A community coalition in Maryland has provided "overwhelming evidence" that a portion of a suburban Washington apartment complex was used as a burial ground for freed Black slaves and their descendants and "many bodies likely still remain on the property," a state judge ruled Monday in a case by the group to thwart the sale of the property.
The group had furnished historical accounts indicating the gravesite — known as Moses Cemetery — was paved over with asphalt for a parking lot when the apartments went up in the late s.
The coalition accused the commission of violating state law by failing to get court approval for the apartment complex's sale, which is normally required when cemetery property is involved. Judge Karla Smith of the Montgomery County Circuit Court denied a motion by the commission seeking to dismiss the suit, while granting a preliminary injunction to halt the sale.
In making her decision, Smith wrote that there is a public interest in preserving the property and there was nothing in the county's contract to compel the potential new owner to do so. Moses Cemetery, which operated from to , is what's left of a historic Black community in Bethesda's River Road enclave.
Last month, Smith heard more than 12 hours of testimony during an emergency hearing in the case, including from a man who is one of the only surviving members of the River Road section, which disappeared when Black families were squeezed out by developers in the s.
Harvey Matthews, who is in his 70s, testified that as a boy he recalled seeing some grave markers before many were destroyed during construction of Westwood Tower. Smith said it was critical to hear from community members, including the descendants of those who were last known to have been buried at the cemetery.
Steven Lieberman, an attorney for the coalition, said the county could choose to appeal the ruling and attempt to get it reversed, or follow state law and obtain court approval for any future sale.
In a statement Tuesday, the Housing Opportunities Commission said it intends to pursue a legal path for a plan that would allow the sale to advance. Efforts to protect unmarked Black graves across the country have ramped up in recent years as researchers say the sites have become increasingly endangered for a variety of reasons, including development, a lack of historical record-keeping, no political willpower to save them, and climate change.
Lieberman said the victory in Montgomery County could serve as a blueprint in other places with similar laws. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, president of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition, said the group is still seeking accountability and would like the land to be returned to the Black community and a local Black church to be properly memorialized. She sees the court ruling as a direct opposition to the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision that determined even freed slaves were not American citizens.
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