipwreck victim-stock-foto
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Untitled (Skull), 1984 – Jean-Michel Basquiat-stock-foto
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June 18, 2015 - Albuquerque, NEW MEXICO, U.S. - 061815.Yvette Kaufman-Bell,, Director of the New Mexico Office of African American Affairs talks about the Prenatal Program aimed at reducing Infant Mortality . The program is funded by the New Mexico State Office of African American Affairs. Photographed on Thursday June 18, 2015. /Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal. (Credit Image: © Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal/ZUMA Wire)-stock-foto
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May 7, 2015 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA - Fresh graves in the Shelby County cemetery, also known as potters field, where many of the babies from Shelby County Tennessee are buried. Most often they are buried in a trench, in pine boxes built by prisoners, with no family members present. Health experts from around the nation and Tennessee attended a summit meeting on infant mortality at the University of Memphis on Thursday. It was the first summit held in nine years, which was when Shelby County found itself leading the country in Infant Mortality. Many Memphis zip codes had infant death rates hi-stock-foto
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May 7, 2015 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA - Health experts from around the nation and Tennessee attended a summit meeting on infant mortality at the University of Memphis on Thursday. It was the first summit held in nine years, which was when Shelby County found itself leading the country in Infant Mortality. Many Memphis zip codes had infant death rates higher than some Third World countries. At the time, the death rate for black children remained almost three times higher than the rate among white infants. The topic Thursday: the ongoing disparity in the death rates for white and black babies. W-stock-foto
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May 7, 2015 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA - Fresh graves in the Shelby County cemetery, also known as potters field, where many of the babies from Shelby County Tennessee are buried. Most often they are buried in a trench, in pine boxes built by prisoners, with no family members present. Health experts from around the nation and Tennessee attended a summit meeting on infant mortality at the University of Memphis on Thursday. It was the first summit held in nine years, which was when Shelby County found itself leading the country in Infant Mortality. Many Memphis zip codes had infant death rates hi-stock-foto
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May 7, 2015 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA - Fresh graves in the Shelby County cemetery, also known as potters field, where many of the babies from Shelby County Tennessee are buried. Most often they are buried in a trench, in pine boxes built by prisoners, with no family members present. Health experts from around the nation and Tennessee attended a summit meeting on infant mortality at the University of Memphis on Thursday. It was the first summit held in nine years, which was when Shelby County found itself leading the country in Infant Mortality. Many Memphis zip codes had infant death rates hi-stock-foto
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May 7, 2015 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA - RENAISA S. ANTHONY MD, MPH from the University of Nebraska Medical Center speaks at a infant mortality summit. Health experts from around the nation and Tennessee attended a summit meeting on infant mortality at the University of Memphis on Thursday. It was the first summit held in nine years, which was when Shelby County found itself leading the country in Infant Mortality. Many Memphis zip codes had infant death rates higher than some Third World countries. At the time, the death rate for black children remained almost three times higher than the rate-stock-foto
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May 7, 2015 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA - Fresh graves in the Shelby County cemetery, also known as potters field, where many of the babies from Shelby County Tennessee are buried. Most often they are buried in a trench, in pine boxes built by prisoners, with no family members present. Health experts from around the nation and Tennessee attended a summit meeting on infant mortality at the University of Memphis on Thursday. It was the first summit held in nine years, which was when Shelby County found itself leading the country in Infant Mortality. Many Memphis zip codes had infant death rates hi-stock-foto
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May 7, 2015 - Memphis, Tennessee, USA - RENAISA S. ANTHONY MD, MPH from the University of Nebraska Medical Center speaks at a infant mortality summit. Health experts from around the nation and Tennessee attended a summit meeting on infant mortality at the University of Memphis on Thursday. It was the first summit held in nine years, which was when Shelby County found itself leading the country in Infant Mortality. Many Memphis zip codes had infant death rates higher than some Third World countries. At the time, the death rate for black children remained almost three times higher than the rate-stock-foto
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