BaltimoreHistories

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A weekly investigative newsletter sharing histories of the people of Baltimore.

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Happy Birthday to Enoch Pratt (born September 10, 1808, ), founder of ’s Enoch Pratt Free Library (1886). Committed to welcoming Black patrons from the start: “The people, who I hope, will avail of the advantages it is my wish to offer them, they being for all, rich or poor, without distinction of race or color…” However, in the antebellum period he was a member of the American Colonization Society.
Image: https://www.loc.gov/item/2015645531/
Info: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25541141

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This week's feature is out now! We find, "The story of Henrietta Lacks illuminates patterns of historical migration to , the impacts of racial segregation... non-consensual scientific experimentation on African Americans, and the legacies of slavery in the United States."
https://open.substack.com/pub/baltimorehistories/p/henrietta-lacks-johns-hopkins-hospital?r=22o1rg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henrietta_Lacks_historical_marker;_Clover,_VA;_2013-07-14.JPG

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On July 7, 1914 (109 years ago today), Orioles owner Jack Dunn offered to trade Baltimorean ballplayer Babe Ruth along w/ Ben Egan & Ernie Shore to Philadelphia Athletics for $10k. Philly manager Connie Mack turned it down due to lack of funds. Ruth was dealt to the Boston Red Sox 2 days later (on July 9).
Pictured below, Ruth stands second from the right and Shore stands in the center.

Further reading: https://sabr.org/journal/article/babe-ruths-half-season-with-the-baltimore-orioles-in-1914/
Image source: https://www.si.edu/object/babe-ruth-and-other-red-sox-pitchers:npg_NPG.2011.11

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July 16, 1877 (136 years ago today): the Railroad Strike of 1877 began, as part of the national Great Railroad Strike of 1877. B&O Railroad announced 10% reduction of all wages, strike began on the day this was to go into effect (July 16). Federal troops called in, about 1,000 arrests & 100 deaths. Built momentum for national labor movement.

Image source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Railroad_Strike_plaque,_Baltimore_01_%28cropped%29.jpg

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Our latest feature is out now: “ Blockbusting and American Racial Capitalism, 1944-1968.” We find, “Present-day discussions about reparations for centuries of Black oppression by and in the U.S. should also consider blockbusting, a systemic continuation of the structural inequities induced by American slavery.”
https://www.baltimorehistories.com/post/baltimore-blockbusting-and-american-racial-capitalism-1944-1968
Image: HOLC Division of Research & Statistics, “Residential Security Map of Baltimore Md.,” 1937, public domain, https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/32621.

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September 7, 1814 (209 years ago today): pro-slavery lawyer Francis Scott Key embarked from Baltimore to rescue his client William Beanes from British captivity at sea. Beanes was recorded as enslaving 21 people in 1800 census & lived on a plantation in Prince George’s County. Key secured Beanes’s release, but the British ordered them to remain on the ship until the battle was over. From here a week later, Key watched final bombardment of Fort McHenry & wrote the Star-Spangled Banner (Sept. 14).

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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

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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/.

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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/.

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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/.

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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

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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/

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Our latest feature is out now! We explore how Samuel L. Burton moved to 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

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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

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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/.

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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

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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.

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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/

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This week’s feature is out now! It is the 2nd installment of our multipart series "B&O to Inner Harbor: Building 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/.

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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/.

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

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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/.

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This week's feature is out now! We explore the free meal programs of the Black Panther Party's 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

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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/.

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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/.

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