Lenora Robinson: Recalling the Segregated Movie Theatre in Havre de Grace, Maryland

ID: 135 ~ Source: The Havre de Grace Colored School Museum and Cultural Center ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: 1950s
This file appears in: The Bel Air Theatre & Other Harford Movie Theatres
Harford Civil Rights Project

In this 2019 oral history excerpt, Lenora Robinson talks about a childhood experience visiting the segregated movie theatre in Havre de Grace with a white friend. [Interviewer: Michael Dixon, Harford Community College]

This file appears in: The Bel Air Theatre & Other Harford Movie Theatres

By James Karmel
For the first half of the twentieth century, movie theaters around Harford County were segregated by race, as was common throughout the South. There were three main movie theatres in Harford County: in Bel Air, Aberdeen, and Havre de Grace. Each of…