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Segregated, Six Feet Under When Pedro Barrera died in 2016, his wife Dorothy tried to bury him in a local Texas cemetery, but they said no. Just because Pedro was Latino.

Segregated, Six Feet Under

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When Pedro Barrera died in 2016, his wife Dorothy tried to bury him in a local Texas cemetery, but they said no. Just because Pedro was Latino. Language advisory: there is a racial slur not bleeped in the story.