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Photo of May Day Celebration King and Queen Annetta Jeffers and Edward Tiller, Camp Tockwogh, 1958
Photo of May Day Celebration King and Queen Annetta Jeffers and Edward Tiller, Camp Tockwogh, 1958
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Photo of May Day Celebration King and Queen Annetta Jeffers and Edward Tiller, Camp Tockwogh, 1958

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Photo of May Day Celebration King and Queen Annetta Jeffers and Edward Tiller, Camp Tockwogh, 1958. Each year the BIack schools were permitted to have a May Day Celebration at Camp Tockwogh in Coleman, MD, a YMCA camp located just two or three miles from the segregated Coleman Elementary School. The Black elementary schools and Garnet High School would bus the students to the camp. Students would compete in sport events and other relay events. The main event was wrapping and unwrapping the ribbon around the tall May Pole to the tune of "Here we go 'round the mulberry bush".
Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College
May 1958
William Wesley Jackson
William Wesley Jackson
English
black-and-white photographs
Black Communities - Coleman, Debutantes, Cotillions, Prom Courts, Segregated schools, Slice of life - African Americans
May Day, African American school children, Segregation in education, African American young adults
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