Maryland is the first state to formally reckon with its history of lynching and racial violence
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In Maryland, a first-of-its-kind reckoning with the state’s brutal history of lynchings and racial terror. Watch at PBS.org NewsHourMaryland reckons with a violent, racist past
In the center of downtown Salisbury, on Maryland’s eastern shore, the historic Wicomico county courthouse stands today as it did in 1931. Back then this supposed hall of justice was the site of a brutal, extra-judicial killing: the lynching of 23-year-old Matthew Williams.