City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0057R

• File #: 12-0057R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Establishing the Baltimore City African-American Civil Rights Historic Commission
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 6/18/2012
• In control: Judiciary and Legislative Investigations
• Final action: 1/28/2013
• Title: Informational Hearing - Establishing the Baltimore City African-American Civil Rights Historic Commission FOR the purpose of calling on representatives from Baltimore's civil rights, historical, and cultural institutions to meet with the City Council in a hearing to determine how best to fashion and establish a Baltimore City African-American Civil Rights Historic Commission whose mission is to catalog, preserve, link, and promote the many resources memorializing the pioneering civil rights struggle which occurred in Baltimore City in the 1950's and 60's, the significant benchmarks achieved of both local and national importance, and the continuing struggle to finish the work begun.
• Sponsors: Mary Pat Clarke, Carl Stokes, President Young, Nick Mosby, Bill Henry, Helen L. Holton, Rochelle Spector, Sharon Green Middleton, William H. Cole, IV, James B. Kraft, Brandon M. Scott, Robert Curran, William "Pete" Welch, Edward Reisinger, Warren Branch
• Indexes: Civil Rights, Commission, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/28/2013	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Recommended Favorably
1/28/2013	0	City Council	Adopted
9/10/2012	0	Judiciary and Legislative Investigations	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
6/21/2012	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
6/18/2012	0	City Council	Introduced
6/18/2012	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Clarke



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Establishing the Baltimore City African-American Civil Rights Historic Commission

FOR the purpose of calling on representatives from Baltimore's civil rights, historical, and cultural institutions to meet with the City Council in a hearing to determine how best to fashion and establish a Baltimore City African-American Civil Rights Historic Commission whose mission is to catalog, preserve, link, and promote the many resources memorializing the pioneering civil rights struggle which occurred in Baltimore City in the 1950's and 60's, the significant benchmarks achieved of both local and national importance, and the continuing struggle to finish the work begun.
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Baltimore City has historically played a pivotal and pioneering role in our nation'scivil rights struggle. Many of the struggle's national leaders were raised in our City, led congregations in our City, or formed alliances with Baltimore's pioneering leaders. Numerous precedent-setting legal challenges originated here which reached the highest courts in the land and won some of the earliest decisions in the nation against discrimination and segregation. Tactics, methods, and philosophies which came to characterize the national civil rights movement were tested and refined in the 1950's and early 1960's in Baltimore b...