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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XKI_american-legion-federal-post-no-19-a-war-memorial_Baltimore-MD.html
Since the establishment in 1930, American Legion Federal Post No. 19 has served as a faithful steward to Baltimore's African American veterans and the larger community. Members from this post worked within the larger American Legion organization t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XDG_early-civil-rights-era-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
In pre-Civil War Baltimore, African Americans—such as Frederick Douglas, Daniel Coker, and William Watkins—- wrote some of the earliest and most important abolitionist treatises. After the Civil War, African Americans founded the Dougl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XCL_buy-where-you-can-work-campaign-higher-education-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Although the Pennsylvania Avenue of the 1920s was Baltimore's premier shopping district for African Americans, many of the businesses that served them were owned by whites who refused to hire African Americans from the neighborhood.
In 1933, u…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XBL_nurturing-the-arts-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Old West Baltimore helped shape some of America's greatest African American writers, artists and performers. From novelists like Amelia Johnson and Zora Neale Hurston, to artists like Romare Bearden, to the performers who appeared at The Arena Pla…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XBB_community-growth-and-faith-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Communities grow in direct proportion to their access to capital. Potential homebuyers and business owners in Old West Baltimore needed access to money. In 1896, Everett J. Waring, along with some of Baltimore's most prominent African Americans, f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XB7_diversity-in-a-segregated-community-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
The sudden rise of Old West Baltimore's premier African American community occurred on a foundation of diversity. Even though it was segregated from many white areas, it was still made up of a variety of people. African Americans from all backgrou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XAS_african-american-politicians-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
In concert with many of Old West Baltimore's civil rights organizations and leaders, African Americans entered the political arena.
As far back as 1792, Thomas Brown, an African American horse doctor and veteran of the Revolutionary War, ran fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XAI_take-a-stroll-down-the-main-street-of-the-african-american-experience-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Welcome to the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail - a journey through Baltimore's premier historic African American community. Here you will meet civil rights leaders, artists and musicians, attend historic African American churches, and relive th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XA2_st-peter-claver-church-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
"The Church will have its glory in triumph in the colored race, and, for aught I know, be the salvation of this nation." So stated the Rt. Reverend A.A. Curtis, Bishop of Wilmington, Delaware, in his dedication service for St. Peter Clav…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1X9Z_henry-highland-garnett-school-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
PS 103 is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Old West Baltimore National Register Historic District. It is one of the attractions along the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail scheduled to open in 2008 by the Baltimor…