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The search results are drawn from the organizations that contain significant history resources, and the categories including places to experience, notable people and the timeline. All can be searched by keyword, time, theme, type, counties and audience. The search filters were developed with the school systems to align with State social studies requirements. 

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Notable People History
| Tenny Merritt exercised resistance and agency by participating in the largest emancipation in the United States until the Civil War almost half a century
Notable People History Photo Gallery
| Wilson Parren was one of the first students to integrate Calvert High School, in 1967. He has used this experience to become a community
Notable People History
| Joseph Christopher Parks made education possible for “colored” students in the segregated Charles County Schools during the Jim Crow era and segregated schools.
Notable People History Photo Gallery
| 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
History
| Calvert County has an extensive set of oral histories.
Notable People History
| Grace Munroe trusted the British so her family could live free in Canada.
History
| Calvert County historic structures.
History
| Calvert County maps from the colonial period through today.
History
| Calvert County Historic Preservation has a substantial collection of images and photographs.
History
| Historic properties owned by African American and Indigenous persons.

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