Baltimore City Council
File #: 24-0597    Version: 0 Name: City Property - Renaming Riverside Park Pool to the Congressman Elijah E. Cummings Community Pool
Type: Ordinance Status: Enacted
File created: 9/30/2024 In control: Baltimore City Council
On agenda: Final action: 12/3/2024
Enactment #:
Title: City Property - Renaming Riverside Park Pool to the Congressman Elijah E. Cummings Community Pool For the purpose of changing the name of Riverside Park Pool, located at 1800 Covington Street (Block 1940, Lot 001), to the Congressman Elijah E. Cummings Community Pool.
Sponsors: Eric T. Costello, President Nicholas J. Mosby, Robert Stokes, Sr., John T. Bullock, Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer, Mark Conway, Ryan Dorsey, Kristerfer Burnett, Odette Ramos, Phylicia Porter, Antonio Glover, Zeke Cohen, James Torrence
Indexes: City Property - Renaming
Attachments: 1. 24-0597~1st Reader, 2. Law 24-0597, 3. 24-0597 - DORE, 4. BCRP 24-0597, 5. Finance 24-0597, 6. BDC 24-0597, 7. DOT 24-0597, 8. 24-0597 Planning, 9. WM Hearing Notes 24-0597, 10. Final Bill Synopsis_24-0597, 11. Voting Session_November 18th Meeting Minutes, 12. Final Voting Record, 13. 24-0597~3rd Reader, 14. 24-0597 Signed
Date Ver.Action ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsVideo
12/4/20240 Mayor Signed by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/2/20240 Baltimore City Council Approved and Sent to the Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/18/20240 Ways and Means Recommended Favorably  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/18/20240 Baltimore City Council Advanced to 3rd Reader, for Final Passage  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/18/20240 Ways and Means Recommended FavorablyPass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/13/20240 Ways and Means Scheduled for Voting Session  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/12/20240 Ways and Means    Action details Meeting details Not available
10/21/20240 Ways and Means Scheduled for a Public Hearing  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/15/20240 Ways and Means    Action details Meeting details Not available
10/3/20240 Baltimore City Council Refer to Dept. of Real Estate  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/3/20240 Baltimore City Council Refer to Dept. of Finance  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/3/20240 Baltimore City Council Refer to City Solicitor  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/3/20240 Baltimore City Council Refer to Dept. of Transportation  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/3/20240 Baltimore City Council Refer to Dept. of Recreation and Parks  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/3/20240 Baltimore City Council Refer to Baltimore Development Corporation  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/3/20240 Baltimore City Council Refer to Planning Commission  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/30/20240 Baltimore City Council Assigned  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/30/20240 Baltimore City Council Introduced  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/30/20240 Ways and Means Scheduled for a Public Hearing  Action details Meeting details Not available
* 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

Introduced by: Councilmember Costello


A Bill Entitled

An Ordinance concerning
title
City Property - Renaming Riverside Park Pool to the Congressman Elijah E. Cummings Community Pool
For the purpose of changing the name of Riverside Park Pool, located at 1800 Covington Street (Block 1940, Lot 001), to the Congressman Elijah E. Cummings Community Pool.
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By authority of
Article 5 - Finance, Property, and Procurement
Section 20-2
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)

Recitals

Elijah E. Cummings, the longtime United States Representative for much of Baltimore City, grew up in Sharp-Leadenhall in South Baltimore. As a child, Cummings would join other youths playing in the wading pool at the Sharp Street Community Center. The small pool was not sufficient for the community it was serving. One day in 1962 the center’s recreation leader, Jim Smith, gathered up some two dozen Black youth including Cummings and walked down to Riverside Park Pool.

In the wake of 1954's Brown v. Board of Education, both Maryland Governor Theodore McKeldin and Baltimore City Mayor Tommy D’Alesandro issued executive orders integrating public facilities, but in practice, the Riverside Park Pool was whites only. As the Sharp Street swimmers used Riverside Park’s pool over several days, as many as 1,000 white protestors flooded the area, hurling insults, rocks, and bottles. One of those bottles hit the young Elijah, resulting in a scar he would carry with him for the rest o...

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