New Chesapeake Map Released: 65 Historically Black Beaches and Other Places of Black Historical Significance

切萨皮克的黑人 Foundation and 十大赌博正规老平台 Partner to Shine a Light on Undertold Stories of the Chesapeake

安纳波利斯,MD-A 新的故事地图 chronicles 65 historically Black beaches and other places of Black historical significance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, 包括纽约的部分地区, 宾西法尼亚, 特拉华州, 马里兰, 弗吉尼亚和哥伦比亚特区. 切萨皮克的黑人 Foundation (BOCF) and 十大赌博正规老平台 partnered on the study to empower efforts to conserve such places and ensure that the stories of the Chesapeake’s Black history are told.

The story map highlights places spanning from the landing of the first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America to the creation of Black entertainment venues during the time of Jim Crow.

Extensive research was conducted via online resources such as newspapers, 博客, state web pages and the Negro Motorist Green Book. 地点要么是海滩, 公园, or supporting infrastructures that have significance and are related to nearby waterways. 十大赌博正规老平台 and BOCF acknowledge that the list is not complete and imagine there are even more beaches that are significant to Black history in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

“It’s so important that we continue to do the hard work of ensuring that the story of the Chesapeake is told through ebony eyes,” said BOCF President and Founder Vince Leggett. “African-American land conservation and heritage preservation has become the ‘gold standard’ for measuring the future success of the 切萨皮克的黑人 Foundation.”

“Rescuing African American historical sites is so important today. There are efforts currently underway to erase or minimize the teaching of true African American history. Our work allows us to document these sacred spaces and places and tell a more complete story from authentic venues. The Chesapeake Bay watershed is intrinsically linked to the early beginning of our nascent nation, particularly nestled between the Potomac and Patuxent Rivers on the western shore and the ancient rivers of the Choptank and Nanticoke,莱格特继续说道.

“Black of the Chesapeake Foundation’s work has become a national case study for heritage preservation and the application of traditional and local ecological histories. We are equally sensitive to the sea level rise, climate change and the effects of environmental hazards. Many of the sites identified in this study are situated on the water’s edge, 我们的长辈, truth-tellers and griots are disappearing at a rate far surpassing vanishing shoreline,莱格特继续说道.

“After partnering with 切萨皮克的黑人 and others to conserve the historically Black Elktonia Beach for a public park in Annapolis, 我们知道我们不能就此止步,” said 十大赌博正规老平台 Executive Vice President Mark Conway. “There are so many other places in the Chesapeake that are significant to Black history. Some are painful reminders of the dark days of enslavement, while others are more joyous stories of recreation, 娱乐文化. 所有这些故事都需要被讲述. We hope the study will lead to other Black history and conservation success stories.”

In 2022, Elktonia Beach became an Annapolis City Park. Elktonia is the last remnant of a 180-acre property purchased by freedman Frederick Carr in 1902. 附近是卡尔海滩和斯派洛海滩, privately owned and operated by Frederick Carr’s daughters, Elizabeth Carr Smith and Florence Carr Sparrow. 《十大赌博平台排行榜》(1930 -1970), 他们被称为, represented the heart of entertainment throughout the mid-Atlantic region and welcomed Blacks during a time of segregation. It has been a nearly 20-year goal of BOCF to preserve the remaining five acres of ”The Beaches.”

一年半之后, Elktonia-Carr’s Beach Heritage Park expanded to the adjacent property when the city of Annapolis finalized the acquisition of the one-time home of educator and former Coppin State University President Dr. Parlett摩尔. The city’s acquisition was made possible through city funding as well as funding from Anne Arundel County, 自然保育基金, 切萨皮克的黑人, 十大赌博正规老平台, 马里兰 Heritage Area Authority and hundreds of private donors, 包括美林家族基金会, France-Merrick Foundation and the William L. 和维多利亚Q. 亚当斯基金会.

The story map can be found on the 十大赌博正规老平台’s website at navz.thehomecosmos.com.

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