Public History

Two great museum exhibits within a few blocks of each other would make a wonderful Sunday outing in Baltimore!

• The first is the Voices of Lombard Street exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland. Check it out in the exhibit borchure! I was fascinated because of the time period and the connection to Baltimore history, but also because the exhibit is rich and multilayered.

• The new exhibit at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture is entitled Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to Fight for It. The exhibit deals with a South Carolina court case that began the march to Brown v Board. The museum website describes the exhibit: "
  This groundbreaking new exhibit tells the story of ordinary people – people outside the traditional power structure, without wealth and often with little classroom education – and how they worked together to begin the process that ended legal segregation of the races in America’s schools."