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Fighting for Equal Funding for Maryland’s HBCUs

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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…

Naval Powder Factory

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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…

Integration of the University of Maryland Law School

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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,…

Hooper’s Sit-In and Bell v. Maryland

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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…

Baltimore Polytechnic “A” School Integration

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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…