This marker describes the creation of Baltimore’s premier African-American neighborhood along Druid Hill Avenue and details backlash and legal battles over segregation that occurred with the transfer from white to Black-owned property here.
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This was the site of a Civil Rights era protest against racism in the judiciary. Judge William Bowie made racist remarks about a defendant, stirring outrage. NAACP picketed the courthouse in 1968 urging Bowie’s impeachment. Judge Bowie kept his post.
As a public, land-grant historically Black university that embraces diversity, UMES is committed to serving first-generation and underserved students and providing educational, research, and community engagement opportunities to transform the lives of its students who will impact the state, region, and the world.
One of the last remaining one-room school buildings to educate African-American children in Worcester County, erected in 1900. In 1996, citizens affiliated with Worcester County Historical Society purchased it and moved it to its present location.
Panels tell the history of the club, located in a former Rosenwald School. In 1967 it became the Seafarers Yacht Club, founded by a group of Black men who acted in response to persistent discrimination at marinas, piers and yacht clubs.
Marker on the site where Annapolis citizens held a "sit-in" demonstration at the Terminal Restaurant to demand that all citizens receive service. They acted as representatives of the local community, the Congress of Racial Equality and NAACP Annapolis Chapter.
This marker describes the house's history as the home of civil rights leader Parren Mitchell, the first African American to represent Maryland in the U.S. Congress and provides information about his life and achievements.
This marker commemorates a long-overlooked civil rights milestone: the 1955 sit-in at Read’s Drug store by students from Morgan State and CORE. The sit-in took place five years before the better-known lunch counter protest in Greensboro, NC.
The Nause-Waiwash are the remnants of what Europeans call Nanticoke, Choptank and Pocomoke tribes who fled into the marshes in the 1700s. These three names (Nanticoke, Choptank and Pocomoke) are the names of the three major rivers in the area, which are tributaries of the majestic Chesapeake Bay
Major Methodist museum and archives located in 1887 Stanford White-designed church. American Methodist artifacts, research library, manuscript collection and Baltimore-Washington conference archives.