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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.
Timeline
Updated On: Apr 3, 2024 | Twelve years after Brown v Board of Education, only six of Maryland’s counties had desegregated their schools.
Timeline
Updated On: Apr 3, 2024 | The American Indian Movement (AIM) is a Native American grassroots movement that was founded in July 1968.
Notable People History Photo Gallery
Updated On: Jul 15, 2024 | James Bowie was 20 years old when he took the gamble and escaped Sotterley to British forces anchored in the Patuxent River during the
Notable People History Photo Gallery
Updated On: Apr 26, 2024 | Charles Bolden, First African American pilot, space shuttle astronaut, first Black NASA Administrator, Major General, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.), Founder & CEO Emeritus, The
Notable People History
Updated On: Jun 19, 2024 | Simeon Saunders Booker, Jr. was a famous Civil Rights era reporter and journalist and first Black reporter for the Washington Post.
Notable People History Photo Gallery
Updated On: Apr 2, 2024 | Charles Ball an enslaved person from Calvert County is best known for his account as an American fugitive slave. but his valor is depicted
Notable People History Photo Gallery
Updated On: Apr 27, 2024 | Joan Groves and her younger brother Conrad entered Great Mill’s High School in St. Mary's County, Maryland under a court order in 1958. They
Notable People History Photo Gallery
Updated On: Apr 2, 2024 | Bishop William Sampson Brooks of Calvert County used his talents and faith, during the Jim Crow era, to become powerful international leader and activist
Notable People
Updated On: Apr 2, 2024 | Fort Sumter, South Carolina, was fired on by Federal troops, which launched the American Civil War.
Timeline
Updated On: Apr 2, 2024 | People held in bondage in the Confederate Staters were proclaimed free by the Emancipation Proclamation.
