This panel explores the customs, rituals, ideas, and movements that shape and emerge from the mourning and memorialization of deceased Black people. In the Black struggle for full equality, acts of mourning and memorialization have served as a central means for Black communities to mobilize against lynching, state violence, and Jim Crow as well as influence public narratives about race. Arranged chronologically, this panel commences with an examination, by Joseph Williams, of the tributes to deceased Black women produced by members of the National Association of Colored Women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to shore up their campaign for women's suffrage and racial equality. The second paper, presented by Samuel Ng, explores how the silent marches that antiracist organizers began to employ in response to the intensive anti-Black violence of the WWI era, particularly the race riot that broke out in East St. Louis, Illinois, in 1917, functioned as sites of collective mourning and memorialization in service of the larger anti-lynching campaign. The third paper, by Will Tchakirides, shifts to explore how accountability advocates in Black Milwaukee challenged police storytelling in the wake of deadly police violence as a means of both political protest and ritualized grieving. In the final presentation, Rikki Byrd explores the ways contemporary Black artists and designers perform mourning through aesthetic practices that foreground the sartorial. Specifically, Byrd offers a visual analysis of Rest in Peace T-shirts found in Chicago shops, artworks that depict these shirts, popular media articles that quote people across the U.S. discussing the role of R.I.P. T-shirts in their lives and communities, as well as interviews conducted in Chicago with the makers and customers of these shirts.