To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death

In the "hush harbors" of the slave quarters, African Americans first used funerals to bury their dead and to plan a path to freedom. Similarly, throughout the long struggle for racial equality in the 20th century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the dead while supporting the living. Here is their story.

• | Author: Suzanne E. Smith
• | Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: February 25, 2010
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674036212
• | ISBN-13: 9780674036215