Group shares ‘hard but necessary’ history during Westminster hearing on racial violence, lynchings

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Group shares ‘hard but necessary’ history during Westminster hearing on racial violence, lynchings

Carroll County’s history of racial violence, including the 1885 lynching of an African American man named Townsend Cook, was the subject of a weekend hearing in Westminster. The event Saturday was facilitated by the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which is authorized by the state to research cases of racially motivated lynchings and hold public hearings where the lynching of an African American by a white mob has been docu…