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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WYM_lillie-may-carroll-jackson-juanita-jackson-mitchell-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
As pioneers of non-violent resistance, Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson and daughter Juanita Jackson Mitchell helped lay the foundation for the national Civil Rights Movement in 1931, they founded the City-Wide Young People's Forum for West Baltimore yo…
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In 1923, flags at black schools across Baltimore flew at half-mast to mourn the death of Joseph Lockerman. Nicknamed "Moses" for his leadership and quite dignity, he grew up in Caroline County, where two white teachers noticed and nurtur…
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As a young man, William Adams worked as a "numbers runner," then owner of Little Willie's Tavern. Eventually he emerged as West Baltimore's leading businessman and a major investor in black-owned businesses. In 1935, Adams married Victor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WXL_the-royal-theater-pennsylvania-avenue-historical_Baltimore-MD.html
Pennsylvania Avenue's nightclubs hummed with jazz and soul music for over forty years. Thousands crowded into the Royal Theater to see Eubie Blake, Billie Holiday, James Brown, and many other music legends. Built in 1921, the theater offered black…
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As a teacher and mother of four, Mrs. Violet Hill Whyte of Carrollton Avenue did not fit the accepted image of a policeman in the 1930s. Regardless, on December 3, 1937, she became the city's first African-American police officer. Whyte refused to…
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Clarence and Parren Mitchell grew up in Harlem Park, and fought for equality well beyond their West Baltimore neighborhood. In 1933, Clarence reported on an Eastern Shore lynching for The Afro-American newspaper. He came home transformed into an a…
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Shrine Left PanelThe successive failures of the potato crops in the 1840's, the inability or willingness of the British Parliament to respond to the ensuing famine, forced evictions of the peasants from their homeland by British landlords, epidemi…
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The burial place of Methodist pioneers including Bishops Francis Asbury, Enoch George, John Emory and Beverly Waugh, also Robert Strawbridge, first preacher in Maryland and Jesse Lee, founder in New England. Site of 1966 Methodist Bicentennial tim…
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Founder of theKnights of the Golden EagleThe Members of the Order1912
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Industries have flourished here in the lower Gwynns Falls Valley since the early 1700s, when the Baltimore Iron Works Co. turned iron into nails and anchors and Dr. Charles Carroll's gristmills ground wheat into flour. The Wilkens Curled Hair Fact…