The objective of gathering these 88 stories is not to focus on the well-known individuals, but to include those people who in their everyday lives exemplified the strength and resilience of the Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color of Southern Maryland. Appreciating their stories provides a view into the history of Southern Maryland like no other.
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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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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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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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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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Updated On: Apr 27, 2024 | Grace Munroe trusted the British so her family could live free in Canada.
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Updated On: Apr 8, 2024 | Enolia Pettie McMillan was an educator, civil rights activist, community leader and the first female national president of the NAACP.
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Updated On: Apr 8, 2024 | April 12, 1666, three representatives from different Indigenous nations delivered speeches to the Upper House of the General Assembly of the colony of Maryland.
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Updated On: Apr 27, 2024 | Mark Caesar and William Wheeler - why days following July 4th would a Charles County freeman lead enslaved people in a flight to freedom?
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Updated On: Mar 26, 2024 | Annette Funn a microbiologist with the FDA, used her many talents to empower people in Southern Maryland and beyond.
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Updated On: Apr 8, 2024 | First African American County Commissioner for St. Mary’s County.
