• Mt. Hope Cemetery Exhibit at Raleigh City Museum- May 2022

    Posted on September 27, 2022

    RCCP collaborated with the City of Raleigh Museum to help fund and research a traveling exhibit about those interred at Mt. Hope, a public African American cemetery. The exhibit was launched at the museum this summer and uses a QR code to access an audio tour of the cemetery. RCCP’s program about the exhibit was […]

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  • 8th Annual Walking Tour of Mt. Hope Cemetery

    Posted on February 23, 2017

    RCCP will hold its 8th annual walking tour of historic Mt. Hope Cemetery, a public African-American cemetery located in Raleigh, on Saturday, April 22 at 10 am. Edna Rich-Ballentine and Jane Thurman will lead the tour. The tour meets at the cemetery’s Fayetteville Street gates. Rain date is April 29, at 10 am.

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  • New Links to Aid Research of African-Americans in Raleigh City Cemetery and Mt. Hope

    Posted on October 5, 2016

    RCCP has added two wonderful tools for researchers. Betsy Shaw has compiled a list of the African-American’s interred at City Cemetery. You can download that file by clicking here. The link can always be found on the main City Cemetery page. The searchable Mt. Hope GIS Database is available by clicking here. The database can be search […]

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  • Congratulations!

    Posted on November 18, 2015

    Jane Thurman and her colleagues at KCI received an award for the work they did on the Mt. Hope GIS Database. The database will be available via this website as soon as we raise the funds for the final phase of this project.   If you would like to donate please click the FUNDRAISING tab […]

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