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Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland Dedicated

Updated On: Apr 5, 2024 | The Commemorative was dedicated by St. Mary's College of Maryland on the site where the remains of slave cabins were discovered in 2016.

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Guffrie M. Smith, Jr.

Updated On: Apr 8, 2024 | Guffrie M. Smith, Jr., educator and civic activist, has an extensive career with Calvert County Public Schools and the Maryland State Department of Education.

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Edna Warren Simmons

Updated On: Jun 20, 2024 | Edna Warren Simmons was a teacher for 46 years - overnight, she went from a graduating high school student to the sole teacher at

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Ignatius Seale

Updated On: Apr 27, 2024 | Valued, skilled blacksmith enslaved escaped to freedom in Canada

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Myrtle M. Patten

Updated On: Apr 8, 2024 | Myrtle M. Patten RN, was Calvert County’s first public health nurse.

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Tenny Merritt

Updated On: Apr 27, 2024 | Tenny Merritt exercised resistance and agency by participating in the largest emancipation in the United States until the Civil War almost half a century

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Wilson Parran

Updated On: Apr 8, 2024 | Wilson Parren was one of the first students to integrate Calvert High School, in 1967. He has used this experience to become a community

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Joseph Christopher Parks

Updated On: Apr 8, 2024 | Joseph Christopher Parks made education possible for “colored” students in the segregated Charles County Schools during the Jim Crow era and segregated schools.

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Theodore (Ted) Newkirk

Updated On: Aug 15, 2024 | Theodore Newkirk was a key player in the desegregation of St. Mary’s County Schools and the fight against workplace discrimination at the Patuxent River

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Calvert County Oral Histories

Updated On: Mar 25, 2024 | Calvert County has an extensive set of oral histories.

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Equity in History Coalition

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Southern MarylandEquity in History Coalition

The Southern Maryland Equity in History Coalition is a transformative collaboration of local organizations and educational institutions, committed to elevating the history of Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color in our region.

Learn how you can support our mission.

Southern Maryland
Equity in History Coalition