The first of its kind in the nation, the memorial garden honors the late Coretta Scott King and features an eternal fountain, a biographical plaque entitled "Her Story," and a number of quotes. It is on the grounds of Sojourner Douglass College.
This mural features John Lewis, an American politician and civil rights leader. Behind his portrait is a depiction of the iconic scene of key activists leading the Selma to Montgomery marches over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965.
Tour highlights include Davis’ Lounge, which served local black watermen in 1940s and the Seafarer's Yacht Club, a site that served as a school in 1918 and became Seafarers Yacht Club in 1967, founded by a group of black men who banded together in the face of discrimination to found the club.
This marker, which commemorates Dr. Levi Watkins, Jr., is on the iron fencing that surrounds a fountain in Patterson Park. Watkins was a civil rights activist, pioneering heart surgeon, and a friend of Patterson Park.
The center, housed within the former PS 103, which Justice Thurgood Marshall attended as a child, serves as a gathering space and educational hub with free legal help and free training in the fields of artificial intelligence, medicine and more.
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.
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.
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.