Following civil rights demonstrations in 1963, Gloria Richardson becomes the SNCC negotiator with US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. They sign the Treaty of Cambridge, ending segregation in schools and housing which is ignored by locals.
Gloria Richardson negotiates end of Civil Rights demonstrations in Cambridge Read More »
Governor Thomas Hicks, slave owner, Know Nothing and anti-secessionist, moves the Maryland Assembly in 1861 to Frederick and leads them to vote against secession. The vote ensures that the national capital is not surrounded by Confederate States.
Governor Thomas Holliday Hicks preserves Maryland from secession Read More »
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery with two brothers in 1849. Subsequently she leads 13 more escape missions, rescuing 70 individuals and she participates in Civil War military engagements in South Carolina.
Harriet Tubman, A Moses to her People Read More »
We acknowledge the enduring presence of many American Indian tribes who once lived in Maryland and who now, having lost their lands, live in a diaspora. Read more.
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