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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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$14M Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center project nears finish line: ‘All-star facility’
A historic project in West Baltimore is nearing completion. What was formerly the Henry Highland Garnet School will soon be the Justice Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center at P.S. 103. The restoration project will be named after a Civil Rights icon who attended the school. “When the Supreme Court seems to be in the news every day, when rights seem to be challenged every day, we had the lawyer’s lawyer born in this community, who attended this [...]
West Baltimore is on the brink of opening a new multi-million dollar community space.
The plan is to restore the historical Public School 103 on Division Street, which served as Thurgood Marshall's elementary school. The building has sat vacant in the Upton community for decades. Come this summer, its new life will begin as the Thurgood Marshall Amenity Center. "I have my historic consultants there," said Dr. Alvin Hathaway. Hathaway has given hundreds of tours of the old Public School 103. Read More
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 [...]
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