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The Silent Shore

The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State

The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State

Dr. Charles Chavis, Assistant Professor of History and Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, has written the definitive account of the lynching of 22-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland in 1931. He meticulously explores the subsequent investigation of Mr. Williams’s murder and the legacy of “modern-day lynchings.”


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