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Maryland has created a truth commission on lynchings – can it deliver?

  • Written by Kelebogile Zvobgo, Provost's Fellow in the Social Sciences and Ph.D. Candidate, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
More than 40 lynchings have been documented in Maryland.Shutterstock

Between 1850 and 1950, thousands of African American men, women and children were victims of lynchings: public torture and killings carried out by white mobs.

Lynchings were used to terrorize and control black people, notably in the South following the end of slavery.

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