Murder On Marylands Eastern Shore

Author : Joseph E. Moore
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230951
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder on Maryland's Eastern Shore written by Joseph E. Moore and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a former Maryland attorney comes the true crime story of accused murderer Orphan Jones—a case mired in the racism and politics of 1930s America. Euel Lee, alias Orphan Jones, was an African American accused of murdering his white employer and family over a single dollar. The tumultuous events and cast of characters surrounding the racially charged crime garnered national media attention and changed the course of Maryland history. With exacting research, former Maryland State’s Attorney Joseph E. Moore reconstructs the murders, the ensuing roller coast of a trial, and the eventual conviction and execution of Orphan Jones. Moore details all of this in the context of Jim Crow politics and American society during the Great Depression in this gripping true crime account. “The Euel Lee case as explored by Joe Moore is more than good, readable, local history. It is about the stresses and strains in American society in the Depression, from the radicalism of a young Communist lawyer to the conscious efforts of a rural community to contain violence, confront or at least deal with their prejudices and see that justice was served for a senseless murder in their midst. Moore sets a high standard of factual accountability and entertaining narrative based upon oral history and archival research. General readers and scholars alike will not be disappointed.” —Edward C. Papenfuse, PhD, Maryland State Archivist and Commissioner of Land Patents

Author : G. Kevin Hemstock
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625854730
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Injustice on the Eastern Shore written by G. Kevin Hemstock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynching rumors simmered as journalists descended on the small town of Millington, Maryland, in the spring of 1892. The frenzy focused on nine African American men and boys--some as young as fifteen--accused of murdering Dr. James Heighe Hill, who was white. Prosecutors portrayed this as retribution for the Christmas Eve slaying of Thomas Campbell, an African American, for which no one faced criminal charges. Hill's alleged assailants were tried as a group before three white judges. Although some were clearly bystanders, all but one were convicted and sentenced. Four were executed by hanging, and the rest died in prison. Using court records, contemporary accounts and newspapers, author G. Kevin Hemstock narrates the tragic and compelling story of justice denied on Maryland's Eastern Shore.

Author : Cheril Thomas
Publisher : Eastern Shore Mysteries
ISBN 13 : 9781733412148
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squatter's Rights - Large Print Edition: An Eastern Shore Mystery written by Cheril Thomas and published by Eastern Shore Mysteries. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LARGE PRINT EDITION - Book 1 in the Eastern Shore Mystery series - Julia Reagan's dying wish sends her daughter to Maryland's Eastern Shore to save a decaying mansion and deal with angry relatives who never left the little town on the Chesapeake Bay. But before she can buy the first can of paint, Grace stumbles into a grave, a murder, and tantalizing clues to the one question she's never been able to answer: What happened to her father? Grace leaves Washington and her hard earned law practice to take on a new life in Mallard Bay. She'll renovate Delaney House, sell it, and start over somewhere - anywhere - that isn't the Eastern Shore. She'd rather avoid those angry relatives, but no such luck. A handsome contractor complicates things, too, but it's the murder investigation that will change her life. The body buried in the backyard isn't the only mystery in Grace's new house, and what she doesn't know could kill her.If you like a good murder with family drama and historical events that won't stay in the past, you'll love Squatter's Rights.Old lies. Old loves. Old Murder. Welcome to the Eastern Shore!

Author : Mindie Burgoyne
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625852851
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Haunted Eastern Shore written by Mindie Burgoyne and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrifying tales of the ghosts that roam the marshes, swamps, and waterways of the nine counties on Maryland’s eastern shore. They walk beside the murky waters of the Chesapeake Bay, linger among the fetid swamps and roam the manor halls. These are the tormented souls who refuse to leave the sites of their demise. From pitiless smugglers to reluctant brides, the ghostly figures of the Eastern Shore are at once terrifying and tragic. Mindie Burgoyne takes readers on a spine-tingling journey as she recounts the grisly events at the Cosden Murder Farm and the infamous legend of Patty Cannon. Tread the foggy lanes of Kent Manor Inn and linger among Revolutionary War dead to discover the otherworldly occupants of Maryland’s most haunted shore. Includes photos! “A compilation of tales of hauntings and mysteries in the Eastern Shore area . . .The response to the book was so overwhelming, Burgoyne began organizing bus tours that travel to the sites, allowing her fans to see firsthand the location of the hauntings.” —Cumberland Times-News

Author : Cheril Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733412100
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squatter's Rights written by Cheril Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is buried in the backyard?Julia Reagan dreamed of saving her family home but time ran out. Her dying wish sends her daughter, a Washington attorney, to Maryland's Eastern Shore to renovate a decaying mansion and deal with the relatives who never left the sleepy village on the Chesapeake Bay. Before she can buy the first can of paint, Grace finds a grave, a murder and tantalizing clues to her own hidden past. In Squatter's Rights, a decades-old murder resurfaces, setting off a chain of events that could destroy what's left of Julia's family and her daughter's career. If you like a good murder with family drama and historical events that won't stay in the past, you'll love Squatter's Rights. Old lies. Old loves. Old Murder. Welcome to the Eastern Shore!

Author : Charles L. Chavis Jr.
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421442930
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Silent Shore written by Charles L. Chavis Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the lynching of twenty-three-year-old Matthew Williams in Maryland, the subsequent investigation, and the legacy of "modern-day" lynchings. On December 4, 1931, a mob of white men in Salisbury, Maryland, lynched and set ablaze a twenty-three-year-old Black man named Matthew Williams. His gruesome murder was part of a wave of silent white terrorism in the wake of the stock market crash of 1929, which exposed Black laborers to white rage in response to economic anxieties. For nearly a century, the lynching of Matthew Williams has lived in the shadows of the more well-known incidents of racial terror in the deep South, haunting both the Eastern Shore and the state of Maryland as a whole. In The Silent Shore, author Charles L. Chavis Jr. draws on his discovery of previously unreleased investigative documents to meticulously reconstruct the full story of one of the last lynchings in Maryland. Bringing the painful truth of anti-Black violence to light, Chavis breaks the silence that surrounded Williams's death. Though Maryland lacked the notoriety for racial violence of Alabama or Mississippi, he writes, it nonetheless was the site of at least 40 spectacle lynchings after the abolition of slavery in 1864. Families of lynching victims rarely obtained any form of actual justice, but Williams's death would have a curious afterlife: Maryland's politically ambitious governor Albert C. Ritchie would, in an attempt to position himself as a viable challenger to FDR, become one of the first governors in the United States to investigate the lynching death of a Black person. Ritchie tasked Patsy Johnson, a member of the Pinkerton detective agency and a former prizefighter, with going undercover in Salisbury and infiltrating the mob that murdered Williams. Johnson would eventually befriend a young local who admitted to participating in the lynching and who also named several local law enforcement officers as ringleaders. Despite this, a grand jury, after hearing 124 witness statements, declined to indict the perpetrators. But this denial of justice galvanized Governor Ritchie's Interracial Commission, which would become one of the pioneering forces in the early civil rights movement in Maryland. Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and lingering effect of Williams's death on the politics of racism in the United States, the Black community in Salisbury, the broader Eastern Shore, the state of Maryland, and the legacy of "modern-day lynchings."

Author : Dana Phipps
Publisher : Cedar Forge Press
ISBN 13 : 9781943290567
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murder in Ocean Pines written by Dana Phipps and published by Cedar Forge Press. This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder in Ocean Pines has splashes of suspense and mystery, set in a small, bayside town near Assawoman Bay on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It includes colorful characters in a summer community, loyal friendship, budding love, unrelenting abuse, bull-dog courage, and light humor.

Author : Cheril Thomas
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781976331602
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Squatter's Rights Large Print written by Cheril Thomas and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is buried in the backyard? There's a grave in the woods behind the grandest house in town. Three hundred years of history are in the beams and crumbling plaster of Delaney House. Seven thousand square feet of trash and dirt cover secrets, lies, and at least one murder. Julia Reagan dreamed of saving her family home but time ran out. Her dying wish sends her daughter, a Washington attorney, to Maryland's Eastern Shore to renovate the decaying mansion and deal with the relatives who never left the sleepy village on the Chesapeake Bay. Before she can buy the first can of paint, Grace finds a grave, a murder and tantalizing clues to her own hidden past. If you like a good murder with family drama and historical events that won't stay in the past, you'll love "Squatter's Rights". Old Lies + Old Loves = Murder Welcome to the Eastern Shore!

Author : Sherrilyn A. Ifill
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807023094
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Courthouse Lawn, Revised Edition written by Sherrilyn A. Ifill and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the effects of lynching in the U.S. speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Nearly five thousand black Americans were lynched between 1890 and 1960, and the effects of this racial trauma continue to resound. Inspired by South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and drawing on techniques of restorative justice, Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, offers concrete ways for communities to heal. She also issues a clarion call for communities with histories of racial violence to be proactive in facing this legacy. This revised edition speaks powerfully to us in these times that have witnessed the creation of the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. e new foreword from Bryan Stevenson helps readers to better understand contemporary struggles and come to terms with the legacy of racial terror in the United States. In a new afterword, Ifill reflects on the recent strides made throughout the country to break the silence surrounding lynching and to recognize the victims of violence.Th

Author : Cheril Thomas
Publisher : Eastern Shore Mysteries
ISBN 13 : 9781733412162
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Intent - Large Print Edition written by Cheril Thomas and published by Eastern Shore Mysteries. This book was released on 2020-04-03 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: