FAX TRANSMISSION
TO: Senator Nathaniel McFadden
Fax No. 410-841-3138
RE: Article in Sunpaper today, "Museum of black history gets boost."
Until today, I was not aware of your activities with the Black History Museum to be built on the Inner Harbor which has already been approved for about $20 million in funding by the legislature, through the Governor's office and with private sector support.
Your comment about the young people who never heard of Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, Frederick Douglas, Benjamin Banneker is mostly unfortunately fairly accurate.
This memo/fax is to take the opportunity to let you know of a CD-ROM produced by the Encyclopedia Britannica people entitled, "Britannica Profiles: Black History".
There was once upon a time I had one. It is multimedia with sound/movie clips of speeches and music. It has a database of all the African-American colleges and universities. It is loaded with biographies also containing pictures or drawings. And there is an extensive, cross- referenced, area of all manner of topics and movements and people and everything having to do with African-American history in the United States. I hear EB originally priced it at $89.95 but apparently it did not sell at the time.
Tip: If you go to the Encyclopedia Britannica website at www.eb.com, they are pricing it at $29.95 plus $7 postage. BUT, I got it for $14.95 plus postage because I am an EB customer. Then I telephoned to ask what price for others and I was told they would let it go for whatever price had been quoted. (Call me for special sale code if you need one.) There is also an institutional sales option.
The reason that I don't have one any more is that I "lent" it to an activist friend who passed it to a black studies study group at a local high school. I don't now have the heart to ask for it back.
If we have to wait until 2001 to see a Museum, this CD-ROM would be a wonderful precursor and substitute. As a matter of fact, it should be in every school and library now. It is cheap enough to give to every honor student.
Copies of this memo/fax going to: Senator Mitchell, Delegate Marriott and the Governor's Office (Feel free to share with others.)
Sincerely,
Nancy Moran
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