City of Baltimore - File #: 14-0184R

• File #: 14-0184R
• Version: 0
• Name: "Baltimore - Birthplace of The Star-Spangled Banner"
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Adopted
• File created: 9/8/2014
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 9/8/2014
• Title: "Baltimore - Birthplace of The Star-Spangled Banner" FOR the purpose of supporting the use of "Baltimore - Birthplace of The StarSpangled Banner" as the official slogan of Baltimore City in order to celebrate Baltimore's essential link to our national anthem.
• Sponsors: James B. Kraft, Sharon Green Middleton, Carl Stokes, Warren Branch, Bill Henry, William "Pete" Welch, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Helen L. Holton, Brandon M. Scott, President Young, Robert Curran
• Indexes: Baltimore City, Birthplace of Star-Spangled Banner

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/8/2014	0	City Council	Introduced
9/8/2014	0	City Council	Adopted
9/8/2014	0	City Council	Adopted

* 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 Kraft



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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"Baltimore - Birthplace of The Star-Spangled Banner"

FOR the purpose of supporting the use of "Baltimore - Birthplace of The StarSpangled Banner" as the official slogan of Baltimore City in order to celebrate Baltimore's essential link to our national anthem.
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Recitals

Our national anthem, "The StarSpangled Banner", is sung and celebrated times too numerous to count daily across the United States, and around the world. Surveys indicate however that only about 20% of Baltimore City residents know that Baltimore is the birthplace of the "The StarSpangled Banner" and that percentage is much lower in Maryland's Counties, let alone outside the state of Maryland.

The Baltimore City Historical Society, collaborating with the Friends of Ft. McHenry in cooperation with the Baltimore National Heritage Area, has established "The Anthem Project". After the important commemoration of the War of 1812 and National Anthem Bicentennial Celebration in September 2014 organized by Maryland's StarSpangled 200 Commission, it will continue the needed public education about the writing of our national anthem at Ft. McHenry in Baltimore.

"The Anthem Project" has created an educational poster to place in every school in Maryland. It has established an educational display in the Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. Courthouse. T...