Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through stringent segregation, racial violence and economic turb
William Henry Jernagin was a devout Christian and fierce advocate for civil rights in the first half of the twentieth century. He was senior pastor of the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in the Mount Vern
Bestknown as an educator and early civil rights activist,Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of former slaves. After moving toWashington, D.C., in 1936, she organized and represented thousands of wom
