The silent shore : the lynching of Matthew Williams and the politics of racism in the free state /
This author tells the history of the lynching of a Black man on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Matthew Williams was lynched in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1931. To a greater extent than thousands of others, Williams's lynching influenced local, state and national history and yet its history remains...
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2021].
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Table of Contents:
- "Matthew Williams: his family, his community, his humanity
- "The blood lust of the Eastern Shore": the taking and the spectacle
- Governor Albert C. Ritchie confronts Judge Lynch: the politics of anti-black racism in the free state and beyond
- From pugilist to private eye: a prizefighter infiltrates the mob
- Unmasking the mob and breaking the system of silence
- Maryland's disgrace, the denial of justice
- A blot on the tapestry of the free state
- Confronting the legacy of anti-black violence in the age of fracture.