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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…

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…

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…

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…

In 1963, CORE began targeting counties excepted from Maryland’s Public Accommodations Law, including Carroll County. Prior attempts to integrate restaurants in Carroll County were met with intimidation by police and citizens as well as anti-protest…

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…