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