Morgan State Students Win Desegregation of the Northwood Arundel Theatre
This file appears in: The Bel Air Theatre & Other Harford Movie Theatres
This image shows the Afro-American newspaper headline and article depicting Morgan State University students who had successfully integrated the Arundel Ice Cream store in 1959. They also held protests at the Northwood Arundel Theatre and Hecht's Northwood department store's Roof-top cafe.
This file appears in: The Bel Air Theatre & Other Harford Movie Theatres
The Bel Air Theatre & Other Harford Movie Theatres
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…