Maryland Lynching Memorial Project

In 1885 Howard Cooper was just 15, his conviction for assault about to appealed to the Supreme Court, when a mob dragged him from the Towson jail and lynched him. We learn why the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission will hold a hearing.

In her new book, Hood College historian Dr. Terry Anne Scott examines how racial lynchings became popular public exhibitions in late 19th- and early 20th-century Texas.

The George Mason U. historian's new book chronicles the 20th-century racial-terror lynchings that continue to haunt Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Organizers say it is to help come to terms with "400 years of white supremacy."

Between 1850 and 1950, more than 4,000 black men, women and children were killed in ‘racial terror lynchings’ in the U.S. At least 40 of those lynchings…