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

It is unclear what happened in the years between the deaths of the 19 patients in 1871 and 1872 and the 1880s, when a New Orleans doctor sent the skulls to a doctor in Germany, Emil Ludwig Schmidt ...

Doran slowly crouches down, tumbling back onto a makeshift wrestling ring made of canvas, foam and wood. After a couple of ...

In the 1880s, New Orleans physician Dr. Henry D. Schmidt sent the 19 crania to Dr. Emil Ludwig Schmidt of Leipzig, Germany for the research, a precursor to the eugenics Nazi scientists practiced ...

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.. On Saturday, a ...

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 ...

In the 1880s, New Orleans physician Dr. Henry D. Schmidt sent the 19 crania to Dr. Emil Ludwig Schmidt of Leipzig, Germany for the research, a precursor to the eugenics Nazi scientists practiced ...

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 ...

On Saturday, they were honored in a multi-faith memorial and laid to rest in a jazz funeral rooted in New Orleans tradition. "We can't be sure exactly where they came from. And so here, we have them.