@article{1481596,
      recid = {1481596},
      author = {Smith, Suzanne E.,},
      title = {To Serve the Living : Funeral Directors and the African  American Way of Death /},
      pages = {1 online resource (288 p.) :},
      abstract = {For African Americans, death was never simply the end of  life, and funerals were not just places to mourn. 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 - and often  violent - struggle for racial equality in the twentieth  century, funeral directors aided the cause by honoring the  dead while supporting the living. To Serve the Living  offers a fascinating history of how African American  funeral directors have been integral to the fight for  freedom.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1481596},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054646},
}