DOROTHY BROWN BASCOM, Community Leader &
Civil Rights Worker, 91
The wife of the noted civil rights leader Rev. Marion C. Bascom, Bascom was a teacher, school principal, civil rights worker, and business owner. Believing that everyone could succeed, she was praised for her outstanding teaching ability while teaching at seven schools for forty years.
As her daughter remarked, she was a "quiet warrior" in the civil rights movement. She provided hospitality in hosting civil rights marchers as they traveled through Baltimore to Washington, D.C. Bascom also participated in the August 28,1963, March on Washington and the 1973 March on Washington.
She was treasured for serving her great home-cooked meals for Douglas Memorial Community Church parishioners and Baltimore City officials, as well as members of the Goon Squad, who were Maryland civil rights activists. Bascom also was a member of the W.E.B. DuBois Circle of black women in Baltimore City.
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