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James Cole
How Charles Diggs Sr. built a funeral home to provide dignified burials for blacks in the 20s
For many years, Charles Diggs Sr. was not happy with the way and manner blacks were buried in the early 1900s. He felt they deserved a better burial, like how whites were being buried in those days. Though James H. Cole charted the path of giving the dead a befitting burial in 1919, Charles popularized…
