The Arena Players are the oldest African American community theater in the United States founded in 1952.
The Arena Players are the oldest African American community theater in the United States founded in 1952.
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Baltimore invents red lining
Mortgage lending practices in the 1930s reinforce segregated neighborhoods in Baltimore as red lining makes home ownership by African Americans difficult.
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Theophilus Thompson, African American chess master
An African American teen, born enslaved, becomes a nationally recognized chess champion in 1872 in Frederick.
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Mathew Henson reaches North Pole
Born in Charles County to a sharecropping family, Mathew Henson meets Robert Peary, joining him for the first party to reach the North Pole in 1909.
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Wes Moore becomes youngest African American governor
Wes Moore’s leadership marks a first for Maryland.
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First use of genetic genealogy at Catoctin Furnace
The first use of DNA links 27 Black workers buried in the local cemetery of the Catoctin Furnace (c1800) and reveals links to nearly 42,000 living relatives, and traces the enslaved back to their African origins.
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The Water’s Edge Museum opens
The Water’s Edge Museum opens in 2021, featuring works of white painter Ruth Starr Rose who chronicles an African American Eastern Shore maritime community in the 1930s.
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Carla Hayden becomes the Librarian of Congress
Carla Hayden heads the country’s oldest federal institution, The Library of Congress, in 2019. She is the first professional librarian, first woman and first African American in the post. Previously she directed the Enoch Pratt in Baltimore for 13 years.
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Unknown Black mental patients buried at Crownsville Hospital are honored
Janice Hayes-Williams honors the memory of the anonymous African American mental patients buried at the Crownsville Hospital for the Negro Insane, founded in 1911.
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Entrepreneur Reginald F. Lewis creates foundation
Baltimore native Reginald Lewis, first African American to build a $1 billion corporation, creates a foundation in 1987. In 2002 it provides major support in creating the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.
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