On July 6, 1982, a middle-aged white woman returning home in Towson, Maryland was met with a brutal attack by a young African American man who snuck into her apartment. He raped her, then ran out of the apartment before the police were arrived. His…

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,…