Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-1-1983

Keywords

African-Americans, Housing, Baltimore, Maryland, Segregation, Constitutional Law

Abstract

On May 15, 1911, Baltimore Mayor J. Barry Mahool signed into law an ordinance for “preserving the peace, preventing conflict and ill feeling between the white and colored races in Baltimore City.” This ordinance provided for the use of separate blocks by African American and whites and was the first such law in the nation directly aimed at segregating black and white homeowners. This article considers the historical significance of Baltimore’s first housing segregation law.

Publication Citation

42 Maryland Law Review 289 (1983).

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Property Law and Real Estate

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