Madison Park in Baltimore, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum

Photographed By Don Morfe, February 25, 2017

1. Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum Marker

Inscription.

Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum. . , Dr. Lillie May Carroll Jackson, born in Baltimore on May 25, 1889, was a tireless freedom fighter. As an “American of African descent, “she endured the humiliation of Jim Crow segregation, but did not take this plight sitting down. Using her abiding faith nurtured at Sharp Street United Methodist Church, she believed that “with God, all things are possible.”

As president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP from 1935 to 1970, Jackson---along with Afro-American Newspaper publisher Carl J. Murphy---organized the community to protest Eastern Shore lynchings, segregated schools, residential restrictive covenants, discriminatory practices of Baltimore retailers and public accommodations establishments, and police brutality.

Jackson made common cause with legal scholars Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall to make the U.S. Constitution a reality. Her leadership resulted in successful litigation of several Supreme Court decisions, including the striking down of racially restrictive covenants in property deeds (1948) and finding segregated public schools unconstitutional (1954).

Jackson was the matriarch of the politically-active Jackson-Mitchell clan that included her son-in-law Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. (known as “the 101st Senator); her daughter Juanita Jackson Mitchell, the first black woman to practice law in Maryland; her grandson Clarence M. Mitchell III (who at age 21 was the youngest person in the nation to be elected to a state legislature); and U.S. Representative Parren J. Mitchell, the first black U.S. Representative from Maryland.

“The successful struggle for civil rights in Maryland was a defining achievement of this century,” the Baltimore Sun wrote. “Lillie May Carroll Jackson was a key general in that battle.” She died on July 5, 1975.

(Inscription under the image on the right) , Lillie Carroll Jackson “ It is somehow fitting that Lillie May Carroll Jackson, a direct descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, would confront an unjust government asking it to fulfill its creed that all men are created equal.”, Baltimore Sun, August 1999--

Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum, Sponsor-Rededicated 2015-Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor

Dr. Lillie May Carroll Jackson, born in Baltimore on May 25, 1889, was a tireless freedom fighter. As an “American of African descent, “she endured the humiliation of Jim Crow segregation, but did not take this plight sitting down. Using her abiding faith nurtured at Sharp Street United Methodist Church, she believed that “with God, all things are possible.”

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black woman to practice law in Maryland; her grandson Clarence M. Mitchell III (who at age 21 was the youngest person in the nation to be elected to a state legislature); and U.S. Representative Parren J. Mitchell, the first black U.S. Representative from Maryland.

(Inscription under the image on the right)
Lillie Carroll Jackson “ It is somehow fitting that Lillie May Carroll Jackson, a direct descendant of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, would confront an unjust government asking it to fulfill its creed that all men are created equal.”—Baltimore Sun, August 1999--

Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum, Sponsor-Rededicated 2015-Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor

Erected 2015 by City of Baltimore.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: African Americans • Civil Rights • Government & Politics • Women. A significant historical date for this entry is July 5, 1975.

Location. 39° 18.268′ N, 76° 37.614′ W. Marker is in Baltimore, Maryland. It is

Photographed By Don Morfe, February 25, 2017

2. Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum Marker

in Madison Park. Marker is on Eutaw Place. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1320 Eutaw Place, Baltimore MD 21217, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Early Civil Rights Era (a few steps from this marker); St. James Court (a few steps from this marker); Sidney Lanier (within shouting distance of this marker); Howard A. Kelly, M.D. (within shouting distance of this marker); Daniel Coit Gilman (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Md. Prince Hall Masons (about 300 feet away); Francis Scott Key (about 300 feet away); Florence Hochschild Austrian / Robert Austrian (about 300 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Baltimore.

Credits. This page was last revised on February 16, 2021. It was originally submitted on February 27, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. This page has been viewed 331 times since then and 21 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on February 27, 2017, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.