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Monday, January 14, 2019

Pictures for articles on Nationwide Civil Rights Education Delegation Visits Marks, Miss.

Pictures for articles on Nationwide Civil Rights Education Delegation Visits Marks, Miss.

The Quitman Co. Administrator and I wrote for the Quitman County Democrat about our visit to Marks, Miss. on Jan. 4, 2019.


On January 4, 2019 a nationwide delegation from Westminster and beyond visited Marks, Miss., Atlanta, Ga., Tuskegee, Ala, Montgomery, Ala, and Birmingham, Ala.

January 8th, 2019 By Quitman County Administrator Velma Benson-Wilson and Kevin Dayhoff, former Mayor of Westminster Md.

The 51-member delegation, from as far away as New England, Chicago, Connecticut, Seattle, Baltimore, and Westminster Md. were part of an educational tour of historic civil rights sites in Atlanta, Ga., Tuskegee, Ala, Montgomery, Ala, Ruleville, Miss, and Birmingham, Ala.

The article appeared on the front page of the weekly edition of the local Quitman County newspaper In January 2019.



The article has also been published in the Westminster Patch, here: https://patch.com/maryland/westminster/nationwide-civil-rights-education-delegation-visits-marks-miss


1. Quitman County Miss.: For more info about Quitman Co. Miss. visit www.quitmancountyms.org

2. Samuel McCray: When the delegation arrived in town Jan. 4, 2019, they were welcomed by the City of Marks’ Mayor Joe Shegog Jr., and Samuel McCray, the retired field representative of Congressman Bennie Thompson, who currently serves as the vice-chair of the Mule Train Historical Society. Kevin Dayhoff photo.

3. Civil Rights educational delegation: The distinguished Judge Charles Harrison, in the red sweater and black hat rides along on the bus during a four-day bus tour of historic civil rights sites in the south, in early Jan. 2019. Behind Judge Harrison is former Westminster Md. Mayor Kevin Dayhoff, and Caroline Babylon, the daughter of a leading civil rights advocate in Carroll County Md. in the 1950s through the 1970s.

4. Marks Miss. history forum panel: Following the tour, the group gathered at the Quitman County Middle School gym for a panel discussion moderated by Jackson State University professor Dr. Hilliard Lackey. The panel consisted of local residents who actively took part in, or witnessed the historic civil rights activities in Marks during 1968: From left to right: the current Quitman County Board of Supervisors president Manuel Killebrew; Dr. Valmadge Towner, the president of Coahoma Community College, Helen Ingram, Samuel McCray, and the Reverend Michael Jossell, Sr. Kevin Dayhoff photo 4Jan2019.

5. Civil Right Activist James Meredith: Civil Right Activist James Meredith was present in the audience at the Civil Rights history forum in Marks Miss. on Jan. 4, 2019. A nationwide civil rights delegation had the opportunity to meet with him and hear his remarks. Kevin Dayhoff photo

6. Dr. Hilliard L. Lackey III and Mrs. Ora B. Phipps: The delegation was also honored with the presence of Ora B. Phipps, the widow of Armstead Phipps. Now in her 90s, she shared poignant insights and details about historic events from over 50-years ago. Kevin Dayhoff photo

7. Velma Benson Wilson, Quitman Co. Administrator: Left to right: Jaby Denton, Mitch Campbell, Dr. Evelyn Jossell, and Velma Benson Wilson, Quitman Co. Administrator. Kevin Dayhoff photo 4Jan2019

8. Charles Alphin, Sr. and Gerald Alphin, of DDK Tours: Charles Alphin, Sr. and Gerald Alphin, of DDK Tours join hands with the participants of the Civil Rights forum in Marks Miss. on Jan 4, 2019. 

Charles Alphin, Sr., the director and CEO of DDK Historical and Educational Tours, which facilitated the visit, has been working with the King Center in Atlanta and guiding historic tours since the 1980s. He said after the visit, “If you do not know where you come from, you don’t know where you are going.”


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Wednesday, January 09, 2019

CC NAACP’s 16th Annual MLK Breakfast Jan. 26, 2019 9 am Martins

CC NAACP’s 16th Annual MLK Breakfast Jan. 26, 2019 9 am Martins

On Saturday, Saturday, January 26, 2019, at 9 a.m., Carroll County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Steven A. Lockard will be the guest speaker at the 16th annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast at Martin’s of Westminster, sponsored by the Carroll County NAACP Branch 7014.

Tickets are still available $35 in advance $40 at the door.

The breakfast is a Carroll County winter tradition and always well attended. We look forward to seeing you at the breakfast.

For tickets or additional information, please contact Bernard Jones (410) 876-2358 or Jean Lewis (410) 861-6872.

Any questions, please contact President Jean. Text her at (443) 386-7191 or jjlewis2@comcast.net

CC NAACP assistant secretary Kevin Dayhoff may be reached by text at 410-259-6403 or email at kevindayhoff@gmail.com

Please make checks payable to: Carroll County NAACP Branch7014. Contributions or gifts to this NAACP unit are generally not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. 

Carroll County MD NAACP Branch #7014
255 Clifton Blvd. Suite 203
Westminster, MD 21157



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Monday, January 07, 2019

EJI's New Legacy Museum



We visited EJI’s new Legacy Museum on January 3, 2019 in
Montgomery, Alabama.

We were not allowed to take pictures inside The Legacy
Museum, in Montgomery Alabama when we visited on Jan. 3, 2019 – and security
was tight. The museum is not for the faint of heart. The museum is “An
unparalleled resource for researchers, the museum houses the nation's most
comprehensive collection of data on lynching. It also presents previously
unseen archival information about the domestic slave trade brought to life
through new technology…

“The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration opened to the public on April 26, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama. The 11,000-square-foot museum is built on the site of a former warehouse where enslaved black people were imprisoned, and is located midway between an historic slave market and the main river dock and train station where tens of thousands of enslaved people were trafficked during the height of the domestic slave trade…”

Much more information about “The Legacy Museum: From
Enslavement to Mass Incarceration,” can be found at the website for the museum
here: https://museumandmemorial.eji.org/museum

The Legacy Museum
115 Coosa Street
Montgomery, Alabama
36104



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Thursday, September 27, 2018

Annual McDaniel Zepp Center DDK Tours Civil Rights Tour

Annual McDaniel Zepp Center DDK Tours Civil Rights Tour

September 24, 2018

January 3 – 6, 2019: Atlanta, GA; Montgomery, AL; Ruleville, MS.; Marks, MS.; and Birmingham, AL.

PARTIAL TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:   Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr, Tour Historian.

Atlanta, GA.: The Historic King Center Complex and Center for Civil and Human Rights.

Montgomery, AL.: Equal Justice Initiative: The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. (Opened April 2018). 

Birmingham, AL: Civil Rights Institute, Kelly Ingram Park, 16th St. Baptist Church

Ruleville, MS.: Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden and Museum.

Marks, MS.: Mule trains from Marks kicked off “Poor People’s Campaign.” 

Dr. Lafayette, National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, will provide nonviolence strategy, and suggested approaches 50 years later.

TOUR COST: $530.00 per person, $150.00 non-refundable deposit due 10/2/18; balance due 12/2/18. Make check or money order payable to DDK Tours, mail to 3996 Brookside Parkway, Decatur, GA 30034. Include your name, address, phone number, and email.

COST INCLUDES: Transportation from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA. (Pick up 10:00 a.m.1/3/19 and return 1/6/19, 4:00 p.m.): 3 nights hotel accommodation (double occupancy) and breakfast, tour manual, luxury bus ground transportation (as listed in itinerary), museum fees; speaker honorariums and expert Kingian Nonviolence analysis.

For additional information contact DR. CHARLES COLLYER, (401)-258-9834 OR CHARLES ALPHIN, SR., SENIOR NONVIOLENCE TRAINER, (770) 981-8718, or DR. PAMELA ZAPPARDINO paxwarthog@aol.com  

Sponsored by: Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr., distinguished senior scholar-in-residence, emeritus, Candler School of Theology, Emory university, Atlanta, GA: and the Ira and Mary Zepp center for nonviolence and peace education, Westminster, Md Dr. Charlie Collyer and Dr. Pam Zappardino, co-directors

COORDINATED BY DDK TOUR, www.ddktours.com


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Sunday, September 16, 2018

The Tale of the Lion: Our Stories, Our Voices


The Tale of the Lion: Our Stories, Our Voices

Sept. 15, 2018 at the Weinberg Center for the Arts, 20 West Patrick Street, Frederick, MD, 21701

Until the story of the hunt is told by the Lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. —African proverb

The oldest African American citizens in Frederick County, Maryland, share the memories, wit, and wisdom that have shaped their lives.

This documentary film is presented by the African American Resources – Cultural and Heritage Society of Frederick County, MD.


The premiere screening of our locally made documentary, The Tale of the Lion, will be held September 15 at the Weinberg Center for the Arts in Frederick, MD. AARCH (African American Resources - Cultural and Heritage) invites you to join us in celebrating the rich history held in the life stories of our oldest African American citizens in Frederick County. The poignant telling of their experiences from childhood, through segregation, to today is a window to the strength and resilience that have shaped their lives, and our community.


Sunday, February 26, 2017

Another Civil Rights tour is planned for March 9, 2017 to March 12, 2017



Another Civil Rights tour is planned for March 9, 2017 to March 12, 2017.

At the Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 monthly meeting of the Carroll County NAACP, Pam and Charlie Collyer reminded everyone that another Civil Rights tour is planned for March 9, 2017 to March 12, 2017. More information is available on Charlie’s website, www.tryforfurther.com

ATLANTA, GA: “FREEDOM RIDES:” TUSKEGEE: SELMA: MONTGOMERY: AND BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA

TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
       The King Center Complex; Dr. Martin L. King’s, Jr. Birth home; Ebenezer Baptist Church; National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA.
       Tuskegee University and tour George Washington Carver Museum.
       Rosa Parks Museum and Dr. King’s home that was bombed, Montgomery.
       Walk across Edmund-Pettus Bridge; tour Voting Rights Museum, Selma, AL
       Sight where Greyhound Bus was burned during “Freedom Rides.”.
       Tour Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL.

TOUR COST: $485.00 per person, Non-refundable deposit of $250.00 due by Jan. 9, 2017; balance due Feb. 9, 2017. Make check or money order payable to DDK Tours, 3996 Brookside Parkway, Decatur, GA 30034, include all details.
          
COST INCLUDES: Transportation from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA. (Pick up 10:00 a.m.3/9/17 and return 3/12/17, 3:00 p.m.): 3 nights hotel accommodation (double occupancy) and breakfast; tour booklet; luxury bus ground transportation (as listed in itinerary); museum fees; honorariums; and Dr. Bernard LaFayette, Jr. who worked with Dr. King and is our Tour Historian.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION CONTACT DR. CHARLES COLLYER, (401)-258-9834 OR DDK TOURS, CHARLES ALPHIN SR., (770) 981-8718.  

SPONSORED BY: DR. BERNARD LAFAYETTE, JR., CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (S.C.L.C.), ATLANTA, GA.

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THE IRA AND MARY ZEPP CENTER FOR NONVIOLENCE AND PEACE EDUCATION, WESTMINSTER, MD
DR. CHARLIE COLLYER AND DR. PAM ZAPPARDINO, CO-DIRECTOR’S.


CO-ORDINATED BY DDK TOURS WWW.DDKTOURS.COM
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Saturday, January 21, 2017

Marylanders well represented in national African-American museum



Marylanders well represented in national African-American museum


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The Smithsonian's 19th museum, unveiled on the National Mall in September, boldly defies such false notions. Banneker, born near what's now Ellicott City, is among dozens of Marylanders and Baltimoreans represented in a collection of approximately 40,000 artifacts — some 3,000 of which are now on display.

Objects of local origin include a stone slave auction block from Hagerstown; a pinback button from the Baltimore Elite Giants, a Negro Leagues baseball team; and colorful entertainment placards produced by Baltimore's Globe Poster Printing Corp.

A charred rope evokes the 1931 lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury. An oyster bucket from Chesapeake Bay waterman Ira Wright helps chronicle the region's seafood industry. An antique paper cutter from the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper, founded in 1892, was donated by current publisher John "Jake" Oliver.

"Countless African-Americans from Baltimore and throughout Maryland have distinguished themselves, and contributed to our great nation over the centuries," said Robert L. Wilkins, author of the new book "Long Road to Hard Truth: The 100-Year Mission to Create the National Museum of African American History and Culture." "And rightfully, their impact is on prominent display."

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Monday, May 23, 2016

Dayhoff: Historical markers dedicated for the Henryton Nursing School, Tuberculosis Sanatorium


Dayhoff: Historical markers dedicated for the Henryton Nursing School, Tuberculosis Sanatorium

By Kevin Dayhoff May 22, 2016


About 50 folks huddled along the shoulder of Henryton Road at the entrance of the historic Henryton State Hospital complex May 14 to dedicate two roadside historic markers. The sun shined brightly on the ceremonies in a rare reprieve in the recent streak of endless days of rainfall.

No, the celebrants were not there to dedicate an ark, but it nearly took an act of God to get the state of Maryland to tacitly acknowledge the very existence of the historic segregated facility for the treatment of African Americans suffering from tuberculosis and the segregated nursing school that was once located there — far out of sight of urban Baltimore and the seat of state government in Annapolis.

Noted civil rights leader John Lewis Jr., the 2nd vice president of the Carroll County NAACP, was the master of ceremonies. Other community leaders, such as Pam Zappardino, Charles Collyer, Virginia and Charles Harrison, Jean Lewis, Del. Susan Krebs R-District 5, the Rev. Douglas Sands and Maryland NAACP president Gerald G. Stansbury were on hand to share in the ceremonies.


This writer began looking into the history of the hospital in the early 1970s when it caught my attention during an assignment to research the history of hospitals in Carroll County for a project for what was then-Carroll County General Hospital.

Over the years, researching the history of hospital has difficult. What little information on the hospital that was found was often conflicting, inconsistent, and only appeared in anecdotal accounts; often without a comprehensive context. Many historians contacted in the 1970s were barely aware of the facility.


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Monday, March 21, 2016

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Name on elementary school is also Carroll's connection to 1927 flood By Kevin E. Dayhoff

Name on elementary school is also Carroll's connection to 1927 flood

By Kevin E. Dayhoff




The humanitarian disaster that followed the 1927 Great Mississippi Flood propelled Robert Russa Moton, the president of a small college, into the national spotlight. This same prominent political leader also helped Franklin Roosevelt's Democratic Party win the 1932 presidential election.

Despite a dire weather forecast earlier this month, we dodged a weather bullet when Hurricane Joaquin stayed out to sea.

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In a rehearsal for the upcoming dramas that will take place in Maryland this winter when snow is predicted; events were cancelled, emergencies declared, mothers gathered their children, and folks took to the streets to forage for materials to make bad weather omelets – milk, bread, eggs, extra batteries and toilet paper.

In the end, the weather did turn ugly, but not from the hurricane or a visit from Hell’s Nebulae, but rather from a strong nor'easter that pelted much of Maryland with high winds, heavy rains and the threat of flooding.

As winter approaches Nor'easter often cause many to think of heavy snowstorms. But during the height of the media frenzy over Joaquin, several media outlets raised the memories of when the August 1933 storm cut the inlet just below Ocean City. Sun writer, Chris Guy explained it well in an August 23, 2003 account, “On the morning of Aug. 23, Ocean City residents awoke to discover that the record tide and rainfall that flooded coastal bays had combined with the storm's winds to cut a 50-foot gash through the island's lowest point, severing the resort from Assateague Island…”

Shortly after we dodged the Zombie apocalypse weather event, one reader in the grocery store checkout line still had that wide-eyed look like she was about to be abducted by space aliens as she asked if Carroll County has ever – could ever, have flooding like what South Carolina recently experienced. “That couldn’t possible ever happen here could it,” she asked breathlessly.

She was referring to the epic flooding that has just taken place in South Carolina that weather professionals and state Gov. Nikki Haley, are calling a ‘1,000-year flood’ terminology.

I answered calmly, “What do Carroll County, Led Zeppelin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and one of the worst natural disasters in American history all have in common? In the end, we are all going to Chicago… ‘

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South Carolina was not so lucky. The national news media has carried a number of stories about flooding there that was so bad that Gov. Nikki Haley said, "We are at a 1,000-year level of rain," according to CNN.

While perhaps not to those historic levels, throughout its history Carroll County has had its fair share of bad floods…

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On Monday, July 30, 1923, a flood "swept down the valleys, flooding hundreds of homes … and causing great property damage," in southern Carroll Co. according to an Aug. 3, 1923 article in the Democratic Advocate newspaper.

Research for the Historical Society of Carroll Co. by historian Mary Ann Ashcraft indicates that another flood on July 24, 1868, destroyed much of Sykesville.

The devastating historic floods that followed Hurricane Agnes beginning on June 21, 1972 and Hurricane Eloise on Sept. 26, 1975 destroyed bridges, roads and homes through Carroll Co.

 Designating a day to celebrate the nation's military power a source of conflict
However, it is another flood; one that took place in 1927, which had a profound socio-political effect on American history and has a Carroll connection, though it did not even take place in Carroll County…

Read much more here: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-archives-flood-1025-20151021-story.html




Name on elementary school is also Carroll's connection to 1927 flood
Name on elementary school is also Carroll's connection to 1927 flood
KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM
Despite a dire weather forecast earlier this month, we dodged a weather bullet when Hurricane Joaquin stayed out to sea. South Carolina was not so lucky. The national news media has carried a number of stories about flooding there that was so bad that Gov. Nikki Haley said, "We are at a 1,000-year...
Westminster house fire brings heavy firefighter response
Westminster house fire brings heavy firefighter response
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Living with the ramifications of the deadly Spanish flu of 1918
Living with the ramifications of the deadly Spanish flu of 1918
KEVIN. E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM
It was Oct. 11, 1918, and the headline of the Democratic Advocate addressed the local impact of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918. The headline read, "The Grip Epidemic: Disease Spreading, But No Occasion for Panic," according to research for the Historical Society of Carroll County by historian...
Deer Park Cemetery in Carroll County is hallowed ground for Marine Corps
Deer Park Cemetery in Carroll County is hallowed ground for Marine Corps
KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM
On Oct. 4, 1891, the cornerstone was laid for a new chapel for the Deer Park United Methodist Church in Smallwood, just south of Westminster on Route 32. The origins of the church date back to 1846, according to a brief history found on the church's website. According to the website, "the people...
Cruise on Liberty ship a reminder that freedom is not free [Eagle Archives]
Cruise on Liberty ship a reminder that freedom is not free [Eagle Archives]
KEVIN E. DAYHOFF, KEVINDAYHOFF@GMAIL.COM
Timed just about midway between two dates that have significant meaning for veterans in this country, approximately 20 veterans from Carroll County will board a ship of that has also has significant importance. On Oct. 3, the county residents will commemorate Veterans Day (Nov. 11) and Sept. 2,...

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