About
The Harford Civil Rights Project (HCRP) is a free mobile app that allows users to learn about the 20th Century African American civil rights movement in Harford County, Maryland. Located in central Maryland in the greater Baltimore region, civil rights activists, educators, students and others took actions in the 1950s and 1960s that boldly challenged the segregated status quo. They fought to de-segregate public schools, businesses, and hospitals. They participated in a 1961 Freedom Ride, and protested unfair racist housing practices. The movement also included an effort to improve race and push back against unfair employment practices.
The HCRP website and mobile app. includes location-enabled sites where users can learn about key events, individuals and outcomes that illustrate the region’s role in the 20th Century African American civil rights movement. Sites may include text descriptions, images, oral history recordings and other material that illuminate the civil rights history of the greater Harford region.
The National Endowment for the Humanities provided funding through a major grant for the development of the HCRP digital exhibition and mobile application.
Inquiries
For all project inquiries please contact HCRP Director Dr. James Karmel:
- e-mail: jkarmel@harford.edu
- phone: 443-412-2105
Privacy Policy
Harford Community College operates the Harford Civil Rights Project website and app. Whenever you use Harford Civil Rights Project, we collect basic information that your browser or device sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser or device version, content that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics, including your location (if you have given us permission to do so, e.g. by enabling location services in your browser or device). We use this information only to provide core functionality and do not collect personally identifiable information for marketing or any other purpose. On the website – but not in the mobile apps – Harford Civil Rights Project shares some collected information with Google for the purpose of analyzing general usage patterns. Google's terms and policies are available here. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us.