MSU Timeline 2
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Updated: 14 Mar 2021
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Created byMia Quinto
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1800: Census data: 105,635 non-white
residents in Maryland. 19,587 of those
people were free and many lived in
Baltimore City.1817: Baltimore Annexation: Growth
of city boundary.1830: 51,392 free Black Americans lived
in Maryland--most out of any other slave
state.1832: Restrictions on free Black
Americans: religious meetings
previously held by Black folks could
no longer take place without
supervision of a white minister.1846: First regional conference for
Black Methodists held at Sharp Street
Church.1853: Baltimore annexation: Growth
of city boundary.1857: Dred Scott decision: American
citizenship did not apply to Black
Americans, no matter their status,
according to U.S. Supreme Court.1860: Baltimore's Black American
population was 27,898.1861: April 19th "Pratt Street Riot"
after Civil War began a week earlier.1862: Morrill Act: Every state entitled to
30,000 acres of Federal land for every
respective Congressional member in their
state. Money from sold land would fund
agriculturally and industrially focused
public colleges.1865: End of Civil War. Thirteenth
Amendment enacted abolishing
slavery.1866: Civil Rights Act: All citizens
considered equal under the law.1865: Founding of Baltimore Normal
School. Purpose was to provide education
to train Black Americans to become public
school teachers.1870: Baltimore's Black American
population at 39,558. Racial tensions
were heightened.1874: Baltimore annexation: Growth
of city boundary.1880: 210,230 people of color in
Maryland.1896: Plessy v. Ferguson: Deemed
segregated public facilities legal as long
as they were generally of the same
quality.1910: Housing segregation ordinance
enacted in Baltimore, thus limiting
where Black folks could live.1918: Baltimore annexation: Growth
of city boundary.1931: Roland Park Co.'s last planned community, Original Northwood,
startedto be built between Loch
Raven Boulevard and the Alameda.
The deed to the first part of construction
stated "At no time shall the land include in
said tract or any part thereofor any
building erected thereon be occupied
by any negro or person of negro extraction."
Original Northwood is but a mere street over from today's western extent of MSU.1936: After a few-years long battle in the
courts because of Donald Murray's rejection
from UMD School of Law due to his race,
appellate court stated that students were
not allowed to be denied entry on basis of
race into state university if there was no
equivalent public institution available to
them. This prompted state officials to
contact Morgan College's Board of Trustees
about buying the organization, as there was
a choice between desegregation or creating
a place for Black American Students.1939: Beginning of WWII.1945: End of WWII. "The G.I. Bill for World
War II and Korean War Veterans, the baby
boom, and the increased affluence of the
middle class in the Eisenhower years
prompted a dramatic expansion of school
systems at all levels."1968: Baltimore "Race Riots."2015: Unrest in Baltimore after wrongful
death of Freddie Gray.1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964: No one can
be discriminated against based on the
color of their skin, religion, race, gender, sex, nor their nationality.1954: City of Baltimore puts an end
to racially segregated education.1948: Shelley v. Kraemer: U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that home contracts that
discriminate based on race are a violation
of the Fourteenth Amendment.1942: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE),
a Black American civil rights group, founded
to fight for equality for all.
1942: Durkee v. Murphy: Maryland Court
of Appeals ruled that racial segregation is
"normal" in the state of Maryland.2016: Baltimore City population 63% Black
and 31% White.Periods
Deindustrialization = job loss = white flight = decay and poverty
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