Baltimore County Historic Jail
This file appears in: The Lynching of Howard Cooper
Lynching site of Howard Cooper, right outside of the jail.
This file appears in: The Lynching of Howard Cooper
The Lynching of Howard Cooper
Howard Cooper was an African American resident in Towson, Maryland, who was accused of the assault, rape, and attempted murder of Kate Gray, a sixteen-year-old white girl, on April 2nd, 1885. According to the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project,…