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Protesting Segregated Education and Teacher-Training Programs
Protesting segregated education and teacher-training programs, HEN.00.A2-161 One of the first major battles of the Baltimore Branch NAACP was to champion the cause of many black teachers in public...
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Pedestrians on Pennsylvania Avenue, HEN.00.B1-112 Pennsylvania Avenue was the black community’s place for entertainment, retail stores, clubs, restaurants, and much more. Some businesses, however,...
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Morgan State College (now Morgan State University)
Morgan State College basketball team, HEN.03.02-064 Class inside gym, Morgan State College, HEN.06.04-015 In 1867, the Methodist Episcopal Church opened the Centenary Biblical Institute to train young...
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Governor Theodore McKeldin
Gov. McKeldin with Marse Callaway and Carl Murphy, HEN.00.B1-069 Governor Theodore McKeldin (1900–1074), Marse Callaway, and Carl Murphy (1889–1967) were immensely important in the struggle for civil...
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Dr. Lillie May Carroll Jackson
Jackson and Mitchell Family, HEN.00.B1-052 This family has contributed a significant amount to the Civil Rights movement and the history of Baltimore. Keiffer Jackson (seated left), traveling church...
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Who or Where? Help identify these photos (Box A).
I’ve had an amazing amount of people get in touch with me as well as visit MdHS to view the Paul Henderson exhibition and the rest of his collection. In order to get Henderson’s photographs to as many...
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Henderson Manuscript & Ephemera Collection Now Available!
I’m happy to report that the Paul Henderson Manuscript and Ephemera Collection (MS 3089) is now available to the public. Take a look at the inventory list on the MdHS website. This collection consists...
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Who or Where? Help Identify These Photos (Box B)
NEW PHOTOS ADDED 10/31/12! All photos from Box B have been uploaded to the slideshow below. We need your help identifying photographs by Paul Henderson (1899—1988). These photos were taken ca....
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(Article) Starting the Dialogue
Printed in MdHS News Fall 2012 Starting the Dialogue: Planning a Program and Exhibition Around Maryland’s Civil Rights History Jennifer A. Ferretti Spread in MdHS News. Maryland’s contribution to the...
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“We Are Participants Of A Process…” Welcome to the Paul Henderson Photographs...
PHOTOGRAPHS AND AUDIO CLIP: Vernon Dobson, Minister of Union Baptist Church and early participant of the struggle for civil rights in Baltimore comments on the assumption that there were only a few...
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Bayard Rustin
Mrs. Bowen Jackson and Bayard Rustin protesting Ford’s Theatre. Paul Henderson, MdHS, HEN.00.A2-155. Henderson photographed Bayard Rustin when he was in Baltimore protesting the Jim Crow admission...
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[Man pushing snowball cart]
[Man pushing snowball cart], not dated. Paul Henderson. HEN.00.A1-105.West Baltimore’s Harlem Park was the first residential area in the Baltimore Urban Renewal Housing Agency’s 1959 program. Creation...
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[Governor Lane meeting with the Board of Cheltenham School for Boys]
[Governor Lane meeting with the Board of Cheltenham School for Boys], 1951. Paul Henderson, HEN.00.A2-206.In 1948, Governor William Preston Lane, Jr. (1892-1967), seated second from right, appointed...
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Pearl Bailey in her dressing room
Pearl Bailey in her dressing room, ca. 1942. Paul Henderson, HEN.00.A2-247. This iconic photograph is seldom credited to Paul Henderson. Pearl Bailey (1918-1990), raised in Washington, D.C. and...
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Danny’s Shoe Store
Danny’s Shoe Store, 1953. Paul Henderson, HEN.00.B2-264. Presumably, the couple depicted are Daniel Siegel and his wife Ruth, who operated Danny’s Shoe Store from circa 1942 through circa 1948....
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18th Annual Convocation, United Holy Church of America
18th Annual Convocation, United Holy Church of America, ca. 1930. Paul Henderson, HEN.09.09-006. The black church is considered to be the focal point of the community’s social, political, and cultural...
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The Charm Centre
The Charm Centre, 1948. Paul Henderson, MdHS, HEN.00.B2-164. The owners of this upscale women’s dress store, William “Little Willie” Lloyd Adams and wife Victorine Quille Adams, had impressive resumes...
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The Work Continues
The Maryland Historical Society and the Pierians Incorporated Baltimore Chapter are hosting an event on Sunday, April 7, 2p-4p, that will focus on identifying the faces and places found in Paul...
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Revisiting Our Past: Identifying Paul Henderson’s Photographs of the African...
Click to view slideshow. MdHS and the Pierians Inc. Baltimore Chapter hosted Revisiting Our Past: Identifying Paul Henderson’s Photographs of the African American Community in Maryland, ca. 1935-1965...
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