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BALTIMORE, Maryland in the 1880s: 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. African-American Teachers Assert Themselves
    date January 6, 1881map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags African-Americans, Education, Race-Relations, Urban-Life/Boosterism

    In the years immediately following the Civil War, the Baltimore Association for the Moral and Educational Improvement of the Colored People a localized precursor to the NAACP attempted to recruit African-American teachers and establish African-American schools. The organization “terminated its operation' five years following the end of the war believing that it had made great strides.However,...

  2. The filing of a discrimination suit against the Norfolk and Portsmouth Ferry Company by two African-American preachers
    date November 23, 1885map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags African-Americans, Race-Relations

    Two black preachers from Baltimore , Rev. Harvey Johnston, of the Union Baptist Church, and Rev. P.H.A. Braxton, of the Calvary Church , filed suit against the Norfolk and Portsmouth Ferry Company in the Fourth Circuit of the Eastern District of Virginia. They did so after being accosted and, eventually, arrested for resisting the orders of the ferry's personnel to remove themselves from the section...

  3. Three Women Graduate from the Women's Medical College of Baltimore
    date May 2, 1888map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Education, Women

    The Women's Medical College of Baltimore in Maryland held its sixth ever graduation ceremony in the afternoon on May 2, 1888. The ceremony was held at the YMCA Hall, decorated for the occasion. There was music and speeches and the Dean of Students, Dr. Richard Henry Thomas, announced the graduates. The graduates were Ida C. Coler, Mary P. Dole, and M. Lizzie Zimmerman. Coler was from Ohio, Dole from...

  4. Reverend Hawley Calls for Baltimore Methodists to Modernize
    date April 24, 1889map BALTIMORE, Marylandtags Church/Religious-Activity

    On April 24, 1889, The Episcopal Methodist, a Baltimore, Maryland newspaper, published an article by the Reverend J. M. Hawley entitled Southern Methodism and the Age, calling for the Methodist Church to reform itself in order to be a success in the modern age. Hawley called the present age a great period for both the Church and the country. The Church, he said, must embrace the age and modernize along...