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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: 434 Print image (101K) |
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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: 434 Print image (101K) |
| In the Aftermath of! Glory1: African American Soldiers & Sailors from Annapolis Maryland, 1863-1918 Maryland State Archives: Documents for the Classroom 350 Rowe Boulevard Annapolis, MD 21401 Phone:(410)260-6400 Internet: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us e-mail: archives@mdarchives.state.md.us Annapolis who died in 1918. SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Black Civil War Soldiers Collection) Thought to be a photograph of William F. Murphy (on right), founder and publisher of the Baltimore Afro-American. MS A SC 2432-1-1. • Guide to Documents • Suggested Viewing & Reading List • Museums & Historic Sites Purpose: To examine what happens to African American soldiers & sailors who survive the Civil War by tracing their careers through public and private records. The packet includes maps, contemporary accounts, census records, court records, and Federal Pension files. The packet relates the soldiers to the efforts to expand and then restrict the suffrage (the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and . subsequent attempts to incorporate grandfather clauses into state law), and ends with the voting rights cases of 1915 before the U.S. Supreme Court, one of which involved a Civil War sailor from Page 22 of 26 |