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One cemetery: The well-tended graves of congressmen.
The other, next to it: The broken gravestones of slaves, freedmen and mostly black citizens.

At 2 D.C. Cemeteries, History in Black and White

There is an effort to restore Mount Zion, a run-down black cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, next to the lush Oak Hill, where a mostly white elite is buried.

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