Pictures for articles on Nationwide Civil Rights Education Delegation Visits Marks, Miss.

Pictures for articles on Nationwide Civil Rights Education
Delegation Visits Marks, Miss.

The Quitman Co. Administrator and I wrote for the Quitman
County Democrat about our visit to Marks, Miss. on Jan. 4, 2019.

The article also appears in Across Mississippi Patch here: https://patch.com/mississippi/across-ms/s/glh5j/nationwide-civil-rights-education-delegation-visits-marks-miss

On January 4, 2019 a nationwide delegation from Westminster
and beyond visited Marks, Miss., Atlanta, Ga., Tuskegee, Ala, Montgomery, Ala, and
Birmingham, Ala.

January 8th, 2019 By Quitman County Administrator Velma
Benson-Wilson and Kevin Dayhoff, former Mayor of Westminster Md.

The 51-member delegation, from as far away as New England,
Chicago, Connecticut, Seattle, Baltimore, and Westminster Md. were part of an
educational tour of historic civil rights sites in Atlanta, Ga., Tuskegee, Ala,
Montgomery, Ala, Ruleville, Miss, and Birmingham, Ala.

the article appeared on the front page of the weekly edition
of the local Quitman County newspaper In January 2019.

It has also been placed on the Quitman County's website http://quitmancountyms.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Civil-Rights-Tour-Article-2019-PDF.pdf

And Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/quitmancoms/photos/a.1317111178433163/1549468175197461/?type=3&theater

The article has also been published in the Westminster
Patch, here: https://patch.com/maryland/westminster/nationwide-civil-rights-education-delegation-visits-marks-miss

It may also be found here: https://kevindayhoff.wordpress.com/2019/01/13/nationwide-civil-rights-education-delegation-visits-marks-miss/

1. Quitman County Miss.: For more info about Quitman Co.
Miss. visit www.quitmancountyms.org

2. Samuel McCray: When the delegation arrived in town Jan.
4, 2019, they were welcomed by the City of Marks’ Mayor Joe Shegog Jr., and
Samuel McCray, the retired field representative of Congressman Bennie Thompson,
who currently serves as the vice-chair of the Mule Train Historical Society.
Kevin Dayhoff photo.

3. Civil Rights educational delegation: The distinguished
Judge Charles Harrison, in the red sweater and black hat rides along on the bus
during a four-day bus tour of historic civil rights sites in the south, in
early Jan. 2019. Behind Judge Harrison is former Westminster Md. Mayor Kevin
Dayhoff, and Caroline Babylon, the daughter of a leading civil rights advocate
in Carroll County Md. in the 1950s through the 1970s.

4. Marks Miss. history forum panel: Following the tour, the
group gathered at the Quitman County Middle School gym for a panel discussion
moderated by Jackson State University professor Dr. Hilliard Lackey. The panel
consisted of local residents who actively took part in, or witnessed the
historic civil rights activities in Marks during 1968: From left to right: the
current Quitman County Board of Supervisors president Manuel Killebrew; Dr.
Valmadge Towner, the president of Coahoma Community College, Helen Ingram,
Samuel McCray, and the Reverend Michael Jossell, Sr. Kevin Dayhoff photo
4Jan2019.

5. Civil Right Activist James Meredith: Civil Right Activist
James Meredith was present in the audience at the Civil Rights history forum in
Marks Miss. on Jan. 4, 2019. A nationwide civil rights delegation had the
opportunity to meet with him and hear his remarks. Kevin Dayhoff photo

6. Dr. Hilliard L. Lackey III and Mrs. Ora B. Phipps: The
delegation was also honored with the presence of Ora B. Phipps, the widow of
Armstead Phipps. Now in her 90s, she shared poignant insights and details about
historic events from over 50-years ago. Kevin Dayhoff photo

7. Velma Benson Wilson, Quitman Co. Administrator: Left to
right: Jaby Denton, Mitch Campbell, Dr. Evelyn Jossell, and Velma Benson
Wilson, Quitman Co. Administrator. Kevin Dayhoff photo 4Jan2019

8. Charles Alphin, Sr. and Gerald Alphin, of DDK Tours: Charles
Alphin, Sr. and Gerald Alphin, of DDK Tours join hands with the participants of
the Civil Rights forum in Marks Miss. on Jan 4, 2019. 

Charles Alphin, Sr., the
director and CEO of DDK Historical and Educational Tours, which facilitated the
visit, has been working with the King Center in Atlanta and guiding historic
tours since the 1980s. He said after the visit, “If you do not know where you
come from, you don’t know where you are going.”

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We all still have a dream 50-years after Dr. King's speech [Eagle Archives]

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

1:38 p.m. EDT, August 27, 2013

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Members of the Carroll County chapter of the NAACP joined tens of thousands Saturday at the National Mall - at the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial - in Washington to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington.

It was at that time in the early 1960s that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) made "I have a dream" the clarion-call of the civil rights movement at a political rally called the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”

History continues to reflect upon the importance of the march on Washington in 1963. One thing remains certain, it was a pivotal moment in American history that has contributed greatly to who we are as a nation today.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-eagle-archives-20130827,0,6601945.story#ixzz2dCHq6fv5

Aug. 24, 2013 March on Washington tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King

The Carroll County, MD Branch of the NAACP were represented at the March on Washington on August 24, 2013

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It was a day of camaraderie – for folks from all over the nation to come together and hear an amazing group of speakers that included Rep. John Lewis, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King III, Eric Holder, Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Myrlie Evers Williams, Al Sharpton, Steny Hoyer, Ed Schultz, Denise King, Joseph Lowery, CT Vivan, representatives of the Human Rights Campaign, the National Council of LaRaza, the AFT, the NEA and many, many more.

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We all still have a dream 50-years after Dr. King's speech [Eagle Archives]

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

1:38 p.m. EDT, August 27, 2013

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-eagle-archives-20130827,0,6601945.story

Members of the Carroll County chapter of the NAACP joined tens of thousands Saturday at the National Mall - at the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial - in Washington to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington.

It was at that time in the early 1960s that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) made "I have a dream" the clarion-call of the civil rights movement at a political rally called the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”

History continues to reflect upon the importance of the march on Washington in 1963. One thing remains certain, it was a pivotal moment in American history that has contributed greatly to who we are as a nation today.

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-eagle-archives-20130827,0,6601945.story#ixzz2dCHq6fv5

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Kevin Dayhoff Eldersburg Patch: Juneteenth Independence Day and Slavery's History in Carroll County

Juneteenth Independence Day and Slavery's History in Carroll County

The holiday dates back to the end of the Civil War and celebrates freedom for more than 250,000 slaves.

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June 19 is recognized by 38 states as a state holiday marking Juneteenth Independence Day--or Emancipation Day.  Juneteenth is not a state holiday in Maryland.

The origin of the holiday dates back to the end of the Civil War and celebrates freedom being granted to more than 250,000 slaves.

It began when Union General Gordon Granger arrived with 2,000 federal troops in Galveston, Texas, on June 18, 1865. This was more than two months after the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House on the afternoon of April 9, 1865.

One of the foremost matters on the mind of Granger was to take possession of the rebel state of Texas and enforce the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln on September 22, 1862.

The proclamation carried an effective date of January 1, 1863; although in reality, in Texas and most of the states in rebellion, it had little impact on the enslaved population of the south--and freed few, if any, slaves.

Granger was determined to change that, at least in Texas.  On June 19, 1865 he stood upon the balcony of the Ashton Villa and read the contents of “General Order No. 3,” which put into effect the Emancipation Proclamation throughout the state.

The result was a spontaneous community celebration that has been observed every year ever since.

In 1840, almost 30 years before the first Juneteenth celebration, the population of Carroll County was 17,421. ...  http://eldersburg.patch.com/articles/juneteenth-independence-day-and-slaverys-history-in-carroll-county#c

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Remembering the 'Richmond 34' and the ‘Greensboro Four’

Remembering the 'Richmond 34' and the ‘Greensboro Four’

Protesters remember the sit-ins that helped change America.

Hat Tip: Linda Shevitz and Jean Lewis, Carroll County NAACP

Reba Hollingsworth, Staff reporter February 11 2010

RICHMOND -- In 1960, the tension from the civil rights movement issimmering throughout the south. Young black college students and somewhites challenged the laws of segregation.

The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.baltimoresun.com/wtvr-richmond34-100211,0,7991527.story Visit baltimoresun.com at http://www.baltimoresun.com/

Monday February 1, 1960 - “Greensboro Four”

Readers may also appreciate reading about the “Greensboro Four,” which is thought by many to have been the genesis of the 1960s sit-in actions… http://tinyurl.com/yfz3a4q

February 3, 2010 Standing up by sitting down Kevin E. Dayhoff

On Monday February 1, 1960, four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the historic 1929 F. W. Woolworth Five-and-Dime building at 301 North Elm Street in Greensboro, N.C., and ordered lunch.

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Kevin Dayhoff is a writer with Explore Carroll – Patuxent Publishing Co., a subsidiary publication of the Baltimore Sun and is a life-member of the NAACP

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Jackie Robinson, the great American experiment

Jackie Robinson, the great American experiment

By Kevin Dayhoff April 15, 2009

Photo credit: Published in LOOK, v. 19, no. 4, 1955 Feb. 22, p. 78. Photo by Bob Sandberg: Jackie Robinson swinging a bat in Dodgers uniform, 1954. (19550222 1954 Jrobinson.jpg)

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Folks have been asking where they may find my column on “Jackie Robinson, the great American experiment.”

The column appeared in both the Westminster Eagle and the Carroll Eagle: Thoughts turn to baseball and Jackie Robinson Published April 17, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle and Dayhoff: Recalling Jackie Robinson, the great American experiment Published April 15, 2009 by Westminster Eagle

Pasted below is the column as it filed…

My thoughts today turn to one of my very few sports heroes – Jackie Robinson. For it was today, April 15, in 1947, that Jackie Robinson broke the Major League Baseball color barrier that had begun in the 1880s.

Wearing a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform with the number 42, Robinson, to paraphrase sports writer William McNeil, made his debut in front of 26,623 baseball fans at the old Ebbets Field. Approximately 14,000 of the spectators in the stands were African-Americans.

The Dodgers won 5-3; however, the real winner that day was all of us.

It was about time. As Washington Post columnist Shirley Povich wrote on March 28, 1997: “Four hundred fifty-five years after Columbus discovered America, white America discovered that blacks could play major league baseball. The first definitive clue was offered by the fifth child of a Cairo, Ga., sharecropper who was selected for the daring racial experiment.”

A brief account by the Library of Congress reveals “Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey signed a contract with Robinson to play for the team on October 23, 1945. Robinson then spent a year on a minor league team to sharpen his skills.

“Rickey, who called the move baseball's ‘great experiment,’ chose Robinson because of his excellent athletic record and strength of character. The first player to ‘cross the color line’ would have to be able to withstand intense public scrutiny and to avoid confrontation even when met with insults and hostility.”

As an aside, Richey also deserves a special place in history for having the character and insight to make it all happen. According to Povich, breaking the color barrier “had become a cause. Rickey was a former player and later a team president with high morals and a religious bent.”

It is interesting to note that Richey’s strength of conviction caused him, in earlier years when he played the game as an American League catcher, to “steadfastly” refuse to play baseball on Sundays, according to Povich.

Richey’s baseball scouts found Robinson playing for the Kansas City Monarchs in the “Negro baseball leagues” in 1945.

Povich writes that Richey “warned Robinson of the insults and the racial slurs he would hear from both players and fans in every city in the league. ‘I want a player with guts — the guts not to fight back, to turn the other cheek,’ Rickey told Robinson…”

“Rickey's bargain was for Robinson to hold his temper for two years. After that he was his own man, free to combat prejudice any way he saw fit.”

Robinson, by all accounts, endured a great deal of horrific abuse. However, according to the Library of Congress account, “Not only was Robinson able to quell opposition to his presence on the field, but he quickly won the respect and enthusiasm of the fans.”

That same account says that Robinson “retired from baseball after the 1956 season with a lifetime batting average of .311 and the distinction of having stolen home an incredible 19 times. A legend even in his day, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility.”

I should note that Robinson is the focal point of one of my three favorite baseball trivia stories – two of the stories happened in April and involve the Dodgers, but do have anything to do with a baseball. The third involves a potato…

The first favorite baseball moment also took place on April 25, 1976. It was that day that outfielder Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs dashed between two men in the Dodger Stadium outfield in Los Angeles and grabbed away an American flag that protesters were about to burn.

The other event, which involves Robinson, is memorialized by a statute in front of “KeySpan Park,” a minor league baseball stadium in Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York. The statute is of Dodgers shortstop Pee Wee Reese with his arm around Robinson.

Povich got the story behind the statute from New York Times’ writer Bob Herbert. In a game in Cincinnati: “As the crowd heaped abuse on Robinson, Reese called time and walked across the diamond and draped an arm around Robinson's shoulder, standing with him in defiance of the crowd's mood.

“It was at once a sentimental display of friendship for a beleaguered teammate and a resounding rebuke to the lackwits who could not come to terms with Jackie Robinson in a major league lineup.”

Povich notes that Roger Kahn, author of “The Boys of Summer,” said of the scene: “It gets my vote as baseball’s finest moment.”

And mine also.

And oh, the third story occurred on Aug. 31, 1987 and it involves a potato. Who knows the story? Tell us what you know of the “tater caper” in readers’ comments below.

That’s my two cents. What’s yours? Leave any comments here: Thoughts turn to baseball and Jackie Robinson Published April 17, 2009 by Carroll Eagle, Westminster Eagle and Dayhoff: Recalling Jackie Robinson, the great American experiment

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kevindayhoff AT gmail.com.
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Cutting the 'Horse Train Stop' of Sykesville out of Howard County
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Thoughts turn to baseball and Jackie Robinson
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Recalling the devastating Westminster fire of 1906
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County jail started out 0-for-1 when it came to holding prisoners
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