TASK FORCE TO STUDY
THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND
(Final Report) 1999/12/31
MdHR 991422

MdHR 991422, Image No: 165   Print image (42K)

 Jump to  
  << PREVIOUS   NEXT >>
clear space clear space clear space white space


 

TASK FORCE TO STUDY
THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND
(Final Report) 1999/12/31
MdHR 991422

MdHR 991422, Image No: 165   Print image (42K)

 Jump to  
  << PREVIOUS   NEXT >>
156 14. Implications for Further Study and Action | The Task Force applauds the honoring of those who fought to save the Union, white and black alike. The Task Force notes that we seem little concerned with recognizing that the services of multitudes of others who volunteered to save the Union were refused in the spirit that they were unworthy solely on the basis of race. In Maryland there presently exists a Maryland Veterans Commission which oversees a Civil War Cemetery, a Maryland Civil War Heritage Commission which in involved with the protection of battlefields, a Governor's Commission of Military Monuments, and a Maryland Historical Trust which is largely concerned with the preservation of historic districts, buildings and archaeological sites. In addition, there exists a Corporation for the Maryland Museum of African American Culture and History in charge of directing the operations a new museum to be constructed in Baltimore near the Inner Harbor and the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture which, to date, has been mostly involved in directing the operations of the Banneker-Douglass Museum in Annapolis and in sponsoring an annual Dr. Martin Luther King Concert in Baltimore each February. At present, there exists no