Hines, Louise Kerr, 1916-

Abstract Anita Rose Williams (1891-1983) was the first Black Catholic social worker in the United States, as well as the first Black supervisor employed by a social agency in Baltimore. In this interview, she discusses her early life and her work as housekeeper for Mrs. Francis King Carey. She notes how she was voted to the Board of Directors of the Colored YWCA and touches on her work on the Provident Hospital Board and Women's Cooperative Civic League. Williams discusses attending lectures at Johns...

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Calvin Edouard Ward was a professor in the Music and Arts Department at Coppin State College and a Fulbright scholar in Vienna. In this interview, he discusses the Phelps Stokes Fund grant in Kenya; biography he expects to write of Will Marion Cook; experiences playing famous organs in Europe, United States, and Africa; and his collection of 12,000 colored slides.

Abstract Dorothy Coleman Lymas (1905-) was the daughter of Robert W. Coleman, Founder of the Association for the Handicapped, Inc. in Baltimore. In this interview, she discusses: the life of Robert Coleman; her early life; employment as a piano tuner; experiences with discrimination against African Americans; experiences at Maryland School for the Blind; founding of Maryland Association for the Colored Blind in 1913; efforts to publicize discriminatory practices against the handicapped; establishment...

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Edna DeCoursey Johnson (1922-1995) was a consumer education specialist. In this interview, she discusses teaching elementary school for nineteen years; her move to Baltimore Urban League in 1963 as a community organizer and secretary; the development of the Urban League's consumer education program; the presentation of consumer education workshops financed by Citibank of New York; and work as camp counselor for the United Christian Youth Movement.

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L. Olivia Bates was a Baltimore school teacher and counselor, as well as a former Grand Matron of the Order of the Eastern Star. In this interview, she discusses: benefits of membership in Order of the Eastern Star and its social service; projects; experiences as a teacher of history, special education, hygiene and business education at Booker T. Washington junior High School and counselor at Charles Houston junior High School; and travels abroad.

Abstract Louise Kerr Hines (1916-2007) was an active member, volunteer, and office secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and worked as a school teacher in Baltimore before becoming a reporter for The Baltimore Afro-American. In this oral history interview, Hines discusses her experiences as a reporter and how her involvement with the NAACP led her to that position. She also recounts her and her family's connections with civil rights leader Lillie May...

Abstract Louise Kerr Hines was a Maryland State Unemployment Insurance claims examiner, a reporter for the Baltimore American, a volunteer tour guide and oral history interviewer for the Maryland Historical Society, and a plaintiff in the Enoch Pratt Free Library suit to integrate training classes in 1943. In this self-conducted interview, Hines discusses her family and educational background, students' social activities, the successful 1944 suit to open training classes at the Enoch Pratt Free...

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...

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Mary West Miller (1910-1993) was an English and Drama teacher at Frederick Douglass High School. In this interview, she discusses school experiences; professional theatre people she knew as fellow classmates or students; Mask and Wig productions at Douglass High School; appearances with Arena Players; numerous club memberships, particularly Eastern Star; and activities since retirement.