Baltimore invents red lining
Baltimore City Council enacts the first racial zoning ordinance explicitly barring African Americans from moving into majority-white blocks.
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Baltimore City Council enacts the first racial zoning ordinance explicitly barring African Americans from moving into majority-white blocks.
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An African American teen, born enslaved, becomes a nationally recognized chess champion in 1872 in Frederick.
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After 18 years of attempts, the Robert Peary Expedition claims to be at the North Pole. Matthew Henson (1866-1955) is the first in the party to reach the Pole.
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Wesley Watende Omari Moore (1978 -) is sworn in as the 63rd Governor of Maryland. He is the first African American Maryland Governor, the third African American to have been elected governor in the U.S., and the youngest at 45.
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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, tracing the enslaved back to their African origins.
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The Water’s Edge Museum opens, featuring works of white painter Ruth Starr Rose who chronicles an Eastern Shore maritime community in the 1930s. It is the oldest extant black maritime community in the US.
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Carla Hayden heads country’s oldest federal institution, the Library of Congress. She is the first professional librarian, first woman and first African American in the post. She directed the Enoch Pratt in Baltimore for 13 prior years.
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Janice Hayes-Williams honors the memory of the anonymous Black mental patients buried at the Crownsville Hospital.
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Baltimore native Reginald Lewis, first African American to build a $1billion corporation, creates foundation in 1987. In 2002 it provides major support to create the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Thurgood Marshall, Maryland’s most famous lawyer, wins Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 to desegregate public schools. Appointed the first African American to the Supreme Court in 1976, Marshall serves 24 years.
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