In 1968, Bowie students demonstrated with other HBCUs, protesting unequal funding, poor school facilities and lack of academic resources. Students led a “study-in” at the Maryland State House and were arrested. Governor Agnew closed the school.

This historic marker is located where the tennis courts were. It was erected to commemorate the efforts of 24 tennis players who organized integrated matches to challenge the "whites only" policy at the Druid Hill Park tennis courts in 1948.

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.

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 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.

This marker at the Sandy Spring Slave Museum & African Art Gallery honors Elijah Cummings, who was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1996-2019 and fought for civil rights and to improve opportunities for African Americans.

Protests in the summer of 1960 by Howard University students, organized as the Nonviolent Action Group, led to the integration of the Glen Echo Amusement Park in 1961. Legal battles over the carousel sit-in continued until 1964.

The 1964 film, based on John Howard Griffin’s book, provides a view of the Jim Crow South, hoping to destroy barriers between Blacks and Whites. Filming was done in secret to avoid violence. Griffin gave lectures during the Civil Rights movement.