Md. Museum To Hold Talk In Honor Of Black History Month

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Two professors who have written books using the Civil War-era diaries of free African Americans will speak at a Baltimore museum for Black History Month.

The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture will host a discussion Saturday with the women.

Karsonya Whitehead will discuss her book, "Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis." Whitehead is a professor of communication and African and African American studies at Loyola University Maryland.

Also speaking is Myra Armstead, a history professor and director of Africana Studies at Bard College. She will discuss her book, "Freedom's Gardener: James F. Brown, Horticulture and the Hudson Valley in Antebellum America," which traces the life of an escaped slave from Maryland who became a master gardener.