On Wednesday, Aug. 4 at 6:30 p.m., the Move the Monument Coalition will provide an opportunity for the community to learn more about the lawsuit challenging the Talbot Boys Confederate Monument.
On May 5, the ACLU, the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, the Talbot County Branch of the NAACP, Attorney Kisha Petticolas, and Richard M. Potter, president of the Talbot County branch of the NAACP, joined with the Washington, D.C., law firm Crowell & Moring, LLP, to file suit in federal district court in Baltimore challenging as racist and illegal Talbot County’s placement and retention of the Confederate monument on the grounds of the county courthouse in Easton — the last on non-federal public land in Maryland.
Daniel Wolff with Crowell & Moring, the lead attorney in the case, will give some background on the lawsuit filed against Talbot County as well as provide an update on its status.
Mr. Wolff, working with the ACLU, upon announcing the lawsuit, stressed the blatant incongruity between what the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees to Black citizens and how Talbot County treats Black citizens by dint of maintaining a statue glorifying white supremacy on the courthouse grounds.
The two individual plaintiffs, Richard Potter and Kisha Petticolas, will also talk about how and why they joined the lawsuit. Dana Vickers Shelley, Executive Director of the ACLU of Maryland, will also speak about why this racist monument to violence and oppression, put up during the height of the Jim Crow era when such symbols were erected to put fear into formerly enslaved people, must be removed.
To register for this event, go here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. For more information, contact: [email protected]
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