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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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Grace Munroe

Updated On: Apr 27, 2024 | Grace Munroe trusted the British so her family could live free in Canada.

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Enolia Pettie McMillan

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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Mattagund

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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Mark Caesar and William Wheeler

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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Annette Cynthia Jones Funn

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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John Graham Lancaster

Updated On: Apr 8, 2024 | First African American County Commissioner for St. Mary’s County.

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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