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The Baltimore Sun Gregory Kane column: Students share in own black history book.(Column)
Byline: Gregory Kane
May 16--Warren Sweeley is a 16-year-old junior at Doris M. Johnson High School. He has five cats, one dog and his favorite movie is High School Musical. Like most kids his age, Warren learned his history in public schools.
No wonder he'd never heard of the 1942 "March on Annapolis." Until recently, that is.
Warren said he learned early in school about the famous 1963 March on Washington in which Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous "I Have A Dream" speech. But Warren knew nothing about the March on Annapolis in late April of 1942, when some 1,800 black Marylanders went by train, bus, car or foot to the state capital to protest police brutality and racial discrimination in Baltimore. After the march, three blacks were added to Baltimore's police force and then-Gov. Herbert R. O'Conor appointed a Commission on Problems Affecting the Negro…
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