Protesting for Decent Housing

ID: 76 ~ Source: Baltimore Sun ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: August 4, 1966

This file appears in: Fair Housing Activism in Harford

This is a newspaper image of picketers in Havre de Grace, Maryland protesting against racist housing practices in the county.

This file appears in: Fair Housing Activism in Harford

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…