The beach at Sandy Point is picturesque. Additionally, it is a 70-year-old civil rights landmark.

Black Marylanders’ reliable source for news was celebrating victory in a cause it had championed for five years.

“The U.S. Supreme Court threw two more harpoons into the body of segregation,” the newspaper wrote in a full page of coverage in November 1955.

Much of the history of the civil rights struggle was written in Southern states such as Alabama and Mississippi. This chapter played out on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay.

If the skies clear for Memorial Day weekend, more than 10,000 people could enjoy Sandy Point State Park near Annapolis. It’s so popular that the state instituted a reservation system this spring.

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