At least 38 Black people were lynched in Maryland between 1854 and 1933, according to the Maryland Lynching Memorial Project.
But Schwarz wants the work of remembering Cooper and victims like him to continue.
The details of Cooper’s life were mostly unrecorded, but public historian Jennifer Liles discerned some information about his family from census records, which she shared Wednesday. “I often ponder if there were adequate schools for all children in Baltimore County, would Howard’s life have been different?” Liles said.
“We’re teaching during the pandemic, and I asked the students — they’re so unmotivated at home, there’s so many distractions — ‘What do you want to learn about?’ ” DePrima said. “They’re like, ‘We want to know more about what’s going on with Black Lives Matter.’ ”
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