Rescued Illinois Black Funeral-Home Burial Records

CTL-E-0801 · Archive · collection · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

140,000+ burial records from shuttered Black-owned funeral homes (dating to the 1880s), rescued by the Illinois Office of Comptroller and the Bronzeville Historical Society (10-person processing team) and transferred to CPL's Vivian G. Harsh Research Collection.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-053; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Illinois Office of Comptroller, 2022-10-04 (primary source)

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