Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum - LCJM

06/19/2020

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Happy Juneteenth! Celebrate with us at Hosanna School Museum's Virtual Celebration this evening and Great Mask Giveaway and Sale tomorrow. Here is the link for more information and to discover a few black-owned businesses and great local talent. https://www.hosannaschoolmuseum.org/ Also, enjoy the Google doodle of the day. Very inspiring. "Let us march on until victory is won."
--Peace.
#GoogleDoodle

02/06/2020

Join us and celebrate the impact of Black women in obtaining voting rights for women and all Americans for more than a century.

05/23/2019

2 days away . . . Jazz, Food, Edu-tainment: Celebrate Lillie Carroll Jackson Day!

05/15/2019

Dr. Karsonya (Kaye) Wise Whitehead, Ph.D., is a phenomenal speaker!

She is an award-winning Associate Professor of Communications and African and African American Studies at Loyola University and the Founding Executive Director of the Emilie Frances Davis Center for Education, Research, and Culture.

She is the author of four award-winning books, a three-time New York Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, and was a 2016-2017 guest commentator and Op-Ed columnist for WYPR 88.1 FM and the Baltimore Sun.
She can also be heard weekdays on WEAA 88.9 FM
as the host of "Today with Dr. Kaye."

Join us as we celebrate and engage with Dr. Kaye!
She will be signing books following the program.

You can get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lillie-carroll-jackson-day-tickets-60878198330?aff=ebdssbdestsearch

04/25/2019

Janice “the Griot” Greene did an awesome portrayal of Verda Welcome. The audience was captivated.

04/20/2019

Join us for "Verda's Place" Exhibit on the Move, a pop up exhibit that tells the story of the late Senator Verda Freeman Welcome, the nation’s first Black woman State Senator. Elected to Maryland’s Senate in 1969 after 11 years as an educator in Baltimore City, Senator Welcome’s story is one of perseverance and commitment to change. Learn more about her life and legacy through this traveling exhibition, artifacts from the full Verda’s Place: An Homage to a Valiant Woman exhibition on display at the Banneker-Douglass Museum, and a re-enactment by trained griot (storyteller) Janice Greene.

April 23, 6 to 8 pm. at the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum.

Thank you and hope to see you then!

03/01/2019

A Visit to Verda’s Place | Bay Weekly

A Visit to Verda’s Place | Bay Weekly

      In 1962, Verda Freeman Welcome became the first African American woman elected to a state senate. Seven years later, she introduced legislation creating the first ethnic commission in the United States, the Maryland Commission on African American History and Culture. In celebration of the C...

01/31/2019

Join the Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum on February 12th, 2019, for a groundbreaking lecture, Leading The Way, featuring Dr. Simone R. Barrett. Dr. Barrett is a researcher at the Robert M. Bell Center for Civil Rights in Education at Morgan State University.

12/09/2018

Lovely Family giving a winter Hi5 for History!!! Join Us us at Lillie's Museum 💖

10/22/2018

#RevealingLegacies

Bradley Alston leads the way for a special Saturday group tour at LCJM!!!

10/19/2018

Bradley Alston leads the way for a special Saturday group tour at LCJM!!!

08/26/2018

Lillie Carroll Jackson payed a leading role in the BMA's 1939 exhibition, "Contemporary Negro Art"

07/28/2018

Lisa Sennaar, Lillie Carroll Jackson's Great Grand Daughter, Lead Today's Morning Tour at LCJM!!!

06/14/2018

Special Thanks to all those who came out...

06/14/2018

Amazing event tonight...special thanks to all those who came out...

06/07/2018

Take a Look: This Community Youth Exhibition features student artworks from schools throughout Baltimore City. Join this FREE program to see their works and learn more about how art and museums impact Social Studies education.

05/19/2018

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Today, LCJM reflects on the Fifteenth Amendment Parade and Celebration, which took place in the charming city of Baltimore on May 19, 1870!!!

04/24/2018

Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum - LCJM

04/24/2018

Lillie Carroll Jackson Civil Rights Museum - LCJM