BALTIMORE — Baltimore City is honoring “the Year of Civil Rights” – marking 60 years since the passage of the Civil Rights Act – with a new series of banners downtown.
Each streetscape banner is dedicated to a major Civil Rights leader who has deep roots in Baltimore.
They were unveiled by the Baltimore National Heritage Area, according to a press release.
The banners are mostly in the area of President Street and Pratt Street.
The leaders on the banners include:
- Thurgood Marshall, the first African American appointed to the United States Supreme Court
- Lillie May Carroll Jackson and Juanita Jackson Mitchell, who led desegregation and was instrumental in advancing voting rights
- Frances Ellen Harper Watkins, an abolitionist and writer
- Verda Welcome, the first Black woman in the Maryland State Senate
- Parren J. Mitchell, the first African American elected to Congress from Maryland
- Elijah Cummings, Civil Rights leader, orator, and first African American in Maryland history to be …