McKeldin-Jackson Project
Description
The McKeldin-Jackson Project was an effort by the Maryland Center for History and Culture to examine the Maryland civil rights movement of the mid-20th century through oral history focusing on the roles played by Dr. Lillie May Carroll Jackson (1889–1975) and Theodore R. McKeldin (1900–1974). Interviews were conducted from 1975 to 1977, with a few earlier recordings, just after the deaths of these two central figures.
Collection Items
Ford’s Theater Protest, 1947
In 1947, the Baltimore chapter of the NAACP, supported by students, began a picketing campaign against Ford’s Theater and its segregated seating policies. Many national and international stars, including Paul Robeson, joined the protest. The…
Gwynn Oak Park, 1955
In 1955, after first trying to persuade the owners to integrate, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began an eight-year picketing campaign against Gwynn Oak Park in Baltimore County. On July 4, 1963, hundreds of people, including religious…
Baltimore Polytechnic “A” School Integration
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute’s “A Course” curriculum, a college preparatory program in engineering, was unique in the city’s public school system. Only white boys could be accepted into the program. On June 16, 1952, the Coordinated Committee on…