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Maryland was required to pay black and white teachers equally by 1941, based on a case argued by Thurgood Marshall. In 1955, schools in Maryland were forced to start the process of integration with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and this process not completed until 1967, with mixed success. [8] [9] [10]
Although the town is part of the east coast of the United States, the region's history goes back to a time when Maryland was a colonial province of England. The Easton Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It contains approximately 900 buildings mostly built in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries.
Black History Month is an annually observed commemorative month originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. [4] [5] It began as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora, initially lasting a week before becoming a month-long observation since 1970. [6]
Saving 'significant black history' on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Melissa Reid shows the location of Briddletown on Monday, May 16, 2022, in an exhibit at the Calvin B. Taylor House in Berlin, Maryland.
Charles Hicks, nicknamed “Mr. Black History’’ in Washington, D.C, remembered attending a Black History Month event in 2016 at the Department of Justice where his longtime friend, the late ...
97 years of Black History Month themes. 1974 — Helping America Understand. 1975 — Fulfilling America's Promise: Black History Month
Easton is an incorporated town in and the county seat [3] of Talbot County, Maryland, United States. The population was 17,101 at the 2020 census , [ 4 ] with an estimated population of 17,342 in 2022. [ 5 ]
Black History Month takes place throughout the entire month of February. It starts on Saturday, Feb. 1. This year's theme is African Americans and Labor, ...