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Ceremonies Marking Sign Memorializing Lynching of Three Black Men

Delmarva Public Media | By Don Rush
Published May 24, 2021 at 12:35 PM EDT
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Sign Memorializing Lynchings of Three Black Men
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Side of Sign Marking Significance of Ceremony
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Collecting Dirt from the Lynching Site
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Dirt from Lynching Site
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Mayor Jake Day at Ceremony
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Audience at Ceremony
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Site Where Matthew Williams was Lynched
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Jeannie Jones, great grandaughter of Matthew Williams Aunt, with her Daughter
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Site Where Matthew Williams was Lynched in 1931

Salisbury unveiled a sign marking the deaths of three black men in Wicomico County. In 1931 Matthew Williams was lynched in downtown Salisbury; another body of a blackman was found believed to be related to the lynching. Garfield King was lynched in Wicomico County in 1898. Delmarva Public Media's Don Rush was at the ceremony.
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Don Rush
Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.
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