FLDOS Evergreen Oral Histories: African American Burial Grounds Oral History Project
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Interviewer
Antoinette Jackson
Publication Date
Summer 2025
Date
2025-05-22
Abstract
Alan Lewis reflects on Evergreen Cemetery through the stories of his great-grandparents, Lawrence and Patsy McCollum, who are buried there. He also shares that his other great-grandfather, Oscar McCollum, lived in Clearwater and ran a lawn service business. Lewis voices concern about the ongoing erasure of Black cemeteries and stresses the importance of honoring and remembering those laid to rest in them.
Keywords
Evergreen Cemetery (St. Petersburg Fla.), African American cemeteries, Families--History, Memorialization, Preservation, Oscar McCollum, Genealogy, Cemetery erasure
Extent
00:20:10; 11 page transcript
Subject: geographic
Pinellas County (Fla.); St. Petersburg (Fla.); Clearwater (Fla.)
Language
English
Media Type
Oral history
Format
Digital only
Identifier
evergreen_cemetery_1002
Recommended Citation
Lewis, Alan O., "Alan O. Lewis Oral History Interview" (2025). FLDOS Evergreen Oral Histories: African American Burial Grounds Oral History Project. 3.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/evergreen_oral_histories/3
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