Glenn Grossman was a civil rights activist in Baltimore, Maryland. In this oral history interview, he discusses his perspective on Baltimore’s socioeconomic and political situation, and how that affected the city’s participation in the civil rights movement throughout the 1960s and early ‘70s. Grossman further discusses bus and school integration efforts in Baltimore, as well as the lasting impacts of the 1968 riots.
1976-01-10
Narrator: Glen Grossman
Interviewer: Susan Conwell
The McKeldin-Jackson Project was an effort to examine the Maryland civil rights movement of the mid-20th century through the medium of oral history by focusing on the roles played by pioneering freedom fighter Lillie May Carroll Jackson and Theodore R. McKeldin, who was Mayor of Baltimore (1943-1947, 1963-1967), Governor of Maryland (1951-1959), and an advocate for civil rights. The project was sponsored by the Maryland Historical Society and was supported in part by a grant from the Maryland Committee for the Humanities and Public Policy.
OH 8115
Audio: 27 minutes
Transcript: 9 pages
OH 8115
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