1. In 1910 Baltimore enacted the first law in American history that restricted blacks from moving to white residential blocks and vice versa.*

2. Until the 1970s, prejudice against Jews was so strong in Baltimore that there were actually three housing markets: one for white Christians, one for Jews, and one for blacks.*

3. Housing covenants against Jews were so prevalent in Baltimore that even some Jewish developers refused to sell homes or rent apartments to Jews for fear that white Christians would not want to live in the development.*

4. At least four Jewish congregations and their rabbis participated in the 1963 protests to integrate Gwynn Oak Amusement Park, including Rabbi Morris Lieberman of Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, who inspired his congregants to put Jewish principles into action.**

5. While sit-ins in southern restaurants and stores drew the headlines in newspapers throughout the country, in the early 1960s black students also conducted sit-ins in segregated Baltimore restaurants and department stores.**

Sources:

* Antero Pietila, Not in My Neighborhood

** Amy Nathan, Round & Round Together