A project site including writing, data, and related resources for Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage: Looking for Landmarks from the Movement.
Baltimore’s Civil Rights Heritage: Looking for Landmarks from the Movement is an ongoing project to research and document the historic context for the African American Civil Rights in Baltimore.
- Baltimore Heritage
- Baltimore National Heritage Area
- Maryland Historical Trust
- Baltimore City Public Schools
The National Park Service Heritage Initiatives program awarded funding to the Maryland Historical Trust for this project in 2014 as part of a national effort to explore the ways in which the legacy of underrepresented groups can be recognized, preserved and interpreted for future generations.
In 2015, the Preservation Maryland Heritage Fund awarded funding to the Maryland Historical Trust for this project. Baltimore Heritage has also recieved project funding from the PNC Foundation in 2015 and 2016.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact Eli Pousson at pousson@baltimoreheritage.org or create a GitHub issue for this repository. You can also comment or make annotations directly on our project site using the Hypothe.is browser plugin. Finally, we encourage comments on any of the documents in our shared Google Drive folder (including our inventory, timeline, and directory).
All writing and images created by Baltimore Heritage for this project are available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Images and writing from other sources include both materials in the public domain and materials where the copyright is held by the original author or creator.
Our project site is created using the Minimal Mistakes theme which is published under an open source MIT License.