Professor Charles Chavis Jr.has invested five years probing the lynching of a young Black man in Salisbury on the Eastern Shore 90 years ago--what 23-year-old Matthew Williams meant to his family and community, the leaders of the supposedly spontaneous mob, how the white power structure covered up the crime -- and what it all means today.Chavis’s book, The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State, will be out next week. And with Samson and Katrina Binutu, he’s producing a film about the crime, Hidden in Full View.

<a href="https://carterschool.gmu.edu/profiles/cchavis2">Professor Charles Chavis Jr.</a> has invested five years probing the lynching of a young Black man in Salisbury on the Eastern Shore 90 years ago--what 23-year-old Matthew Williams meant to his family and community, the leaders of the supposedly spontaneous mob, how the white power structure covered up the crime -- and what it all means today.Chavis&rsquo;s book, <a href="https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/silent-shore">The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State</a>, will be out next week. And with <a href="https://www.cruefilms.co/">Samson and Katrina Binutu</a>, he&rsquo;s producing a film about the crime, <a href="https://hiddeninfullviewseries.com/">Hidden in Full View</a>.

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