Why were some bodies more sacred than others?

Scandal Before Tulsa: Grave Robbers Sold the Bodies Stolen from Black Families for Dissection

Two decades before the massacre in Tulsa, body snatchers dug up fresh graves at a Black cemetery in Philadelphia and sold the corpses for dissection.

Paula Bonilla
1 min readJun 21, 2020

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Paula Bonilla

Follow your art! I write about artists, rebels and outcasts at flash points in history.