Edgewood Meadows sign
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This image shows the Edgewood Meadows sign at the corner of Edgewood and Bayberry roads in Edgewood, Maryland. The development was originally a whites-only segregated community built in the 1950s and 1960s to house employees of the Edgewood Chemical Center (ECC) of the Aberdeen Proving Ground.
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…