Word: redlighters
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...Louis Cemetery No. 3, scratch crosses on the crumbling cement and bricks. Official records list her as having been buried in her 80's in another tomb in St. Louis Cemetery No. 1, back of the Southern Railway's Terminal Station, in the heart of the oldtime redlight district. Many a Negro, an occasional white, still believes that if he scratches a cross on the nameless tomb on St. John's Eve (June 23), prays to Voodoo's Gran' Zombi, P'tit Zombi and Marie Leveau, he will get what he wants before next...