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In 1938 the branch's lawyers won a historic legal challenge to racial barriers in publicly funded institutions. A court judgment overturned city policy assuring all Baltimore city school teachers received equal pay. [citation needed] Jackson drove the Baltimore NAACP to extend the fight for equal teacher pay across Maryland.
She was the daughter of Dr. Lillie Jackson, who was also a major civil rights leader and who also was president of the NAACP Baltimore branch and was known as "Mother of Freedom." [ 1 ] Juanita Jackson Mitchell came from a long line of civil activists and continued the line.
Consequently, a group of 16 African American students, along with help and support from their parents, the Baltimore Urban League and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), applied for the engineering "A" course at the institute. The applications were denied and the students sued.
In the summer of 1963, civil rights advocates made significant strides in breaking segregated barriers here in Maryland and nationally. Black Baltimoreans, interfaith leaders and allies were ...
The NAACP Youth & College Division is a branch of the NAACP in which youth are actively involved. The Youth Council is composed of hundreds of state, county, high school and college operations where youth (and college students) volunteer to share their opinions with their peers and address local and national issues.
Baltimore County’s redistricting commission unanimously approved a proposal Thursday that keeps one “majority-minority” district and moves downtown Towson to the more Democratic sixth ...
The Baltimore chapter of the NAACP was based in Upton when it was developed. In the mid-20th century, Upton's population swelled due to the popularity of the neighborhood and the pressures of state racial segregation that kept African Americans confined to certain areas in the city.
On May 15, 1911, Baltimore Mayor J. Barry Mahool, who was known as an earnest advocate of good government, women's suffrage, and social justice, signed into law, city ordinance No. 610 prohibiting African-Americans from moving onto blocks where whites were the majority, and vice versa. [4]