Maryland

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/11/2020
  

  Gloria Richardson Pushed Aside a Bayonet as a ’60s Civil Rights Activist. Now 98, She Wants the New Generation to Fight On

  Gloria Richardson remains a fierce advocate for racial justice and a proponent of disrupting the status quo decades after being photographed pushing aside a National Guardsman's bayonet during protests in Cambridge, Maryland. 

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• SOURCE: So Let's Talk About...
  10/27/2020
  

  Today I Learned: Gloria Richardson is Still Alive

  "President John F. Kennedy told protestors in Dorchester County to stand down. Gloria Richardson told JFK he could go to hell."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  10/28/2020
  

  Maryland Archaeologists Unearth Jesuit Plantation’s 18th-Century Slave Quarters

  “The Jesuits were prolific in their record keeping, but very little survived on the enslaved African Americans who worked the fields and served the Catholic Church,” says Julie Schablitsky, the highway administration’s chief archaeologist, in the statement.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  9/12/2020
  

  My Local Confederate Monument

  by Casey Cep

  The author examines the history and politics of the last remaining Confederate monument on public lands, other than battlefields and cemeteries, in the state of Maryland. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/8/2020
  

  This Majority-Black D.C. Suburb Instituted Police Reforms Years Ago. It’s Trying Again.

  Prince George's County, east of Washington, DC, became one of the country's biggest majority-Black suburban areas in the 1990s. Then the county police department was subject to a federal consent decree over use of force policies. Today, the county is working proactively to respond to community pressures for further reform.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/21/2020
  

  Maryland’s State Song Celebrates The Confederacy. This Alternative Hails Harriet Tubman And Elijah Cummings

  “It’s the dumbest thing in the world for Maryland, of all states, to have a racist, secessionist song,” Congressman Jamie Raskin said. “We were with the Union."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/13/2020
  

  Maryland County Votes to Keep Statue Honoring Confederate Soldiers

  The “Talbot Boys” memorial is thought to be the only Confederate memorial on state property in Maryland.

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• SOURCE: Southern Maryland Chronicle
  5/18/2020
  

  Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture Announces $1 Million In Funding for Preservation Projects

  The Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture (MCAAHC) announces $1 million in available funds for African American preservation projects throughout the state of Maryland.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/28/2020
  

  2 Women Work to Highlight History of Slaves in Maryland Town

  One woman is a descendant of people who were enslaved in Taneytown for generations. The other woman’s ancestors belonged to the family line of the owner of those slaves.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/1/19
  

  The Bones of A Former Slave And Black Leader Were Missing — Until A Historian Asked In The Right Place

  Historian Janice Hayes-Williams was just starting out as an amateur local historian when she found out Smith Price had been deeply disrespected.

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• SOURCE: Wbur.org
  September 12, 2019
  

  Maryland Commission Sets Out To Investigate State's Lynching History

  by Robin Young and Allison Hagan

  A Maryland commission empowered to investigate at least 40 lynchings that occurred between 1854 and 1933 will have its public launch Thursday night.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  8/30/19
  

  John Locke Breaks His Silence

  A new manuscript is located in Maryland. But do Americans care what the philosophers have to say?

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/18/19
  

  Descendants of slaves and slave owners discover legacy of Maryland’s Sotterley Plantation

  The restored cabin opened to the public in 2017 and was dedicated in honor of Agnes Kane Callum. The property also has an exhibit that describes the working farm, and lists the names of the enslaved people who lived there.

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• 4/1/18
  

  Demoting “Maryland, My Maryland” Ends a Struggle Begun by Black Baltimoreans in 1863

  by Martha S. Jones

  Another pillar of the Lost Cause myth falls.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10-15-13
  

  A Maryland Hill’s Prehistoric Secret

  Pig Point has become a tantalizing window into prehistoric gatherings on the hilltop thousands of years ago.

• SOURCE: AP
  7-28-13
  

  Maryland dig seeks proof of 1st free black community

  EASTON, Md. (AP) — Archaeology students have been sifting through a little patch of ground on Maryland’s Eastern Shore this summer, seeking evidence that it was home to the nation’s first free African-American community.Historians say hundreds of free blacks once lived in the area, while plantations flourished with hundreds of black slaves not far away.The students from the University of Maryland, College Park, and Morgan State University have been digging behind what is now the Women’s Club of Talbot County. The building, part of which dates to at least 1793, was home to three free non-white residents, according to the 1800 Census....

• SOURCE: AP
  7-4-13
  

  Md. historical society begins project to create authentic reproduction of Star-Spangled Banner

  BALTIMORE — The Maryland Historical Society is embarking on a special Independence Day project this year.The society on Thursday began recreating the original Star-Spangled Banner Flag, which flew over Fort McHenry in Baltimore during the War of 1812 and inspired the writing of the national anthem.Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake sewed the first stitch at a July 4 ceremony kicking off the project.The historical society says it expects its authentic reproduction to take six weeks to complete and will involve more than 100 volunteers to help stitch....

• SOURCE: WaPo
  6-5-13
  

  Alixa Naff, scholar and historian of the Arab-American experience, dies at 93

  McLEAN, Va. — Alixa Naff, an early and pioneering historian who documented the lives of the first wave of Arab-American immigrants a century ago, has died after a brief illness. She was 93.Naff died Saturday at her home in Mitchellville, Md., according to two of her friends who were with her that day.Naff, who immigrated from what is now Lebanon when she was a toddler, is perhaps best known for a collection of oral histories and artifacts that she donated to the Smithsonian and which is still available for scholarly research at the National Museum of American History.“Through her research, Alixa Naff greatly contributed to the understanding of the early Arab immigrant experience in the United States from 1880 through the 1950s,” the Smithsonian said in a statement Wednesday....

• SOURCE: AP
  5-20-13
  

  Group raising money for memorial to black Civil War veterans in Hagerstown

  HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Soldiers in Hagerstown were among the first black men in Maryland to join the ranks of the Union during the Civil War, and were involved in the siege of Petersburg, Va., during the conflict.Among the first local blacks who joined the Union were members of Moxley’s Band, a Hagerstown-based black brass band that became known as the 1st Brigade Band, U.S. Colored Troops, according to local historian Steve Bockmiller....

• SOURCE: AP
  5-8-13
  

  Producer seeks funds online for documentary on Antietam battlefield illumination

  SHARPSBURG, Md. — A Maryland producer is hoping an online campaign will help him create a documentary about annual Antietam National Battlefield Memorial IlluminationMichael Wicklein recently started a campaign to raise $23,110 to help fund the documentary through the website Kickstarter. The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown reports (http://bit.ly/13yIK6e) that “Gods and Generals” author Jeff Shaara announced this week that he plans to match up to $5,000 in contributions to help fund the documentary.Wicklein hopes to finish early next year after filming the 25th annual illumination. During the December event, volunteers place 23,000 luminarias at the battlefield to represent the casualties from the bloodiest single-day battle on American soil....