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Ocean City, Maryland
After successfully integrating public accommodations in Baltimore, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) attempted to push for integrations on the Eastern Shore. In Ocean City, CORE tried a similar tactic as they tried in Westminster, meeting with…
Tags: CORE, Direct Action, Media Pressure
Naval Powder Factory
While southern Maryland resisted integration, several barriers were removed at Indian Head, where the Navy had an established base (now the Naval Ordnance Station), making it federal property. The president of the Charles County NAACP and Shop…
Tags: Legal Action, Letter-writing, NAACP
March on Annapolis
On April 24, 1942, over 2,000 people marched on the Maryland State House in Annapolis in response to the police murder of Thomas Broadus, who was shot in the back as he ran from an altercation. The March on Annapolis demanded Governor Herbert O’Conor…
Fighting for Equal Funding for Maryland’s HBCUs
In 2006, alumni and students from Maryland’s four Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)—Morgan State, Coppin State, Bowie State, and University of Maryland Eastern Shore—sued Maryland, accusing the state of underfunding Maryland’s…
Tags: Legal Action
Activism in the National Football League
On September 24, 2017, during a primetime London Game, players and coaches from the Baltimore Ravens and Jacksonville Jaguars took a knee or stood arm-in-arm during the American national anthem as a protest against police brutality. After 49ers…
Tags: Direct Action, Media, Nonviolence, Protest
Baltimore Uprising
On April 12, 2015, the Baltimore police arrested Freddie Gray in West Baltimore for having an “illegal knife.” The police dragged Gray to a police van and placed him unsecured in the van in leg restraints. During transport, Gray suffered serious…
Tags: Direct Action, Protest