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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: 87 Print image (42K) |
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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: 87 Print image (42K) |
| 78 The special project that I would like to share with you is my "Black Saga Competition" which is named after the book that I authored entitled Black Saga: The African American Experience. I am the founder and host of the "Black Saga Competition," a competition that teaches elementary and middle school students about the African American experience and later tests them on their knowledge of this important aspect of American history. A lot of this information is about the African American experience in Maryland. Last year, we implemented the Competition in elementary and middle schools in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Howard, Montgomery, and Prince George's Counties. Students are given a packet of 700 questions to study. The participating schools then have within-school "Black Saga Competitions" where as many as five to eighteen teams of 4th, 5th, and 6th graders in elementary schools and 6th, 7th, and 8th graders in middle schools compete in February to determine who will represent their school in the Maryland State "Black Saga Competition" at the University of Maryland College Park in March. We might want to consider how we can bring to our young people a more comprehensive knowledge of the African American experience in Maryland and elsewhere. My "Black Saga Competition" is |