[Chat] FW: Race and Place in Baltimore Neighborhoods Announcement
Christine Gray
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Sat Sep 25 20:26:12 EDT 2010
Posted by Christine Gray
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Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 7:34 PM
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Subject: Race and Place in Baltimore Neighborhoods Announcement
From: <Lshopes at aol.com>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 12:19 PM
List readers may find the following announcement of interest. It
describes a series of public programs on the theme of Race and Place in
Baltimore,
sponsored by Baltimore Heritage, Inc. and taking place during October.
Linda Shopes
Carlisle, PA 17015
lshopes at aol.com
717/243-4294
Baltimore Heritage Tour Goers –
In addition to our regular tours this fall, in October we are pleased to
host a special series called “Race and Place in Baltimore Neighborhoods.”
The series includes three Saturday morning walking tours in Upton, Greater
Rosemont, and Sharp-Leadenhall and a lecture by distinguished scholar and
Baltimore native Dr. Rhonda Williams. We would love to have you join us
for
one or all of these! And, thanks to the Maryland Humanities Council and
Free Fall Baltimore, they are all free.
Together with scholars from the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, UMBC, and Towson
University, as well as neighborhood leaders from the Upton Planning
Committee, the Evergreen Protective Association, and the Sharp-Leadenhall
Planning Committee, we will walk through neighborhoods that have served
witness to
Baltimore's challenging histories of segregation, civil rights, racial
transition, displacement, urban renewal, and even historic preservation.
You’
re encouraged to stay for a light lunch after each tour to continue the
discussion with our tour leaders as we delve into the complicated
relationships
between race and place and what this history means for the future of these
and many other Baltimore neighborhoods.
_Click here to register for one or more of the tours and the lecture_
(https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/baltimoreheritage.org/viewform?hl=en&form
key=d
FlibmdvTW5PdFZhSENOUEtOMXZPaHc6MA#gid=0) . Read on for more details.
Race and Place in Baltimore Neighborhoods: Walking Tours
Upton Neighborhood Tour
Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM to noon, with light lunch to follow
Place: Meet at Sharp Street Memorial United Methodist Church, 1206 Etting
Street
Free on street parking.
Dr. David Terry, the director of the Reginald Lewis Museum, will lead this
walking tour through the Upton neighborhood of West Baltimore. Once home
to many African American lawyers, politicians, and activists, including
Thurgood Marshall and NAACP Baltimore President Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson,
Upton was also home to thriving African American shopping district and
numerous night clubs and dance hall through the first half of the twentieth
century. This two hour walking tour, featuring neighborhood churches,
schools,
and homes, will focus on local experiences of community development and
civil
rights.
Greater Rosemont Neighborhood Tour
Date: Saturday, October 23, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM to noon, with light lunch to follow
Place: Meet at the West Baltimore Farmer's Market, 400 North Smallwood
(Southwest corner of the North Smallwood and West Franklin Street at the
West
Baltimore MARC Station)
Free off-street parking in the West Baltimore MARC Station parking lot.
Dr. Edward Orser, a professor of American Studies at UMBC, will lead this
walking tour through the Greater Rosemont area of West Baltimore. In the
early 1950s, the neighborhoods of Greater Rosemont flipped from nearly
exclusively white to almost completely African American through a period of
rapid
"white flight." The new residents established a stable middle-class
community that successfully resisted demolition by the "Highway to
Nowhere."
This two hour walking tour will take visitors from the very beginnings of
the
neighborhood as a streetcar suburb up through the present day and the
prospect of the new Red Line light rail route.
Sharp-Leadenhall Neighborhood Tour
Date: Saturday, October 30, 2010
Time: 10:00 AM to noon, with light lunch to follow
Place: Meet at Leadenhall Baptist Church, 1021 Leadenhall Street
Free on street parking is available. Leadenhall Baptist is also a short
walk from the Charm City Circulator Purple Route Cross Street Market stop.
Betty Bland-Thomas, a long-time community activist and member of the Sharp
Leadenhall Planning Committee, will lead this walking tour through the
Sharp Leadenhall neighborhood in South Baltimore. This community is home to
Ebenezer AME, the third oldest African Methodist Episcopal church in the
nation, and has been home to a vital African American community since the
late
1700s. As in West Baltimore, residents struggled against displacement and
demolition by highways projects in the 1960s and continue to organize
against gentrification. The walking tour not only highlights this long
history,
but will also offer a chance to hear stories from long-time residents on
their everyday experiences growing up in the neighborhood in the 1940s and
1950s.
Race and Place in Baltimore Neighborhoods Lecture: Rethinking Urban
History from the Margins
Date: Thursday October 21, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Place: Ebenezer AME Church, 20 West Montgomery Street
On street parking is limited, however, the Ebenezer AME is a short walk
from the Charm City Circulator Purple Route Montgomery Street stop.
Additional off street parking is available at the West Street Parking
Garage at 40
E. West Street between Light and Charles Streets.
Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams, a Baltimore native, associate professor at Case
Western Reserve University, and author of The Politics of Public Housing:
Black Women’s Struggles Against Urban Inequality, will draw on oral
histories
and archival research to share the stories of African American women as
community activists who fought for “rights, respect, and representation”
for
their families and neighbors living in Baltimore public housing. The
lecture at the historic Ebenezer AME Church will challenge us to reconsider
the
role of public housing in Baltimore’s historic neighborhoods and its
broader significance in Baltimore's history of race and place.
Please _click here to RSVP_
(https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/baltimoreheritage.org/viewform?hl=en&form
key=dFlibmdvTW5PdFZhSENOUEtOMXZPaHc6MA#gid=0)
for any of these programs or for more information please contact Eli
Pousson at _pousson at baltimoreheritage.org_
(mailto:pousson at baltimoreheritage.org)
or by cell phone at 301-204-3337.
This event series is supported by the _Maryland Humanities Council_
(http://www.mdhc.org/) and _Free Fall Baltimore_ (http://www.mdhc.org/) .
Find
out more information about the over 300 events in Free Fall Baltimore 2010
_here_ (http://www.freefallbaltimore.com/) or learn more about the many
other events of the _2010 Baltimore Architecture Month sponsored by
AIABaltimore_
(http://www.aiabalt.com/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=6) between
September 9 and October 25, including the Baltimore Heritage October 3 pr
ogram Historic Baltimore by Bus.
Eli Pousson | Field Officer
Baltimore Heritage in partnership with the National Trust for Historic
Preservation
11 ½ West Chase Street, Baltimore, MD 21201 |
_http://www.baltimoreheritage.org_ (http://www.baltimoreheritage.org/)
office 410.332.9992 | cell 301.204.3337
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