Maryland’s forgotten victims: Shedding light on the state’s lynching legacy

Maryland’s forgotten victims: Shedding light on the state’s lynching legacy

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Maryland’s Forgotten Victims: Shedding Light on the State’s Lynching Legacy

By Megan Sayles The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project (MLMP) was established in 2018 to document the state’s history of racial terror lynchings and call for the public acknowledgment of the brutal killings that were historically public spectacles. Since then, the organization has helped to identify 38 African Americans who were lynched in Maryland between 1854 and 1933. No one was ever held responsible for their deaths.  Nicholas Creary serves…