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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…

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…

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…