But this Jewish cemetery in Colchester, Connecticut, has been anything but peaceful since one of its board members sued Paul Steer. It's now the center of a legal fight tinged with allegations of racial and religious prejudices.

Maria Balaban, a cemetery board member who has relatives buried there, is demanding Paul remove Juliet's remains from the cemetery because she is not Jewish and has no ties to anyone in the Jewish section. Paul Steer believes part of the reason Balaban wants his sister's remains removed is because she was African-American.

"Her lawyer said 'My client don't believe your sister accepted the faith and she has to be exhumed.' I said, 'What are you talking about?' 'Your sister don't (sic) belong there, the cemetery is only for Jews,'" remembers Paul, whose family is of Jamaican descent. "I said, 'Man, get out of here.'"