Sisters working to preserve historic Black cemetery in Arkansas [Video]

STUTTGART, Ark. — An unfortunate guarantee in life is laying loved ones to rest, and amid that painful process, there’s an expectation that their final resting place will be cared for.

That’s the mission happening at the Love Rest Green Grove Cemetery in Stuttgart, a historic cemetery home to only African Americans laid to rest from the 1800s until the end of the 1970s.

The Love Rest Green Grove Cemetery Preservation Committee said the burial ground has consistently been a sore eye in the area for decades and they’re looking for help to maintain this place crucial to families and history.

“What we have here are two cemeteries in one. One is Green Grove and beyond is Love Rest and that’s how we …