Students Enjoying the May Day Celebration, Camp Tockwogh, 1958
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Students Enjoying the May Day Celebration, Camp Tockwogh, 1958. The students are unidentified, however there are possible initials listed on the back of the photograph. 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". May 1958
English
black-and-white photographs
Black Communities - Coleman, Segregated schools
African American school children, Segregation in education, May Day
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