BaltimoreHistories

BaltimoreHistories, 2 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! It is the 3rd (final) installment of our series "B&O to Inner Harbor: Building Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships." Explore how B&O president John W. Garrett & Mayor William D. Schaefer disinvested in Baltimoreans: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-inner-harbor-building-baltimore-through-public-private-partnerships-part-three

Image source: “Baltimore Inner Harbor, Pier 4,” photograph (Baltimore, MD, date unknown), Historic American Engineering Record, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/md1585/.

BaltimoreHistories, 2 months ago to baltimore

This week’s feature is out now! It is the 2nd installment of our multipart series "B&O to Inner Harbor: Building #Baltimore through Public-Private Partnerships." We show how project leaders converted initial achievements into further developmental funding & profit:
https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-inner-harbor-building-baltimore-through-public-private-partnerships-part-two
Image source: Historic American Buildings Survey, “Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company Headquarters Building, 2 North Charles Street, Baltimore,” photograph (Baltimore, MD, date unknown), https://www.loc.gov/item/md1569/.

BaltimoreHistories, 3 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now and connects the origins of the B&O Railroad with Baltimore urban revitalization projects a century and a quarter later through the shared centrality of public-private partnerships: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/b-o-to-inner-harbor-building-baltimore-through-public-private-partnerships-part-one
Image source: https://archivesspace.ubalt.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/52391

BaltimoreHistories, 3 months ago to random

Here is a Valentine's Day card featuring Baltimore Histories project themes:

BaltimoreHistories, 3 months ago to random

This week's feature is out now! We illuminate how an enslaved Black Baltimorean woman named Ann selected presidential election day in 1840 as a promising time to self-liberate from slavery: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/fleeing-slavery-on-presidential-election-day-in-baltimore-1840
Image source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.01601400/

BaltimoreHistories, 3 months ago to baltimore

This week's feature is out now! We explore the free meal programs of the Black Panther Party's #Baltimore chapter: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-free-meal-programs-of-the-black-panther-party-s-baltimore-chapter
Image source: http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/givens/item/2129

BaltimoreHistories, 3 months ago to baltimore

Our latest feature is out now! We explore how Samuel L. Burton moved to #Baltimore in the early 20th century, won a major legal case together with the city's leading Black lawyer, and successfully invested in & established himself within the local economy: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/samuel-l-burton-s-remarkable-comeback-story
Image sources: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g3844bm.g3844bm_g03573195202; https://books.google.com.do/books?id=aDYmAAAAIBAJ

BaltimoreHistories, 3 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! We explore the 1942 March on Annapolis and its role in the Baltimorean struggle against police brutality: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-march-on-annapolis-and-the-struggle-against-police-brutality-1942
Image source: “Maryland State House, State Circle, Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD,” photograph (Annapolis, MD, c. after 1933), Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey, https://www.loc.gov/item/md0068/.

BaltimoreHistories, 4 months ago to random

This week's feature is out now! We chronicle "The Life and Struggle of Baltimorean Boxer Joe Gans." It is clear that "In many ways, Joe Gans’s life is emblematic of Black Baltimorean struggle and achievement around the turn of the twentieth century": https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-life-and-struggle-of-baltimorean-boxer-joe-gans
Image source: Richard K. Fox, “Joe Gans, of Baltimore,” photograph (location unknown, c. 1898), public domain, https://www.loc.gov/item/96515727/.

BaltimoreHistories, 4 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! It explores "The Regulation of Child Labor in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Baltimore": https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-regulation-of-child-labor-in-late-nineteenth-and-early-twentieth-century-baltimore
Image source: Lewis Wickes Hine, “Marie and Albert Kawalski. 615 S. Bond St.,” photograph (Baltimore, MD, July 1909), National Child Labor Committee Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018675288/.

BaltimoreHistories, 4 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! We explore how labor, gender, capital, immigration, eugenics, and more interacted through "Garment Industry Sweatshops in Baltimore at the Turn of the Twentieth Century": https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/garment-industry-sweatshops-in-baltimore-at-the-turn-of-the-twentieth-century

BaltimoreHistories, 4 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! We explore how Baltimorean Jacob I. Cohen Jr. established himself in Baltimore public life and leveraged this influence to secure political rights for Jewish Marylanders: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/a-kind-and-benevolent-gentleman-jacob-i-cohen-jr-s-fight-for-jewish-political-rights-in-marylan
Image source: Cohen’s Lottery and Exchange Office, “Broadside; Cohen, J. I., Jr.; Cohen's Lottery and Exchange Office; Baltimore, Maryland,” May 1, 1813, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, public domain, https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p35v4p.

BaltimoreHistories, 5 months ago to random

This week's feature is out now! We tell the story of how Baltimorean workers rose up and empowered themselves through a July 1877 railroad labor action, which developed into the first national strike in U.S. history: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/baltimore-and-the-great-railroad-strike-of-1877
Image source: “The Great strike—the Sixth Maryland Regiment fighting its way through Baltimore, from a p[hotogr]aph by D. Bendann,” Harper’s Weekly (New York, NY), August 11, 1877, https://www.loc.gov/resource/cph.3b45187/.

BaltimoreHistories, 5 months ago to random

This week's feature article is out now! We explore "How Sergeant Major Christian A. Fleetwood Spent His 24th Birthday While in the Union Army": https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/how-sergeant-major-christian-a-fleetwood-spent-his-24th-birthday-while-in-the-union-army
Image source: Sgt. Major Christian A. Fleetwood, Diary of Christian A. Fleetwood for 1864, July 21, 1864, Christian A. Fleetwood Papers, Library of Congress (Washington, D.C.), 119, https://www.loc.gov/item/mss20784_01/.

BaltimoreHistories, 5 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! We explore connections between "Railroad Infrastructure and the Pratt Street Riot of 1861," which caused some of the first casualties of the Civil War: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/railroad-infrastructure-and-the-pratt-street-riot-of-1861

Image source: O. Pelton and William Momberger, “Attack on the Massachusetts 6th at Baltimore, April 19, 1861,” steel engraving (Hartford, CT, c. 1861), https://www.loc.gov/item/2004680236/.

BaltimoreHistories, 5 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now. It explores former Baltimore-based slave trader "Hope H. Slatter’s Presidential Pardon and the Erasure of Black Lives": https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/hope-h-slatter-s-presidential-pardon-and-the-erasure-of-black-lives
Image sources: https://lccn.loc.gov/2002624026; https://www.newspapers.com/image/364979656/

BaltimoreHistories, 5 months ago to random

This week's feature article is out now! It examines the role of bricks in Baltimore histories: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/city-of-bricks-bricks-and-early-baltimore
Image source: https://collections.digitalmaryland.org/digital/collection/mdph/id/1170/rec/8

BaltimoreHistories, 6 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now — "'Every Day Is a Membership Day': Lillie Carroll Jackson's Baltimore NAACP Membership Drives":
https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/every-day-is-a-membership-day-lillie-carroll-jackson-s-baltimore-naacp-membership-drives
Image source: https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/jackson-and-mitchell-family-portrait/.

BaltimoreHistories, 6 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now, we explore the story of "Juanita Jackson Mitchell’s Expansive NAACP Role: From Baltimore to National": https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/juanita-jackson-mitchell-s-expansive-naacp-role-from-baltimore-to-national
Image source: https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/portrait-of-juanita-jackson-mitchell/

BaltimoreHistories, 6 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! We explore the stories of "Juanita Jackson Mitchell, Virginia Jackson Kiah, and the Baltimore City-Wide Young People’s Forum":
https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/juanita-jackson-mitchell-virginia-jackson-kiah-and-the-baltimore-city-wide-young-people-s-forum
Image source: Eli Pousson, “Juanita Jackson and Clarence Mitchell, Jr. House, 1324 Druid Hill Avenue,” photograph (Baltimore, MD, September 26, 2018), Baltimore Heritage, public domain, https://flic.kr/p/28GXQrE.

BaltimoreHistories, 6 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! We explore how Black Baltimoreans experienced the contrast between their high performing Baltimore Black Sox baseball team in 1929-1930 and the simultaneous onset of the Great Depression: https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/the-baltimore-black-sox-the-american-negro-league-and-the-onset-of-the-great-depression-1929-1930
Image source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baltimore_Black_Sox.jpg

BaltimoreHistories, 6 months ago to random

October 18, 1933 (90 years ago today): Black laborer George Armwood was lynched on MD's Eastern Shore. This tragedy galvanized an uprising in Baltimore. City-Wide Young People’s Forum leaders Juanita Jackson & Clarence Mitchell testified to U.S. Senate anti-lynching subcommittee the subsequent February. Resulting Costigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill never made it to Senate. In Baltimore, this campaign reinvigorated NAACP branch & anti-lynching struggle.
https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/013700/013750/pdf/deathcert.pdf

BaltimoreHistories, 7 months ago to baltimore

This runaway recapture ad from October 15, 1804 (219 years ago today, #OTD) seeks the return of self-liberator “JOE, about 18 years old,” adding that “It is known he applied to get a passage in the stage to #Baltimore.” The advertising enslaver draws attention to Joe’s intellect, describing him as “artful” & noting he “will endeavor to pass as a free man.” The enslaver also credits Joe's business abilities: “had a watch, which it is probable he will be offering for sale.”
https://fotm.link/6RKF22UZr4S42yifC2Nv2i

BaltimoreHistories, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

In this week's feature we are thinking about capitalism and slavery. Check out our latest article: "Baltimore Slave Trader Austin Woolfolk’s Physical Assault on White Abolitionist Benjamin Lundy and the Trial That Followed, 1827":
https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/baltimore-slave-trader-austin-woolfolk-s-assault-of-benjamin-lundy-and-the-trial-that-followed-1827
Image source: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6807005

BaltimoreHistories, 7 months ago to random

Our latest feature is out now! We explore the self-assertive lives carved out by "Fugitive Black Radical Self-Liberators Who Lived in Antebellum Baltimore":
https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/fugitive-black-radical-self-liberators-who-lived-in-antebellum-baltimore
Image source: https://www.si.edu/object/broadside-offering-reward-capture-enslaved-man-richard-low:nmaahc_2011.155.293