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Waterfront Coalition Records
Collection
Identifier: R0126-WC
Abstract
The Waterfront Coalition was a citizens community group that formed in 1987 and monitored waterfront development in Baltimore City and its effect on Baltimore neighborhoods, communities, and businesses. It represented the interests of homeowners and businesses in Fells Point, Canton, Butchers Hill, and other neighborhoods. This collection contains materials documenting the activities and interests of the Coalition throughout the late 1980s until it dissolved in approximately 2015.
Dates:
1985-2017
Betty Garman Robinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: R0157-BGR
Abstract
Betty Garman Robinson was a community organizer in Baltimore, Maryland from the 1970s until her passing in 2020. She has contributed to multiple nonprofit and grassroots organizations including Citizens Planning and Housing Association (CPHA), Baltimore Neighborhood Collaborative (BNC), Save Middle East Action Committee (SMEAC), Northeast Good Neighbors (NEGN), and others. In 2003, Robinson was awarded an Open Society Institute Fellowship to teach the history of social justice and community...
Dates:
1983-2017
A. Robert Kaufman Papers
Collection
Identifier: R0135-ARK
Scope and Contents
The A. Robert Kaufman Papers primarily document Kaufman’s involvement in left-wing political organizing in Baltimore, 1967-2006. The papers include copies of extensive FBI files recording Kaufman’s political activities from his time as a student at Goddard College in the 1950s to his participation in various political movements during the 1960s. Other significant documentation covers a broad range of political issues, including opposition to U.S. involvement in the Vietnam, Iraq and...
Dates:
1955-2008; Bulk: 1967-2006
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A. Robert Kaufman Papers
Movement Against Destruction Records
Collection
Identifier: R0062-MAD
Scope and Contents
Collection documents the activities of the Movement Against Destruction (MAD) coaltion of community groups between 1968 and 1988 as they organized against the proposed construction of expressway highways through neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland. Materials are mainly textual and include publications, meeting minutes, correspondence, legal briefs, newspaper clippings, press releases, newsletters, brochures, research files, records documenting public hearings and testimonies, reports. Also...
Dates:
1968-1988
Southeast Council Against the Road Records
Collection
Identifier: R0108-SCAR
Scope and Contents
The Southeast Council Against the Road Records document the activities and organization of the community coalition in their efforts to prevent the proposed East-West Highway from routing through Baltimore neighborhoods in the 1960s and 1970. The collection also includes materials related to their partnerships with other community organizations, their work related to historic neighborhood preservation, and other functions. Materials include articles of incorporation for community...
Dates:
1959-1992
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- Social action 2
- Social reformers 2
- Transportation 2
- reports 2
- African Americans--Housing 1
- Gentrification 1
- Manuals (instructional materials) 1
- Maryland--Baltimore--American Can Company Site 1
- Maryland--Baltimore--Butchers Hill 1
- Maryland--Baltimore--Canton 1
- Maryland--Baltimore--East Baltimore 1
- Maryland--Baltimore--Fells Point 1
- Maryland--Baltimore--Inner Harbor East 1
- Maryland--Baltimore--Wyndham Hotel 1
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- Political activists 1
- Politics and government 1
- Public housing 1
- Radicalism 1
- Save Middle East Action Committee, Inc. (Baltimore, Md.) 1
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- Women 1
- architectural documents 1
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- Names
- Mikulski, Barbara 2
- Movement Against Destruction (Organization) 2
- Aull, Gloria 1
- Boitnott, Carolyn 1
- Fells Point Planning Council (Baltimore, Md.) 1
- Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions 1
- Kaufman, A. Robert, 1931-2009 1
- Legg Mason Realty Group (Baltimore, Md.) 1
- Mitchell, Parren 1
- Murphy, John C. 1
- Neighborhood Design Center (Baltimore, Md.) 1
- Paterakis, John, Sr. 1
- Robinson, Betty Garman, 1939 - 2020 1
- Southeast Council Against the Road (Baltimore, Md.) 1
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