Lillie Carroll Jackson Museum

Lillie May Carroll Jackson, born in 1889, became a leading force for equal rights for blacks in Baltimore and Maryland after personal experiences of discrimination in the late 1920's. Guided by a firm belief in God and herself, she served as president of Baltimore's NAACP chapter from 1935-69 and expanded it into the largest chapter in the nation by 1946. Under her leadership, with the help of the NAACP's Legal Redress Committee, the chapter desegregated the city's private and public facilities, worked for equal employment opportunities, secured the election of blacks to public office, removed Jim Crow laws, equalized teachers' salaries throughout Maryland, and through cases from 1935-50 opened the University of Maryland to blacks. She believed in the power of the church, school, and home to shape character and sought a single, unified community of blacks and whites. Jackson died on July 5, 1975.

Baltimore, Maryland · United States