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Maryland Truth and Reconciliation Commission

  • Mr. Louis Diggs, a historian of Baltimore County’s Black communities, attends a ceremony to commemorate the Howard Cooper Marker at 220 Courthouse Court in Towson. Credit: Anthony DePanise, GovPics
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    Truth and reconciliation for Howard Cooper
    Sheilah Kast
    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.