88. The History of Black Funeral Directors with Edwin Jackson

Edwin Jackson is a licensed funeral director and professor who has been working to better all of our understanding of the contribution that African American funeral directors have made to funeral service history. Listen to Edwin share their incredible stories. Email Ben [email protected] Follow @thefuneralcast Visit the Multicultural Death and Grief Care Academy Edwin's reccomended reading list To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death by Suzanne E. Smith  Passed On: African American Mourning Stories, A Memorial by Karla F.C. HollowayBlack Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black American Millionaire by Carol Jenkins   Dissertation- Undertakings: The Politics of African-American Funeral Directing by Christopher Leevy Johnson