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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.

San Domingo School was known as Sharptown Colored School and Prince Hall Masons Unity Lodge No. 73. A historic Rosenwald School built in 1919, it remained in use as a school until 1957 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (2007)

This memorial honors the great civil rights leader who became the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and is erected on the site of the old Court of Appeals building where Marshall argued some of his early civil rights cases.

This mural is painted on the Whitmore Parking Garage, which replaced 33 minority-owned businesses and many homes during efforts at urban renewal. This once-thriving block also had venues where artists such as Pearl Bailey performed.

This marker memorializes Rev. Dr. Vernon Nathaniel Dobson, a civil rights leader who marched from Selma to Montgomery with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This exhibit honors Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, one of the foremost leaders in the struggle for equal rights under the law. The exhibit, on Concourse C at BWI airport, features a timeline of Marshall’s life and highlights his accomplishments, including his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1967 as the first African American on the bench. The exhibit also includes a bust of Marshall by artist Toby Mendez.

An exhibit in the student center.

This monument is a memorial dedicated to one of the most important civil rights leaders in American history and our nation's first African-American Supreme Court Justice.