Janice Grant: Protest Memories

ID: 154 ~ Source: Lorraine Mirabella, "50 years later, desegregation of Gwynn Oak Amusement Park celebrated," Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2013 [accessed 24 September 2021] ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: 1960s
This file appears in: Fair Housing Activism in Harford
Harford Civil Rights Project

In this oral history clip from a 2019 oral history interview, Janice Grant recalls protests in Joppatowne, and Aberdeen in Harford County for fair housing. Grant also recalls her experiences participating in the successful 1963 protest to desegregate Gwynn Oak Amusement Park (Baltimore County), and Jewish individuals' support for African American civil rights. [Interviewer: James Karmel, Harford Community College]

This file appears in: Fair Housing Activism in Harford

By James Karmel
In December 1959, United States Army Reserve Captain Brennie Hackley had a housing issue. Captain Hackley held a Ph.D. in chemistry and worked in the chemistry division of the Army’s Edgewood Chemical Center (ECC), a satellite of the Aberdeen…