Shirley Jackson Whitaker, MD | Kidney Specialist, Artist, Community Activist
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Description: Ashes 2 Ashes | Homegoing Celebration for thousands of African Americans lynched in America | USA
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"Ashes to Ashes" are the final words in typical African American funeral services. Many of those who were murdered by the Klan to maintain the reign of white supremacy never received their Ashes to Ashes . The goal of this project by Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker is to acknowledge and mourn the African Americans who were racially terrorized during the Jim Crow era after the Civil War and until this very day. Some endured lynching and other forms of brutalization and therefore, they never received a proper
We collaborated with the department of African American studies at UMASS to provide educational information to the schools to strengthen their understanding of the project and to foster more knowledge of the history of slavery in America and its aftermath.
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Shirley Jackson Whitaker, MD | Kidney Specialist, Artist, Community Activist
Tote2Vote | The Tote Project | The Shirley Jackson Whitaker Foundation, Inc
Amhran nam Bandia