Nathan Hill 
Join the Lakeland Community Heritage Project, in partnership with the American Studies Department of the University of Maryland, and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities, for a virtual presentation of heritage and stories from the Lakeland community of College Park, Maryland, 1950–1980.
This is a virtual event.
Thursday, November 19, 2020 | 7- 8:30pm
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lakeland-spirit-through-digital-footprint-tickets-124933221629
The Maryland Lynching Memorial Project’s annual “Lynching in Maryland” conference will be held online this year due to the ongoing public health emergency. This will be the third year we have presented this program.
This year’s conference will be held:
One of this year’s keynote speakers will be Michael Pfeifer, Ph.D., Professor of History at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Dr. Pfeifer has studies the history of collective violence and criminal justice in the United States and is the author of no fewer than five books on the history of lynching including a seminal work on the subject, Rough Justice Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947(University of Illinois Press).
At the upcoming conference, Dr. Pfeifer will speak about a relatively neglected chapter in the history of racial terror, namely the lynchings of enslaved persons and free blacks before the Civil War. This period includes the lynching of Dave Thomas in Denton, Md., in 1854, the first documented racial terror lynching in Maryland.
In addition, there will be a timely and important panel discussion on how the legacy of lynching continues to influence the Black vote. Another panel will examine the state of social justice activism in Maryland from the Eastern Shore to Garrett County in the west. There will also be updates from representatives of the MD Lynching Truth & Reconciliation Commission and the Equal Justice Initiative.
Tickets to the virtual conference are $10. We encourage you to register now!
The Prince George’s County Lynching Memorial Project is offering a free Study Group on the acclaimed book “On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the 21st Century” by civil rights attorney Sherrilyn A. Ifill. We are reading the 2018 Revised Edition with a forward by Bryan Stevenson, author of “Just Mercy” and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. The book focuses on Eastern Shore lynchings that took place on county courthouse lawns, as did several here in Prince George’s County.
When: Wednesdays, August 12, 19, 26 at 7 pm via Zoom.
We will likely discuss Part One in the first two sessions and Part Two in the third session. Please try to attend all three!
Advance registration is required:
https://uuma.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpcOigpzstE9x-xLhrPdnvA_kxDDm_Gyp2
Available on-line in Paperback, eTextbook, eBook, and Audiobook (read by actress LisaGay Hamilton) at:
Loyalty Books in DC (Black-owned)
Better World Books (non-profit source of used books)
Busboys and Poets
Beacon Press (the publisher)
Barnes and Noble
Amazon
Prince George’s County Library System (check availability–request purchase!)
Don’t forget to register yourself!
As part of the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project, we are about naming our past so we can move forward into the future. Stay tuned as this website is developed.