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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: Councilmember Conaway
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
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City Property - Renaming Hanlon Park to William and Victorine Adams - Hanlon Park
FOR the purpose of changing the name of Hanlon Park, located at 2610-2650 North Dukeland Street, to William and Victorine Adams - Hanlon Park.
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BY authority of
Article 5 - Finance, Property, and Procurement
Section 20-2
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)
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The city that is Baltimore today owes a great deal to the contributions of William and Victorine Adams. Victorine Q. Adams, born in Baltimore, was a pioneer in African American politics and a civic leader, whose efforts to open up participation by citizens previously excluded in the electoral process resulted in major change. A former City school teacher, during the 1940’s, she founded the Colored Women’s Democratic Campaign Committee, an organization that supported candidates who were sympathetic to minority issues, and, in 1954, this organization achieved a landmark victory when Judge Harry A. Cole won a state Senate seat over the white candidate backed by an entrenched political machine. In 1966, she was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates and later to the Baltimore City Council where she served her constituents for 16 years. Among her accomplishments was her work with the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company to establish the Baltimore Fuel Fund, now the Victorine Q. Adams Fuel Fund, which was dedicated to helping low income families with ...
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