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Volunteers archive key burial records — preserving the histories of tens of thousands of Black Chicagoans

Por: Chicago Sun Times Nation October 05, 2022

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Once a week, month after month, for a decade, the five volunteers would go to work. Sifting through boxes at a South Side funeral home, surrounded by caskets in a side room, they sorted and organized the paper burial records of thousands and thousands of Black Chicagoans, determined to preserve those important pieces of history.“It was spooky,” Lettie Sabbs, now 80, said of working near the caskets. “Some of them may have had someone in... + full article



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