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After Vote To Legally Integrate Denton Cemetery, Mayor Voices Frustration

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Denton,Mayor Gerard Hudspeth,Brian Beck

The Denton mayor proposed rewriting a deed adopted by the city in 1933 that outlawed non-white burials in the cemetery.

The mayor of Denton expressed frustration over social media last weekend after a City Council member voted against a measure that would allow legal staff to rewrite the deed of a city-owned cemetery that calls for only white people to be buried there., which came under the city’s care in 1933, forbids the burial of any nonwhite person.

The deed’s clause has not been enforced, and Black men and women have regularly been buried in the cemetery,“enforce or recognize” language attempting to segregate any city owned property, and described the IOOF cemetery’s deed as “illegal, unenforceable, unconscionable, contrary and repugnant.” Denton city staff also pointed to the 1948 Supreme Court ruling that found “racial covenants” on real estate unconstitutional as evidence of the deeds illegitimacy.

“I’m super sympathetic, you shouldn’t have this. But I don’t know what we’re accomplishing with this so I’m going to sound like a jerk and say no, I’m not for this,” Beck told the council.

Denton Mayor Gerard Hudspeth Brian Beck City Council

 

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