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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…
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
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,…
Tags: Legal Action, NAACP
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…
Tags: CIG, Direct Action, NAACP, Nonviolence, Protest
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…
Tags: Direct Action, Education, Legal Action, NAACP
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…