On July 11, 1948, members of the Young Progressives of Maryland and members of the Baltimore Tennis Club staged the nationally famous interracial tennis match to protest two sad injustices: the park's "Jim Crow" regulations, which prohibited . . . — — Map (db m189108) HM
Sojourner-Douglass College was established in 1972, in Baltimore, Maryland as the Homestead Montebello Center of Antioch College. The idea was conceived under the leadership of the first president, Dr. Charles W. Simmons, in response to the . . . — — Map (db m145935) HM
First Baptist Church, the oldest Black Baptist church in Maryland, was founded amidst turmoil in 1836, five years after Nat Turner's Rebellion in Virginia. Alarmed at the Rebellion, Maryland and other slave states passed laws restricting the . . . — — Map (db m7564) HM
The striking architecture of Baltimore’s original Dunbar High School complements the school’s role in community empowerment and educational equality. Dunbar’s educators, students, and alumni worked to achieve the “equal” in the “separate but equal” . . . — — Map (db m101610) HM
1001 Light St Baltimore played a significant role in the abolitionist movement, particularly during the mid-19th century. The building, which was located in the heart of downtown Baltimore, became a hub for anti-slavery activism, as well as a key . . . — — Map (db m240364) HM
This church is part of the African Methodist Episcopal congregation, the oldest independent black institution in the country. The origins of the A.M.E. church date back to the late 18th century, when blacks withdrew from the parent Methodist . . . — — Map (db m128640) HM
Fells Point
Baltimore's Original Deep Water PortFeisty, independent Fells Point was annexed by Baltimore in 1773. Despite the loss of its political independence, it has stayed true to its working class, maritime roots. Today, . . . — — Map (db m220780) HM
Frederick Douglass was born into American slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore in February 1818.
In March 1826, Douglass, a slave child, was sent to live in the Hugh Auld household at this location, from 1826-1831.
Douglass periodically resided . . . — — Map (db m2603) HM
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are those who want crops without plowing up the ground - they want rain without thunder and lightning." - Frederick Douglass
Born in February, 1818, on . . . — — Map (db m7562) HM
Frederick Douglass is one of the best-known Americans of the 19th century. Schools, churches and other community buildings across the United States have been named after him. Known for bravery, vision and insightfulness, Douglas fought for the . . . — — Map (db m168908) HM
Frederick Douglass is one of the best known Americans of the 19th century. Countless schools, churches, and other community buildings across the United States have been named after him. Known for his bravery, vision, and insightfulness, Douglass . . . — — Map (db m219626) HM
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Baltimore artist Loring Cornish, known for his colorful mosaics and personality, moving to California
Artist Loring Cornish, whose glass and found-object mosaics have beautified homes on Eutaw Street, a former . . . — — Map (db m118456) HM
A national heritage site, the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park celebrates African-American who worked on Baltimore’s maritime trades in the 1800s. It also tells the stories of Frederick Douglass and Isaac Myers, who worked as chandlers . . . — — Map (db m102951) HM
During the early 1800s, shipyards dotted Baltimore’s Harbor. Many of them drew vessels in need of repair from waters up and down the Atlantic coast. Repairs ranged from minor sail mendings to complicated restorative hull work rendered by skilled . . . — — Map (db m103411) HM
During the early 1800s, shipyards dotted Baltimore's harbor, drawing vessels in need of repair from waters up and down the Atlantic coast. Skilled shipwrights and carpenters performed a range of repairs from minor sail mending to complicated . . . — — Map (db m219640) HM
The Living Classrooms Foundation is a non-profit organization, operates for the benefit of the community at large, providing hands-on education and job skills training to students from diverse backgrounds, with a special emphasis on serving at . . . — — Map (db m168864) HM
The Maritime Park and Museum, one of many Living Classrooms Foundation facilities, opened in 2006 and uses our motto "Learning by Doing" to engage visitors through interactive displays, hands-on activities and special programs. The . . . — — Map (db m219599) HM
The Maritime Park and Museum, one of many Living Classrooms Foundation facilities, opened in 2006 and uses our motto "Learning by Doing" to engage visitors through interactive displays, hands-on activities and special programs. The . . . — — Map (db m219642) HM
Memorials closely reflect the attitudes and ideals of the people who placed them, more than the historic events they were designed to commemorate. The original grove of Japanese Cherry Trees before you was planted in 1931, the same year "The Star . . . — — Map (db m180364) HM
From picnic and playground facilities to sports fields and courts, Leon Day Park serves as a gathering place for people of all ages in the Rosemont-Franklintown Road neighborhood. Formerly called Calverton, the area contained mills and . . . — — Map (db m103767) HM
This park is named for Leon Day, an outstanding player in the Negro Leagues who was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A resident of southwest Baltimore, Day joined the Baltimore Black Sox in 1934 when African Americans could not play . . . — — Map (db m6345) HM
This stately rowhome at 828 North Carrollton Avenue has served a number of purposes since its construction in 1880. Over the years it has been used as a private residence, office space, and briefly as a retirement home. Its most notable resident . . . — — Map (db m101638) HM
The Perkins Square Gazebo harkens back to the grandeur of Baltimore’s 19th century architectural and landscape heritage. In 1871, the gazebo was built as a spring shelter, the centerpiece for a new park. The land for the park was once part of . . . — — Map (db m101927) HM
Welcome to the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail – a journey through Baltimore’s premier historic African American community. Here you will meet civil rights leaders, artists and musicians, attend historic African American churches, and . . . — — Map (db m168863) HM
Home of a Founding U.S. Congressman
William Smith was born in 1728 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He became a successful merchant, and moved to Baltimore in 1761 to expand his shipping business. At the time, revolutionary feelings were . . . — — Map (db m153967) HM
The escape of Frederick Douglass in 1998 from slavery in Maryland was successfully carried out by Douglass jumping aboard the Philadelphia Wilmington and Baltimore train (PW&B RR) just as it was pulling out of the train depot in Canton. Douglass . . . — — Map (db m238123) HM
On April 19, 1861, Confederate sympathizers attacked the 6th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment as it changed trains en route to Washington, which the secessionists hoped to isolate. To learn more about the Baltimore Riot, the city’s role in . . . — — Map (db m71978) HM
Dr. William V. Lockwood was the first Vice President Emeritus of Baltimore Community College. His vision, uncompromising work ethic, and life long devotion to educational advancement made him instrumental in transforming the dream of the Harbor . . . — — Map (db m115221) HM
A bubbling stream to hide their tracks. A boat upriver toward hope. Chesapeake waterways were vital to the Underground Railroad, a secret network of routes used to escape slavery. The same waters that carried captured Africans into ports for sale . . . — — Map (db m234755) HM
Completed in 1851, the President Street Station is an icon of railroad architecture, featuring Classical Revival elements and incorporating a barrel vault roof design—the first for a railroad station. Its history is also tied to significant . . . — — Map (db m145578) HM
Fire has been used artistically to symbolize a rebirth or transformation in this monument a symbolic fire envelops the Katyń martyrs in its flames and raises them spiritually into the pantheon of national heroes of Poland.
The . . . — — Map (db m183379) HM
Opened in 2005, The Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture documents, interprets, and preserves the complex experiences, contributions, and culture of Black people. Named for a native son of Baltimore who was the . . . — — Map (db m248786) HM
On October 21, 1856, two young women wove through the crowded pier to your right, heading for a steamboat. Harriet Tubman was on a mission to help an enslaved person named Tilly escape. Their dangerous journey began and became known as one of . . . — — Map (db m234754) HM
In 1800, the wealthy Carroll family purchased the land that is now the Homewood campus and built a large summer house here. Several other buildings also sat on the property, including an 18th-century farmhouse, outbuildings for food preparation, . . . — — Map (db m166980) HM
This monument was a gift from prominent Baltimore banker J. Henry Ferguson, who left funds in his will for the City of Baltimore to create a monument to his childhood heroes, Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. Ferguson . . . — — Map (db m103158) HM
More than thirty years before the Civil War, when blacks and women were generally viewed as property, Father James Joubert and Elizabeth Lange founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence—a religious order of black women dedicated to educating the . . . — — Map (db m102852) HM
Although the United States banned the Transatlantic Slave Trade in 1808, a domestic trade from the Upper South to the emerging cotton-growing regions of the Deep South thrived until the 1860's. Baltimore-based dealers supplied the trade, operating . . . — — Map (db m71935) HM
The Goldfield Hotel once stood at the corner of East Lexington and Colvin Streets. Joe Gans, a Baltimore native and the first African American boxing champion, owned the hotel and its nightclub, which was one of the earliest integrated clubs in . . . — — Map (db m40431) HM
Two soldiers have finished guard duty and should be cleaning their weapons. Instead, they talk to a servant, enslaved to one of the militia officers. A sergeant overhears their conversation and prepares to rebuke them for talking instead of . . . — — Map (db m145543) HM
Born into an affluent family in Haiti, Mary Elizabeth Lange fled to escape a revolution. She settled in Baltimore, where by 1818 she was educating black children in her own home. In 1828, Mary Elizabeth helped start the first black . . . — — Map (db m212266) HM
Since the establishment in 1930, American Legion Federal Post No. 19 has served as a faithful steward to Baltimore’s African American veterans and the larger community. Members from this post worked within the larger American Legion organization . . . — — Map (db m102337) WM
In pre-Civil War Baltimore, African Americans — such as Frederick Douglass, Daniel Coker, and William Watkins — wrote some of the earliest and most important abolitionist treatises. After the Civil War, African Americans founded the . . . — — Map (db m168825) HM
A prominent and distinguished Baltimore African-American attorney, real estate broker, and politician. He was educated in Baltimore City public schools and graduated from Howard University Law School.
As a friend of James Cardinal Gibbons, . . . — — Map (db m211218) HM
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. . . . — — Map (db m101626) HM
"God opened my mouth and no man can shut it." With this firm belief in God and herself, "Ma" Jackson achieved extraordinary success in securing equal rights for blacks in Baltimore and Maryland. Born in 1889, she began fighting for black equality . . . — — Map (db m6562) HM
Mount Vernon Cultural District
Mount Vernon Cultural District provides an unequaled richness of cultural experience. Since the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857, Mount Vernon has enjoyed a continuing association with the arts. . . . — — Map (db m248771) HM
Welcome to the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail – a journey through Baltimore’s premier historic African American community. Here you will meet civil rights leaders, artists and musicians, attend historic African American churches, and . . . — — Map (db m168818) HM
Established in 1900, Monumental Lodge No. 3 is the oldest fraternal lodge of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World in Baltimore. This African American fraternal organization was founded in 1898 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and . . . — — Map (db m101652) HM
On this sacred and dedicated spot stood the historic
Trinity African Methodist Episcopal Church
who gave the world
Bishop Abraham Lincoln Gaines
General Officer Virnal C. Hodges
Presented Sunday May 26, 1963
by the brotherhood . . . — — Map (db m183389) HM
Here where the Gwynns Falls flows into the Patapsco's Middle Branch, Baltimoreans have come to work and to play over the years. Since the early 1700s this area his been home to mining operations, brickyards, glass factories, and other industries. . . . — — Map (db m6363) HM
Mr. Burns was first elected to the Baltimore City Council in 1971. In 1986, the then-Mayor William Donald Schaefer resigned after being elected Governor of Maryland. As City Council President, Mr. Burns was elevated to Mayor in January 1987 becoming . . . — — Map (db m232410) HM
Where you are standing was open land until the early 1870s when the McDonough Place Land Company constructed blocks of rowhouses for workers drawn to Baltimore by growing industry like canning, shipbuilding, brewing, and the building trades. . . . — — Map (db m232412) HM
Mount Vernon Cultural District provides an unequaled richness of cultural experience. Since the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857, Mount Vernon has enjoyed a continuing association with the arts. Nineteenth Century Philanthropist George . . . — — Map (db m194805) HM
This sculpture was commissioned as part of the exhibition Celebrating Rinehart organized by ARTSCAPE '96, curator, Cindy Kelly, the Maryland Institute, College of Art and the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore on the 100th . . . — — Map (db m219563) HM
Clarence and Parren Mitchell grew up in Harlem Park, and fought for equality well beyond their West Baltimore neighborhood. In 1933, Clarence reported on an Eastern Shore lynching for The Afro-American newspaper. He came home transformed into an . . . — — Map (db m101456) HM
In 1923, flags at black schools across Baltimore flew at half-mast to mourn the death of Joseph Lockerman. Nicknamed “Moses” for his leadership and quite dignity, he grew up in Caroline County, where two white teachers noticed and . . . — — Map (db m101498) HM
As pioneers of non-violent resistance, Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson and daughter Juanita Jackson Mitchell helped lay the foundation for the national Civil Rights Movement in 1931, they founded the City-Wide Young People’s Forum for West Baltimore . . . — — Map (db m101497) HM
Lucille Clifton lived in West Baltimore from 1967. She became poet-in-residence at Coppin State University in 1971. By 1974, she had published two important collections of poetry that focused on black urban life at a very personal level. The . . . — — Map (db m101478) HM
Growing up in Florida, Mary Rosemond saw her mother fight to stop the demolition of their home for a highway. In 1958, she discovered the city’s plan to build an expressway through Greater Rosemont and her own West Baltimore home. Rosemond and her . . . — — Map (db m101490) HM
Born in Haiti in 1784, Elizabeth Clovis Lange immigrated to Baltimore where she taught children of French-speaking black immigrants. In 1829, she formed the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the nation’s first black Catholic order, and guided it through . . . — — Map (db m101479) HM
For over a century, Arabbers have guided brightly colored wagons and belled horses down narrow streets, knocking on doors to sell fresh fruits and vegetables in West Baltimore. Arabbers always advertised with distinctive chants, “Watermelon! . . . — — Map (db m101482) HM
Under the leadership of Booker T. Washington, Gabriel B. Mattox, Sr., set up the first print shop at Tuskagee Institute in Alabama. In 1907, Maddox migrated to Baltimore, where he opened a print shop on Druid Hill Avenue in West Baltimore. In 1954, . . . — — Map (db m101480) HM
In the pages of The Afro-American newspaper and beyond, the Murphy family fought for civil rights for over a century. In 1892, John Henry Murphy, a Union Army Veteran, combined newsletters from three black churches to form a modern newspaper. The . . . — — Map (db m101483) HM
Pennsylvania Avenue’s nightclubs hummed with jazz and soul music for over forty years. Thousands crowded into the Royal Theater to see Eubie Blake, Billie Holiday, James Brown, and many other music legends. Built in 1921, the theater offered black . . . — — Map (db m101454) HM
As a teacher and mother of four, Mrs. Violet Hill Whyte of Carrollton Avenue did not fit the accepted image of a policeman in the 1930s. Regardless, on December 3, 1937, she became the city’s first African-American police officer. Whyte refused to . . . — — Map (db m101455) HM
As a young man, William Adams worked as a “numbers runner,” then owner of Little Willie’s Tavern. Eventually he emerged as West Baltimore’s leading businessman and a major investor in black-owned businesses. In 1935, Adams married . . . — — Map (db m101428) HM
In 1917, Morgan State College (now University) moved to its current location. Dr. John O Spencer, the fourth University President, had a vision of a community for Morgan faculty and other Black professionals. At the time, restrictive Jim Crow laws . . . — — Map (db m228789) HM
A 1989 graduate of Morgan State University, Ryan began her journalism career as a reporter for the school's campus radio station's WEAA-FM. Just a decade later, Ryan was named the White House correspondent for a Washington bureau chief for the . . . — — Map (db m145922) HM
Carnegie Hall (1919) is the oldest building on Morgan's campus and is named for Scottish American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, who in 1915 made an original and conditional grant of $50,000 for the erection of the central academic building. The . . . — — Map (db m145928) HM
Born: June 11, 1924 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died: October 27, 1993 - Baltimore, Maryland
Morgan State Head Football Coach: 1960 - 1973
Morgan State Director of Athletics: 1970 - 1983
Football Coaching Record at MSU: 96 wins, 31 . . . — — Map (db m145932) HM
Born: February 12, 1900 - Brookneal, Virginia
Died: March 24, 1989 - Baltimore, Maryland
Morgan State Head Football Coach: 1929 - 1959
Morgan State Track and Field Coach: 1929 - 1970
Morgan State Director of Athletics: 1958 - 1970 . . . — — Map (db m145931) HM
Founded at Morgan State College
October 12, 1962
"We've come this far by faith"
The International Membership of Groove Phi Groove Social Fellowship, Inc.®
National Presidents
Lenwood W. Harris, Jr. 1969/1970-1971 . . . — — Map (db m145929) HM
Holmes Hall (1949)
The building was named in honor of Dr. Dwight Oliver Wendell Holmes, the sixth President of Morgan College (1937-48). Dr. Holmes successfully guided the destinies of the College during a critical period in our nation's history, . . . — — Map (db m145927) HM
Founded at
Morgan State College
(University)
on
September 19, 1963
Motto
"Building a Tradition
Not
Resting Upon One"
The
Founding
Principles
of
Iota Phi Theta
Fraternity, Inc.
Leadership
Scholarship . . . — — Map (db m145930) HM
Welcome to Morgan State University
For over 140 years, Morgan State University has been an important part of the higher education system in Baltimore City, the State of Maryland, and the nation. Throughout its history, Morgan has served the . . . — — Map (db m145933) HM
Stevens graduated from Morgan State University in 1988 with a degree in telecommunications. But instead of pursuing a career in reporting on newsmakers she became one in a big way.
While at Morgan State University, Stevens was a world class . . . — — Map (db m145924) HM
A 1973 graduate of Morgan State University, Rhoden worked as the school's assistant sports information director while still a student. After graduating, he joined Ebony magazine as an associate editor in 1974. Four years later Rhoden became a . . . — — Map (db m145925) HM
In the early 1950s, the 900 block of Tyson Street made national news for its dramatic transformation from a dilapidated street of falling down houses to a street framed by quaint pastel-colored homes. In 1948, City inspectors had condemned Tyson . . . — — Map (db m102864) HM
Across Howard Street, Johns Hopkins University opened in 1876 as America’s first research university. The University attracted and trained some of the best minds of the 19th century: philosophers Josiah Royce and Charles Sanders Pierce; physician . . . — — Map (db m102805) HM
The Eubie Blake National Jazz Institute and Cultural Center, founded in 1981 was a rich history which started over 25 years ago when the organization began as a Model Cities Arts Program. The estate of James Hubert Blake, better known as . . . — — Map (db m102810) HM
Contrary to Baltimore’s 19th century conservative appearance, Baltimoreans created progressive, diverse communities that expanded the nation’s racial and religious freedom. By the time of the Civil War, Baltimore had the largest free African . . . — — Map (db m102390) HM
Mount Vernon Cultural District provides an unequaled richness of cultural experience. Since the founding of the Peabody Institute in 1857, Mount Vernon has enjoyed a continuing association with the arts. Nineteenth Century Philanthropist George . . . — — Map (db m168789) HM
In 1836, Roger Brooke Taney became Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court and served in this position until his death in 1864. In 1857, he wrote the Dred Scott decision, which stated that African American—enslaved and free--- were property and . . . — — Map (db m101624) HM
St. Ignatius Church opened August 15, 1856. Designed by Henry Hamilton Pittar and Louis L. Long, it was the second unit to be completed in the block-long complex that stretches from Madison to Monument Streets. In 1855, the porticoed central section . . . — — Map (db m6125) HM
Erected circa 1844 by the Mt. Zion Baptist Church. Sold in 1847 to the First Presbyterian Church (now at the corner of Madison and Park). In 1850, assigned to the African American members of the church, who renamed it Madison Street Presbyterian . . . — — Map (db m71892) HM
Founded on February 28, 1961 by the late Rev. Calvin English, Sr., this plaque commemorates the 60-year legacy of Sweet Prospect Baptist Church in being a pillar in Baltimore City by fostering spiritual development, family & community engagement, . . . — — Map (db m243542) HM
On July 9, 1793, at 3:00 P.M. there arrived in the port of Baltimore at Fells Point a ship, The Guineaman, carrying blacks, slave and free, from Santo Domingo. They were French speaking and Catholic. They formed a Eucharistic community that would . . . — — Map (db m7568) HM
Dedicated on February 21, 1864, St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church was the first black parish in the U.S. The church originated in the 1790s due to the efforts of the Sulpician Fathers and the Oblate Sisters of Providence to provide education and . . . — — Map (db m7563) HM
The Mount Clare shops of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in front of you, built in the 1830s, were part of the B&O Railroad's nerve center during the Civil War, and the rail system was vital to Union victory. Imagine the shops shrouded in the . . . — — Map (db m243530) HM
The Underground Railroad was a network of American abolitionists who aided and sheltered 100,000 African Americans seeking freedom from enslavement in the South. These Freedom Seekers often journeyed north by land, and many crossed into the free . . . — — Map (db m243532) HM
African Americans played an integral role in American railroading from its inception. Slaves, and later freedmen, helped construct many of America's early southern railroads. By 1859, Baltimore had one of the highest populations of free African . . . — — Map (db m135950) HM
Prior to World War I, a small percentage of women worked for railroad companies as maids, car cleaners, and telegraph operators. The B&O hired its first women as car cleaners in 1855. As men left to fight overseas in the world wars however, the . . . — — Map (db m135944) HM
