By Kimberly Vance
On July 22, 1868, a black man by the name of Isaac Moore and an accomplice Ben Preston were accused of robbing and assaulting a woman crossing Bynum’s Run Bridge on Church Hill Road in Harford County, Maryland. Not much can be recollected about…

By Abigail Fackler
Garfield King was a resident of the Trappe District in Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland. Born in 1880, he graduated from Princess Anne “Colored” Academy and was highly thought of by his neighbors. On May 21st of 1898, King and others got into an…

By Robert Lynne
George Briscoe was an African American resident of Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Briscoe, described as approximately 40 years of age, was accused of a series of robberies in the Stoney Creek area and believed to be the sole perpetrator. Suspected…

By Mandi Scardina
King Johnson (King Davis) was a 28-year-old African American man living in the Fairfield area of Anne Arundel County (now Baltimore City). According to census records and newspaper reports Fairfield was an integrated community. Uncommon for the area…

By Briana Peters
Thomas Juricks was an African American who worked as a sharecropper to support his wife and six children. Juricks was working on Schoaff farm in Prince George’s County in 1869, when he had cut open his hand using a scythe. He tore off a piece of his…

By Destiny Brooks
An African American man by the name of George Peck lived in an area called Poolesville located in Montgomery County, Maryland. Peck was documented in the 1867 census being enslaved by William Poole. There are unknown whereabouts of his family being…

By Francesco Rocha
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,…