TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 70 Print image (37K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 70 Print image (37K) |
61 4. A Blanket of cream color with a brown stripe, in two pieces, made by slaves on the "Woodlawn Farm" before 1818, possibly owned by Silas Griffith and Frances Risteau who were married in 1818 A press release in September, 1999 announced that Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum had earned a two-year grant of $173,441 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The grant will fund an innovative partnership of cultural institutions in Calvert County, Anne Arundel County, and Charles County to research and present African American perspectives on segregated public school education from 1865 to 1965 (i.e., from the end of the Civil War to the height of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement). The core exhibit will open in April 2000 and will travel to four sites in Maryland over a two-year period with each site adding its own perspective using local interpretive materials. [Excerpts from Testimony and Written Submission of Ms Pamela F. Charshee, Executive Director, The Carroll Park Foundation, CPF] The Carroll's Hundred historical site in Baltimore City represents some of the most significant 18th-century political and social |