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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…
Hooper’s Sit-In and Bell v. Maryland
On June 17, 1960, students from Dunbar High School, many part of the Civic Interest Group, staged one of Baltimore’s earliest sit-ins at Hooper’s Restaurant. The students persisted despite the owner turning off the lights and air conditioning on…
Glen Echo Park Integration
On June 30, 1960, students from Howard University’s Nonviolent Action Group (NAG) held a sit-in at the Glen Echo Park. Five of the picketers were arrested, and NAG, with the support of residents from the Bannockburn neighborhood around the park,…
Northwood Theater Protest
In 1955, students from Morgan State College began a protest of the Northwood Shopping Center. While many of the stores dropped their segregated policies by 1963, the Northwood Theatre refused. Peaceful protests of the theater’s policy occurred…
Baltimore Colts and Westminster
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…
Phillips Packing Company Strike
On June 23, 1937, workers at the Phillips Packing Company staged a walkout against planned layoffs. The Phillips Packing Company was the largest employer in Cambridge, Maryland, and had an integrated workforce. As word of the walkout spread…
Integration of the University of Maryland Law School
In 1935, Donald Gaines Murray Sr. (1914-1986) was recruited by the NAACP to apply to the University of Maryland Law School, knowing he would be rejected based on his race. Following the rejection, Murray and the NAACP sued the University of Maryland,…
The Cambridge Movement, 1963
After success in Baltimore, the student-led Civic Interest Group (CIG) and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) turned their eyes toward Cambridge, MD. When the teens were met with violence from the local law enforcement, adults took up…