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Published May 6, 2019, The Frederick News-Post Thank you for publishing Wyatt Massey’s piece on April 22. It’s long past time for Frederick County Public Schools to take seriously the message they send to students who …
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Slave resistance has a long and honored history in our nation. Leaders like Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey, who planned armed uprisings, are famous figures in black history. Resistance took other forms, too, from verbal …
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Irvin Sullivan served his country in World War I, and then returned to his native Hagerstown. He was one of many African Americans from Washington County who fought in the Great War and are largely forgotten today. Next …
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Local Slave Life When St. Mark’s Episcopal Church-Lappans, about six miles south of Hagerstown, Maryland, was founded in 1849, all eight of the church’s charter members owned slaves, and the original plans for the …
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