Lanman, Barry Allen

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History of this credit organization founded to help the Italian community.

Abstract Clarence W. Blount (1921-2003) was the first African American to be the majority leader of the Maryland State Senate. He represented the 41st district in Baltimore City from 1971 to 2003. In this oral history interview, Blount discusses his personal interest in the civil rights movement; freedom fighter Lillie May Carroll Jackson's personality; financial structure of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); education and job opportunities for African Americans;...

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David W. Zimmerman (1901-1993) was deputy state superintendent of schools in Maryland from 1961 to 1969. In this oral history interview, Zimmerman discusses the role of the civil rights movement in public education; desegregation in schools; pressure from freedom fighter Lillie May Carroll Jackson and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); unequal salaries; Brown v. Board of Education; Baltimore City and County relations; and busing for integration.

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Dr. Harry Murdock was a psychiatrist at Auburn House, located on the grounds of the Sheppard Pratt Hospital. In this interview, he discusses his nearly 20 years of residency at Auburn House. He also discusses the Symington and Turnbull families, who were the previous owners of the house.

Abstract Dr. John Theodore King, Jr., was a prominent Baltimore physician. Dr. King worked as a consultant in internal medicine and cardiology beginning in 1919, and then as chief physician at the Baltimore City Hospitals, 1939-1946, and chief of medical service, Walter Reed Hospital, 1942- 1945. He also authored medical books and articles on cardiology and metabolism. In this oral history interview, he discusses his family background; Baltimore medical schools; comparison between father's practice...

Abstract Frances Morton Froelicher (1912-1994) was a social activist and the founder and executive director of the Citizens Planning and Housing Association of Batimore (CPHA) from 1945 to 1969. In this oral history interview, Froelicher discusses the relationship between Theodore R. McKeldin and his closest advisors such as Judge Thomas Waxter, Judge Simon Sobeloff, and Hans Froelicher, Jr.; the fight for improvement in the Housing Authority; pressures on McKeldin by real estate groups, the business...

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George Rapp was the head silversmith for The Stieff Company and a native Baltimorean. In this oral history interview, he discusses: Childhood in St. Denis, now Arbutus, Maryland; first employment at Schultz Silver Company and Scofield Company for eighteen years; radar equipment work for Stieff during World War II; mechanization of silversmith processes; manufacture of Williamsburg reproduction silver; working at the Smithsonian Institution Craft Fair in Washington, D.C.

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John Millard Tawes (1894-1979) was the Governor of Maryland from 1959 to 1967. In this oral history interview, Tawes discusses his relationship with Theodore R. McKeldin, who preceded him as governor; freedom fighter Lillie May Carroll Jackson and the fight over liquor permits near schools; the characters of McKeldin and Jackson; Route 40 desegregation; Eastern Shore desegregation; the Cambridge, Maryland riots; and his own role in the civil rights movement.

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Ethnic businesses in Baltimore

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James M. Hepbron (1891-1979) was the Police Commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland from 1955 to 1961. In this oral history interview, Hepbron discusses African Americans on the police force during his time as commissioner; Theodore R. McKeldin and the civil rights movement; "Jim Crow" laws; the character and leadership of freedom fighter Lillie May Carroll Jackson; and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).