Part of the Humanities Research Center, the Health Humanities Lab's East Marshall Street Well Oral History and Memorialization Project aims to raise awareness about and memorialize the 53 Richmonders, most of African descent, whose bodies were stolen by the Medical College of VA (now VCU Medical Center) faculty and staff from 1848-1860, used for dissection at the school, and then discarded in the East Marshall Street Well. Their remains were unearthed from the Well during the 1994 construction of the Kontos Building on the VCU medical campus. The East Marshall Street Well Oral History and Memorialization Project's broader goals are to amplify the priorities of the representatives of the descendant community, the East Marshall Street Well Project's, Family Representative Council, and to draw attention to histories of medical racism and thereby better understand and challenge ongoing health inequities.