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Anti-Lynching Activism at Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church

On December 4
th, 1931, a Black man named Mark Williams was murdered by a mob in Salisbury, Maryland.
[1] Accused of killing his white employer, Williams was taken from his hospital bed, hanged from a tree until he died, dragged into Salisbury’s Black neighborhood, doused in gasoline and set on fire.
[2] Lynchings like these were not uncommon in many states and had become a national problem after the end of Reconstruction.
These kinds of “spectacle” lynchings almost always included a ritual similar to Williams’ murder, with the torture and public execution (by hanging, stabbing, shooting, and/or burning alive) of primarily Black men but also Black women and children. It often culminated with spectators taking pieces of the victim’s body as souvenirs and with pictures taken. ....

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