The church organized buses to the March on Washington in 1963. KKK attempted to set St. Mark's ablaze in 1967. Grove residents took to the streets. Laurel police arrested five men for the arson attempt. Rev. Evans asked police to set up a barricade.
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This self-guided tour includes churches in Dorchester County that are on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Scenic Byway and which were influential in the Civil Rights Movement.
This exhibit honors Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, one of the foremost leaders in the struggle for equal rights under the law. The exhibit, on Concourse C at BWI airport, features a timeline of Marshall’s life and highlights his accomplishments, including his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1967 as the first African American on the bench. The exhibit also includes a bust of Marshall by artist Toby Mendez.
Martha Howard and John Henry Murphy Alliance founded the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper. By 1950 the Afro-American was the leading voice for racial equality, economic advancement, civil rights and the coverage of Black life in the nation.
This exhibit panel provides information about an interracial tennis match played here in 1948, which, was held to protest the park's segregationist policies. A nearby historic, "Breaking the Back of Segregation," lists the names of the participants.
Join our top-rated Baltimore ghost tour and uncover the city’s haunted history by night. From eerie ghost walks to spirited pub crawls and voodoo tales, explore Baltimore’s most chilling stories and iconic historic sites with expert guides.
The first metropolitan cathedral constructed in America after the adoption of the Constitution, completed in 1821.
Hands-on activities interprete life in a turn-of-the-century railroad town. Exhibits on local history/visitor information.
Protests in the summer of 1960 by Howard University students, organized as the Nonviolent Action Group, led to the integration of the Glen Echo Amusement Park in 1961. Legal battles over the carousel sit-in continued until 1964.
This marker is in Midtown-Edmondson on a brick post at the entrance to a parking lot on Pulaski Street. It details the contributions of the mother-daughter team of civil rights pioneers, Lillie Carroll Jackson and Juanita Jackson Mitchell.