The 1898 and 1931 lynchings of three Black men have cast a long shadow over Salisbury, Md., say advocates pushing for a more comprehensive apology.
The 1898 and 1931 lynchings of three Black men have cast a long shadow over Salisbury, say advocates pushing for a more comprehensive apology
Advocates pushed for a sweeping apology to Salisbury’s Black community and wanted the lynchings to be referred to as “racial terror lynchings” in the resolution. They also called for the city to apologize “for its historical role in targeting the larger Black community of Salisbury during and after these acts of racial terrorism, and for its negligence in not protecting its own citizens.”
An apology, Jones said, would send a message of accountability. “If you don’t acknowledge that these things happened, it just leaves an open wound,” she said. “It never gets a chance to be healed.”For many people who grew up here, Black or White, the lynchings were a hushed history. The events were not taught in school and rarely discussed in public. Two of the most traumatic days in the city’s past were essentially whispered away.
White mobs lynched at least 40 African Americans in Maryland between 1854 and 1933, according to the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was established by the state legislature in 2019 to hold hearings and “make recommendations for addressing the legacy of lynching that are rooted in the spirit of restorative justice.
The first reported lynching in Salisbury was that of Garfield King, 18. On May 25, 1898, King, who was Black and suspected of murdering a White man, was dragged by a mob from his jail cell to the courthouse lawn, hanged from a tree and reportedly shot 100 times, according to an account in the Baltimore Sun.called the city’s apology “unsatisfactory.” But, she said, the apology “was never meant to be the end all, be all.
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