Numerous enslaved people escaped from Northampton plantation, owned by the Sprigg family from 1800 to 1836. Today, rebuilt foundations of two slave quarters and interpretive signs detail the lives of the enslaved African Americans and their free descendants who lived here from 1790 through 1940. A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.
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Lizzie Amby and her husband Nat fled from Amby’s enslaver, Dr. Alexander Hamilton Bayly October 1857, joining fourteen other freedom seekers. Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway site. A National Park Service Network to Freedom site.
A historic marker honoring the lives of three Black men who were lynched in Wicomico County was installed in Downtown Salisbury in 2021. The marker is at the site of the lynching of Matthew Williams.
This marker honors the experiences of citizens who experienced segregation in Baltimore’s parks. It details important local events to protest segregation and describes artist Joyce Scott’s installation at the park’s pool commemorating the struggle.
On August 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, and segregation ended at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, which once occupied this site, after 10 years of protests and demonstrations.
Carver was the first African-American junior college in Montgomery County, while Lincoln High School was the only high school. Carver High School and Junior College opened in 1951 and later merged with Montgomery Jr. College following desegregation.
The mural, featuring the community around Pine Street, highlights important figures in Cambridge’s rich African-American history, culture and heritage, including Gloria Richardson Dandrige, a leader in the Civil Rights movement.
The first of its kind in the nation, the memorial garden honors the late Coretta Scott King and features an eternal fountain, a biographical plaque entitled "Her Story," and a number of quotes. It is on the grounds of Sojourner Douglass College.
This marker commemorates the activism of Clarence and Parren Mitchell. Clarence was the NAACP's chief lobbyist and Parren was the first Black graduate of the University of Maryland School Of Law and a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus.