Hines, Louise Kerr, 1916-
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Louise Kerr Hines, 1976 June 16
File
Identifier: OH 8117
Abstract
Louise Kerr Hines (1916-2007) was a civil rights activist. In the 1940s, she and her father, Dr. T. Henderson Kerr, were plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, Maryland for its denial of her application for a library training course. In this oral history interview, Hines dicusses Charles Houston as her lawyer; participation in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activities; work with the "Baltimore Afro-American" and its...
Dates:
1976 June 16
Louise Kerr Hines ephemera collection
Collection
Identifier: MS 3092
Abstract
The collection consists of two boxes of miscellaneous print ephemera that documents African American civic, political, and religious life in twentieth-century Maryland. This material is organized thematically. The majority of items are publications from Baltimore churches, institutions, schools and colleges, and civic organizations and programs from the funerals of prominent African Americans, including Clarence M. Mitchell and Justice Thurgood Marshall. The political material primarily...
Dates:
1942 - 1993