1 10 84 https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/87eb2c9dfe5232dc0d989599b5da90f7.jpg eb9eab8c5734a3e82eaeb34664996b0a Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Myron Gray Subject The topic of the resource Lakeland Description An account of the resource "So yeah, we could get together, and not just the youths but the parents as well, when it came to school issues of course they were always focused on that. You heard the saying of course, it takes a community to raise a kid. Well, the same community raised a lot of kids. " Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Lakeland Digital Archive - Lakeland Community Heritage Project (LCHP) Picture source: https://archive.lakelandchp.com/collection/item/380 Relation A related resource <iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1497571219&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=true&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true"></iframe> <div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-620768123" title="MSCollaboratory" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">MSCollaboratory</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-620768123/myron-gray" title="Myron Gray" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener">Myron Gray</a></div> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource WAV Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Timestamp: 44:57 https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/b2758fc5ce32af419c4a73ba63c97041.png e0584e100789e906f6dbf4f6c56d9786 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "'Ousting Rumors' cause Lakeland Uproar" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Black Explosion, p. 5 Description An account of the resource The newspaper above showcases the black community’s effort to bring awareness to the displacement of Lakeland residents caused by UMD. While the UMD community may not have known about it then or now, it caused a huge disruption for black lakelanders. Using their voice and autonomy, the Lakeland resisted the displacement vehemently and took every effort to maintain ownership of their community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource February 21, 1974 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Special Collections and University Archives, University of Maryland Libraries https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/8ce3ab8695be1c0ab81a4fde77a1277c.jpg 7ff72e172ffc70021c9d1da05180240c Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Apologies demanded for coeds' rejection" Description An account of the resource In 1968, four students were rejected from a home economics experiment based on their race. The article in the Diamondback and the archival photo showcase demands made and actions taken by the Black Student Union against these discriminatory practices. In the article, you can read their list of five demands. The photo allows you to witness their resistance in action. For more on this important period of Black student activism on campus, please visit Claiming Their Space: Black Student Activism at the University of Maryland, a digital exhibition created Spring 2020 by students in the Museum Research Seminar of the Museum Scholarship and Material Culture program. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Diamondback, p. 1 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 17, 1968 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Special Collections and University Archives, University of Maryland Libraries https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/67fc7cfa9e0d45f15a7fda06079055c8.jpg 2a4e0d41dae61d5ad531a776a0c62b63 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Under Construction" Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University of Maryland Archives Description An account of the resource Detail from Calvert Hall under construction, University of Maryland, circa 1916 https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/6b7eb471276aa76417fe16d4719b239e.png 71daaf4fc55addf363a7638ab2fafeda Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource “Around the Campus” Subject The topic of the resource UMD & Systemic Racism Description An account of the resource As is evident from the many pictures in this case from the Reveille, the Maryland Agricultural College’s yearbook, and, once the institution became the University of Maryland, the Terrapin Yearbook, White students on campus engaged broadly and frequently in racist tropes and language in their activities deemed worthy of preservation in their annual publication. At times this casual racism and focus extended to individual African Americans well-known to students on campus, individuals for whom a measure of affection is evident alongside and with tone, language, and imagery that is dehumanizing. One scholar [Stewart – can you remind me of this scholar?] characterizes such language used by Whites towards Black individuals as “puppy speak,” a tendency simultaneously to both show affection and assume a position of superiority towards the subject of address. Mr. Charles “Charlie” Dory was a most frequent target of students’ attention. The campus kitchen frequently was referred to as “Charlie Dory’s Health Resort,” innocuous enough, but in these pages from two of the Reveille yearbooks (1913 and 1916), Mr. Dory and two other Lakelanders are subjected to dehumanizing racialization. “Ode to Charley: A Drinking Song” is “dedicated to the Big Chief, by one of his tormentors.” While written in jest, the torment had to have been real for Mr. Dory and others from Lakeland and other Black communities who worked on campus. Mr. Dory’s cooking exploits are regaled, but others in the kitchen are named – Tom, Sid, and Chesley Mack – and “others, hid, but all as black As our well-known Minstrel Clown.” A minstrel clown is exactly how a student cartoonist depicted Mr. Dory in the 1916 pages of Reveille. Mr. Dory is depicted as a blackface minstrel (Coon) character in livery carrying a tray of food and drink and with napkin draped over his left arm. In the register below this one in the cartoon, a “Sam” in blackface and polka-dot shirt and check-pocketed breeches and cap is shown furiously sweeping a cloud of dust, with a can and dead rat among the detritus. This Sam is Samuel Stewart, who worked at the Maryland Agricultural College at this time and lived in Lakeland. His father, also Samuel Stewart, and mother, Georgianna Stewart, founded Embry AME Church in 1903. That their son would be represented in this racist manner is particularly galling, especially for Lakelanders who to this day honor and revere the Stewarts for their role in building the community. We intentionally present the 1916 cartoon from Reveille with the vignettes of “Charlie Dory” and “Sam” greyed out because the visual racist tropes are powerful and triggering. We also want to honor the desire of Mr. Dory’s descendants to “not see [their} granddaddy” portrayed this way. That said, it is important that we all are aware of the depths and depravity of the racism endemic at Maryland Agricultural College and later the University of Maryland in which the generations of Dory family members and other Lakelanders worked. To strike a balance, we provide here a QR code to the relevant page of the 1916 Reveille yearbook. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reveille, 1916, p.46 Courtesy of University of Maryland archives https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/4ce71f6950572c98a366ae6de552d190.png 381b64138f4c6ee3d6ccdfd866cc7a7d Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource “Maryland atmosphere served up southern ‘fried’” Subject The topic of the resource 1947 May Day Celebration Description An account of the resource May Day festivities were a prominent celebration each year at the Maryland State College and the University of Maryland. University Archives retain photographs of such celebrations including maypole dances, diaphanous costumes reminiscent of Roman antiquity, and the awarding of the “May Queen” title with a triumphal march from the Main Administration Building. Other activities, such as those shown here–“Southern ‘fried’”–reflect the disparaging realities that align with such celebrations in a school just south of the Mason-Dixon line. Black communities along the Route 1 corridor less than five miles from campus, including Lakeland, North Brentwood, and Muirkirk, celebrated May Day as a celebration of the coming of spring, rather than as a moment to reinforce racist biases at the core of contemporary society. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Terrapin Yearbook, p. 197 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1947 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Special Collections and University Archives, University of Maryland Libraries https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/8bda3dc52cc7cc6f225f6ae17a2a0086.png 381b64138f4c6ee3d6ccdfd866cc7a7d Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource “Maryland atmosphere served up southern ‘fried’” from May Day page Subject The topic of the resource UMD & Systemic Racism Description An account of the resource May Day festivities were a prominent celebration each year at the Maryland State College and the University of Maryland. University Archives retain photographs of such celebrations including maypole dances, diaphanous costumes reminiscent of Roman antiquity, and the awarding of the “May Queen” title with a triumphal march from the Main Administration Building. Other activities, such as those shown here–“Southern ‘fried’”–reflect the disparaging realities that align with such celebrations in a school just south of the Mason-Dixon line. Black communities along the Route 1 corridor less than five miles from campus, including Lakeland, North Brentwood, and Muirkirk, celebrated May Day as a celebration of the coming of spring, rather than as a moment to reinforce racist biases at the core of contemporary society. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived The Terrapin Yearbook,1947, p.197 Courtesy of University of Maryland archives https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/aeeee981df91b70968ab3f852b047082.jpg d627b0a7ba913b14113dfe8fbd3dec23 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource “Ode to Charley: A Drinking Song” Subject The topic of the resource UMD & Systemic Racism Description An account of the resource As is evident from the many pictures in this case from the Reveille, the Maryland Agricultural College’s yearbook, and, once the institution became the University of Maryland, the Terrapin Yearbook, White students on campus engaged broadly and frequently in racist tropes and language in their activities deemed worthy of preservation in their annual publication. At times this casual racism and focus extended to individual African Americans well-known to students on campus, individuals for whom a measure of affection is evident alongside and with tone, language, and imagery that is dehumanizing. One scholar [Stewart – can you remind me of this scholar?] characterizes such language used by Whites towards Black individuals as “puppy speak,” a tendency simultaneously to both show affection and assume a position of superiority towards the subject of address. Mr. Charles “Charlie” Dory was a most frequent target of students’ attention. The campus kitchen frequently was referred to as “Charlie Dory’s Health Resort,” innocuous enough, but in these pages from two of the Reveille yearbooks (1913 and 1916), Mr. Dory and two other Lakelanders are subjected to dehumanizing racialization. “Ode to Charley: A Drinking Song” is “dedicated to the Big Chief, by one of his tormentors.” While written in jest, the torment had to have been real for Mr. Dory and others from Lakeland and other Black communities who worked on campus. Mr. Dory’s cooking exploits are regaled, but others in the kitchen are named – Tom, Sid, and Chesley Mack – and “others, hid, but all as black As our well-known Minstrel Clown.” A minstrel clown is exactly how a student cartoonist depicted Mr. Dory in the 1916 pages of Reveille. Mr. Dory is depicted as a blackface minstrel (Coon) character in livery carrying a tray of food and drink and with napkin draped over his left arm. In the register below this one in the cartoon, a “Sam” in blackface and polka-dot shirt and check-pocketed breeches and cap is shown furiously sweeping a cloud of dust, with a can and dead rat among the detritus. This Sam is Samuel Stewart, who worked at the Maryland Agricultural College at this time and lived in Lakeland. His father, also Samuel Stewart, and mother, Georgianna Stewart, founded Embry AME Church in 1903. That their son would be represented in this racist manner is particularly galling, especially for Lakelanders who to this day honor and revere the Stewarts for their role in building the community. We intentionally present the 1916 cartoon from Reveille with the vignettes of “Charlie Dory” and “Sam” greyed out because the visual racist tropes are powerful and triggering. We also want to honor the desire of Mr. Dory’s descendants to “not see [their} granddaddy” portrayed this way. That said, it is important that we all are aware of the depths and depravity of the racism endemic at Maryland Agricultural College and later the University of Maryland in which the generations of Dory family members and other Lakelanders worked. To strike a balance, we provide here a QR code to the relevant page of the 1916 Reveille yearbook. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reveille, 1913, p.106-107 Courtesy of University of Maryland archives https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/0a8487d2008ecf75dd60a9109bb8801b.png 683414721acb19522fa603cb0dd57158 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource “Ode to Charley: A Drinking Song” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Reveille Yearbook, pp. 106-07 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1913 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Special Collections and University Archives, University of Maryland Libraries Description An account of the resource As is evident from the many pictures in this case from the Reveille, the Maryland Agricultural College’s yearbook, and, once the institution became the University of Maryland, the Terrapin Yearbook, White students on campus engaged broadly and frequently in racist tropes and language in activities then deemed worthy of preservation in their annual publication. At times this casual racism and focus extended to individual African Americans well-known to students on campus, individuals for whom a measure of affection is evident alongside and with tone, language, and imagery that is dehumanizing. Such language used by Whites towards Black individuals betrays a tendency simultaneously to both show affection and assume a position of superiority towards the subject of address. Mr. Charles “Charlie” Dory was a most frequent target of students’ attention. The campus kitchen frequently was referred to as “Charlie Dory’s Health Resort,” innocuous enough, but in these pages from two of the Reveille yearbooks (1913 and 1916), Mr. Dory and two other Lakelanders are subjected to dehumanizing racialization. “Ode to Charley: A Drinking Song” is “dedicated to the Big Chief, by one of his tormentors.” While written in jest, the torment had to have been real for Mr. Dory and others from Lakeland and other Black communities who worked on campus. Mr. Dory’s cooking exploits are regaled, but others in the kitchen are named – Tom, Sid, and Chesley Mack – and “others, hid, but all as black As our well-known Minstrel Clown.” A minstrel clown is exactly how a student cartoonist depicted Mr. Dory in the 1916 pages of Reveille. Mr. Dory is depicted as a blackface minstrel (Coon) character in livery carrying a tray of food and drink and with napkin draped over his left arm. In the register below this one in the cartoon, a “Sam” in blackface and polka-dot shirt and check-pocketed breeches and cap is shown furiously sweeping a cloud of dust, with a can and dead rat among the detritus. This Sam is Samuel Stewart, who worked at the Maryland Agricultural College at this time and lived in Lakeland. His father, also Samuel Stewart, and mother, Georgianna Stewart, founded Embry AME Church in 1903. That their son would be represented in this racist manner is particularly galling, especially for Lakelanders who to this day honor and revere the Stewarts for their role in building the community. https://heartofthetable.artinterp.org/files/original/86ec2c1b26b46d5c99ab3b6239a9f32f.jpg b66ca89f296603381d0df7144ff97a9d Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource 1880 Census Dory- Mechanicsville, MD Subject The topic of the resource Dory Family 1880 Census Record Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available St. Mary's County Historical Society Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1880