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Thurgood Marshall is born
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| 1909 |
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The Nation Association
for the Advancement of Colored People is founded in New
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| 1912 |
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April 4 - Baltimore Branch
founded and is the second branch chartered in the US. |
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| 1926 |
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Baltimore City equalized
pay for black and white teachers. |
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| 1931 |
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 Lillie
Carol Jackson, and her daughter Juanita—who was then
18 years of age—organize a street-level campaign under
the slogan "Buy Where You Can Work," persuading
black Baltimoreans to boycott businesses with racist employment
policies
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| 1934 |
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Thurgood Marshall begins
to work for the Baltimore Branch. |
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| 1935 |
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In a case argued by Thurgood
Marshall, a Baltimore City court orders the integration
of the University of Maryland Law School. Donald Gaines
Murray registered for classes in September 1935.
NAACP Baltimore Branch revived under leadership of
Lillie Carroll Jackson.
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| 1938 |
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Lillie Carroll Jackson
leads the legal battle for the equalization of pay for
white and black teachers in public schools in all counties
in Maryland |
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| 1939 |
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Morgan College became part
of the Maryland University System. |
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| 1950 |
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Juanita
Jackson Mitchell becomes the first Black woman to
practice law in the State of Maryland.
Law suit opened University of Maryland School of Nursing
to blacks.
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| 1951 |
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University of Maryland
graduate school integrated. |
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| 1953 |
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Lillie Carroll Jackson
wins legal victory to the end of whites-only admissions
at the University of Maryland School of Law
Maryland State parks open to blacks.
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| 1954 |
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Public housing in Baltimore
integrated.
First black elected to House of Delegates, from Baltimore.
Baltimore becomes the first Southern city to integrate
its schools after the landmark Brown v. Board
decision.
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| 1955 |
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Maryland National Guard
units integrated.
NAACP member, Rosa Parks, is arrested in Montgomery,
Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated
bus.
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| 1957 |
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The Civil Rights Act is
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| 1958 |
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Irma Dixon and Verda Welcome
Freeman become the first African American women to be
elected to the Maryland House of Delegates. |
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| 1962 |
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Verda Freeman Welcome becomes
the first African-American woman to be elected to the
state Senate.
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| 1963 |
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An estimated 250,000 people join in the March on Washington.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous "I
Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial.
Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP, is killed
outside his home in Jackson, MS.
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| 1964 |
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US Congress passes the
Civil Rights Act of 1964. |
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| 1967 |
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 Thurgood
Marshall becomes the first African American United States
Supreme Court Justice. |
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| 1968 |
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Rev. Martin Luther King,
Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN |
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| 1970 |
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Milton B. Allen is the
first African-American elected states attorney for the
city of Baltimore. |
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| 1971 |
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Parren J. Mitchell is the first African American elected
to US Congress from Maryland.
Roland Nathaniel Patterson is the first African-American
appointed superintendent of schools in Baltimore.
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