Dissecting room, Jefferson Medical College Philadelphia, c.1902. b Partially dissected cadavers on tables. In December of 1882, it was discovered that six bodies had been disinterred from Lebanon Cemetery and were on route to Jefferson Medical College for dissection. Philadelphias African-Americans were outraged, and a crowd assembled at the city morgue where the discovered bodies were sent. Reportedly, one of the crowd urged the group to swear that they would seek revenge for those who participated in desecration of the graves. Another man screamed when he discovered the body of his 29-year-old brother. The Philadelphia Press broke the story when a teary elderly woman identified her husbands body, whose burial she had afforded only by begging for the $22 at the wharves where he had been employed Lebanon Cemetery 18th & Wolf Sts.
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