Louisiana cemetery changes whites only sales provision after black police officer denied burial

The board of a small Louisiana cemetery that denied burial to a black sheriff’s deputy has held an emergency meeting and removed a whites only provision from its sales contracts.

The Oaklin Springs Cemetery board met on Thursday to change its sales contract, which specifies the burial of “white human beings”, after Officer Darrell Semien’s widow was told she could not bury her husband there.

“I met with the lady out there and she said she could NOT sell me a plot…