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THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND
(Final Report) 1999/12/31
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THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND
(Final Report) 1999/12/31
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125 [Delegate Burns: You get absolutely no money from the Maryland Tourism Council?] Mr. Fields: No. [Senator Clarence Rlount: You said that you do not receive any state funding., not even grants?] Mr. Fields: After my presentation in Rocky Gap during the Maryland Tourism Boards Annual Conference they called me downtown to the State Office of Tourism to meet with George Williams and four members of his staff. They gave me the application to apply for the discretionary tourism grant and I applied for it and they denied it. [Delegate Rums3 referring hack to the fact that Senator Dyson sits on a State Parks Task Force which apparently is concerned about inadequate funding for tourism but which affects all populations in the State similarly: T view this very differently from the state parks issue. We are talking here about the history of a particular race.] [Senator Dyson: The key., however., is that we need to look at the entire issue of inadequate funding by the State for tourism.]