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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A Columbia couple becomes the source of the first law in the country that limits Homeowner Association’s control over eco-friendly yards.
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“Columbia, Maryland, is the best place to raise a family in the country.” Jim Rouse creates a carefully planned city for “joyous living.”
Greenbelt opens and becomes the largest and most successful of New Deal “greenbelt” towns.
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Pratt Library is first public library to open for all “without distinction of race or color”. Inspires nationwide Carnegie Library system.
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Gangs from the Know Nothing Party and Southern sympathizers riot in Baltimore during elections. In 1857 fighting kills 17 gang members and injures 67 in the most intense violence of the Know Nothing era. Riots in “Mobtown” make national headlines.
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In 1850 Baltimore, America’s third largest city, is a singular urban mix of immigrants, free and enslaved Blacks, white leadership and energetic industry. As a border state it is an example of the country’s divisions and challenges before the Civil War.
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Baltimore is first US city to light streets with gaslight after Rembrandt Peale uses the innovation to light his museum galleries.
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Rembrandt Peale opens the first purpose-built museum in the US in August, 1814. As a fine arts gallery, it is short-lived, becoming city hall, a school for “colored” children, city water offices and now Baltimore’s Community Museum.
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Congress declares 1812 War. Large Baltimore mob attacks publisher of strong anti-war newspaper. Revolutionary war vet and 2 rioters are killed; many injured including Robert E. Lee’s father. Baltimore becomes known as “Mobtown.”
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