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Lynching of 15-year-old Howard Cooper at Towson jail to be memorialized Saturday

Howard Cooper, a 15-year-old Black boy lynched in 1885 outside the old Towson jailhouse, will be memorialized Saturday with a marker and ceremony to dignify his memory. The marker is part of a partnership between The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project and Equal Justice Initiative.


Source: The Baltimore Sun County News

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