| ECP's notes; presentation
loose ends:
1) asked that all the Annapolis schedules (including the most recent) be scanned and placed on line in ecpclio. (See also the on-line inventories as maryland.gov).
2) asked that instructions for access to the DGS inventory/scheduling process web site be placed in a note on ecpclio, including hyperlink access to the DGS survey
3) asked that blank schedules, instructions for filling them out, and general instructions for inventorying records be placed on line in ecpclio; need a form that can be filled out on line as well as printed out and submitted (along with the required inventory sheets).
4) asked that for North Brentwood we find Frank H. Wilson "Footsteps from North Bren twood: A Sociologists Reconstructs the Life and Heritage of his Hometown." Chris Haley should already have a copy; if not please track it down and place it on ecpclio. Note that the State Library resource center at Pratt has a history of North Brentwood; please secure a fax and post on ecpclio.
5) for Bates: dates when he served on the Council and any other public offices he held; reaction to the disenfranchisement of african americans in the 1908 Annapolis Code (passed by the Legislature as an effort to get around the failure of the grandfather clauses as constitutional referenda).
Bates served on the Annapolis City Council representing the fourth ward from July 1897 through June 1899. There is no evidence that Bates held any other public office during his career. The African American alderman who was effectively removed from office due to the 1908 law (ch. 525) disenfranchising blacks was James Albert Adams. He was serving on the city council for the fourth ward when the law was passed; he served until 1909 and again from 1915 to 1921. From 1909 to 1915 the Annapolis city council had no black aldermen. See Philip L. Brown, The Other Annapolis 1900-1950 (Annapolis: The Annapolis Publishing Company, 1994), pp. 128-9.
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