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Desegregation of the Baltimore City Public Schools took place in 1956 after the United States Supreme Court ruled, in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, that segregation in schools went against constitutional law. Desegregation of U.S. schools was part of the civil rights movement.
Since 1954, following the racial integration of Baltimore City public schools, Douglass High has been located on Gwynns Fall Parkway across from "Mondawmin" - the noted city financiers' Alexander and George Brown's estate, one of the last rural country estates in the city, which was shortly after razed and redeveloped as Mondawmin Mall by ...
Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City v. Dawson, 350 U.S. 877 (1955), was a per curiam order by the Supreme Court of the United States affirming an order by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit that enjoined racial segregation in public beaches and bathhouses.
The first black people to reside in what is now Baltimore city came in 1634 under Lord Baltimore's charter alongside the Englishmen, only fifteen years after the first Africans arrived in the Colony of Virginia in 1619. A Jesuit missionary named Andrew White brought two mixed-race indentured servants named Mathias de Sousa and Francisco. The ...
John Henry Fischer (July 16, 1910 – December 18, 2009) was an academic administrator who, as school superintendent, made Baltimore the first large American city to desegregate its public schools. He later served as dean and president of Teachers College, Columbia University for fifteen years.
Dr. Alice G. Pinderhughes Administrative Headquarters, Baltimore City Public Schools, 200 East North Avenue at North Calvert Street - formerly the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute (high school), 1912–1967, previously original site of the Maryland School for the Blind, 1868–1912, renovated/rebuilt 1980s
The Baltimore City Public Schools withdrew from the Maryland Scholastic Association (MSA) in 1993, which it had been part of since 1909, and which formerly segregated schools like Dunbar and Douglass had been part of since 1956. [5] The schools then joined the larger, statewide Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association (MPSSAA ...
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Baltimore, Maryland, USA. 18th century ... Desegregation of the Baltimore City Public School System; 1960 ...