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The 2021 elections mark the 106th anniversary of a little-known Supreme Court decision that struck down an Annapolis City Charter change known as the “grandfather clause,” that prohibited nearly all Black Annapolis residents from voting between 1909 and 1915. The law stripped a prominent Black alderman of his seat and snapped more than two decades of near-continuous Black representation on the City Council.

February 10, 2021 Born Victoria Claflin Woodhull on September 23, 1838, in the rural frontier town of Homer, Ohio, Victoria Woodhull was the seventh of ten children in a town with a population of 400. Her father was a schemer, a swindler, a snake oil salesman, so the family moved often to avoid him getting caught and slammed with criminal charges. The young Victoria was often shoeless and free range, running wild unattended; her neighbors described her as scrubby, dirty but smart as a whip. Despite her chaotic upbringing and despite surviving physical abuse from her father, Victoria became pr...

Slavery was pervasive and influential in the state, both during and before the war.

Opinions | Grant — not Lincoln or Roosevelt — may hold the key to Biden’s success Judith Giesberg © John McDonnell/The Washington Post The statue of Ulysses S. Grant on horseback at the Capitol. President Biden’s new Oval Office is decorated with likenesses of people whom the president admires and takes inspiration from, including busts of civil rights icons Cesar Chavez, Rosa Parks and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and portraits of former presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. There is one president whose p...

The group chose the second week in February in 1926 to celebrate “Negro History Week.” The week was symbolic in that it was the same week of the birthdays of former President Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave and prominent abolitionist movement activist. In the late 1960s, the week evolved into an entire month, thanks in large part to the civil rights movement. Black History Month takes on a special meaning in 2020 — the 100-year anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, and the 150 th anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment, w...