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Colored Celebrations

Summary

Parade with about 250 Negro participants in Westminster - flags & banners plus a band from Baltimore - speakers included someone from Freedmen's Bureau - met in grove outside of Westminster in afternoon and at Court House in evening - paper states it does not approve of white men who encourage Negroes to demand political equality


Article Source

Newspaper: The Democratic Advocate

Publication Date: October 3rd, 1867

Page/Column: 2C

Town: Westminster, MD

County: Carroll

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