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“By standing on the shoulders of our ancestors and enjoying borrowed blessing we now, humbly, have the opportunity to give back and pay it forward at the same time.”
-Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr., President and CEO
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Officials tour newly restored school of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen joined Rev. Dr. Alvin Hathaway, Executive Director of Beloved Community Services Corporation (BCSC), for a tour of the newly restored P.S. 103 elementary school in Baltimore City. Former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall attended P.S. 103 from 1914 to 1921, but the school had fallen into disrepair in recent years. In response, Senator Van Hollen and members of Maryland’s federal delegation worked with community leaders including Reverend Hathaway and secured a [...]
Thurgood Marshall’s old school in Baltimore to become national park site
In just three months, a historic building that has sat vacant in west Baltimore's Upton neighborhood will begin a massive makeover. PS 103 Henry Highland Garnett Community center was a school built in 1877, and at one point was attended by former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. In June 2022, the building will be transformed into an amenity center and national park. It received $1 million in federal funds as part of the fiscal year omnibus [...]
Renovations ongoing at Thurgood Marshall’s former elementary school
Former state senator Michael Mitchell reminisces about his time at Public School 103 in Upton, Thurgood Marshall’s boyhood school. Michael Mitchell stood on the Division Street sidewalk and spoke of how he helped a crew deliver coal from a horse-drawn wagon to his then elementary school. Mitchell, who went on to represent his home neighborhood in the Baltimore City Council starting in 1975 and State Senate, said the school’s antiquated 1877 furnace often failed in the [...]
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