Should Civil Rights Landmarks in Baltimore continue to be demolished?
The Issue
CHAP Takes Unprecedented Action to Stop Demoltion
CHAP Votes Unanimously for Landmark
We must urge Baltimore City Council to support CHAP's unanimous decision to establish 1232 Druid Hill Avenue as a Local Historic Landmark. Sign this petition because you care about preserving History and American Civil Rights Landmarks in the City of Baltimore!
City Council needs to introduce the legislation to convert the temporary landmark status granted by CHAPS for 1232 Druid Hill Avenue, into permanent protection status.
CHAP unanimously voted in January to designate 1232 DHA as a City Historic Landmark to protect it from impending demolition. Now the Baltimore City Council must introduce and vote on a bill to continue protection of the building. The final vote is cast by the City's Mayor, and then the building will be forever protected.
Background information: The sister house to this house, Lillie Carroll Jackson's Freedom House and former NAACP Civil Rights Era Headquarters at 1234 Druid Hill Avenue, was demolished last year with no notice to the community, in order to make way for a two-car parking pad next to a church.
This house next door at 1232 Druid Hill also played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as NAACP offices, Bethel Ame Bishop's offices, and before that, the George King/Abraham Briscoe house.
The area immediately surrounding this building has been designated as sacred ground of the American Civil Rights Era Movement from the early 1900's. Thurgood Marshall, Harry Sythe Cummings, Clarence Mitchell, Juanita Jackson-Mitchell, Parren Mitchell, Afro-American Newspaper Founder John Murphy, all lived, worked and schooled in a one block area. Just 2 blocks away, the shimmering lights of Baltimore's once thriving Jazz District, including the Royal Theatre, played the likes of Billie Holiday, Louie Amstrong, Eubie Blake, Chick Webb, Cab Callaway, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ethel Ennis.
Instrumental churches of the Civil Rights Movement Era still operate five of the oldest African-American congregations in Baltimore right in Marble Hill.
The Marble Hill Historic District has received funding from the National Park Service to be a Civil Rights Heritage Landmark with new tours and a Heritage Trail. Our vision is to make 1232 DHA an educational center and museum for the American Civil Rights Movement in Baltimore!
Developers have been chosen to renovate several Civil Rights Landmarks in Marble Hill, with many rowhomes being renovated back into glorious single- family homes and affordable rental homes.
Some people don't care about history, even if it contributed to their betterment. We will not allow them to destroy our cultural heritage. Sign this petition today to get the legislation intoduced to save the historic and sacred 1232 Druid Hill Avenue and make it a permanent American Civil Rights Landmark.
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The Issue
CHAP Takes Unprecedented Action to Stop Demoltion
CHAP Votes Unanimously for Landmark
We must urge Baltimore City Council to support CHAP's unanimous decision to establish 1232 Druid Hill Avenue as a Local Historic Landmark. Sign this petition because you care about preserving History and American Civil Rights Landmarks in the City of Baltimore!
City Council needs to introduce the legislation to convert the temporary landmark status granted by CHAPS for 1232 Druid Hill Avenue, into permanent protection status.
CHAP unanimously voted in January to designate 1232 DHA as a City Historic Landmark to protect it from impending demolition. Now the Baltimore City Council must introduce and vote on a bill to continue protection of the building. The final vote is cast by the City's Mayor, and then the building will be forever protected.
Background information: The sister house to this house, Lillie Carroll Jackson's Freedom House and former NAACP Civil Rights Era Headquarters at 1234 Druid Hill Avenue, was demolished last year with no notice to the community, in order to make way for a two-car parking pad next to a church.
This house next door at 1232 Druid Hill also played an important role in the Civil Rights Movement, serving as NAACP offices, Bethel Ame Bishop's offices, and before that, the George King/Abraham Briscoe house.
The area immediately surrounding this building has been designated as sacred ground of the American Civil Rights Era Movement from the early 1900's. Thurgood Marshall, Harry Sythe Cummings, Clarence Mitchell, Juanita Jackson-Mitchell, Parren Mitchell, Afro-American Newspaper Founder John Murphy, all lived, worked and schooled in a one block area. Just 2 blocks away, the shimmering lights of Baltimore's once thriving Jazz District, including the Royal Theatre, played the likes of Billie Holiday, Louie Amstrong, Eubie Blake, Chick Webb, Cab Callaway, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ethel Ennis.
Instrumental churches of the Civil Rights Movement Era still operate five of the oldest African-American congregations in Baltimore right in Marble Hill.
The Marble Hill Historic District has received funding from the National Park Service to be a Civil Rights Heritage Landmark with new tours and a Heritage Trail. Our vision is to make 1232 DHA an educational center and museum for the American Civil Rights Movement in Baltimore!
Developers have been chosen to renovate several Civil Rights Landmarks in Marble Hill, with many rowhomes being renovated back into glorious single- family homes and affordable rental homes.
Some people don't care about history, even if it contributed to their betterment. We will not allow them to destroy our cultural heritage. Sign this petition today to get the legislation intoduced to save the historic and sacred 1232 Druid Hill Avenue and make it a permanent American Civil Rights Landmark.
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Petition created on March 12, 2016