Integrating Baltimore: Protest and Accommodation, 1945-1963
Integrating Baltimore: Protest and Accommodation, 1945-1963
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1991
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Horn, Vernon Edward
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Harlan, Louis R .
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Abstract
After the Second World War, non-violent direct action
protest became the tool of choice for civil rights
workers. During the war democratic rhetoric and extended
interracial contact inspired many blacks and some whites
to work for racial justice. This thesis deals with the
efforts of some blacks and whites to integrate parts of
Baltimore, and follows community response. Specifically,
Chapter One deals with early efforts of the Progressive
Party and its supporters to integrate city operated park
facilities. Chapter Two follows the integration of
Baltimore City schools in the fall of 1954, and the
complete integration of city park s in 1956. School
integration caused some violent community reaction, which
the authorities suppressed. The final chapter explores
the origins of the public accommodations movement. As
early as 1951 students at Morgan State protested against
segregated theaters, stores and restaurants. After 1953
the students members of the Baltimore Committee of Racial
Equality and a some other liberal whites sometimes worked
with the students. The Morgan students' experiences before 1960 were crucial to their emergence as leaders of the civil rights movement after 1960.