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Update for the Week of 4/29/24 – 5/5/24
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
WE'RE MOVING!
Our blog now has a new home! Make sure you visit us on http://roadtocompromise.wordpress.com
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Emma Handy
The other day, as I was looking through the "Star Democrat", the newspaper for Talbot County, I came across the obituary for Emma Handy, a graduate for the Kennard School (The school for African-Americans in Queen Anne's County) and a long time eduator with Queen Anne's County School System.
She graduated from the Kennard School in 1947. Mrs. Handy held a bachelors degree from Bowie State University and a masters degree from the University of Maryland. Over the years, she was the recipient of numerous awards and active in many local organizations.
Mrs. Handy started her teaching career in 1964 as a Teacher with the Enrichment Program. In 1966, she transferred to Kent Island Elementary School, where she taught for 15 years. In 1981, she was promoted to Assistant Principal and worked at Kent Island Elementary and Bayside Elementary until she retired in 1994.
According to Queen Anne's County Superintendent of Schools, Carol Williamson, "She always made every effort to ensure students had every opportunity to be successful and to understand their value to their families and their communities...She influenced many of the students that she had to come back and work in education or to come back to the commuity and support education."
NOTE: ALL INFORMATION FOR THIS POST CAME FROM THE ARTICLE RAN IN THE STAR DEMOCRAT ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2008!
Blogroll
One of the other things I'm going to do with this is have a list of blogs in Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's Counties. As well as blogs about history. If you have a blog you would like me to include on my list, let me know!
Here are some of the ones I have now:
Cecil Times: Covers news and events in southern Cecil County
Chesapeake City Mirror: Covers news and events in Chesapeake City
QACHS's Band Blog: Published by Queen Anne's County High School Band Teacher, Eric Wright. It covers events going on in the QACHS Music Department
Someone Noticed: Covers news and events in Elkton
The Revolutionary College Blog: Covers happenings with Washington College's C.V Starr Center for the American Experience
You Know You Are A History Major When...: Published by Washington College history majors, Brenna Bychowski and Gillian Bourassa.
Reflections on Delmarva's Past: A blog about the history of the Delmarva Penninsula, on which Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's Counties are located on
Canalside: Another blog covering Chesapeake City
The Historical Society of Cecil County: A blog operated by the Cecil County Historical Society
Window on Cecil County's Past: A blog about Cecil County history
Here are some of the ones I have now:
Cecil Times: Covers news and events in southern Cecil County
Chesapeake City Mirror: Covers news and events in Chesapeake City
QACHS's Band Blog: Published by Queen Anne's County High School Band Teacher, Eric Wright. It covers events going on in the QACHS Music Department
Someone Noticed: Covers news and events in Elkton
The Revolutionary College Blog: Covers happenings with Washington College's C.V Starr Center for the American Experience
You Know You Are A History Major When...: Published by Washington College history majors, Brenna Bychowski and Gillian Bourassa.
Reflections on Delmarva's Past: A blog about the history of the Delmarva Penninsula, on which Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's Counties are located on
Canalside: Another blog covering Chesapeake City
The Historical Society of Cecil County: A blog operated by the Cecil County Historical Society
Window on Cecil County's Past: A blog about Cecil County history
An article about my project
Two weeks ago, the "News Journal" in Wilmington, Delaware wrote an about my website. Here it is:
October 2, 2008
A modern view of Maryland historyCecil student develops prize-winning Web siteBy PAULA F. KELLYSpecial to The News Journal
ELKTON, Md. -- Maryland History Day challenges students to ask questions about and to research significant historical events. While complacency could have directed Kyle Dixon to learn about desegregation from print for his entry, he sought primary sources that lived it.
Dixon's efforts were rewarded. His Web site submission, "School Integration: The Long Difficult Road to Compromise," about desegregation in Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne's counties, received first place at the county level and also garnered an honor on April 26 at the state contest, where more than 400 students competed.
A senior at Bohemia Manor High School, Dixon received the senior prize from the Maryland Commission on African-American History and Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The Maryland Humanities Council sponsors the event.
Tyler Haines and Andrew Nguyen from Rising Sun High School also were honored with a senior prize for their cryptology study, "The Molotov-Rippentrop Pact."
Entry options included a paper, exhibit, one-act play or Web site on any topic with the theme of Conflict and Compromise. Dixon chose the Internet -- a new approach in the contest this year -- and it's at www.cchistory.org/kyle.
Kyle focused on having as many primary sources as possible," said Michael Means, Dixon's history teacher. "He got much more depth and went out into the field. The site he put together is gorgeous. Ninety percent of the public would not know a high school student did it."
Desegregation always held Dixon's interest, but it was the death of John Andrews, a vice principal at Queen Anne's County High School in Centreville, Md., that inspired the history buff to explore the issue further.
Dixon, also a theatre enthusiast, frequently visited the Queen Anne's school to enjoy its plays. He always noticed Andrews, dressed in coat and tie, for whom everyone held an obvious respect.
After Andrews was killed on Aug. 23, 2007, in a car accident, Dixon learned that the 71-year-old man had come to Queen Anne's County when desegregation was being implemented.
Months later, Means mandated that his Advanced Placement U.S. History class participate in Maryland History Day. Dixon immediately thought about Andrews. "I never knew him," he said, "but he was still part of that inspiration for the project."
The three upper Eastern Shore counties chose different routes to integration, Dixon discovered.
In 1966, Susan Boone was a senior at the newly built Queen Anne's County High School, where she now is the media specialist and was a colleague of Andrews.
"Kyle pried me with well-structured questions," Boone said.
The yearlong preparation for the new high school, she said, was a comprehensive and well-organized and involved representatives from each of the four county high schools, including the all-black Kennard. Everyone involved decided upon details such as school color and mascot. The opening year went smoothly, Boone said.
As a fifth-grader at Galena Elementary, Ellen Cook's first day at school was frightening. She and six other youngsters traveled from Millington to the small town as part of the Freedom of Choice plan to introduce integration, but only because the county was in danger of losing its federal funding for not complying with the 1954 Supreme Court ruling.
In Cecil County, a lawsuit filed by the NAACP on behalf of a black naval family in Port Deposit prompted desegregation in the mid-1950s. By 1964, all the black schools were closed in the county, and integration was complete.
Like other schools nationwide, Delaware schools were to become desegregated following the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. The Board of Education. But few did. In 1958, the Supreme Court said it would no longer review desegregation cases; Delaware schools began a system of voluntary registration for blacks beginning in the first grade. Still, racial equality was not achieved as most blacks lived in Wilmington and in the New Castle area. In the 1976 U.S. District Court decision of Evans v. Buchanan, New Castle County was to become one school district. Students would be bused to the Wilmington and New Castle areas and vice versa for several years during their education to achieve a racially balanced education.
Dixon's interest in the past comes as no surprise; he is a chip right off the old history block. His father, Mike Dixon, has been a history enthusiast since the age of 14 when he joined the Historical Society of Cecil County. He has served as society president, historian and board member. Kyle credits his father for fostering his pursuit through family trips to spots such as Gettysburg, Fort Delaware and Williamsburg. Mike Dixon countered that his son showed interest at age 5. Like his father, Kyle volunteers at the historical society, where he started a local high school yearbook collection that includes one from George Washington Carver, the all-black school that closed in 1964.
In the future, Kyle plans to teach high school history. Meanwhile, chronicling the past suits him fine. "It's an important era of U.S. history that needs to be documented."
October 2, 2008
A modern view of Maryland historyCecil student develops prize-winning Web siteBy PAULA F. KELLYSpecial to The News Journal
ELKTON, Md. -- Maryland History Day challenges students to ask questions about and to research significant historical events. While complacency could have directed Kyle Dixon to learn about desegregation from print for his entry, he sought primary sources that lived it.
Dixon's efforts were rewarded. His Web site submission, "School Integration: The Long Difficult Road to Compromise," about desegregation in Cecil, Kent and Queen Anne's counties, received first place at the county level and also garnered an honor on April 26 at the state contest, where more than 400 students competed.
A senior at Bohemia Manor High School, Dixon received the senior prize from the Maryland Commission on African-American History and Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. The Maryland Humanities Council sponsors the event.
Tyler Haines and Andrew Nguyen from Rising Sun High School also were honored with a senior prize for their cryptology study, "The Molotov-Rippentrop Pact."
Entry options included a paper, exhibit, one-act play or Web site on any topic with the theme of Conflict and Compromise. Dixon chose the Internet -- a new approach in the contest this year -- and it's at www.cchistory.org/kyle.
Kyle focused on having as many primary sources as possible," said Michael Means, Dixon's history teacher. "He got much more depth and went out into the field. The site he put together is gorgeous. Ninety percent of the public would not know a high school student did it."
Desegregation always held Dixon's interest, but it was the death of John Andrews, a vice principal at Queen Anne's County High School in Centreville, Md., that inspired the history buff to explore the issue further.
Dixon, also a theatre enthusiast, frequently visited the Queen Anne's school to enjoy its plays. He always noticed Andrews, dressed in coat and tie, for whom everyone held an obvious respect.
After Andrews was killed on Aug. 23, 2007, in a car accident, Dixon learned that the 71-year-old man had come to Queen Anne's County when desegregation was being implemented.
Months later, Means mandated that his Advanced Placement U.S. History class participate in Maryland History Day. Dixon immediately thought about Andrews. "I never knew him," he said, "but he was still part of that inspiration for the project."
The three upper Eastern Shore counties chose different routes to integration, Dixon discovered.
In 1966, Susan Boone was a senior at the newly built Queen Anne's County High School, where she now is the media specialist and was a colleague of Andrews.
"Kyle pried me with well-structured questions," Boone said.
The yearlong preparation for the new high school, she said, was a comprehensive and well-organized and involved representatives from each of the four county high schools, including the all-black Kennard. Everyone involved decided upon details such as school color and mascot. The opening year went smoothly, Boone said.
As a fifth-grader at Galena Elementary, Ellen Cook's first day at school was frightening. She and six other youngsters traveled from Millington to the small town as part of the Freedom of Choice plan to introduce integration, but only because the county was in danger of losing its federal funding for not complying with the 1954 Supreme Court ruling.
In Cecil County, a lawsuit filed by the NAACP on behalf of a black naval family in Port Deposit prompted desegregation in the mid-1950s. By 1964, all the black schools were closed in the county, and integration was complete.
Like other schools nationwide, Delaware schools were to become desegregated following the 1954 Supreme Court decision of Brown v. The Board of Education. But few did. In 1958, the Supreme Court said it would no longer review desegregation cases; Delaware schools began a system of voluntary registration for blacks beginning in the first grade. Still, racial equality was not achieved as most blacks lived in Wilmington and in the New Castle area. In the 1976 U.S. District Court decision of Evans v. Buchanan, New Castle County was to become one school district. Students would be bused to the Wilmington and New Castle areas and vice versa for several years during their education to achieve a racially balanced education.
Dixon's interest in the past comes as no surprise; he is a chip right off the old history block. His father, Mike Dixon, has been a history enthusiast since the age of 14 when he joined the Historical Society of Cecil County. He has served as society president, historian and board member. Kyle credits his father for fostering his pursuit through family trips to spots such as Gettysburg, Fort Delaware and Williamsburg. Mike Dixon countered that his son showed interest at age 5. Like his father, Kyle volunteers at the historical society, where he started a local high school yearbook collection that includes one from George Washington Carver, the all-black school that closed in 1964.
In the future, Kyle plans to teach high school history. Meanwhile, chronicling the past suits him fine. "It's an important era of U.S. history that needs to be documented."
My website link
Appearantly some of my readers have pointed out that I forgot to put the link to my website.
Well...here y'all go:
http://www.cchistory.org/kyle
Well...here y'all go:
http://www.cchistory.org/kyle
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Welcome!
Welcome! This blog is for my website "School Integration: The Long, Difficult, Road to Compromise", which documents the history of school integration in Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's Counties in Maryland. On this blog, I will write about findings in my research and about anything pretaining to school integration in Cecil, Kent, and Queen Anne's Counties. This era in U.S History needs to be documented, and this is my part in doing that. Be sure to check back soon!
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