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(CIVIL RIGHTS--NAACP.) JACKSON, LILLIE M. Desegregation of Ford's Theatre in Baltimore. Group of telegrams and letters, from Walter White, Governor Theodore McKelvin and others. should be seen Vp, 1952
Telegrams and letters from Walter White, and others regarding the desegregation of Ford's Theatre. Lillie May Carroll Jackson (1889-1975), pioneer civil rights activist, organizer of the Baltimore Branch of the NAACP, was the driving force behind forcing Baltimore's famous Ford's Theatre into desegregating. Variously known as "Dr. Lillie," "Ma Jackson," and the "mother of the civil right's movement," Lillie May Carroll Jackson, pioneered the tactic of non-violent resistance to racial segregation used by Martin Luther King and others during the early civil rights movement. Efforts to integrate both on the stage and off at Ford's began in the late 1940's. Thanks to Jackson and the Baltimore NAACP, actor after actor refused to perform on Ford's stage. Finally in February of 1952, the management gave in after a year in which only three plays appeared there.
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