BURR OAK was Chicago's first African-American cemetery. Its residents include a murder victim - Emmett Till, a young teen whose brutal slaying helped to spark the 20th century civil rights movement, and in whose honor a museum is presently under construction on the cemetery grounds.

Other notables at Burr Oak include musicians Willie Dixon, Dinah Washington, and Otis Spann, and Negro Leagues Baseball players Jimmie Crutchfield and John Donaldson.

Special thanks to cemetery manager Marilyn Gates and her husband Dennis Gates for showing me to historic graves and providing information about the cemetery.

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