Ms. Parker was cremated, and her ashes were finally placed at the N.A.A.C.P.’s headquarters in Baltimore in 1988, after spending the previous 15 years in her lawyer’s filing cabinet because they were never claimed.

Joumana Khatib wrote today’s Back Story.

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