Mount Glenwood Memory Gardens

“Mount Glenwood Cemetery…is reputed to be the first racially integrated cemetery in the Chicago region. During the early twentieth century, African Americans traveled by train from Chicago to bury their dead in the cemetery. Notable black Chicagoans who are buried in Mount Glenwood include Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation of Islam, Fred (Duke) Slater, Illinois’ first African American circuit court judge [and the first African-American inducted in the NFL Hall of Fame], and Marshall “Major” Taylor, who in the 1890s was rated as the world’s fastest bicyclist.” – Encyclopedia of Chicago History