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New Civil War Inventory Guide for Four Rivers

(Annapolis, Maryland) The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, with the support of a mini-grant from Four Rivers: the Heritage Area of Annapolis, London Town & South County announces the availability of a free Civil War Inventory Guide. The Guide has been designed as a reference tool to raise the awareness of local Civil War heritage among community stakeholders and to provide a basis for future heritage tourism research and product development.

It is estimated that at one time up to 30,000 troops were stationed in the greater Annapolis, Maryland area during the War of the Rebellion, known by most people as the “Civil War.” While no battles were fought here, this Union occupied southern border town may have been one of the busiest and most strategically located centers of War operations on the East Coast. It was here that a major receiving depot and hospital operations hub for Union soldiers returning from Southern prisons was established. It was here that one of the first fourteen original national cemeteries for soldiers was opened. It was here that Southern sympathizers and Northern troops co-mingled on a daily basis in an attempt to keep “business as usual” while functioning in the center of major War operations. It was here that the famous Civil War heroine, Clara Barton, established an information clearinghouse for missing soldiers. And it was here that Confederate agents spied on the meetings of Grant, Burnside, and Lieutenant (later Admiral) Meade as they carefully planned a major Union expedition to the South.

For additional information, please contact the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, or Four Rivers: the Heritage Area of Annapolis, London Town & South County. This publication was also financed in part with State Funds from the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority, an instrumentality of the State of Maryland. The contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Maryland Heritage Areas Authority. Additional funds were provided by the many kind contributors who support the ongoing work of the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation.

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HERITAGE

The farthest-back person they ever talked about was a man they called the African.

~ Alex Haley, Roots

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DIVERSITY

Though we are of different tribes and tongues, remember we are the same people!

~ Mandinka Elder, Roots

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PERSEVERANCE

We all suffer.
If a man’s wise, he learns from it.

~ Boteng Bediako (Uncle Pompey), Roots

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The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial

Located in historic Annapolis, Maryland, the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Memorial symbolizes the triumph of the human spirit. It conveys Alex Haley’s vision for national racial reconciliation and healing, and stresses the importance of strong family connection and the preservation and honoring of cultural history and heritage.

Dedicated to our African ancestors whose names are forever lost in the oceans of time, and to any peoples that arrived in the New World in bondage, whose unpaid labor forged the foundation of this nation’s rise to greatness. Also, to the descendants of these ancestors who strive to foster a nation that celebrates ethnic diversity within the spirit of brotherhood, mutual respect, and understanding.

Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation

The Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, Inc. was incorporated in the state of Maryland in 1995, as a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) nonprofit profit organization.

Our mission is to spread the vision of Alex Haley, a world that celebrates ethnic diversity while honoring humankind’s common universal experiences.

The Foundation is dedicated to stimulating greater interest in African American culture, history, art, archaeology, anthropology, and genealogy, and to encouraging people of all ethnic backgrounds to search for their own “roots.”

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Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, Inc.
Asbury United Methodist Church
87 West Street, 2nd Floor
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

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410.295.9395

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info@kintehaley.org

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