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Vandalism and violence against markers to Black history are fairly widespread, and Georgia is no exception. In February, a historical marker memorializing Black victims of lynching in DeKalb County was stolen. Organizers who worked to install the marker feel the disappearance is about more than just a missing piece of metal. GPB’s Pamela Kirkland explains.
Marker honoring Georgia lynching victim installed in Atlanta
TYLER ESTEP, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
May 9, 2021
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1of5People gather to watch the installation of a historical marker that tells the story of the lynching of Porter Flournoy Turner in Atlanta s Druid Hills community, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Porter Turner was lynched near the area in August 1945. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)Alyssa Pointer/APShow MoreShow Less
2of5D. E. Smith, right, chair of the DeKalb Remembrance Project, which operates within the DeKalb County NAACP, receives a hug from Druid Hill resident Schaune Griffin, following a short ceremony to erect a historical marker for Porter Flournoy Turner, who was lynched in 1945, in Atlanta s Druid Hills community, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Both women participated in getting the marker installed. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)Alyssa Pointer/APShow MoreShow Less
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People gather to watch the installation of a historical marker that tells the story of the lynching of Porter Flournoy Turner in Atlanta s Druid Hills community, Thursday, May 6, 2021. Porter Turner was lynched near the area in August 1945. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP) May 08, 2021 - 3:54 PM
TOWSON, Md. - Maryland s governor on Saturday posthumously pardoned 34 victims of racial lynching in the state dating between 1854 and 1933, saying they were denied legal due process against the allegations they faced.
It was a first-of-its-kind pardon by a governor of a U.S. state.
Gov. Larry Hogan signed the order at an event honouring Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old who was dragged from a jailhouse and hanged from a tree by a mob of white men in 1885 before his attorneys could file an appeal of a rape conviction that an all-white jury reached within minutes.