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.
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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.
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 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.
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.