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Lower Eastern Shore Native American History: Local Powwow Programs

1994.011 First Annual Native American Heritage Festival and Powwow Program

This collection contains an official program book for the First Annual Native American Heritage Festival and Powwow at Crisfield, Maryland on May 21-22, 1994. The booklet contains interviews with local Native Americans on their own lives and the lives of famous or notable ancestors, and brief histories of select native tribes during the colonial and revolutionary periods.

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2005.055 Dean Kotlowski Civil Rights Collection

This collection contains newspaper clippings, transcripts, correspondence and audio tape cassettes. The material in the collection tells the story of Aloysius Sheppard an 18 year Black American accused and convicted of rape who was subsequently lynched in 1915 in Caroline County, Maryland. The collection also covers the political climate regarding the subject of Civil Rights in 1963 through presidential recordings and partial transcripts obtained from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Additional materials include documents on the Nanticoke Native Americans and Assateague Island National Seashore.

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This collection contains newspaper clippings, transcripts, correspondence and audio tape cassettes. The material in the collection tells the story of Aloysius Sheppard an 18 year Black American accused and convicted of rape who was subsequently lynched in 1915 in Caroline County, Maryland. The collection also covers the political climate regarding the subject of Civil Rights in 1963 through presidential recordings and partial transcripts obtained from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Additional materials include documents on the Nanticoke Native Americans and Assateague Island National Seashore.

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2010.101 Eastern Shore Brochure and Pamphlet Collection

This booklet is included in the 2010.101 Eastern Shore Brochure and Pamphlet Collection (box 3). The Collection consists of Brochures and Booklets primarily pertaining to the Eastern Shore. Overall its central focus is Maryland/Delmarva. The Date Range of the Collection is 1609-2010.

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This booklet is included in the 2010.101 Eastern Shore Brochure and Pamphlet Collection (box 3). The Collection consists of Brochures and Booklets primarily pertaining to the Eastern Shore. Overall its central focus is Maryland/Delmarva. The Date Range of the Collection is 1609-2010.

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This booklet is included in the 2010.101 Eastern Shore Brochure and Pamphlet Collection (box 3). The Collection consists of Brochures and Booklets primarily pertaining to the Eastern Shore. Overall its central focus is Maryland/Delmarva. The Date Range of the Collection is 1609-2010.

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2015.201 Nanticoke Indian Pow Wow program

Program from the September 2012, Nanticoke Indian Pow Wow held in Millsboro, Delaware. The program documents the happenings at past Pow Wows as well as heritage of the Nanticoke Indians.

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2019.006 Phyllis Bradley Messick Collection

This program is included in 2019.006 the Phyllis Bradley Messick Collection. The Phyllis Bradley Messick Collection is composed of newspaper articles, a letter, photographs, yearbooks, and pamphlets all pertaining to the Messick family of Bivalve, in Wicomico County, MD. 

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