Segregated Cemeteries in Texas

Fellow Blogspot author M. Dot over at Model Minority referred me to an article on the racial ramifications stemming from the murder of a white woman in Texas. The issues leading to those ramifications, however, are of a new variety in my experience. The conflict in question isn't how her death was covered in the news, but rather where her unidentified body would be buried. Apparently, racial segregation in Waller County can be largely seen in the division of black and white cemeteries, and the differences in how each is taken care of by the county.

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The corpse of a white woman whose 2007 killing barely made headlines is now at the center of a peculiar racial conflict over the desegregation of the cemeteries in a rural Texas county.

Black leaders in Waller County, northwest of Houston, say white county authorities deliberately sabotaged their efforts to have the woman’s unidentified body buried in one of two public black cemeteries. Judge Owen Ralston, the county’s top elected official and the man who decided where the woman would be interred, denies the accusation, insisting that cost — not race — led to her burial on Monday in a white cemetery. Full article here.