One of his patients was the daughter of a physician who was present when Turner’s body was cut up.įor years, Hatcher held on to the skull, but in 2016, long after it became clear the hall of fame wouldn’t happen, he agreed, with the National Geographic Society facilitating, to hand over the skull to descendants of Nat Turner. The family’s patriarch was a doctor in Richmond, Virginia, in the early 20th century. The administrator’s family had kept it in a closet for decades.
Hatcher had received the skull from two Indiana civil rights activists, a husband and wife who themselves had gotten the skull from a longtime school administrator in Indiana. That night, he unveiled what would be the museum’s centerpiece: the skull of Nat Turner. Hatcher held a fundraising gala for a project he hoped to usher to fruition, the National Civil Rights Hall of Fame. In 2002, a former mayor of Gary named Richard G. Holden, “Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community.” The map is in a history written by Vanessa M. In August 1831, Nat Turner and other enslaved men - some willing, some forced - followed this route in the massacre that became known as Nat Turner’s Rebellion, or the Southampton Rebellion.
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