Paul Robeson holding NAACP Baltimore Branch protest sign while marching against Jim Crow admission policy at Ford's Theatre. By 1952, Ford's Theatre (once located at 320 West Fayette Street in Baltimore, Maryland) dropped its segregation policies, but struggled to remain open and was eventually demolished in 1964 to make room for a parking garage.
circa 1948-03
BCLM HEN
4 x 5 inches
HEN.00.A2-159
1 negative
5258
This collection is part of the larger Baltimore City Life Museum Collection, transferred to the Maryland Historical Society (now Maryland Center for History and Culture) in 1998.
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