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Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, Inc.

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FDMP was established in 1935 as burial ground for African Americans who experienced difficulty receiving a proper & respectful internment elsewhere.

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3201 Amboy Road
New York, NY
10306

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Monday	9am - 3pm
Tuesday	9am - 3pm
Wednesday	9am - 3pm
Thursday	9am - 3pm

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+17183510764

Website

http://Www.fdcemetery.com/

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Our Story

Frederick Douglass Memorial Park Inc., established in 1935, is under new management. This historic African American cemetery is located in the Oakwood Heights neighborhood of Staten Island and features rolling hills and a magnificent, serene park-like setting.

We are pleased to offer our newest area for service; a dedicated cremation garden which is prominently located near the main office. We have new full grave plots available for immediate use.

In the beginning....

Frederick Douglass Memorial Park (FDMP). Was conceived during the great depression of the early 1930s and founded as a protest against the custom of segregating the dead on a basis of race and color.

Rodney Dade, a leader in his community and a well known and respected funeral director of one of the oldest undertaking establishments had long dreamed of a burial park where “my people will enjoy the dignity they deserve”. In 1934 Mr. Dade was adamant about his dream. He wanted a modern park like burial place, quiet and peaceful, conceived in beauty with the care and maintenance endowed for all eternity. Mr. Dade was a man of pride, seeking recognition and equality for his people and dignity in death. He was tired of making side gate entrances into cemeteries and being shunted aside into the least desired sections.

He enlisted the aid and partnership of other funeral directors, ministers and leaders in the community and they too saw the urgent need of such a cemetery. The next step was to secure the financing to make this possible.

Benjamin Diamond, a friend of Mr. Dade’s for many years, was an administrator and sales executive who had achieved city wide fame as a business consultant. Mr. Diamond was a living symbol of resourcefulness, energy and perseverance had been among the founders of Harlem’s first daily newspaper, The Daily Citizen.

The team of Dade and Diamond were on the move and the financing of this project was accomplished through the formation of a stock corporation known as Fre-Dou Corporation.

Mr. Diamond found the third important member of the team; Frederick A. Bunn, a life long cemetarian, developer of Ocean View Cemetery and prominent attorney.

As soon as the land purchase was secured, Mr. Dade, then and there, selected the name of the our burial park and the spot he wanted a monument to the “greatest man of my race, Frederick Douglass”. A monument stands on that spot today.