Come live in Joppatowne! (unless you are black)
This file appears in: Fair Housing Activism in Harford
This is an advertisement to buy a house in Joppatowne, Maryland, in a development from the time. The ad appeared in the Havre de Grace Record. At the time, Joppatowne was an exclusively white community, like similar developments in Maryland such as in Bowie. Soon, the developer and real estate firm would face a popular movement to allow persons of color to live there.
This file appears in: Fair Housing Activism in Harford
Fair Housing Activism in Harford
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…