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.
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A self-guided tour of the once vibrant Black community along Pine Street known locally as "little New York" that includes information on the Cambridge Movement and the emergence of civil rights leader Gloria Richardson.
A local history organization that offers walking and bus tours, including civil-rights tours of Baltimore neighborhoods, with an emphasis on home-grown civil rights leaders. Visit their website for schedule and reservation information.
A look into the history and culture of the Piscataway and other native people of the United States. Each exhibit contains historical and contemporary artifacts from the Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Northwest, and Southwest, while demonstrating how location influenced tribal structure, art, and lodging.
Walk through historic Fells Point in Baltimore and see Underground Railroad locations associated with Baltimore abolitionists and sites of resistance. Stop at the places where Frederick Douglass lived, worked, worshiped, and learned how to read, and where he later returned to build five historic townhouses. A National Park Service National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.
Frederick Douglass' summer cottage, built in 1895, is dedicated to preserving the history of his family and Highland Beach.
Gray Line is Washington, D.C.'s premier sightseeing & charter coach company. We provide a wide array of specialized sightseeing tours.
Journeying back in time to pre-Civil War America, explore the secret network of trails, waterways and safe houses used by enslaved people fleeing north to escape bondage. Part of Maryland's 2020 Year of the Woman.
Highlighted by a rich collection of historic locations filled with modern-day amenities, this journey is a wonderful pilgrimage to sacrosanct Civil War sites, pristine natural sanctuaries and land considered by many to be sacred.
Maryland clean marina as designated by the Dept. Natural Resources