Verda Freeman Welcome Birth: March 18, 1907 Death: April 22, 1990 Achievements: The first Black Woman to be elected to a state senate in the United States    

  Victorine Adams Birth: April 28, 1912 Death: January 8, 2006 Achievements: The first Black woman elected to Baltimore City Council Founder –  the Colored Women’s Democratic Campaign Committee Founder –

  Juanita Jackson-Mitchell Birth: January 2, 1913 Death: July 7, 1992 Achievements: The first Black woman to practice law in Maryland President of Maryland’s NAACP && Baltimore City branch Led

  Raymond Haysbert Sr. Birth: Jan. 19, 1920 Death: May 24, 2010 Achievements: Former CEO of Park Sausages – the first Black-owned business listed on the New York Stock Exchange  

Willie Lloyd Adams Birth: January 5, 1914 Death: July 4, 2011 Achievements: Co-founder of the Parks Sausage Co., once Baltimore’s largest Black-owned business Co-owner of the real estate development and

  Madeline Wheeler Murphy Birth: October 24, 1922 Death: July 8, 2007 Achievements: Served on the first Board of the Baltimore City Poverty Program and the Baltimore City Community Action Commission

Walter Percival Carter Birth: April 29, 1923 Death: July 31, 1971 Achievements: Chairman of the local chapter of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) Organized 1960 Freedom Rides to the Eastern

  Parren James Mitchell Birth: April 29, 1922 Death: May 28, 2007 Achievements: First Black Congressman in Maryland history (7th Congressional District – MD) Founding member of the Congressional Black