"We are participants of a process and the process is continuing. And it never ends. And isn’t going to end until everybody’s free." Vernon Dobson, Minister of Union Baptist Church, spoke these words during an oral history interview in 1976 about his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement in Baltimore. The interview is archived at the Maryland Historical Society as part of the McKeldin-Jackson Project – a series of nearly 100 interviews conducted from 1975-1977 about the Maryland Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century that provides important historical context to events happening today.
Listen to more of the interview with Vernon Dobson in this clip, which includes photos from the Paul S. Henderson Photograph Collection.
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