[lbo-talk] Last lynching in MD

Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com
Sun Feb 25 06:51:06 PST 2007


http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/ideas/bal-id.lynch25feb25,0,6120366.story

BTW, this story throws some light why some progressive activists have written podunks off. They are hopeless.

Also note the HL Mencken's standing on the issue:

"Mencken fired a series of attacks on the Eastern Shore culture he said set the stage for the barbarous incidents. He described the region as morally adrift, "sliding out of Maryland and into the orbit of Arkansas and Tennessee, Mississippi and the more flea-bitten half of Virginia."

Mencken testified before a U.S. Senate subcommittee in 1935, lending support to an anti-lynching bill that never made it into law. By then, Maryland had thrown up its hands."

and:

"H.L. Mencken had no problem with going back and rattling bones. In his memoir Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work Mencken named the suspects arrested, but never prosecuted, in the lynching of Armwood: pharmacist William Thompson, constable Irving Adkins, truck driver William Hearn, store clerk William McQuade."

Wojtek

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