NAACP DeKalb County Branch - GA

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After 150 years, the skulls of 19 Black Americans were returned to New Orleans. These individuals died between December 1871 and January 1872 as patients at Charity Hospital. Most were formerly enslaved or born into slavery. But instead of being buried with dignity, their skulls were removed without consent and sent to Germany for phrenological research, a racist pseudoscience that claimed to measure intelligence by skull shape to prove Black inferiority. Their remains ended up at Leipzig University and were stored for over a century. In 2023, the university acknowledged the theft and agreed to return them.
May 31, 2025, they were honored at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial with a traditional New Orleans jazz funeral. For the first time in over a century, their names were spoken in public. They were not specimens. They were people with lives, families, and dignity. Their skulls were taken to justify white supremacy. Now, they are finally home. Identified: HenryWilliams JohnBrown HiramMalone WilliamRoberts AliceBrown PriscillaHatchet MarieLouise Mahala SamuelPrince JohnTolman HenryAllen MosesWillis HenryAnderson Two remain unidentified, but they are not forgotten. We honor them too.

On behalf of the NAACP DeKalb County Branch, we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to Aungelique Proctor of FOX 5 News for serving as our Mistress of Ceremony at our Annual Unity Breakfast.

Your professionalism, energy, and commitment to our community helped make this event truly special. We appreciate your continued dedication to informing and uplifting our communities.

Thank you for helping make this year’s breakfast a success!