"We Are Human Too We Need Decent Houses"

ID: 80 ~ Source: Baltimore Sun ~ Creator: Harford Civil Rights Project ~ Date: August 1966
This file appears in: Fair Housing Activism in Harford
"We Are Human Too We Need Decent Houses"

This image depicts protestor Nathalie James and her sign in Havre de Grace, Maryland. Ms. James was head of the local NAACP youth chapter and led protests over housing discrimination and other issues around Harford in the 1960s.

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…