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President Abraham Lincoln issued this on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This building's original use was as one of Annapolis' first schools for African American children.
What is the Staunton Center?
This African American doctor was barred from working at local hospitals in the 1940's, he now has a road named after him.
Who is Aris T. Allen?
Despite segregated schools and churches, this museum honors one of the regions few racially integrated communities.
What is the Annapolis Maritime Museum?
This museum was founded by Maryland's first African American female senator, Verda Freeman Welcome.
What is Banneker Douglas Museum?
This historic legislation became law on July 2, 1964.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
From 1932 to 1966, this was the only high school in Anne Arundel County for African Americans.
What is the Wiley H. Bates High School Legacy Center?
This plaza is dedicated to the African American man who succeeded in having the U.S. Supreme Court declare segregated public schools unconstitutional.
What is the Thurgood Marshall Memorial Plaza?
In the 17th century, this seaport was an economic hub where ships brought enslaved people from Africa and the Caribbean to work the land.
What is Londontowne?
Formerly the hub of activity during the Civil Rights movement, this area was razed in the name of municipal progress and now goes by this name.
What is Peoples Park?
In May 1954, this historic ruling changed the face of education.
What is Brown v. Board of Education Topeka?
It's first African American student was treated brutally in 1872, resulting in his dropping out. It wasn't until 1949 that it saw its first African American graduate.
What is the U.S. Naval Academy?
This mural on West Street commemorates what former congressman who fought for African American voter rights, crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge with fellow protestors.
Who is Congressman John Lewis?
Here, African Americans worked at camps that held Union troops captured by the confederate army. It because a flourishing AA enclave on outer West St.
What is Parole?
This was established in 1911 as a segregated psychiatric treatment facility, known for its controversial medical treatments and crowded living conditions.
What is Crownsville Hospital?
In 1963, large groups gathered for jobs, freedom and citil and economic freedom for African Americans
What is the March on Washington?
Barred from most marinas and yacht clubs, a group of black captains founded this on Chester Ave in Eastport, which is still functioning today to provide community support and boating education.
What is Seafarers Yacht Club?
This mural commemorates the loss of one young woman in the hopes of amplifying the conversation about systemic racism and police brutality.
What is the Breonna Taylor Mural?
Founded by James Spencer in 1845, this community provided educational opportunities for Black men and boys.
What is Freetown?
Even into the 20th century, this building saw numerous black men taken from its doors and publicly lynched.
What is the jail on Calvert St?
On December 6, 1865, this amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Booker T. Washington and the president of Sears, Roebuch and Co. collaborated to enable to enable the education of African American children through what institutions? There are 13 remaining in AA County.
What are Rosenwald Schools?
This site commemorates a local star who lived and worked at the Washington Nightclub before she achieved fame.
What is the Pearl Bailey Mural Project?
This property on Bodkin Creek, originally farmed by first generation indentured servant Stephen Hancock, stayed with the same family for 8 generations.
What is Hancock's Resolution?
These two were one of the few lodgings listed for Annapolis in the Negro Motorists Green Book.
What are Brown's Hotel and Wright's Hotel?