@boydshistorical
Preserving our community's history, including the historic one-room Boyds Negro School (1895-1936), the Boyds Historic District, & the B&O Railroad, in Montgomery County, Maryland. 501(c)(3) See photos at https://boydspics.weebly.com/ !
Nine years ago, I first wrote about the 1942 police killing of Pvt. Thomas Broadus and the subsequent uprising in Baltimore some 73 years before the police killing of Freddie Gray in the same neighborhood sparked another uprising over police brutality. www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...
Three weeks ago, 83 years after his father, a US Army private, was shot and killed by a white cop in Baltimore, a retired Pittsburgh bus driver received a note from the Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board that the investigative files were being released.
www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/hist...
The side of a low brick building, with windows all along the side, in an asphalt parking lot.
The side of a low brick building, with windows all along the side, in an asphalt parking lot, fenced in by a chain-link fence.
The south (left) and north (right) sides of the Lincoln High School building.
Information about Lincoln High School comes from the book "Before Us Lies The Timber: The Segregated High School of Montgomery County, Maryland, 1927-1960", by Warrick S. Hill, Bartleby Press, 2003.
A low wooden addition with a metal roof, painted white, attached to the back of a low red-brick building, surrounded by weedy asphalt.
In 1943, a 2-room science building was added on to the back of the school, and 2 eleventh-graders, Gladys Owens and Betty Prather, earned their high school (12-year) diplomas.
Lincoln High School got its 12-year program during the 1943-44 school year, almost 12 years after the white high schools.
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A low flat brick building behind a chain-link fence, as seen from the street. The front has a front-door with steps up to it, and no windows.
This is Lincoln High School, Montgomery County's second high school for black children. An abandoned building transported from Takoma Park, then brick-veneered. It opened in September 1935 with 6 classrooms, principal's office, 2 lavatories, water fountain, 236 students (grades 8-11), and 6 faculty.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, argued December 9, 1952; re-argued December 8, 1953; decided May 17, 1954.
"Hikaru βCarlβ Iwasaki, an American of Japanese heritage who was relocated to a World War II internment camp [Heart Mountain] as a teen and went on to become a renowned photojournalist, died" in 2016.
www.denverpost.com/2016/09/15/j...
Two girls in school clothes, and their parents, also in good clothes, standing on the covered entry of a two-story stone? formstone? house. Black and white photo.
Linda Brown (left) with her parents, Leola and Oliver, and little sister Terry Lynn in front of their house in Topeka, Kansas, in 1954. Photo by Carl Iwasaki in Life, via Getty Images.
Screenshot of the Boyds Local Park, with two five-star reviews, at Clopper Rd Apt, with a photo of a gray one-room schoolhouse, at the intersection of Clarksburg Rd & Clopper Rd Apt in Boyds.
Also, the (designated) Boyds Local Park is in the wrong place in Google Maps. And it has two 5-star reviews, which is mysterious, because the Boyds Local Park doesn't exist in the real world. And it includes a photo of the historic Boyds Negro School (hi! *waves*), which is not in either location.
Google Maps satellite hybrid map of the northern end of the Boyds Historic District, around the train station. Clopper Road is mysteriously labeled "Clopper Rd Apt". There is also a label for "Boyds Local Park" near Bonnie Brae, which is not the correct location.
For a long time, Google Maps incorrectly labeled the west end of Clopper Rd as White Ground Rd.
Now all of Clopper Rd is ... Clopper Rd Apt?
Google Streetview, September 2024. 101st Avenue is renamed Punjab Avenue. The Texaco station is a used car lot. There are a lot more cars. Most of the buildings are still there, which is always exciting, they haven't been turned into parking lots.
The same view in September 2024.
Panoramic black and white photo of a very wide street, with side sidewalks, and a Texaco gas station on the near right side. There are some cars and trucks, but mostly the street is empty. This is a local shopping/main street. The buildings are two-story brick buildings, with signs like Something Heating and Supply Co., Inc.
The spelling book belonged to
P.S. 100 QUEENS
118 ST. & 111 AVE.
OZONE PARK, N.Y.
which is now P. S. 100 Glen Morris Elementary School.
π·101st Avenue East at 118th Street, August 14, 1936, in the New York City Municipal Archives
Front and back of yellow draft card for Rosario J. Morina.
Rosario Marina was drafted in 1944, was the groom in a 1975 marriage license in Queens, and died in 1982 (aged 56) in Queens.
The simplest explanation might be that the 1950 Census enumerator, John McMahon, didn't know Rosario was a multi-gender name.
Rosario Marina got the arithmetic book in good condition on Oct 21, 1938.
In the 1940 Census, they were the 13-year-old son of Italian immigrants, living with parents + 4 siblings at 466 Second Avenue, NYC.
In the 1950 Census, they were the 24-year-old daughter, a grocery store sales clerk.
The two books, on a wood surface. The arithmetic book is larger, brown, and in good condition. The spelling book is green, smaller, and in less good condition.
Found books for the school in a little free library.
The New City Arithmetics, Seventh Year - First Half, by William A. Boylan, Floyd R. Smith, & Katherine Bauer, Charles E. Merrill Co., 1930.
Natural Method Spellers, A Language Series, by Edward Mandel and Lucille Nicol, Laidlaw Brothers, 1929.
In a video recorded early last week, 14th Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden honored the work performed by the Library's staff, the heart of the institution.
As the caretakers of our nationβs collective history, the staff will continue to serve Congress, the American public & users across the world.
Screenshot from the website for the documentary βAinβt No Back to a Merry-Go-Round.β Shot includes a photo of a white police officer attempting to remove a black young man on a merry go round.
A really wonderful documentary. It addresses the desegregation protests of Glen Echo Park in the early 60βs. I think itβs important to understand the specifics of individual protests, thousands across the during the Civil Rights movement, and this doc does a great job of that.
www.aintnoback.com
was recently told by a scholar of some note that it was out of bounds to compare trump's purge of black people from the federal government to wilson's efforts to resegregate the federal bureaucracy
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Compare these 2 versions of the homepage of Brown v Board Nat'l Historic Park in Topeka.
Left: as of 5/4.
Right: as of today.
Before: Brown's "one of the most pivotal ... ever rendered."
After: "a class photo."
www.nps.gov/brvb/index.htm
#HistorySky #LawSky
Dr Carla Hayden led the Enoch Pratt Library System in Baltimore before becoming the Librarian of Congress.
First Black person to hold the job.
Trump fired her.
Marylandβs legislature approved a bill to create a Reparations Commission, aiming to address the legacy of slavery and systemic racism. The panel will study restitution options like financial aid and housing support.
Read More at: www.washingtoninformer.com/maryland-reparations-commission-approved
βTubmanβs photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight βBlack/White cooperationβ in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.β
wapo.st/4jdXL8m
My humblebrag for the day is receiving an NEH letter stating that "The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for the administration." But was it a higher or lower priority than crushing opportunities for 6th-grade contestants in National History Day?
I used to judge the national competition at the University of Maryland. they were some of the best days ever--so many talented and creative kids really fired up about history. I judged the av projects and they were sometimes providing information on things no one had ever looked at before.
A National History Day display: "Alice Paul: How She Rocked the Vote," from the 2020 contest.
A National History Day display: "D-Day: How the Allies Broke Hitler's Atlantic Barrier, from March 2020, SW Michigan regional competition.
I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.
"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute π₯
The AHA has released a statement in support of the Smithsonian Institution, the target of the recent EO, βRestoring Truth and Sanity to American History.β This order βegregiously misrepresents the work of the Smithsonian Institutionβ and βcompletely misconstrues the nature of historical work.β ποΈ
