This marker commemorates the spot where Henry G. Parks, Jr., entrepreneur and civil rights pioneer, founded the Parks Sausage Company in 1951. Parks built a facility that employed 270 workers while advancing integration and equity in the workplace.
This marker is in Midtown-Edmondson on a brick post at the entrance to a parking lot on Pulaski Street. It details the contributions of the mother-daughter team of civil rights pioneers Lillie Carroll Jackson and Juanita Jackson Mitchell.
This marker commemorates Morgan Park, the only community specifically built for the faculty of a Historically Black College and University that still stands.
This marker describes the creation of Baltimore’s premier African-American neighborhood along Druid Hill Avenue and details backlash and legal battles over segregation that occurred with the transfer from white to Black-owned property here.
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.
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