This is the answer for you're topic and also I got this from my old computer history so yeah.
Answer:
The <u><em>Opening of the Mouth </em></u>was the most important ceremony of the burial ritual for the Egyptians; it was performed on the mummy to ensure that the dead could say the necessary spells in the afterlife.
Explanation:
It's the last thing they do in the mummy before to bury it. This process was made to restore the main senses of the corpse - speech, sight, and hearing for the afterlife. The priest would touch the face of the coffin with special instruments. If the priest didn't do that, then it was impossible to go to the other world, once the person couldn't speak or hear.
In the South it didn't stop some states from preventing the Blacks to vote
