When freedom riders arrived in Cambridge, MD, in the early winter of 1962, Gloria Richardson, a forty-year-old single mother, was busy working in her family store and raising her two teenage girls. Within less than three years, she had helped build one of the most vibrant social movements in the nation. She negotiated an unprecedented
Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist and author known for her historical works on women’s suffrage and civil rights. Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement tells the story of four activists who established citizenship schools to help Black Americans pass literacy tests and reclaim their voting rights in the Jim
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Join us for a guided tour of Baltimore’s historic Green Mount Cemetery. Green Mount is a spectacular example of an early rural-style garden cemetery and is the final resting place of some of Maryland’s most famous figures. It’s also a treasure trove of precious artworks by major sculptors such as Hans Schuler and William Henry
When we think of the American Revolution, we often picture a parochial drama: thirteen colonies squaring off against the British Crown in a spirited bid for independence. In this riveting program, historian and author Richard Bell invites us to rediscover the Revolution as a world war that unleashed chaos, opportunity and transformation across six continents.
So many wonderful women are lost to history. Sometimes that's because men take credit for their achievements and sometimes that is just the way history works, recording some lives but not others. Certified life coach Rabbi Elissa Sachs-Kohen presents the remarkable lives and accomplishments of three such impressive women so that they will be remembered