The current Roye-Williams Elementary School began it's building life as a segregated, all-black school serving the Havre de Grace/Aberdeen area of Harford county. In 1953, Harford County Public Schools opened the K-12 Havre de Grace…

In 1951, the K-12 Central Consolidated School opened in an area called Hickory outside Bel Air, Maryland to serve black students from the central and northern regions of Harford County, Maryland. All the students and teachers in the school were…

In the wake of the April 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and resulting national turmoil, two women in Harford County – one black, one white- decided more needed to be done to bridge the local racial divide. Both women were…

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…

The actions of parents and students to force desegregation of American schools are a famous story of the civil rights era. The Brown vs. Board of Education case (1954), for example or the desegregation of high schools in Little Rock, Arkansas were…

Born in 1940, Charles "Willie" Stamps grew up as a person of color in rural Mississippi. As a child, Stamps' family saved enough money and bought a small apartment house in Chicago. By the 1950s, many in the family had joined the Great Migration and…

In 1955, Stephen Moore III was an African American 4th grader attending the segregated, Black-only Central Consolidated School in Hickory, outside Bel Air, Maryland. He lived in the town of Bel Air just a few blocks from his neighborhood school, the…