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1908				Thurgood Marshall is born is Baltimore, MD.



1909				The Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People is founded in New York, NY.



1912				April 4 - Baltimore Branch founded and is the second branch chartered in the US.



1926				Baltimore City equalized pay for black and white teachers.



1931				Lillie Carol Jackson, and her daughter Juanita—who was then 18 years of age—organize a street-level campaign under the slogan "Buy Where You Can Work," persuading black Baltimoreans to boycott businesses with racist employment policies



1934				Thurgood Marshall begins to work for the Baltimore Branch.



1935				In a case argued by Thurgood Marshall, a Baltimore City court orders the integration of the University of Maryland Law School. Donald Gaines Murray registered for classes in September 1935. NAACP Baltimore Branch revived under leadership of Lillie Carroll Jackson.



1938				Lillie Carroll Jackson leads the legal battle for the equalization of pay for white and black teachers in public schools in all counties in Maryland



1939				Morgan College became part of the Maryland University System.



1945				Kerr v. Enoch Pratt Free Library argued by Charles H. Houston creating the " Kerr Principle". A Baltimore library refused to admit Louise Kerr to a training program because she was black. Not that it had anything against blacks, but its patrons did. When Kerr launched a civil suit against the library alleging a violation of equal protection of the laws, the courts credited the library’s claim that it had no racist purpose, but Kerr still prevailed. The Kerr principle forced us to address when and why is the state responsible for enabling exclusive preferences, whether by an overextended applicable rule that assist them or by state inaction that fails to block them.



1950				Juanita Jackson Mitchell becomes the first Black woman to practice law in the State of Maryland. Law suit opened University of Maryland School of Nursing to blacks.



1951				University of Maryland graduate school integrated.



1953				Lillie Carroll Jackson wins legal victory to the end of whites-only admissions at the University of Maryland School of Law Maryland State parks open to blacks.



1954				Public housing in Baltimore integrated. First black elected to House of Delegates, from Baltimore. Baltimore becomes the first Southern city to integrate its schools after the landmark Brown v. Board decision.



1955				Maryland National Guard units integrated. NAACP member, Rosa Parks, is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus.



1957				The Civil Rights Act is passed by the United States Congress.



1958				Irma Dixon and Verda Welcome Freeman become the first African American women to be elected to the Maryland House of Delegates.



1962				Verda Freeman Welcome becomes the first African-American woman to be elected to the state Senate.



1963				An estimated 250,000 people join in the March on Washington. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Medgar Evers, field secretary for the NAACP, is killed outside his home in Jackson, MS.



1964				US Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964.



1967				Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American United States Supreme Court Justice.



1968				Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN



1970				Milton B. Allen is the first African-American elected states attorney for the city of Baltimore.



1971				Parren J. Mitchell is the first African American elected to US Congress from Maryland. Roland Nathaniel Patterson is the first African-American appointed superintendent of schools in Baltimore.