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Description: Homegoing Celebration for thousands of African Americans lynched in America.From 1882 - 1978, 4,743 lychings occured in the United States.Of these people that were lynched, 3,446 were black (72%).The majority occurring in the south (79%).Many of those who were murdered by the Klan to maintain the reign of white supremacy never received their u001cAshes to Ashes u001d. The goal of this project by Dr. Shirley Jackson Whitaker is to acknowledge and mourn the African Americans who were racia