Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances of 1910-1913

Garrett Power, University of Maryland School of Law

Document Type: Article

Published in Maryland law review, v. 42, 1983, p. 289-328.

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.

Keywords:

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

Recommended Citation

Power, Garrett, "Apartheid Baltimore Style: The Residential Segregation Ordinances of 1910-1913" (1983). All Faculty Publications. Paper 184.
http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/fac_pubs/184