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The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is a wax museum in Baltimore, Maryland featuring prominent African-American and other black historical figures. It was established in 1983, in a downtown storefront on Saratoga Street. [ 1 ]
The Black Panther Party struggled in Baltimore during the late 1960s and early 1970s due to campaigns of surveillance and harassment from the FBI and the Baltimore City Police Department. Between 1968 and 1972, the Baltimore Black Panthers used a number of different buildings to house meetings and other activities.
Baltimore Museum of Industry: Federal Hill: Industry: Exhibits highlight Baltimore and Maryland's companies and industries, including a cannery, a 1900 garment loft and machine shop, a print shop, Dr. Bunting's Pharmacy (where Noxzema was invented) and the food industry (McCormick, Domino Sugar, Esskay); also home to the steam tugboat Baltimore
He was also the creator of the first wax museum dedicated to black history, Great Blacks In Wax in the inner city of Baltimore. Martin and his wife Joanne opened the museum on July 9, 1983, with only four wax figures: Frederick Douglass, Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet Tubman, and Nat Turner. They had the heads of the figures made for them, and ...
Great Blacks in Wax Museum established. 1986 - National Association for the Advancement of Colored People headquarters relocates to Baltimore. [18] 1987 - Kurt Schmoke becomes mayor. 1989 - Contemporary Museum Baltimore founded. 1990 - Population: 736,016; 1992 Baltimore Light Rail begins operating. Oriole Park at Camden Yards opens.
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The city is named after Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, [24] an English peer, member of the Irish House of Lords and founding proprietor of the Province of Maryland. [25] [26] The Calverts took the title Barons Baltimore from Baltimore Manor, an English Plantation estate they were granted in County Longford, Ireland.