On the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail. The marker describes the "Buy Where You Can Work” campaign, a boycott of Baltimore stores that refused to hire Black workers that inspired African-American demonstrations in cities across the United States.

This marker honors the experiences of citizens who experienced segregation in Baltimore’s parks. It details important local events to protest segregation and describes artist Joyce Scott’s installation at the park’s pool commemorating the struggle.

This tour includes sites connected to the 1961 Route 40 Freedom Ride. Civil Rights protesters sat in a series of segregated restaurants, expecting to be served and refusing to leave. Restaurant owners read them the Trespass Act.

Freetown illustrates principles of self-sufficiency and cooperation. Schools were built here with support from the Rosenwald Fund, land and labor donated by the community, and efforts of the Freetown Community Association.

On August 28, 1963, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech, and segregation ended at Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, which once occupied this site, after 10 years of protests and demonstrations.

The Colored Schoolhouse was a one-room school with 6 grades that operated from 1904 to 1939. The schoolhouse has been restored and furnished to its 1904 appearance. Tours and field trips are available that demonstrate segregated education.

The historic Galesville Rosenwald School operated from 1931 through 1956 to educate African-American children. It now houses a community center and hosts exhibits and events. The Hot Sox, an African-American sandlot baseball team, played here.

Nine civil rights demonstrators walked onto I-495 to protest the lack of rental housing for African Americans in the D.C. suburbs. Attorney Jones led a three-day, 64-mile march around the beltway.