The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project is working to open a discussion about a violent chapter in Maryland’s past, racial terror lynchings. These troubling incidents have not generally been studied or documented, so little is known about this grim history. Thus, the project is working to address this gap in our understanding of these episodes of…
Ending Segregation at Harford Memorial Hospital
Harford Community College is undertaking a project focused on increasing understanding of the Civil Rights Movement in Harford County. This three-year investigation funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), is designed to involve students as they do original research, complete interviews, analyze secondary sources, and develop scholarly narratives that provide a stronger understanding…
EJI Lynching Marker acknowledges Lynching in Annapolis
ANNAPOLIS, Sept. 7, 2019 — Saturday morning the first Equal Justice Initiative historical marker in Maryland was unveiled at Whitmore Park. The marker, part of the remembrance and reconciliation project, acknowledged five lynchings in the capital city. The names of the African-American men were: John Sims, George Briscoe, Wright Smith, Henry Davis, and King Johnson….
Women on the Front Line – Stories of Delaware Suffragists
I recently did a Delaware Humanities sponsored talk on Women’s Suffrage at the New Castle Courthouse Museum. In that ancient courtroom, a large, engaged crowd gathered on a Sunday afternoon to reflect on the long struggle for women’s suffrage in America. For some eighty years, the ladies petitioned, campaigned, marched, and protested as they fought…