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March 16, 2010 @ 9:00am

Fighting For Freedom: Black Women's Army Corps During WWII

For the first time during World War II, African-American women were allowed to enter the military. The first contingent trained in Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where they were housed in segregated barracks, ate at separate dining tables, and used segregated recreational facilities. Despite the hardships and discrimination, the women persevered and thirty-six of the original group graduated and were assigned to Officers Candidate School, Cooks and Bakers School, the Transportation Pool, or the Clerical School. A lecture by Janet Sims-Wood discusses the courageous example set by the first African-American WAC unit in Europe.

Location:
Jessup Correctional Institute
8500 Maryland House Correction Road
Jessup, MD 20794
Contact Info:
Grace Schroeder
410-540-6412

March 24, 2010 @ 7:00pm

Fighting For Freedom: Black Women's Army Corps During WWII

For the first time during World War II, African-American women were allowed to enter the military. The first contingent trained in Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where they were housed in segregated barracks, ate at separate dining tables, and used segregated recreational facilities. Despite the hardships and discrimination, the women persevered and thirty-six of the original group graduated and were assigned to Officers Candidate School, Cooks and Bakers School, the Transportation Pool, or the Clerical School. A lecture by Janet Sims-Wood discusses the courageous example set by the first African-American WAC unit in Europe.

Location:
507 7th Street
Laurel, MD 20707
Contact Info:
Arlene Ogurick
301-776-6790 / 301-699-3500

March 27, 2010 @ 2:00pm

Harriet Tubman: Meet the Woman

Known as the "Moses of Her People," Harriet Ross Tubman led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom by way of the Underground Railroad. She served in the Union Army as both a spy and a scout during the Civil War and nursed the contraband and black soldiers in the Federal City and other southern cities. Ms. Tubman repeatedly risked her life fighting for the freedom that the constitution guaranteed all Americans. Gwendolyn Briley-Strand discusses the life of this remarkable woman and provides a Power Point photographic exhibit of plantations on which Tubman was enslaved, the home in which she lived as a free woman, and churches she helped build.

Location:
Carroll Community College
1601 Washington Blvd
Westminster, MD 21157
Contact Info:
Catherine Baty
410-848-3596

March 27, 2010 @ 7:00pm

Literacy for All: A Conference on Youth Literature

At this free conference, parents, educators, librarians, students, and anyone interested in reading and writing for young people will hear from a bestselling children's fiction author (Julianna Baggott, aka N. E. Bode and Professor of Creative Writing at Florida State University), an excellent writer and illustrator of children's nonfiction (Susan Stockdale, who will also display her work in our gallery), and a specialist in literacy from Columbia University's Teachers College (Ellen Stanley Ellis).

Location:
Milburn Stone Theater, Cecil College
1 Seahawk Drive
North East, MD 21901
Contact Info:
Susan Bernadzikowski
410-287-6060, ext. 316

March 29, 2010 @ 7:00pm

Fighting for Freedom: Black Women's Army Corps During World War II

For the first time during World War II, African-American women were allowed to enter the military. The first contingent trained in Fort Des Moines, Iowa, where they were housed in segregated barracks, ate at separate dining tables, and used segregated recreational facilities. Despite the hardships and discrimination, the women persevered and thirty-six of the original group graduated and were assigned to Officers Candidate School, Cooks and Bakers School, the Transportation Pool, or the Clerical School. A lecture by Janet Sims-Wood discusses the courageous example set by the first African-American WAC unit in Europe.

Location:
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
Frederick Douglass Library
11868 Academic Oval
Princess Anne, MD