Maryland State Archives

List of Maryland municipalities that currently have record retention schedules filed at the Archives (per Pat Melville)

Chris Haley's notes on two meetings with Anna Holmes of North Brentwood, Maryland:

http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagser/s1259/111/outreach/html/MINUTESugrrpg32301.html

http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagser/s1259/111/outreach/html/NorthBrentwood.html

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.

See also: Maryland State Archives Laws, Rules and Regulations

Department of Special Projects and Logistics

Statewide Permanent Records Inventory

Statewide Non-Permanent Records Inventory

ALSO SEE http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Library/special/99schol.htm

FRANK H. WILSON, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology "Footsteps from North Brentwood: A Sociologist Reconstructs the Life & Heritage of His Hometown"

Professor Wilson will discuss his recent documentary research on North Brentwood, Maryland, the first African American incorporated town in Prince George's County and in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Through photographs, interviews, artifacts, and archival evidence, Prof. Wilson's work demonstrates how generations of ex-slaves and descendants of slaves organized their lives and built this suburban community from the 1890s through the post-WWII years. He published the results of his research in "Footsteps from North Brentwood: From Reconstruction to the Post-World War II Years." Having been raised in North Brentwood himself, Prof. Wilson's history highlights the importance of family and extended family in shaping the town. The inter-family relationships of North Brentwood are rooted in the shared experiences of their ancestors--black men who fought in the Maryland Colored Regiments during the Civil War; shared dreams and interests of owning land and homes; shared memories of civic participation and association to improve community life. These family relationships were further strengthened by the boundaries of racial discrimination and segregation, difficult times, and poverty.

Prof. Wilson's history forms part of the Footsteps From North Brentwood Oral History Project funded by the Maryland Humanities Council through a grant from the NEH. His work was published in conjunction with a 1997 traveling exhibit at the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, the North Brentwood Community Center, and the Lowe House of Delegates in Annapolis.

Also SEE http://www.uwm.edu/Library/special/auth98.htm

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee Golda Meir Library

Wilson, Frank Harold [Sociology]. Footsteps From North Brentwood. Washington, D.C.: Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1997. Call Number: (UWM) F 189.N67x W55 1997

SEE http://newsdesk.si.edu/more-background-information/annual-reports/1996annual reportdoc.doc-(2)/1996annualreportdoc.htm

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Scans made from FAXED copy from the Enoch Pratt Library, a clearer hard copy is in the mail

Peter Kurtze, 410-514-7649, Historic Districts
Mr. Kurtze says that MHT has been working very hard with the Prince George's County Historical groups to get recognition for North Brentwood, however, the area does not easily fit into the catagories of the National Historic Register of Places (largely because many changes have taken place in the town over the years). Kurtze says this became a very political issue, with lots of hurt feelings on the part of the mayor and townspeople of North Brentwood. Kurtze says that things seem to be back on a positive footing, since he made a visit there about 2 months ago in order to reinforce that MHT recognizes the great importance and history of the town. Now they are working very hard together with PG Co. to figure out a way that they can fit the town into the National Register's standards.

Elizabeth Hughes of MHT Heritage Areas, 410-514-7617
Ms. Hughes says that North Brentwood is a part of the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area of Prince George's County.