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Notable individuals buried in Frederick Douglass Memorial Park
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The cemetery is the final resting place for several notable African American figures, particularly those who made significant contributions to music and sports.
- Mimi Smith: Jazz singer known as the Queen of the Blues and a pioneer of the Harlem Renaissance
- Tommy Lataney: Accomplished jazz trumpeter who performed in Harlem and toured Europe
- Saul White: One of the founding fathers of Black Baseball, inducted into the Negro Baseball Hall of Fame
Timothy Frye
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In addition to the thousands of everyday people who have been buried in the cemetery, there are several notable celebrities worth mentioning.
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Jazz singer Mimi Smith, known as the Queen of the Blues, and a pioneer who paved the way for others during the Harlem Renaissance, Tommy Lataney, an accomplished jazz trumpeter during the twenties and thirties who performed locally within Harlem, but also toured abroad in Europe.
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And then Saul White, who's considered one of the founding fathers of Black Baseball, who also played on white and black teams, but also wrote the history of colored baseball in 19 o 7.
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Both saw white and the outfielders' eyes brown seen on the far right of this slide is also buried at the cemetery, and they were both inducted in the Negro baseball hall of fame.
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