Tour the historic Mother Bethel Burial Ground, one of the nation's first African American graveyards. As the landscape of Philadelphia has changed, some of its history has been lost. Historian Terry Buckalew has uncovered the final resting place of over 5,000 Philadelphinas and will share his knowledge.

Historian Terry Buckalew accidentally stumbled on a mention of the cemetery while researching the 19th century civil rights activist Octavius Catto for a documentary film project. He found a record of family members of Catto's fiance interred in something called Bethel Burying Ground, a site he had never heard of. Buckalew set about gathering as much information as he could, coming up with almost 1,500 names of the interred (and counting), estimating another 1,500 names are still out there. He intended to make all the information publicly accessible on genealogical databases, so African-Americans would be able to track their lineage. Buckalew works with Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church, members of City Council and neighborhood Civic groups to preserve this history.