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‘This makes us more united as a people’

By Chrystia Freeland

Published: January 20 2009 19:25 | Last updated: January 20 2009 19:25

LaSonya Chapple, a single woman from Detroit, was wearing her late grandfather’s sweater vest under all her other layers of coats and scarves. Most of those clothes were to keep her warm, but the vest was to help her remember.

“It’s not just about me being here,” said Ms Chapple, 41, a proud homeowner with a good job at Pfizer pharmaceuticals. “I represent those who were lynched; those who sat at the back of the bus.”

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