{"id":2146,"date":"2019-10-07T15:41:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T20:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2023-02-04T22:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T03:17:30","slug":"lynchings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/lynchings\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynchings – Documenting a Violent Chapter in Cecil County’s Past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project is working to open a discussion about a violent chapter in Maryland\u2019s 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 mob violence.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Cecil County, local knowledge of these tragic events was not brought down to the twentieth century, and the subject was not being taken up by local historians, journalists, or heritage groups.   As the memory of the  19th<\/sup>-century episodes quickly faded and one generation gave way to another, the narratives related to the troubling violence hastily disappeared from the collective memory and history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I studied Cecil County for the committee <\/a>to answer research questions focused on how many killings occurred here and develop historical narratives associated with mob violence.  The investigation concluded that at least two lynchings occurred in Cecil County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n