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The compromise counted three-fifths of each state's slave population toward that state's total population for the purpose of apportioning the U.S. House of Representatives. Even though slaves were denied voting rights, this gave Southern states more U.S. representatives and more presidential electoral votes than if slaves had not been counted.
The history of African Americans in Maryland is long and complex. Southern Maryland is the home of the first person of African descent to be elected to and serve in a legislature in America. His name was Mathias de Sousa and he was one of the original colonists to arrive in 1634.
A "Negro" / "Colored" (now African-American) elementary school was authorized in 1867, after a long controversy and public demand by the free black population of the, supplemented in 1883 by a "Colored High School" - second oldest in the nation next to Dunbar High School in Washington, D.C. [citation needed] Baltimore's new secondary school for ...
In the 1980 United States census, there were 431,151 African Americans living in Baltimore, constituting 54.8% of the population. The 1980 census was the first census for which African Americans were a majority in Baltimore. [7] By the 1990 United States census, there were 435,768 African Americans, constituting 59.2% of the population. [7]
By 1860 Maryland's free black population comprised 49.1% of the total number of African Americans in the state. [3] The small state of Maryland was home to nearly 84,000 free blacks in 1860, by far the most of any state; the state had ranked as having the highest number of free blacks since 1810.
This was a way for the school system to remain segregated. African Americans and whites still lived in different areas of Baltimore, therefore, African American and white children went to different schools. The Maryland State Department of Education put out a book on the progress of desegregation in 1961. [7]
Maryland lawmakers voted Friday to rescind a statewide emergency regulation that had mandated the use of face masks in schools since August. The General Assembly’s joint administrative ...
While thousands of free blacks did relocate to the colonies, most free African Americans opposed this project, claiming the right of their birth in the United States and wanting to improve their lives there. [8] The U.S. state of Maryland had an increasing proportion of free blacks among its African-American population.