One of the last remaining one-room school buildings to educate African-American children in Worcester County, erected in 1900. In 1996, citizens affiliated with Worcester County Historical Society purchased it and moved it to its present location.
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The oldest standing one-room schoolhouse for African-American students in Calvert County in grades one through seven in the Wallville community. The schoolhouse was built in the early 1880s (possibly as early as 1869) and remained in use until 1934.
This mural honors two late Supreme Court justices: Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It is located directly across from the Anne Arundel County Courthouse.
Panels tell the history of the club, located in a former Rosenwald School. In 1967 it became the Seafarers Yacht Club, founded by a group of Black men who acted in response to persistent discrimination at marinas, piers and yacht clubs.
Marker on the site where Annapolis citizens held a "sit-in" demonstration at the Terminal Restaurant to demand that all citizens receive service. They acted as representatives of the local community, the Congress of Racial Equality and NAACP Annapolis Chapter.
This tour explores Baltimore's Pennsylvania Avenue corridor exploring its history as one of the nation’s premier African-American entertainment districts. The guided tour is only available for groups of 6 or more, with reservations.
This marker is located within the oldest cemetery for African Americans in Baltimore and describes its history. Numerous civil rights leaders are buried there including Lillie Carroll Jackson, Dr. N. Louise Young, John Henry Murphy and many others.
This marker details the heyday of the Pennsylvania Avenue District, with the Royal Theatre as its crown jewel. The world-renowned entertainment district, with performances from Billie Holiday and others, was part of the Chitlin' Circuit.
This marker is on the Pennsylvania Avenue Heritage Trail and explores the ways in which the surrounding West Baltimore neighborhood helped shape some of America’s greatest Black writers, artists and performers.
This exhibit panel provides information about an interracial tennis match played here in 1948, which, was held to protest the park's segregationist policies. A nearby historic, "Breaking the Back of Segregation," lists the names of the participants.