BALTIMORE - Universities in Maryland are now grappling with racist images in yearbooks from the 1960s and 1970s. The Baltimore Sun reported Saturday that a fraternity page from a 1970 University of Maryland yearbook shows members imitating a lynching. Yearbook pages from another fraternity in the 1960s include references to minstrel shows as well as photos of men in blackface. The Johns Hopkins University also unearthed racist photos. Ralph Northam’s medical school yearbook page.

Source: thestar February 09, 2019 19:07 UTC