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    With the fate of their sacred space in limbo, they took over the cemetery

    by Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times Aug 22, 2023 5 minutes
    Jacqueline Haynes cleans the gravesite of her second cousin at Lincoln Memorial Park in Carson, California on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023.

    CARSON, Calif. -- The cemetery was arid, weedy and chained shut, with a sign that simply said, "Unreachable."

    Somehow, they had to get inside.

    The three women standing at the wrought-iron gate on that day in late July had never met before. But they found they had a couple of key things in common: a sense of incredulity that Lincoln Memorial Park Cemetery was closed and the determination to get past those gates to where their loved ones were buried.

    As Aisha Woods put it, "Fate sometimes brings people together."

    This 20-acre park in Carson may not look like much now, but it's historic. It holds plots that date back to the early 1930s, with some of the deceased having been born during and just after the Civil War. Near the entrance, a bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln

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