Comprehensive & powerful new piece on Maryland’s history of lynching by @jonpitts77 in @baltimoresun, relying on the research in my book On The Courthouse Lawn. As Archbishop Desmond Tutu once said, “history does not lie down quietly.” baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/…
One of the messages I sought to emphasize in my book that must still be reckoned w/today is that the MD lynchings were perpetrated and condoned by ordinary local ppl including middle class whites. 
I’m often asked what makes a lynching a lynching? How is it different than murder?
