This statue honors Dr. Aris T. Allen, a pioneer in Maryland politics who blazed a trail for African Americans in public service. Allen was dedicated to the education of Maryland's youth and to serving local nonprofit organizations.
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This intersection of West and West Washington Streets is the gateway to the "Old Fourth Ward,'' Annapolis' historic African-American community. Its distinctive identity sparkled in its heyday of 1920-50 when Black and white people gathered here to enjoy a common interest in great music and entertainment.
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 lists Black lawyers committed to ending legalized racial discrimination, including Everett J. Waring; lawyers in the Niagara Movement and the NAACP; and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.
This marker commemorates the activism of Clarence and Parren Mitchell. Clarence was the NAACP's chief lobbyist and Parren was the first Black graduate of the University of Maryland School Of Law and a founder of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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 commemorates the spot where Henry G. Parks, Jr., entrepreneur and civil rights pioneer, founded the Parks Sausage Company in 1951. Parks built a facility that employed 270 workers while advancing integration and equity in the workplace.