Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where ...

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After 155 years, the remains of Black New Orleanians, used in a racially based German medical research, are being sent home.

The skulls languished in Germany for about 150 years until Leipzig University contacted the city of New Orleans two years ago to repatriate them.

New Orleans celebrated the return and burial of the remains of 19 African American people whose skulls had been sent to Germany for racist research practices in the 19th century.

Skulls of 19 Black Americans have returned to New Orleans after more than a century in Germany, where they were sent for racial research. Image: Jacob Cochran/Dillard University ...

After more than 150 years in Germany, the remains of 19 Black people, taken for racist scientific research, have been returned to New Orleans.

Skulls of 19 Black Americans have returned to New Orleans after more than a century in Germany, where they were sent for racial research. Marie Louise was a lifelong New Orleanian who died of ...