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"Cab and Thurgood"

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In 1883, two extraordinary young men entered the 9th grade at Baltimore's Colored High and Training School, the city's first public high school. 

Ric Cottom, host of "Your Maryland," came to Baltimore more than four decades ago and never left. Formerly the editor and publisher at the Maryland Historical Society, he now runs the Chesapeake Book Company, publishing Chesapeake regional history, biography, and environmental studies.