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By - Associated Press - Friday, May 7, 2021
TOWSON, Md. (AP) - Maryland officials will memorialize a 15-year-old Black boy who was lynched outside a jailhouse in a Baltimore suburb nearly 136 years ago.
The Baltimore Sun reports that Howard Cooper will be memorialized with a marker and ceremony on Saturday in Towson, Maryland.
The ceremony is part of an ongoing effort by The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, a group of 13 county chapters that are working to document the history of lynching in Maryland. The group also is working to advance the cause of reconciliation and advocate for public acknowledgment of lynchings.
Lynching of 15-year-old Howard Cooper at Towson jail to be memorialized Saturday
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In 1885, Cooper was dragged from his jail cell by over 70 masked white men and hanged from a sycamore tree next to the building.
He was convicted by an all-white jury of raping a white teenage girl, but according to the Baltimore Sun, neither she nor Cooper testified that she was raped.
The ceremony to unveil the marker starts at 11 a.m. tomorrow morning.
Historians say at least 40 Black people were lynched in Maryland between 1854 and 1933. Article is invalid or is no longer published. Sponsors
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