Landmarks from the Movement
Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage: Looking for Landmarks from the Movement is an ongoing project to research and document the historic context for the long Civ…
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Douglas Memorial Community Churchlocation_fillDouglas Memorial Community Church was built is 1857 for the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. The bui…
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Union Baptist Churchlocation_fillUnion Baptist Church traces its origins to 1852 and a group of fifty-seven worshipers meeting in a small build… -
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Freedom Houselocation_fill1234 Druid Hill Avenue had a story unlike any other. When builders erected the house in the nineteenth century… -
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Mitchell Family Law Officelocation_fillAs the legal office for Maryland’s first female Black lawyer, Juanita Jackson Mitchell, and her husband, Clare… -
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Harry Sythe Cummings Houselocation_fillA neglected brick rowhouse at 1318 Druid Hill Avenue was once the residence of Baltimore’s first black City Co… -
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Juanita Jackson and Clarence Mitchell, Jr. Houselocation_fillFew often realize that much of the civil rights successes in Maryland and nationally were started by a couple … -
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Public School No. 103location_fillBuilt in 1877, this historic school on Division Street originally served only white students until 1910 when t… -
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Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museumlocation_fillBorn in 1889, Lillie Carroll was the seventh of eight children in her family. Her father was Methodist Ministe… -
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Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Churchlocation_fillThe congregation at Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church began in 1787, the first African American Me… -
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Trinity Baptist Churchlocation_fillTrinity Baptist Church at the corner of Druid Hill Avenue and McMechen Street tells the story of Baltimore's c… -
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Warner T. McGuinn Houselocation_fillA native of Goochland County, near Richmond, Virginia, Warner T. McGuinn was born less than two years before t… -
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Dr. John E.T. Camper Houselocation_fill639 N. Carey Street is the former residence of Dr. J.E.T. Camper. In 1942, Baltimore NAACP official Dr. J. E. … -
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St. Peter Claver Catholic Churchlocation_fillSaint Peter Claver Church at Pennsylvania Avenue and Fremont Street takes its’ name from a sixteenth-century S… -
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Congressman Parren Mitchell Houselocation_fill1805 Madison Avenue was built around 1886, when the property was first advertised in the Baltimore Sun as avai… -
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Walter Sondheim Residencelocation_fill1621 Bolton Street is the childhood home of Walter Sondheim, Jr.: a local business executive and civic leader … -
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Druid Hill Park Pool No. 2location_fillBuilt in 1921, Pool No. 2 in Druid Hill Park served the recreational and competitive swimming needs of over 10… -
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Orchard Street Churchlocation_fillConstructed in 1882, the Orchard Street United Methodist Church is one of the oldest standing structures built… -
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Arena Playhouselocation_fillThe Arena Playhouse at 801 McCulloh Street has been occupied by the Arena Players, an African American theater… -
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Read's Drug Storelocation_fillThough the Baltimore Sun heralded the structure at the southeast corner of Howard and Lexington as an Art Deco… -
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Lord Baltimore Hotellocation_fillBuilt in 1928, the Lord Baltimore Hotel is a beautiful example of an early twentieth-century high-rise hotel. … -
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Ford's Theatrelocation_fillBaltimore activists have a long history of fighting discrimination and segregation in the city’s public establ… -
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Leadenhall Baptist Churchlocation_fillBuilt in 1873 by the Maryland Baptist Union Association for black Baptists in south Baltimore, Leadenhall Bapt… -
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William “Little Willie” and Victorine Q. Adams Residencelocation_fillOn October 13, 1935, William “Little Willie” Adams and Victorine Quille were married at Saint Peter Claver Cat… -
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Preston Gardenslocation_fillBuilt between 1914 and 1919, Preston Gardens is a linear park along Saint Paul Street. Few people know that Pr… -
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Levering Hall on Johns Hopkins University Homewood Campuslocation_fillBuilt in 1928-1929, Levering Hall is named in honor of Eugene Levering, a local banker. Levering, who served a… -
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Morgan State University Memorial Chapellocation_fillIn 1939, the trustees of Morgan College decided to sell the institution to the State of Maryland. The proceeds…
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