MRI Studios is a creative hub located in Downtown Baltimore. It is an intimate performance space, recording studio, and video post-production lab, all available for rent. We also host creative events meant to help creatives build their skills.
County-funded education for African Americans did not exist until 1872. The Julius Rosenwald Fund added a significant financial boost in 1917. Fifteen Rosenwald schools were built with $7300 in matching funds from African-American residents.
The church organized buses to the March on Washington in 1963. KKK attempted to set St. Mark's ablaze in 1967. Grove residents took to the streets. Laurel police arrested five men for the arson attempt. Rev. Evans asked police to set up a barricade.
North Brentwood was Prince George’s County’s first African-American incorporated town. Marie “Sis” Walls ran a tavern from the 1950s until 1970, a late-night destination for Black performers, such as Pearl Bailey and Duke Ellington.
This was the site of a Civil Rights era protest against racism in the judiciary. Judge William Bowie made racist remarks about a defendant, stirring outrage. NAACP picketed the courthouse in 1968 urging Bowie’s impeachment. Judge Bowie kept his post.
This marker is on the site of one of the few surviving African-American sandlot baseball fields. Created in 1910, it was home to Oaksville Eagles, a community baseball club that toured playing against Negro League teams before desegregation.
As a public, land-grant historically Black university that embraces diversity, UMES is committed to serving first-generation and underserved students and providing educational, research, and community engagement opportunities to transform the lives of its students who will impact the state, region, and the world.
This self-guided tour includes churches in Dorchester County that are on the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Scenic Byway and which were influential in the Civil Rights Movement.
A journey of faith and freedom on a driving tour through 300 years of African-American history of the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland encompassing cemeteries, homes, churches, schools and more.
One of the last remaining one-room school buildings to educate African-American children in Worcester County, erected in 1900. In 1996, citizens affiliated with Worcester County Historical Society purchased it and moved it to its present location.