Mt. Hope Cemetery
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Tombstone of Albert R. Lee and family. Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center.
Mt. Hope Cemetery is the final resting place for many African Americans who lived in Champaign County since before the Civil War. Many notable African Americans are buried at Mt. Hope, including Albert R. Lee (the unofficial Dean of African American Students at the University of Illinois), Martin McDermot (Civil War veteran and businessman), Sergeant Allen A. Rivers, Sr. (first African American policeman in Champaign), and others.
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