Lynching of Garfield King

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Garfield King (c. 1880-May 25, 1898) was a black man lynched by a mob in Salisbury, Maryland.^[1] He was hung next to the courthouse after he reportedly shot Herman Kenney, a 22-year-old white man with a revolver after arguing.^[1]

Legacy[]

Shortly after his murder on May 31, a group of local African-Americans convened in the John Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church and drafted a resolution condemning the lynching that was published in The Salisbury Advertiser on June 4, 1898.^[1]

His murder and the murders of two other victims of lynching in Salisbury were memorialized by the erection of a plaque next to the old Salisbury courthouse on May 23, 2021^[2] by the Salisbury Lynching Memorial Task Force and the Equal Justice Initiative.^[3]

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