African American Burial Grounds Study Act

African American Burial Grounds Study Act

In conducting the study, the NPS shall consider

• ways to engage with descendant, local, and other communities historically associated with identified burial grounds by geography, genealogy, or culture;
• appropriate processes to identify locations of unmarked and unrecorded African American burial grounds with appropriate consideration for the privacy and safety of the burial grounds;
• alternatives for providing in a public database the locations of, and information on, recorded and unrecorded African American burial grounds;
• alternatives for commemorating and interpreting African American burial grounds; and
• best practices for preserving burial ground landscapes and caring for artifacts.