The $50,000 grant is to the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT). Information obtained through the project will be available on the MHT’s online cultural resource information system, Medusa.
Baltimoreans have advocated, organized, and marched for civil rights since the city’s founding – in rowhouses, churches, parks, universities, factories, corner stores, and more, said Gov. Moore in a news release. Our history is our power, and the Moore-Miller Administration is committed to telling the stories of Baltimore City's long tradition of civil rights leadership.
The African American Civil Rights grant program funds preservation projects and sites tied to the struggle of African Americans to gain equal rights.
As a contribution to Maryland’s Year of Civil Rights, the project will document approximately twelve places important to the Civil Rights Movement in Baltimore City for inclusion in the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties.
Studying and documenting this history, then making the results available for all in the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties, will help us to better understand how the Civil Rights Movement pushed back against segregated spaces and sought to dismantle discrimination in Baltimore, said Maryland Department of Planning Secretary Rebecca Flora, AICP in a news release.
The project is expected to begin this fall and will additionally involve community outreach and oral histories.
