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The creators of "Inside Our School World: African-American Schools during a Century of Segregation, Charles County, Maryland" and the College of Southern Maryland do not condone the usage of various inappropriate references to African Americans made in some of the quotations and documents that appear on this web site. Quotations and excerpts have been taken from documents and other sources produced during the last half of the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth centuries that used language now unacceptable to identify African-Americans and their schools. At the same time, we recognize the need to present the contents of these historical documents and sources as they were then written. It is necessary to do this in order to be true to the history of the United States and Charles County during that time and portray a more accurate picture of the deep-seated harm that occurred with the evolution of a segregated society. Fortunately, the Supreme Court declared segregation and the separate but equal doctrine that supported it as unconstitutional and Americans eventually recognized the need to remove that socially and politically brutal practice from American life.

We hope the material on the "Inside Our School World: African-American Schools during a Century of Segregation, Charles County, Maryland" web site will raise your consciousness and your sensitivity to the plight suffered by your fellow Americans, who were forced into a segregated way of life from the 1860s to the 1960s that was not equal.