REVISIT/REIMAGINE: Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis

The Civil Rights Era in Maryland and Parallels of Today

Did you know that after 1810, Maryland had more free African Americans than anywhere else in the U.S.? But that the state didn't emancipate its slaves until almost 2 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, and 222 years after the first enslaved persons arrived in the state?

Banneker-Douglass Museum, Annapolis

The Banneker-Douglass Museum is the state's official museum of Maryland's African American history. It is housed in the historic former Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church, built in 1874.

Stained glass, the Mt. Moriah African Episcopal Church, Banneker-Douglass Museum

Led by staff members LeRonn Herbert and Abiola Akintola, MoCoLMP members and friends were treated to artworks in the current exhibit, REVISIT/REIMAGINE: The Civil Rights Era in Maryland and Parallels of Today. The exhibit serves "as a visual representation of intergenerational relationships and how the issues of civil rights have transformed, progressed, and regressed throughout the 60 years between the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and our current existence today." We then were led through a permanent exhibit telling the story of Black history in Maryland.

The museum is in Annapolis's historic area, about a block away from the State House.